Gordon Now vs Maple AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gordon Now
Track your current food service delivery with real-time updates on estimated arrival, truck contents, and out-of-stock alerts. Access past orders and request chemical and beverage services. Links to online ordering are also provided.
- Real-time truck arrival estimates
- View truck contents
- Out-of-stock and short-ship alerts
- Access past orders
- Request chemical and beverage service
- Quick links to online ordering
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Got a Gordon Food Service business account? Gordon Now is your ordering app. Search the catalog or start from your order guide, then build your order and check out from your phone. See when your truck will get there, what is on it, and which items are out of stock or coming up short. Pull up past orders to check what you bought. Gordon Now is another way that Gordon Food Service is always at your table to help you run your operation. Shopping a Gordon Food Service Store for your home? Please use gfsstore.com
Maple AI
This AI assistant handles restaurant phone calls 24/7, taking orders, booking tables, and answering customer inquiries. It frees up your staff to concentrate on serving customers and preparing food.
- 24/7 AI phone answering
- Takes customer orders
- Books tables
- Handles customer questions
- Frees up staff time
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Maple is your restaurant's AI-powered phone assistant. It answers calls, takes orders, books tables, and handles customer questions around the clock — so your team can focus on the food.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Maple AI at 100% against Gordon Now's 26%. Maple AI also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6). Gordon Now's advantage is ratings volume (40 vs 9). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Maple AI holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 40 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Gordon Now's written reviews are positive against 100% of Maple AI's.
Gordon Now ships an update every 4 weeks, Maple AI every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gordon Now | Maple AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gordon Food Service, Inc. | Maple AI, Inc. |
Customer experience
Gordon Now
Maple AI
In-app purchases
Gordon Now
No in-app purchases
Maple AI
No in-app purchases
