Alamo Cafe vs Backyard on Broadway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alamo Cafe
Easily order your favorite meals with a few taps. Browse the menu, customize your order, and pay securely. Receive a push notification when your food is ready.
- Browse and customize menu items
- Secure payment system
- Save delivery addresses and payment methods
- Place orders up to seven days in advance
- Receive order readiness notifications
- View restaurant location and hours
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Your ideal meal is just a few taps away. Download the Alamo Cafe app free for iPhone today. With the Alamo Cafe mobile app, ordering food has never been easier. Whether you're looking for a quick snack or a full meal, we've got you covered. Just browse our easy-to-use menu, customize it how you'd like, place your order using our secure payment system, and sit back! A push notification will alert you when your order will be ready. With the Alamo Cafe app, you can: - Browse our menu for your favorite dishes and customize them how you'd like - Save your delivery addresses and payment methods securely to check out in just a few taps - Place future food orders up to seven days in advance - Get restaurant location, hours, and contact information
Backyard on Broadway
Streamline your food ordering with lightning-fast mobile ordering and instant notifications about deals. Easily redeem rewards points and track your order's progress from preparation to pickup.
- Lightning fast mobile ordering
- Instant deal and reward notifications
- Easy rewards point redemption
- Order progress tracking
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Backyard on Broadway mobile app We built an app to make your ordering experience that much easier: - Lightning fast mobile ordering - Instant notifications about deals and rewards - Easily redeem your rewards points - Track your order progress
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Backyard on Broadway at free against Alamo Cafe's free with in-app purchases. Backyard on Broadway also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Alamo Cafe's advantage is ratings volume (272 vs 4). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Alamo Cafe against 5.0 for Backyard on Broadway. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alamo Cafe has 272 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Alamo Cafe ships an update every 8 months, Backyard on Broadway every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alamo Cafe | Backyard on Broadway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (272 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 272 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alamo Restaurants, Inc | 2411 BROADWAY, LLC |
Customer experience
Alamo Cafe
Backyard on Broadway
In-app purchases
Alamo Cafe
No in-app purchases
Backyard on Broadway
No in-app purchases
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