Comparison

Carrabba's vs Tabby

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Carrabba's

Easily access delicious rewards, join waitlists to be seated faster, and RSVP to special events. Order online, view up-to-date menus, and enjoy a seamless dining experience. Your financial information is protected with data encryption.

Highlights
  • Delicious rewards program
  • Waitlist features for faster seating
  • RSVP to monthly wine dinners
  • Online ordering
  • Up-to-date menus
  • Data encryption for financial information
Features
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Holy Cannoli! The NEW Carrabba’s App is now available across all participating Carrabba’s locations. The Carrabba’s App has so many sweet benefits: delicious rewards, waitlist features that get you seated faster, RSVP to monthly wine dinners, online ordering, up-to-date menus, and so much more! -- The Carrabba's App uses data encryption to protect your financial information and card data is never stored on Carrabba’s Italian Grill servers. The Carrabba's App also uses GPS to enhance the user experience by prompting you to check in when you arrive at the restaurant. Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Tabby

Features
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Dinner was lovely. Now the awkward bit. Someone always ends up with a calculator, a pile of notes, and four people saying "just put me down for twenty." Tabby does that part instead. Photograph the receipt. Read out four letters. Everyone taps what they actually ate, and Tabby works out what each person owes — tax and tip included, down to the last cent. HOW IT WORKS 1. Point the camera at the check Tabby reads the receipt and writes out what you actually ordered — "CHKN PARM" comes back as Chicken parmesan. A line reading "2 BEER" becomes two separate beers, so two people can each claim one. Every line, price, tax and tip is editable before anyone else sees it. 2. Read out the code Every tab gets a four-letter code and a QR code to point a phone at. Nobody types an email address, nobody adds anyone as a friend, nobody has to be in a group chat with the whole table. 3. Everyone taps what they ate Claims land live, on everyone's phone, as they happen. Your running total updates under your finger — including when someone joins you on the bottle of wine and your share of it changes. 4. Lock it, and settle up Tabby freezes each person's share and shows them exactly what they owe you, and where the number came from. TAX AND TIP, IN PROPORTION Split down the middle and the person who had a salad subsidises the table's wine. Tabby apportions tax and tip to what each person actually claimed, and hands out the odd cents one at a time, so the shares always add back up to the total printed on the receipt. Not a cent more, not a cent less. LET THE CAT DO THE CHASING You paid the whole bill, and now you're the one sending "hey, no rush, but…" messages. Send a nudge instead. It gets less polite with every one you send, and it's capped at one per person per hour, so it stays funny. YOUR MONEY STAYS YOURS Tabby never touches the money. It's a ledger, not a wallet — no card to add, no cut taken, no account to top up. Settle in cash, or with whatever payment app you already use. Save your bank details or payment handle once, and only the people you've actually shared a tab with can see them. BUILT FOR A DARK RESTAURANT Warm paper, plain ink, and every amount in a monospaced figure so the columns line up. Items nobody has claimed sit faded, so what's left is obvious at a glance. Light and dark, one-handed, and it never asks for your location. TRY IT BEFORE YOU NEED IT There's a demo tab on the home screen. A sample receipt loads, three imaginary friends join and start claiming things, and you can watch a whole tab play out and settle it on your own — before you rely on it in front of people. FREE, AND QUIET No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, and no tracking of any kind. Sign in with Apple or Google — there's no password to invent — and delete your account, and everything attached to it, from inside the app whenever you like.

Screenshots

Carrabba's4 screens
Tabby4 screens

Verdict

The call

Carrabba's and Tabby are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Carrabba's versus Tabby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarrabba'sTabby
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (11K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings11K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB62 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCarrabba's Italian GrillJohn Kealy

Bugs and requests

Carrabba's

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashing or not functioning properly
  • Rewards not being properly credited
  • Incorrect or missing menu items in app
  • Issues with online ordering and reservations

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add full menu browsing in app
  • Improve rewards program integration
  • Fix login and account access issues
  • Enhance app stability and performance

Tabby

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Carrabba's

No in-app purchases

None

Tabby

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Carrabba's free?
Carrabba's is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tabby free?
Tabby is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Carrabba's or Tabby have ads?
Neither Carrabba's nor Tabby shows ads.

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