Core vs LMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Core
Streamline your business ordering process with this intuitive iOS application. Access your full catalog, track order history, and stay informed about promotions and new items. Improve accuracy and efficiency in managing your business operations.
- Full catalog visibility with costing
- 8-week order history tracking
- Promotional notifications and deals
- Reorder from past orders/invoices
- Barcode scanning via camera
- Access to promotional flyers
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Core-Mark’s revolutionary ordering application makes ordering easy and fun with any iOS device. Generate orders with greater accuracy and have access to important promotional information and tools to manage your business more efficiently. Key Features Include: • Full visibility to your entire ordering catalog along with costing information. • Access to 8-week order history, including average and last order quantities. • Notifications of pre-orders and deals. • Ability to create an order from a previous order or invoice. • Ability to use your camera to capture barcodes. • Promotional flyers and new item introductions. • Featuring Core-Mark PromoPowers and Smart Sets! Start ordering with Core-Mark for iOS today! Contact your Core-Mark representative for your unique log-in credentials.
LMS
This platform offers a comprehensive point-of-sale system for various retail businesses, including liquor stores and convenience stores. The accompanying app allows for easy product inventory updates using barcode scanning.
- Full point of sale system
- Inventory updates
- Barcode scanning
- Retail management
- Convenience store POS
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LMS-POS is a powerful platform for retail, providing a full point of sale for liquor stores, convenience stores, and general retailers. LMS-POS app is the utility for LMS-POS software for updating product inventories with barcode scanning features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: LMS at 100% against Core's 33%. LMS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Core's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 20 months) and ratings volume (59 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
LMS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Core has 59 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Core's written reviews are positive against 100% of LMS's.
Core ships an update every 2 months, LMS every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Core | LMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (59 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tiva Software, LLC | Compro Boston, Inc. |
Customer experience
Core
LMS
In-app purchases
Core
No in-app purchases
LMS
No in-app purchases
