FareHarbor vs Starboard Suite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FareHarbor
Manage your tour, activity, or rental business from anywhere. This platform allows operators to handle bookings, communicate with customers, process payments, and check in guests efficiently. It's designed for existing users to streamline daily operations on the go.
- Manage schedule and reservations
- Communicate with customers
- Process credit card payments
- QR code check-ins
- Push notifications for business activity
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FareHarbor is the leading management and online booking platform for activity, tour, and rental operators. With our app you can manage your business on the go. Use the app to: • Easily check your schedule, add reservations, and call or message customers • Run payments from your device using credit card readers • Quickly check in your customers using QR codes • Receive push notifications to stay up to date with your business activity • Access all of FareHarbor quickly Our app is only for businesses who are already using FareHarbor.
Starboard Suite
Manage all your business bookings, from online to walk-up, in one place. This system also handles employee scheduling, check-ins, waivers, and e-marketing. Seamlessly process in-person payments with integrated terminals.
- Unified booking management
- Employee scheduling
- Electronic check-ins
- Liability waivers
- E-marketing tools
- Integrated payment processing
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Starboard Suite is a reservation and ticketing system that allows you to capture mobile, online, phone and walk-up bookings, and manage them together from a single dashboard. More than just reservations — our suite of tools allows you to manage nearly every aspect of your business, with support for employee scheduling, electronic check-ins, liability waivers, and e-marketing. This app also has native integration with Stripe Terminal and Square, for seamless in-person payment processing. ---- This app requires a log-in. Only registered users with Starboard Suite accounts are authorized to use it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Starboard Suite at 5.0 against FareHarbor's 4.1. Starboard Suite also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%). FareHarbor's advantage is ratings volume (107 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Starboard Suite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FareHarbor has 107 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of FareHarbor's written reviews are positive against 100% of Starboard Suite's.
FareHarbor ships an update every 2 months, Starboard Suite every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | FareHarbor | Starboard Suite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (107 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 107 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FareHarbor | D3 Studios, Inc. |
Customer experience
FareHarbor
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In-app purchases
FareHarbor
No in-app purchases
Starboard Suite
No in-app purchases
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