[saneshark]

It's a lot easier than Paypal to make an account and send money. Your friends and contacts are already loaded via whatever social network you OAuth[orized] the app through.

It is quite literally as easy as typing a friends name and having it auto completed. Typing in a number and hitting send.

Paypal might have an app that does something similar and it likely came after Venmo gained popularity. For most of us, who have been using Paypal since the 2000s, it might not seem logical, but Paypal UI experience does seem like an archaic UI experience by comparison even to me.

[TillE]

PayPal has had "send money to any email address" since the very beginning, or close to it. Yes the recipient has to then create a PayPal account, but that's usually not very painful.

[thescriptkiddie]

Have you ever made a PayPal account? Sending in scans of two different photo IDs isn't exactly "not very painful".

[nd1234]

yep, works fine ...