Comparison

Filmbot Box Office vs ThunderPOS

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

Head to head
About

Filmbot Box Office

This app helps cinema attendants manage ticket sales, access customer orders, and print tickets efficiently. It offers a streamlined interface for box office operations.

Highlights
  • Ticket sales management
  • Access customer orders
  • Print tickets
  • Streamlined interface
  • Box office operations
Features
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A simple, streamlined box office application that allows cinema attendants to sell tickets, access orders and print tickets.

About

ThunderPOS

This mobile point-of-sale solution allows businesses to process sales, trade-ins, and special orders directly from an iPad. It offers flexible transaction screens, gift card management, and detailed inventory and customer tracking.

Highlights
  • Full-featured Point of Sale station for iPad
  • Process sales and trade-in transactions
  • Manage gift cards and special/pre-orders
  • Inventory and customer search/management
  • Employee clock in/out
  • Supports Bluetooth peripherals
Features
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ThunderPOS is a mobile register solution for ThunderPOS customers, providing a full-featured Point Of Sale station for iPad. ThunderPOS provides a quick, simple and powerful interface to process sales and trade-in transactions. Buying and selling new and used product is seamlessly integrated into ThunderPOS. Some of the features are: - Two alternate screens for processing transactions at the register. The standard register screen allows you to scan items with a standard bluetooth scanner. The touchscreen register is for stores that prefer to present a list of items for the cashier to select from. The touchscreen can be configured from your ThunderPOS store management website. Both screens make it simple to sell new or used items, and to accept trade-ins in up to five conditions. You can even vary your trade-in price based on whether you are paying store credit or cash. ThunderPOS also allows you to place and take deposits on special orders and pre-orders. Optionally, you can even import new items on the fly from numerous industry databases. - Sell and redeem gift cards quickly and easily. Look up balance on any gift card at the register - Process credit cards with a bluetooth credit card reader from supported processors. - Search and view your inventory items by item ID, name, description, category, dept, etc. View information on any of your inventory items and add it to the transaction as new or used. Serial numbered items are also supported. - Search and view your customers by customer ID, name, phone number, etc. View information on any customer, including store account or loyalty program information. Update customer information such as phone number and address at the register. Add new customers to your store database. - Search and view previous sale, return and trade-in transactions. Search by customer, date, register, cashier, etc. View all items sold on previous transactions and add an item to a return with one click. - Search and view all open customer orders, including special orders and pre-orders. Select an order being picked up and put it on the current transaction. - View e-commerce orders - Clock in/out employees - Supports bluetooth barcode scanner, receipt printer, and cash drawer for a full Point Of Sale station

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ThunderPOS at monthly against Filmbot Box Office's every 3 months. Filmbot Box Office's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Filmbot Box Office against 5.0 for ThunderPOS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Filmbot Box Office ships an update every 3 months, ThunderPOS monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 4, 2026 and July 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Filmbot Box Office versus ThunderPOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFilmbot Box OfficeThunderPOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB154 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFilmBot, Inc.Extreme Software Corporation

Customer experience

Filmbot Box Office

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

ThunderPOS

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

In-app purchases

None

Filmbot Box Office

No in-app purchases

None

ThunderPOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Filmbot Box Office free?
Filmbot Box Office is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ThunderPOS free?
ThunderPOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Filmbot Box Office or ThunderPOS?
Filmbot Box Office and ThunderPOS are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Filmbot Box Office or ThunderPOS have ads?
Neither Filmbot Box Office nor ThunderPOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Filmbot Box Office or ThunderPOS?
Filmbot Box Office ships an update every 3 months, and ThunderPOS monthly. Most recently, Filmbot Box Office was updated on July 4, 2026 and ThunderPOS on July 19, 2026.

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