SpotOn Reserve vs ResyOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SpotOn Reserve
This app streamlines restaurant front-of-house management, reducing customer management workload and optimizing staffing. It's designed to enhance operational efficiency for dining establishments.
- Front-of-house management
- Customer management
- Staff optimization
- Workload reduction
- Operational efficiency
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SpotOn Reserve enhances and streamline a restaurant’s management of the front-of-the-house, effectively reducing the workload of customer management and optimizing staffing.
ResyOS
This platform empowers restaurant teams to enhance service efficiency and boost bookings. It offers tools for managing reservations, walk-ins, waitlists, and guest communication, all while providing insights into shift performance.
- Reservation management
- Walk-in and waitlist management
- Guest messaging
- Shift flow optimization
- Floor plan tools
- Guest insights
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ResyOS is the all-in-one restaurant management platform that helps teams deliver smoother service, drive covers, and stay on top of every shift with powerful tools to manage reservations, walk-ins, waitlists, guest messaging, and shift flow. • Get discovered through the Resy Demand Network and potentially grow your guestbook • Manage reservations and power service with streamlined guest insights • Help optimize every shift with pacing controls, floor plans, and table turn tools • Connect with guests through 2-way messaging and personalized profiles • Better fill cancellations in real time with tools like Resy Notify and Waitlists • Uncover insights with daily cover reports, performance metrics, and live floor status Note: This app is for restaurants and requires a valid ResyOS account. If you're a diner looking to book a reservation, please download the Resy app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SpotOn Reserve at 3.1 against ResyOS's 2.7. SpotOn Reserve also leads on review sentiment (25% vs 13%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). ResyOS's advantage is ratings volume (159 vs 20) and device support (3 vs 1). 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.
SpotOn Reserve holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ResyOS has 159 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of SpotOn Reserve's written reviews are positive against 13% of ResyOS's.
SpotOn Reserve ships an update every 10 days, ResyOS fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SpotOn Reserve | ResyOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (20 ratings) — better | 2.7 (159 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better | 13.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 159 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SpotOn Transact, Inc | Resy |
Customer experience
SpotOn Reserve
ResyOS
Bugs and requests
SpotOn Reserve
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ResyOS
Reported bugs
44 issues- App keeps crashing
- Updates make things worse
- Updates take hours to push
- Dashboard updates delayed
- App won't open
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- Bug prevents saving floor plan
- New update has glitches
- Reservation history not showing
- Basic operations not followed
- 500 errors
- Cannot change reservations
- Cannot change status
- Guest history bug
- Booked reservations disappear
- App constantly quits
- App won't load on iPad
- Cannot access tables on floor plan
- Floor plan view regressed
- Vertical orientation gone
- Cannot see all tables on floor plan
- App takes back to home screen
- App inaccessible
- Doesn't let you add tables to floor plan
- Customers complain about sign up/password
- App works half the time
- Missing features compared to competitors
- Sales staff pushy
- Locked into contract
- Issues and glitches
- Texting chat function works, nothing else
- App quits while logging in
- Daily crashes since update
- Data errors
- Un-updated reservations
- Cannot sit walk-in tables
- Never works
- So many glitches
- Makes sitting guests more difficult
- Essential components won't load
- Cannot assign sections to servers
- Lock timeout fail ID
- Cannot search for guest name
- Doesn't refresh automatically
- App freezes a lot
Requested features
12 requests- Add Android app
- Web control over tables
- Customize text messages
- Server rotation option
- Server sections option
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- Integration with POS
- Add a blacklist feature
- Landscape mode compatibility
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Ability to search guest name
- Automatic refresh for reservations
In-app purchases
SpotOn Reserve
No in-app purchases
ResyOS
No in-app purchases
Questions
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