Slate Menu vs Restaurant Awards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Slate Menu
Create beautiful, customizable digital menus for your business. Showcase rich media, manage inventory, and integrate with POS systems. Ideal for restaurants, hotels, spas, and more.
- Fully customizable digital menus
- Physical inventory management
- Seamless POS integration
- Meal pairings
- Rich media support (images, videos)
- Wide font and color options
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Slate is a gorgeous digital menu app that is fully customizable. For restaurants, Slate features simple physical inventory management, seamless POS integration, meal pairings, an amazing user experience, a beautiful customizable interface, rich media, and support for wine, beer and spirits. For hotels, spas, wineries, dispensaries or any other business with the need to provide rich, customizable information to their customers, Slate features the same amazing user experience, support for images and videos, a wide choice of fonts, and countless color and other customization options. Visit www.slatemenus.com to learn more. PLEASE NOTE: Slate only works with iPad 2 or higher, and iPad mini. The original iPad is not supported.
Restaurant Awards
Discover restaurants globally recognized for their outstanding wine selections. This app provides access to over 3,800 award-winning establishments across 50 U.S. states and 80+ countries, offering a curated wine experience. Explore restaurant news, chef profiles, and editor recommendations.
- Search award-winning restaurants
- Global restaurant directory
- Discover exceptional wine lists
- Restaurant news and articles
- Chef and sommelier profiles
- Editor's top picks
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Wine Spectator's Restaurant Awards app will help you find restaurants with exceptional wine lists. Every featured dining destination - covering all 50 U.S. states and 80+ countries - has earned a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award for its dedication to wine. This app allows you to search through more than 3,800 award-winning restaurants to help you discover the ultimate wine experience. You’ll also find articles featuring the latest restaurant news, chef and sommelier profiles, our editors’ top picks and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Slate Menu at 5.0 against Restaurant Awards's 3.0. Slate Menu also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). Restaurant Awards's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Slate Menu holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 10 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Slate Menu | Restaurant Awards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (23 ratings) — better | 3.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 262 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Labrador OmniMedia Inc / BigBig Bomb LLC | M. Shanken Communications, Inc. |
Customer experience
Slate Menu
Restaurant Awards
In-app purchases
Slate Menu
No in-app purchases
Restaurant Awards
No in-app purchases
Questions
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