Olo Host vs Nextable Book Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Olo Host
Streamline restaurant operations with tools for table management, reservations, and waitlists. Personalize guest experiences with smart tags and optimize seating with real-time data. Reduce walkaways and maximize dining room potential.
- Table management
- Reservations
- Waitlist management
- Online order flow
- Guest preference tagging
- Real-time dining room updates
- POS integration
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Take control of table management, reservations, waitlists, and online order flow with Olo Host (formerly Wisely). From optimized seating recommendations and smart waitlist quoting, to real-time dining room updates, Olo Host streamlines operations for your front-of-house and enables you to focus on what matters most—the guest experience. Know every guest, personalize every visit: With smart tags, instantly identify guest preferences and personalize every visit. Keep your waitlist accurate and reduce walkaways: List assist automatically sends reminder texts to guests and clears no-shows. Seat more guests faster, keep your guests happy during wait-times, and maximize your dining room's potential. Real-time guest insights & efficiency: A POS integration connects table status to guest data, giving you immediate context on orders and spend for smarter service.
Nextable Book Pro
This app allows restaurants to manage online table bookings directly from their Google listing, website, or Facebook page. It streamlines waitlist management, sends guest confirmations via SMS, and provides an overview of upcoming reservations. Easily control booking settings like advance notice and party size.
- Online booking via Google, website, Facebook
- Wait queue management
- SMS guest confirmations
- Reservation status updates
- Booking availability control
- Customizable booking settings
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Book Pro Features: - Allow your guests to book tables online through your Google listing, website and/or Facebook page. - Efficiently manage your wait queue. - Guest confirmations and 2-way texting via SMS. - See all of your upcoming parties at a glance and update their status (seated, cancelled, no show, ...). - Quickly disable bookings on a daily or partial day basis. - Easily manage your settings: How far in advance would you like to take bookings? Minimum lead time for online bookings? Minimum/maximum party size for online bookings? Maximum bookings per time slot? Are you ready to ditch your pen and paper? Note: This app is for restaurants that have already registered and are using the Nextable system. For more information about our system, contact us at info@nextable.com.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Nextable Book Pro at 4.5 against Olo Host's 3.5. Nextable Book Pro also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). Olo Host's advantage is ratings volume (40 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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.
Nextable Book Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olo Host has 40 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Olo Host ships an update every 5 weeks, Nextable Book Pro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Olo Host | Nextable Book Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (40 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wisely Inc. | Nextable, Inc. |
Customer experience
Olo Host
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In-app purchases
Olo Host
No in-app purchases
Nextable Book Pro
No in-app purchases
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