Comparison

Sarku Japan vs Tabby

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

Head to head
About

Sarku Japan

Easily order your favorite Japanese dishes, like Chicken Teriyaki, directly from your phone. Save your go-to items, schedule same-day pickup, and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience. Get a discount on your first order when you create an account.

Highlights
  • Order Chicken Teriyaki and other favorites
  • Create an account for $5 off first order
  • Save favorite items
  • Order ahead for same-day pickup
  • Mobile payment options
  • Receive order confirmations
Features
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Craving fresh Teriyaki? The Sarku Japan app makes easy to order your favorites for pickup & delivery, earn rewards, and enjoy app-exclusive deals. Download today and enjoy a welcome offer when you join Sarku Rewards! Earn Rewards with Every Order Join Sarku Rewards to start earning points on every qualifying purchase. Redeem points for your favorite menu items, enjoy exclusive offers, and celebrate with special member perks throughout the year. Order Your Favorites Skip the line and order ahead for pickup, or have your meal delivered right to your door from participating locations. With the Sarku Japan app, you can: - Order ahead for quick pickup - Order delivery from participating restaurants - Customize your meals - Save your favorite orders for faster reordering - Securely pay through the app Find a Sarku Near You Whether you're at home, at work, or on the go, quickly find the nearest Sarku Japan location, view restaurant hours, and browse the menu. Fresh Teriyaki, Made to Order For over 35 years, Sarku Japan has been serving teriyaki with premium proteins, prepared fresh on the teppanyaki grill.

About

Tabby

Features
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Dinner was lovely. Now the awkward bit. Someone always ends up with a calculator, a pile of notes, and four people saying "just put me down for twenty." Tabby does that part instead. Photograph the receipt. Read out four letters. Everyone taps what they actually ate, and Tabby works out what each person owes — tax and tip included, down to the last cent. HOW IT WORKS 1. Point the camera at the check Tabby reads the receipt and writes out what you actually ordered — "CHKN PARM" comes back as Chicken parmesan. A line reading "2 BEER" becomes two separate beers, so two people can each claim one. Every line, price, tax and tip is editable before anyone else sees it. 2. Read out the code Every tab gets a four-letter code and a QR code to point a phone at. Nobody types an email address, nobody adds anyone as a friend, nobody has to be in a group chat with the whole table. 3. Everyone taps what they ate Claims land live, on everyone's phone, as they happen. Your running total updates under your finger — including when someone joins you on the bottle of wine and your share of it changes. 4. Lock it, and settle up Tabby freezes each person's share and shows them exactly what they owe you, and where the number came from. TAX AND TIP, IN PROPORTION Split down the middle and the person who had a salad subsidises the table's wine. Tabby apportions tax and tip to what each person actually claimed, and hands out the odd cents one at a time, so the shares always add back up to the total printed on the receipt. Not a cent more, not a cent less. LET THE CAT DO THE CHASING You paid the whole bill, and now you're the one sending "hey, no rush, but…" messages. Send a nudge instead. It gets less polite with every one you send, and it's capped at one per person per hour, so it stays funny. YOUR MONEY STAYS YOURS Tabby never touches the money. It's a ledger, not a wallet — no card to add, no cut taken, no account to top up. Settle in cash, or with whatever payment app you already use. Save your bank details or payment handle once, and only the people you've actually shared a tab with can see them. BUILT FOR A DARK RESTAURANT Warm paper, plain ink, and every amount in a monospaced figure so the columns line up. Items nobody has claimed sit faded, so what's left is obvious at a glance. Light and dark, one-handed, and it never asks for your location. TRY IT BEFORE YOU NEED IT There's a demo tab on the home screen. A sample receipt loads, three imaginary friends join and start claiming things, and you can watch a whole tab play out and settle it on your own — before you rely on it in front of people. FREE, AND QUIET No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, and no tracking of any kind. Sign in with Apple or Google — there's no password to invent — and delete your account, and everything attached to it, from inside the app whenever you like.

Screenshots

Sarku Japan4 screens
Tabby4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sarku Japan and Tabby are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sarku Japan versus Tabby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSarku JapanTabby
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (264 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews7.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings264 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size161 MB62 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSAR Holdings, Inc.John Kealy

Bugs and requests

Sarku Japan

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Login and registration issues
  • Order placement and tracking problems
  • Coupon and promotion errors
  • Inconsistent app performance

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add vegetarian/vegan options
  • Allow customization of orders
  • Improve reward tracking and redemption
  • Integrate with mobile payment options
  • Provide better in-app support

Tabby

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sarku Japan

No in-app purchases

None

Tabby

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sarku Japan free?
Sarku Japan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tabby free?
Tabby is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sarku Japan or Tabby have ads?
Neither Sarku Japan nor Tabby shows ads.

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