ResyOS vs HostieOS
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.
HostieOS
This app ensures your restaurant never misses a guest by answering calls, texts, and questions in your brand's voice. It allows your staff to concentrate on providing excellent service.
- Answers calls and texts
- Responds in restaurant's voice
- Manages guest inquiries
- Frees up staff time
- Improves guest service
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Hospitality that never goes unanswered. Hostie makes sure every call, text, or question is answered in your restaurant’s voice so you never miss a guest and your staff can focus on the service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HostieOS at 100% against ResyOS's 15%. HostieOS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8). ResyOS's advantage is ratings volume (152 vs 4). 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.
HostieOS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ResyOS has 152 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of ResyOS's written reviews are positive against 100% of HostieOS's.
ResyOS ships an update fortnightly, HostieOS every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ResyOS | HostieOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (152 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 152 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Resy | Hostie AI Inc |
Customer experience
ResyOS
HostieOS
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
HostieOS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ResyOS
No in-app purchases
HostieOS
No in-app purchases
