Comparison

Ovation vs Craftable Mobile

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

Head to head
About

Ovation

This platform streamlines guest feedback for restaurants using a quick SMS survey. It integrates with ordering systems to help resolve issues in real-time, encourage positive reviews, and uncover insights for business improvement.

Highlights
  • SMS-based guest surveys
  • Digital Table Touch™
  • Frictionless integrations
  • Real-time issue resolution
  • Drive 5-star reviews
  • Gain business insights
Features
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Voted the #1 guest feedback platform in a nationwide RestaurantOwner.com survey, Ovation uses a 2-question SMS-based survey as a Digital Table Touch™ that has redefined guest feedback. Through frictionless integrations with online ordering platforms and other tools, Ovation allows restaurants to easily resolve guest concerns in real-time, get more 5-star reviews, discover insights to improve, and drive revenue.

About

Craftable Mobile

This app streamlines operations for hospitality businesses by integrating vendor purchases with sales to reduce costs. It simplifies ordering, payments, inventory, invoicing, and recipe costing, while also offering menu engineering and price comparison tools.

Highlights
  • Vendor purchase integration
  • Sales data synchronization
  • Inventory management
  • Electronic invoicing
  • Recipe and menu costing
  • Multi-location management
Features
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Craftable significantly lowers food, beverage, and labor costs by combining vendor purchases with sales. We serve hospitality groups by simplifying ordering, payments, inventory management, electronic invoicing, and recipe and menu costing while reducing back-office labor hours. Our platform integrates with the most popular POS and accounting platforms to give you unprecedented visibility into your operations. Built to handle the most demanding beverage programs in the country, our platform is made to control every feature of your bar program and menu offerings. From ordering with vendors, costing every dash and counting every bottle, now you can keep a watchful eye on variance and cost percentage without needing a stiff drink at the end. With menu engineering, recipe costing and price comparison, your team behind the burners can easily adjust their culinary creations to protect margins in our cost-sensitive industry. Easily manage multiple locations, different vendors, and complex recipes with sub-recipes and batches.

Screenshots

Ovation4 screens
Craftable Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ovation at every 4 weeks against Craftable Mobile's every 17 months. Craftable Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (11 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Ovation against 4.7 for Craftable Mobile. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ovation ships an update every 4 weeks, Craftable Mobile every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on June 20, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ovation versus Craftable Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOvationCraftable Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings)4.7 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.111 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB8 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperOvation Up, LLCFNBTech Inc

Customer experience

Ovation

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Craftable Mobile

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Ovation

No in-app purchases

None

Craftable Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ovation free?
Ovation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Craftable Mobile free?
Craftable Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ovation or Craftable Mobile?
Craftable Mobile is rated higher. Ovation averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Craftable Mobile averages 4.7 from 7 ratings.
Do Ovation or Craftable Mobile have ads?
Neither Ovation nor Craftable Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ovation or Craftable Mobile?
Ovation ships an update every 4 weeks, and Craftable Mobile every 17 months. Most recently, Ovation was updated on June 20, 2026 and Craftable Mobile on September 8, 2026.

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