Comparison

Square vs Aldelo Customer Display

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

Head to head
About

Square

This app is a comprehensive point-of-sale system designed for restaurants. It helps manage orders, payments, online ordering, menus, and table layouts. Gain insights with real-time sales reports and improve staff efficiency for dine-in, takeout, and online orders.

Highlights
  • Order and payment processing
  • Online ordering site creation
  • Menu management
  • Table and floor management
  • Real-time sales reports
  • Offline payment acceptance
Features
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The Square for Restaurants Point of Sale app helps you manage front- and back-of-house operations for your full-service restaurant, quick-service restaurant, fast-casual restaurant, bar, or brewery. Get the powerful point-of-sale system designed to serve guests who are dining in, getting takeout, or ordering online. Handle orders, set up menus, manage table layouts, accept payments, enable coursing, get insights from real-time sales reports, and more. ORDERS & PAYMENTS * Turn tables faster and keep lines moving. Increase staff efficiency with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface. * Empower servers to get every order right with the ability to enter orders the way people talk. * Take orders even when you’re short-staffed with QR codes. ONLINE ORDERING * Create a free, customizable online ordering site. * Manage all orders from your POS, including in-person, online, and third-party delivery orders. * Reach more diners with Google, Instagram, and Facebook selling integrations. MENU MANAGEMENT * Create and customize your menus from the office, remotely, or directly from your POS. * Keep service running smoothly with your staff always in the know of what’s selling and what’s about to sell out. FLEXIBLE PAYMENTS * Accept all major credit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay so you never have to turn a diner away. * Set up automatic tipping, move or assign checks to your staff, reopen closed checks, and manage voids with just a few taps. * Never miss a sale with offline payments. Learn more at https://squareup.com/us/en/payments/offline-payments-guide.  * Square handles all PCI compliance fees or chargebacks on your behalf. * Get deposits in your bank account as fast as the next business day or access your sales instantly with a Square Checking account. Learn more at squareup.com/us/en/banking.  FLOOR MANAGEMENT * Customize your floor plan with intuitive click-and-drag layouts. * Tip out staff, close out the cash drawer, manage comps and voids, and run close-of-day reports all from the POS. * Keep tables turning by monitoring their real-time status. * Stay on pace with coursing — letting the kitchen know when to hold or start firing dishes. SUPPORT * Customer support available to guide you through any questions. Learn more about Square for Restaurants and set yourself up from Square Dashboard before activating this app on an iOS device: https://squareup.com/us/en/point-of-sale/restaurants

About

Aldelo Customer Display

This app provides an interactive multimedia display for customer order confirmation and payments in fast-casual restaurants, bars, and retail stores. It replaces traditional pole displays with a full-screen experience, allowing customers to review orders, make payments, and view advertisements.

Highlights
  • Interactive order confirmation
  • Multimedia advertisements
  • Self-service payments
  • On-screen signature capture
  • Emailed receipt options
  • Seamless POS integration
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*** Aldelo Express Customer Display requires Aldelo Express Restaurant Cloud POS to be paired *** Aldelo Express Customer Display provides fast casual restaurants and bars, as well as retail stores interactive & multimedia customer order confirmation and payments. Stores also has the ability to present product pictures and offers to guests. Instead of using the antiquated pole display to only show case ordered items two lines at a time, Aldelo Express Customer Display offers much more. Our Customer Facing Display app integrates seamlessly with Aldelo Express Restaurant Cloud POS. Super easy to use and made for customer facing operations without any prior experience required. *** Customer Order Confirmation *** Versatile display options that takes advantage of the entire iPad screen to present customer facing order confirmation. Providing clear view of what the customer has ordered in a fast casual or retail setting. Allowing customers to scroll ordered items for a full transparency and stay in compliance with State laws that requires customer facing displays. A much better evolutionary solution to the old and antiquated 2 line pole displays. *** Interactive Self Service Payments *** Our customer facing display is fully interactive. Not only will you be able to allow customers to scroll through ordered items, your customers can also initiate payment options directly. Our display also provides option to prompt for gratuity and on screen signature capture, along with emailed receipt options, giving customers the full interactive experience and speed up transaction processing at the counter. *** Multimedia Advertisements *** Our customer facing display also has the ability to present multimedia advertisements, showcasing your store's products and services, as well as special offers and seasonal deals. Giving you the ability to captivate your customers while at the counter and increase current and future sales. Get the Aldelo Express Customer Display today, and increase customer satisfaction and experience.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Aldelo Customer Display at 5.0 against Square's 4.3. Aldelo Customer Display also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.1). Square's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (4.2K vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Aldelo Customer Display holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Square has 4.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Square ships an update every 6 days, Aldelo Customer Display every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Square versus Aldelo Customer Display: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquareAldelo Customer Display
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (4.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews34.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS17.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size792 MB54 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBlock, Inc.Aldelo

Customer experience

Square

All ratings4,195 ratings
Positive82.7%
Neutral4.1%
Negative13.2%
Written reviews93 reviews
Positive34.4%
Neutral7.5%
Negative58.1%

Aldelo Customer Display

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Square

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Orders not processing correctly
  • Transactions not completing
  • Inventory updates not syncing
  • Shift reports not printing properly
  • Card reader disconnection issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to split items across checks
  • Hold/save orders functionality
  • Improved inventory management
  • Better reporting and analytics
  • Mobile app for managing the restaurant

Aldelo Customer Display

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Square

No in-app purchases

None

Aldelo Customer Display

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Square free?
Square is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aldelo Customer Display free?
Aldelo Customer Display is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Square or Aldelo Customer Display?
Aldelo Customer Display is rated higher. Square averages 4.3 out of 5 from 4.2K ratings, while Aldelo Customer Display averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Square or Aldelo Customer Display have ads?
Neither Square nor Aldelo Customer Display shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Square or Aldelo Customer Display?
Square ships an update every 6 days, and Aldelo Customer Display every 5 months. Most recently, Square was updated on October 30, 2026 and Aldelo Customer Display on October 14, 2026.

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