Elistars vs Colonial Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Elistars
This is a back-office tool for registered users of elistars. It allows users to manage their store's price book. Access is restricted to authorized personnel.
- Price book management
- Store inventory control
- Registered user access
- Back-office support
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This application is only for registered users of elistars and not available for everyone. It is supporting/back office application for elistars. Manage your store price book.
Colonial Connect
Streamline product ordering by scanning shelf tags or UPCs with your phone's camera. Easily search for items by description and view helpful details like photos, descriptions, and prices. Track upcoming deliveries and manage your order with a running total.
- Scan shelf tags or UPCs
- Search items by description
- View item photos and prices
- Track upcoming deliveries
- Running order total
- Order management in cart
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ORDER ENTRY APP Connect lets you order products by simply scanning shelf tags or UPCs with your phone's camera. If you don't know the item # or UPC, you can easily search for items by description. As each item is added to your order, Connect shows helpful details about the item, including: Photo Item description Price Connect will notify you on the Home screen of the date of your upcoming delivery. The Cart allows you to go back and forth during the ordering process to see what already has been added. As you are building your order, you can easily see a running total dollar amount of your order in the cart as well. Contact Colonial Distributing for complete details on how to get Connect on your iPhone today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Colonial Connect at 5.0 against Elistars's 4.5. Colonial Connect also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). Elistars's advantage is ratings volume (11 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.
Colonial Connect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elistars has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Elistars ships an update every 8 months, Colonial Connect every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Elistars | Colonial Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elistars | Colonial Wholesale Distributing Inc |
In-app purchases
Elistars
No in-app purchases
Colonial Connect
No in-app purchases
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