Comparison

ResyOS vs The Craft IQ

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Reservation management
  • Walk-in and waitlist management
  • Guest messaging
  • Shift flow optimization
  • Floor plan tools
  • Guest insights
Features
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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.

About

The Craft IQ

This app helps you easily create, manage, and batch cocktail recipes. It converts measurements, calculates ingredient quantities for any party size or business need, and helps with purchasing and conversions.

Highlights
  • Recipe creation and management
  • Automatic pour size conversion
  • Batch cocktail calculation by guest count
  • Batch cocktail calculation by batch size
  • Ingredient purchasing and shopping list
  • Unit and garnish conversion
  • Cocktail library with editable recipes
Features
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Why Craft IQ? Make your life easier, Craft IQ does the math. This is the tool that will streamline recipes for your industry or party needs. How is works Input your recipes into the easy to use template, choose your pour size and let Craft IQ do the work. Add dilution, garnishes, and floats, all aspects of drink building are covered. Head to the Batching section and find your exact measurements based on your party size or business needs. My Craft Create, construct, and compose your cocktail recipe compendium. Converts pours such as dashes, bar spoons, and rinses into exact ounce measurements. Calculates the precise total ounces in a cocktail, including small integers such as a bar spoon, egg white, and splashes. Share recipes between friends or a full bar program with colleagues. Batching Batch cocktails in three different avenues: ○ Based on guest count - Using your own recipe or one from our library, calculate the amount of every item needed for your guest count or party size, garnishes included. ○ Based on batch size - Calculates the amount of every item in a recipe needed to fill your par levels or container size, anywhere from 375ml bottles to multiple gallons. ○ Based on your main ingredient - Craft IQ will batch your recipe to fully optimize the recipe’s main ingredient and will calculate the quantity needed for the remainder of the items in the recipe. Calculates dilution rate based upon the shake intensity level desired. Predictively purchase for business needs. Purchase ingredients based on batch size needed, or enter your average weekly sales. Craft IQ will let you know how many bottles of any size to order. The Shopping list calculates the number of bottles needed to fulfill your par or guest count, based on your batch, and If the bottle size needed is not available, Craft IQ can convert your list to any bottle size available in real time. Conversion Conversions include a standard unit measuring tool, such as milliliters to ounces, cups to gallon, or liters to ounces. Discover practical bar conversions. Convert any number of 1.75 Liter bottles to 750ml bottles, or gallons to 1 liter bottles, or 375 ml bottles to gallons. All unit sizes can be converted. Includes a garnish conversion tool. Giving an average and accurate count of produce required, determined either by type of garnish or what is required for the specific number of cocktails desired. Craft IQ Library An ever evolving list of classic and modern cocktails for you to discover. Batch any cocktails within the Craft IQ Library for your party or business. Edit and add to your list of cocktails. Share edited drinks with your friends and colleagues. Back Bar Create your own liquor inventory within the back bar. Calculate cost of goods based upon bottle size. Utilize for either personal or professional use. Terms of use : https://thecraftiq.com/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://thecraftiq.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

ResyOS4 screens
The Craft IQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Craft IQ at 5.0 against ResyOS's 2.7. ResyOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (159 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Craft IQ sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. ResyOS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Craft IQ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ResyOS has 159 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ResyOS ships an update fortnightly, The Craft IQ every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ResyOS versus The Craft IQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterResyOSThe Craft IQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (159 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews13.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings159 — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size130 MB43 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperResyShaun Prevatt

Customer experience

ResyOS

All ratings159 ratings
Positive38.4%
Neutral6.3%
Negative55.3%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive13.5%
Neutral13.5%
Negative73.1%

The Craft IQ

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

The Craft IQ

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ResyOS

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

The Craft IQ

Subscriptions6
  • Premium Version$1.991 Month
  • Bar Program$29.991 Month
  • Restaurant Program$99.991 Month
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  • Catering$199.991 Month
  • Corporate$449.991 Month
  • Corporate Tier 2$899.991 Month

Questions

Is ResyOS free?
ResyOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Craft IQ free?
The Craft IQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ResyOS or The Craft IQ?
The Craft IQ is rated higher. ResyOS averages 2.7 out of 5 from 159 ratings, while The Craft IQ averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do ResyOS or The Craft IQ have ads?
Neither ResyOS nor The Craft IQ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ResyOS or The Craft IQ?
ResyOS ships an update fortnightly, and The Craft IQ every 3 weeks. Most recently, ResyOS was updated on October 25, 2026 and The Craft IQ on October 14, 2026.

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