Comparison

Date Check Pro 2 vs SM 45 Zebra

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

Head to head
About

Date Check Pro 2

This app helps food retailers manage product expiration dates to reduce waste and ensure freshness. It provides daily notifications for expiring items and offers detailed reporting on shrink savings and product performance.

Highlights
  • Expiration date tracking per product
  • Daily expiring item notifications
  • Shrink reduction through movement data
  • Product images
  • Offline mode with real-time syncing
  • Reporting dashboard with ROI and loss data
  • Automated food donation tax deduction tracking
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Upshop Expiration Date Management (formerly Date Check Pro™), the #1 expiration date management solution for food retailers brings you our all new, fully re-designed solution. The core of the app has stayed the same. Expiration dates are tracked on a per product basis, with daily notifications on items expiring soon throughout the store. Cut down expired shrink, provide only the freshest products for shoppers, and protect your brand. The software can be applied to a large number of items throughout the store including grocery, natural foods, frozen goods, processed meat, and a majority of dairy products. New features within Date Check Pro™ 2.0 include: - Step-by-step guided date checking process - Utilize movement data to maximize shrink savings - Product images - Offline mode with real-time syncing The all-new reporting platform includes: - Dashboard with ROI, user, and top loss data - Automated food donation tax deduction tracking - Time and pace tracking per user - Customized time estimates based on store pace - Top Expired and All Expired reports - Repeat out of stock alerts - And more.

About

SM 45 Zebra

This business app modernizes store operations with a mobile-first design, empowering associates to work efficiently. Managers can update schedules, assign tasks, and address real-time challenges directly from their smartphones or tablets, keeping them on the sales floor.

Highlights
  • Mobile-first intuitive design
  • Real-time task assignment
  • Labor schedule generation and editing
  • User detail updates
  • Leave request viewing
  • Customer engagement enhancement
Features
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The mobile-first design of the Zebra platform ensures that all solutions are intuitive and easy to use on any device. Store associates are empowered to work more efficiently, whether they are digital natives or not. Modernize your store solutions and keep associates engaged with customers in real time. Retailers want to keep their store leaders on the sales floor, helping customers and coaching associates. Thanks to its mobile-first design, the Zebra platform offers full functionality from wherever the manager is in the store; they can update labor schedules, assign tasks, and address real-time store execution challenges from a smart phone or tablet, instead of leaving the sales floor to check a computer. From a phone or tablet, users can: - Generate schedule or edit it as per real time requirements. - Update user details. - View leave requests.

Screenshots

Date Check Pro 21 screens
SM 45 Zebra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Date Check Pro 2 at 50% against SM 45 Zebra's 0%. Date Check Pro 2 also leads on rating (3.3 vs 1.7) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). SM 45 Zebra's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (23 vs 6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Date Check Pro 2 holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Date Check Pro 2's written reviews are positive against 0% of SM 45 Zebra's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Date Check Pro 2 ships an update every 5 weeks, SM 45 Zebra fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Date Check Pro 2 versus SM 45 Zebra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDate Check Pro 2SM 45 Zebra
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (6 ratings) — better1.7 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings623 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB85 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperApplied Data CorporationReflexis Systems Inc

Customer experience

Date Check Pro 2

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

SM 45 Zebra

All ratings23 ratings
Positive17.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative82.6%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Date Check Pro 2

No in-app purchases

None

SM 45 Zebra

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Date Check Pro 2 free?
Date Check Pro 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SM 45 Zebra free?
SM 45 Zebra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Date Check Pro 2 or SM 45 Zebra?
Date Check Pro 2 is rated higher. Date Check Pro 2 averages 3.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while SM 45 Zebra averages 1.7 from 23 ratings.
Do Date Check Pro 2 or SM 45 Zebra have ads?
Neither Date Check Pro 2 nor SM 45 Zebra shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Date Check Pro 2 or SM 45 Zebra?
Date Check Pro 2 ships an update every 5 weeks, and SM 45 Zebra fortnightly. Most recently, Date Check Pro 2 was updated on November 2, 2026 and SM 45 Zebra on November 4, 2026.

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