ResyOS vs Backbar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Backbar
This application streamlines bar and restaurant management by simplifying inventory counting, vendor purchasing, and menu costing. It helps reduce costs and improve efficiency for beverage programs. Features include real-time syncing across devices, barcode scanning, and integration with over 1,300 beverage suppliers.
- Real-time inventory syncing
- Barcode scanning for products
- Streamlined vendor purchasing
- Menu costing and pricing optimization
- Digital invoice management
- Staff education on beverages
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Backbar helps restaurants and bars increase profitability, decrease COGS, and run a more efficient beverage program. Backbar, the only free bar inventory app, saves hours on counting inventory and simplifies bar management. Backbar not only solves inventory management, but also streamlines vendor purchasing and tracking, menu costing, and financial tracking. Here are some of the many features of Backbar: - Quickly count inventory across many locations, devices and users, syncing in real-time - Count inventory in multiple locations and on multiple devices simultaneously - Scan barcodes to instantly find and count products - Streamline purchasing by sending orders to all your distributors with a single tap - Track past orders and invoices for all your distributors - Connect to your point-of-sale (POS) system for real-time inventory depletions - Save digital invoices easily by taking a photo - Connect to over 1,300 beverage suppliers for automated product updates and cost changes - Educate staff with tasting notes and drink information - Cost out cocktail recipes and optimize menu pricing - Quickly add a new item from our global database of over 300,000 wines, beers, spirits and other beverages Download the app today and make beverage management easier with Backbar
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Backbar at 60% against ResyOS's 15%. Backbar also leads on rating (3.6 vs 2.8). ResyOS's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Backbar holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 152 and 33 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of ResyOS's written reviews are positive against 60% of Backbar's.
ResyOS ships an update fortnightly, Backbar every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ResyOS | Backbar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (152 ratings) | 3.6 (33 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.6% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 152 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Resy | Backbar |
Customer experience
ResyOS
Backbar
Bugs and 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
Backbar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ResyOS
No in-app purchases
Backbar
No in-app purchases
