Comparison

SQUIRE™ Commander vs Umbral

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

Head to head
About

SQUIRE™ Commander

This comprehensive platform streamlines barbershop operations, from appointment scheduling and client management to sales, payroll, and marketing. It offers a point-of-sale system, online booking, inventory management, and loyalty programs to help businesses grow and enhance customer experience.

Highlights
  • Appointment scheduling
  • Client retention tools
  • Product and service sales
  • Marketing text/email
  • Payroll management
  • Point of sale system
  • Online booking
Features
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An all-in-one platform to power your barbershop operations. Take control of operations, increase revenue, and delight your customers with a single, easy-to-use platform. All in one system - Control everything from one location - Sell products & services - Maintain client retention - Send marketing texts and emails to your customers - Manage payroll - Schedule appointments in seconds - Offer barber bios Point of sale - Choose customer payment method - ApplePay - Chip reader - Traditional swipe Other features include: - Online Booking - Inventory Management - Gift cards & Loyalty - Integration with Instagram, etc. - Waitlist -- The most successful barbershops run on SQUIRE. "SQUIRE is not just a booking app. It's truly business management software. It's complete and does everything I need." - Eliot, Owner of Elliot and Co., Las Vegas "I love that SQUIRE makes it really easy to manage multiple locations." - Justin, Owner of Rooks Barbershop, Portland Oregon "SQUIRE brings so much simplicity to my work and allows me to concentrate on cutting hair." - Simon, Owner of Monthly Barbershop, Montreal, Canada "My favorite feature is the Instagram booking. Customers can book from my personal IG page. That's genius!" - Josh, Owner of Throne, Toronto, Canada -- Featured on Forbes, Business Insider, and TechCrunch -- SQUIRE Technologies is a company dedicated to making style and grooming for men simple. Feel free to contact us: support@getsquire.com

About

Umbral

Features
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Umbral is a private journal that shows you why your days go the way they do. Write when you can, rate how the day went, and name what you felt. Over time Umbral compares what you do against how you feel, and hands back what you cannot see on your own: what lifts your days and what weighs on them. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE No account, no servers, no ads, no tracking. Your entries never leave your iPhone, and patterns are calculated right there, offline. You can lock the journal with Face ID. PATTERNS THAT EARN WHAT THEY SAY Umbral will not draw a conclusion from three data points. It waits until there is enough to be worth saying: how often something repeated, and whether it genuinely separates from your average. When it is not there yet, it tells you how much is missing instead of inventing something. • Which tags show up on your best days and your hardest ones • Which feeling you are naming most often • How your mood runs by day of the week • Cycles: what comes back, across separate weeks PEOPLE, HANDLED CAREFULLY You can note who you were with. Umbral demands more evidence before saying anything about a person than about a topic, and when it does speak it counts your own entries — never passing judgment on someone, never telling you what to do about a relationship. WRITING WITHOUT FRICTION • Quick check-in: a few taps, no writing needed • 14 feelings, past "good" and "bad" • Tags, photos, search and filters • Daily prompts for when you do not know where to start • Widgets, and a question that sits with you on the Lock Screen AT YOUR OWN PACE Gentle mode hides streaks and counters. Writing when you can is still writing, and a missed day is not a broken number. FREE AND PREMIUM Write all you want, free forever: unlimited entries, feelings, tags, people, check-in, search, Face ID, widgets and Markdown export. Umbral Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and unlocks patterns, the mood calendar, your year of activity, photos in entries, your own prompts and PDF export. Umbral is a journal, not care, and nothing in it is a diagnosis.

Screenshots

SQUIRE™ Commander4 screens
Umbral4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SQUIRE™ Commander at none against Umbral's 1. SQUIRE™ Commander also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Umbral sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SQUIRE™ Commander asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SQUIRE™ Commander versus Umbral: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSQUIRE™ CommanderUmbral
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer9380-4185 Quebec Inc.Adrian Hijar

Bugs and requests

SQUIRE™ Commander

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Appointments disappearing from schedule
  • Inability to log in or access account
  • Incorrect payment calculations and reporting
  • Syncing issues between app and website

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to modify appointments
  • Customizable time slots
  • Improved reporting and analytics
  • Push notifications for shop owners
  • In-app payment options for clients

Umbral

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SQUIRE™ Commander

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Umbral

One-time1
  • Umbral Premium$14.99

Questions

Is SQUIRE™ Commander free?
SQUIRE™ Commander is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Umbral free?
Umbral is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SQUIRE™ Commander or Umbral have ads?
Neither SQUIRE™ Commander nor Umbral shows ads.

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