ExpandShare vs Toast Now
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ExpandShare
This platform streamlines restaurant staff training and development. It offers a mobile-first approach with AI-powered tools for creating custom learning paths and translating content. Managers can organize operations and track employee progress effectively.
- Mobile-first training interface
- AI-driven learning path creation
- Multi-language content translation
- Blended in-person and digital training tracking
- Restaurant-specific content database
- Newsfeed with translation
- Labor management reporting
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ExpandShare, a Restaurant365 Company, is a mobile-first platform designed to help restaurants elevate the entire employment lifecycle and guest experience with standardized, continual education. Managers save time by making training resources available to staff at the right place and time, and with self-serve AI automation, leaders can quickly build custom learning paths and translate them into dozens of languages. It's time to organize and automate your restaurant training and operations with ExpandShare. Training Platform Features & Benefits Mobile-first interface Self-serve learning Blended in-person + digital training tracking AI-driven translation, training track building, and checklists Restaurant-specific content database with compliance tracks Newsfeed with language translation Reporting to empower strategic labor management Integrations with top restaurant technology partners To set up a new account, visit expandshare.com. Employees and team members will need their team credentials to log in.
Toast Now
Manage your business operations remotely with real-time sales data, delivery channel control, and labor management tools. Coordinate with your team, update inventory, and view performance across multiple locations from your mobile device.
- Real-time sales data
- Delivery channel control
- Manager log communication
- Multi-location view
- Stock management
- Team labor management
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Run your business on the go with Toast Now, Toast’s mobile app designed to give you total freedom. Real-time insights, channel controls, labor management, and more – all conveniently in your pocket. GET IMMEDIATE INSIGHTS Live sales data with hour-by-hour totals and helpful breakdowns, including comparisons to the same day last week and year. CONTROL DELIVERY CHANNELS Curb the flow of orders with easy on-off toggles for online ordering, Local by Toast, and third-party apps like Grubhub. COMMUNICATE & COORDINATE Add and edit entries to your manager log, synced with Toast Web, and reply quickly with simple conversational threads. EASILY TOGGLE BETWEEN LOCATIONS The multi-location view keeps things simple. Log in once and see all your locations and performance in a single place. MANAGE STOCK FROM ANYWHERE Mark items in stock and out of stock so employees can keep customers informed and solve for shortages and in real time. STAY CONNECTED TO YOUR TEAM See who’s clocked in or out, edit employee shifts, and view shift information, including tips earned and break times. Download Toast Now for iOS. Please note: Toast Now is only available for Toast customers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Toast Now at 4.9 against ExpandShare's 4.1. Toast Now also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (12K vs 58). ExpandShare's advantage is review sentiment (57% vs 32%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Toast Now holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Toast Now has 12K ratings behind it against 58, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of ExpandShare's written reviews are positive against 32% of Toast Now's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ExpandShare ships an update every 3 months, Toast Now weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ExpandShare | Toast Now |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (58 ratings) | 4.9 (12K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 32.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 58 | 12K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #207 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 220 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Expand LLC | Toast, Inc. |
Customer experience
ExpandShare
Toast Now
Bugs and requests
ExpandShare
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Toast Now
Reported bugs
2 issues- Double charging customers and failure to refund
- Incorrect or outdated data on the reporting page
Requested features
4 requests- Weekly/monthly sales and labor reporting
- Ability to view individual orders/tabs and transaction details
- Separate reporting for cash vs. credit card sales, tips, etc.
- Multi-location/group-level sales overview
In-app purchases
ExpandShare
No in-app purchases
Toast Now
No in-app purchases
