Comparison

Lavu POS vs GoTab POS

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

Head to head
About

Lavu POS

This comprehensive restaurant management system streamlines operations, from order taking and checkout to menu updates and detailed reporting. It enhances efficiency and customer experience for businesses of all sizes, from food trucks to chains.

Highlights
  • Streamlined order taking and checkout
  • Email receipts
  • Detailed reporting
  • Mobile ordering processing
  • Wireless printing
  • Online control panel for menu and layout updates
Features
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Lavu is a feature-rich, modern, and easy-to-use restaurant management system that ensures everything in your restaurant runs quickly, efficiently, and accurately. It streamlines your operations while simplifying restaurant management and improving the customer experience. Using Lavu POS's sleek and user-friendly interface, your restaurant staff can seamlessly clock in, place orders, perform customer checkouts, email receipts, and more. This eliminates the need to run tickets to the kitchen, allowing for more time with the customer and leading to higher sales! Lavu POS is designed to accommodate national restaurant chains as well as individual food trucks, nightclubs, coffee shops, etc. Lavu POS was the very first full-featured restaurant POS App in the App Store and continues to lead the revolution in innovation and integration. With detailed reports, mobile ordering processing, and wireless printing all working in sync, Lavu POS is much more than a POS app. It is a smart and complete restaurant management solution that you can control and customize with ease. Utilizing the Lavu control panel, you can change the layout of your restaurant, update the menu, and perform other administrative functions online. Any changes you make through the control panel are updated with a one button click on Lavu POS. This type of control makes your restaurant more efficient, flexible, and independent. That is why Lavu POS is trusted by thousands of customers, in 65 different countries.

About

GoTab POS

This application streamlines sales for various businesses like restaurants, stores, and event vendors. It offers real-time synchronization with other POS systems and kitchen displays, managing tabs, orders, payments, inventory, and customer data.

Highlights
  • Real-time sales synchronization
  • Kitchen display system integration
  • Tab and order management
  • Payment processing
  • Inventory tracking
  • Customer management
  • Accounting integration
Features
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GoTab POS makes sales at restaurants, stores, pop-ups, and festivals easy and is always real-time synchronized with your other location POS and the kitchen operations on the kitchen displays (KDS). GoTab manages tabs, orders, payments, inventory, customers, logistics and more. The features serve some of the highest volume restaurants, breweries, and venues in the country. Accounting and payouts are fast and easy with complete integration with many accounting packages.

Screenshots

Lavu POS3 screens
GoTab POS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: GoTab POS at 5.0 against Lavu POS's 2.8. Lavu POS's advantage is ratings volume (83 vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GoTab POS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lavu POS has 83 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lavu POS versus GoTab POS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLavu POSGoTab POS
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (83 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings83 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLavuGoTab, Inc.

Customer experience

Lavu POS

All ratings81 ratings
Positive39.5%
Neutral8.6%
Negative51.9%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive45.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative50.0%

GoTab POS

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lavu POS

No in-app purchases

None

GoTab POS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lavu POS free?
Lavu POS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GoTab POS free?
GoTab POS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lavu POS or GoTab POS?
GoTab POS is rated higher. Lavu POS averages 2.8 out of 5 from 83 ratings, while GoTab POS averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Lavu POS or GoTab POS have ads?
Neither Lavu POS nor GoTab POS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lavu POS or GoTab POS?
Lavu POS ships an update every 6 weeks, and GoTab POS every 6 weeks. Most recently, Lavu POS was updated on October 24, 2026 and GoTab POS on October 17, 2026.

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