Cash App and Venmo are widely used peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payment apps. Both allow you to send and receive money from your smartphone.

For Venmo, expanding into in-app payments marks a significant milestone in that it's the first time PayPal can begin to monetize its payments app in a meaningful way.

The Venmo mobile payment app boasts a huge user base, a sleek interface, flexible payment options and agility at splitting bills. Owned by PayPal, it’s the peer-to-peer payment app to beat, as ...

This latest push for in-app payments should help grow Venmo's payment volume even more. It will also help Venmo figure out whether the buy button is actually resonating with users.

That said, I’m basically always using Apple Cash now since I have an iPhone, so I’m not too deep in the Cash app vs Venmo battle. Good luck to all — I’ll stick to my walled garden.

PayPal-owned Venmo is today rolling out two changes to its peer-to-peer payments app, including the ability to donate to charities through Venmo as well as a redesigned money-sending experience.