Slate Menu vs SproutQR
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 clubs, hotels, wineries 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.ipadwines.com to learn more.
SproutQR
Instantly access restaurant menus by scanning QR codes. Enjoy features like bookmarking and searching, presented in a visually appealing book-like interface with page-flip animations.
- Scan menu QR codes
- Instantly view menus
- Bookmarking functionality
- Search menu items
- Book-like interface
- Page flip animations
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Scan any SproutQR menu QR code and instantly pull up the menu for that location! All the great features you've used on the web—including bookmarking and searching!—now enhanced with a beautiful book-like experience with page flip animations!
Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Slate Menu at 22 against SproutQR's 1. SproutQR's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Slate Menu against 5.0 for SproutQR. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slate Menu has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Slate Menu ships an update every 2 months, SproutQR monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Slate Menu | SproutQR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.5.7 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Labrador OmniMedia Inc / BigBig Bomb LLC | BinWise, Inc. |
Customer experience
Slate Menu
SproutQR
In-app purchases
Slate Menu
No in-app purchases
SproutQR
No in-app purchases
