Sandstroms vs Shift4 InCharge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sandstroms
This app serves as a business partner for companies, offering quality distribution and service. It provides next-day delivery, vendor consolidation, and a comprehensive one-stop shop experience for customers.
- Quality distribution and service
- Next-day, on-time delivery
- Vendor consolidation
- Full-service one-stop shop
- Business partnership approach
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Distributing quality and service for over 55 years, we are not just a supplier, but a business partner. As a Minnesota-based regional distributor, we offer next-day, on time delivery, vendor consolidation, and a full service "one stop shop".
Shift4 InCharge
This app provides restaurant operators with real-time reporting and analytics to manage their business effectively. It offers insights into sales, labor, and employee performance, enabling data-driven decisions on the go. Access detailed metrics for multiple locations or individual restaurants.
- Real-time sales and labor reporting
- Multi-location performance overview
- Employee performance tracking
- Fingerprint and facial recognition login
- Drill-down analytics for detailed insights
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Actionable insights at your fingertips. InCharge is a robust restaurant management platform that gives you a wide variety of real-time reporting and analytics to help you run your business. As a mobile companion to Shift4’s Lighthouse Business Manager, InCharge puts actionable insights at your fingertips so you can make smart, data-driven decisions anytime, anywhere. Features include: - Ability to view stats from multiple locations or hone in on a single restaurant - Syncs in real time with Harbortouch Bar & Restaurant (HBR), CirroTouch, and Duet POS systems - Quick login access with fingerprint and facial recognition options Whenever you enter the app, you’ll see a high-level overview of all your locations that includes a daily or weekly view of: - Total sales - Sales per ticket - Average ticket time - Open tickets - Labor percentage From there, you can drill down to get more details about any of these areas to quickly identify trends and resolve any issues. InCharge also includes labor management tools that allow you to view, assess, and manage your employees to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. - View staff member performance, including hours, sales, tips, ticket time, and more - Compare current labor percentages with the location’s trends - Identify staff currently working overtime
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shift4 InCharge at 2.9 against Sandstroms's 2.3. Shift4 InCharge also leads on ratings volume (92 vs 3). Sandstroms's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Shift4 InCharge holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shift4 InCharge has 92 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Sandstroms's written reviews are positive against 8% of Shift4 InCharge's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sandstroms | Shift4 InCharge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 2.9 (92 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 7.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 92 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MOBI | Shift4 Corporation |
Customer experience
Sandstroms
Shift4 InCharge
In-app purchases
Sandstroms
No in-app purchases
Shift4 InCharge
No in-app purchases
