Comparison

qMenu vs Square Plate

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

Head to head
About

qMenu

Order food for delivery or pickup from local restaurants with no extra fees. Enjoy real-time order status updates and exclusive discount deals. The app aims to benefit both customers and restaurants by offering direct pricing.

Highlights
  • Order for delivery or pickup
  • No third-party markups
  • Real-time order status
  • Order ahead functionality
  • Discount deals and offers
  • Social media login
Features
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qMenu is the best online food ordering APP for restaurants across the states. Order food for delivery or pickup from a huge selection of local restaurants. qMenu has $0 markups to restaurant’s original official pricing. This means that you are paying absolutely no extra fees or charges from third parties. You should also know that every time you order through qMenu, the restaurant also saves around 3% to 8% compared to using other major branded food ordering APPs. When restaurants are doing better, they serve you and the community better! NO HASSLE ORDERING - Order with your mobile phone or social media account, no username or password to remember. REAL-TIME ORDER STATUS - Know exactly when to pick up or to be delivered. ORDER AHEAD - Get your food when it’s most convenient. DISCOUNT DEALS & SPECIAL OFFERS - Exclusive deals available through qMenu.

About

Square Plate

Features
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Square Plate turns a week of eating into something you can actually follow. Plan seven days of breakfasts, lunches, snacks and dinners. See what's next at a glance, get a nudge when it's time to start prepping, and walk into the shop with a list that already knows what you've run out of. PLAN THE WHOLE WEEK Every day gets four slots. Fill them from a starter plan, edit anything, or build your own from scratch. Each meal carries its portions, its prep steps and the products it uses. PREP REMINDERS THAT MAKE SENSE Some things need starting the night before. Set a lead time per meal and Square Plate reminds you when prep should begin, not when you're already hungry. Meal times, prep leads and after-meal walks are all yours to change. A SHOPPING LIST THAT RESTOCKS ITSELF Products carry a cadence — weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly. Square Plate tracks when you last restocked each one and tells you what's due, so the list builds itself instead of being rewritten every week. ALL OF THAT IS FREE. There is no subscription, no account and no trial. SHARING & AI PLANS — ONE-TIME UNLOCK Three extras sit behind a single purchase you make once and keep: - Share any meal, a whole day, or your entire library as a file, and send it however you like - Import a library someone else sends you, previewing everything before it merges - Turn an AI's answer into a full seven-day plan: copy a prompt, paste it into whichever AI app you already use, paste the reply back The app never contacts an AI service itself. It hands you a prompt and reads what you paste back, so nothing you type leaves your phone. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything lives on your device. No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. Square Plate asks for no permissions at all beyond the notifications you switch on yourself. Available in English, Spanish and French. General healthy-eating guidance, not medical advice. The built-in starter plans are sample data — examples meant to be edited into your own plan, not nutritionally calculated for you and not scientifically validated.

Screenshots

qMenu4 screens
Square Plate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: qMenu at none against Square Plate's 1. qMenu also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Square Plate's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Square Plate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. qMenu asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
qMenu versus Square Plate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterqMenuSquare Plate
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (457 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews19.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings457 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQMenu IncNEXT HORIZON TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Bugs and requests

qMenu

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Orders not received by restaurants
  • Incorrect menu information and pricing
  • Inconsistent app behavior when switching between apps

Requested features

3 requests
  • Search by restaurant name
  • Ability to change phone number without deleting account
  • Option to save order history across multiple restaurants

Square Plate

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

qMenu

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Square Plate

One-time1
  • Sharing & AI plans$2.99

Questions

Is qMenu free?
qMenu is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Square Plate free?
Square Plate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do qMenu or Square Plate have ads?
qMenu shows ads; Square Plate does not.

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