Slate Menu vs HostieOS
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.
HostieOS
This app ensures your restaurant never misses a guest by answering calls, texts, and questions in your brand's voice. It allows your staff to concentrate on providing excellent service.
- Answers calls and texts
- Responds in restaurant's voice
- Manages guest inquiries
- Frees up staff time
- Improves guest service
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Hospitality that never goes unanswered. Hostie makes sure every call, text, or question is answered in your restaurant’s voice so you never miss a guest and your staff can focus on the service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HostieOS at every 2 weeks against Slate Menu's every 2 months. HostieOS also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Slate Menu's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 4) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). 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 HostieOS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slate Menu has 23 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Slate Menu ships an update every 2 months, HostieOS every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Slate Menu | HostieOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 262 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Labrador OmniMedia Inc / BigBig Bomb LLC | Hostie AI Inc |
Customer experience
Slate Menu
HostieOS
In-app purchases
Slate Menu
No in-app purchases
HostieOS
No in-app purchases
