Transact Mobile Ordering vs Tabby
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Transact Mobile Ordering
Order food and pay directly from your phone at participating campus restaurants. Browse menus, customize your meals, and receive notifications about your order status. Earn reward points for purchases and engagement.
- Order and pay from your phone
- Browse restaurants and menus
- Customize orders
- Pay with campus card or credit/debit
- Order status notifications
- Earn reward points
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Get ‘outta line! Mobile Ordering is a simple, super convenient way to order, pay and pick up - right from your mobile device. Use the app to browse restaurants and menus, order from your favorite campus spot, pay by credit/campus card or even your meal plan (whatever your campus allows). We’ll tell you when to expect your order, notify you every step of the way, and send a message when your order is ready. No more wasted time waiting in line. We’ll even remember your favorites, so you can reorder superfast. But wait, there’s more… not only are you going to get rewarded with shorter order and wait times, you may be able to earn actual reward points (at participating locations). You’ll get points for things like opening messages, ordering food, and rating your purchases. Complete challenges for bonus points and level up, where you can earn points even faster. Then use your points to enter contests and receive rewards. Key benefits: · Order, pay and pick up - right from your phone · Browse restaurants and menus · Customize your order, your way · Pay with campus card or credit/debit card · Know when to expect your order and get notified when your food is ready · Earn points, get rewards at participating locations
Tabby
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Dinner was lovely. Now the awkward bit. Someone always ends up with a calculator, a pile of notes, and four people saying "just put me down for twenty." Tabby does that part instead. Photograph the receipt. Read out four letters. Everyone taps what they actually ate, and Tabby works out what each person owes — tax and tip included, down to the last cent. HOW IT WORKS 1. Point the camera at the check Tabby reads the receipt and writes out what you actually ordered — "CHKN PARM" comes back as Chicken parmesan. A line reading "2 BEER" becomes two separate beers, so two people can each claim one. Every line, price, tax and tip is editable before anyone else sees it. 2. Read out the code Every tab gets a four-letter code and a QR code to point a phone at. Nobody types an email address, nobody adds anyone as a friend, nobody has to be in a group chat with the whole table. 3. Everyone taps what they ate Claims land live, on everyone's phone, as they happen. Your running total updates under your finger — including when someone joins you on the bottle of wine and your share of it changes. 4. Lock it, and settle up Tabby freezes each person's share and shows them exactly what they owe you, and where the number came from. TAX AND TIP, IN PROPORTION Split down the middle and the person who had a salad subsidises the table's wine. Tabby apportions tax and tip to what each person actually claimed, and hands out the odd cents one at a time, so the shares always add back up to the total printed on the receipt. Not a cent more, not a cent less. LET THE CAT DO THE CHASING You paid the whole bill, and now you're the one sending "hey, no rush, but…" messages. Send a nudge instead. It gets less polite with every one you send, and it's capped at one per person per hour, so it stays funny. YOUR MONEY STAYS YOURS Tabby never touches the money. It's a ledger, not a wallet — no card to add, no cut taken, no account to top up. Settle in cash, or with whatever payment app you already use. Save your bank details or payment handle once, and only the people you've actually shared a tab with can see them. BUILT FOR A DARK RESTAURANT Warm paper, plain ink, and every amount in a monospaced figure so the columns line up. Items nobody has claimed sit faded, so what's left is obvious at a glance. Light and dark, one-handed, and it never asks for your location. TRY IT BEFORE YOU NEED IT There's a demo tab on the home screen. A sample receipt loads, three imaginary friends join and start claiming things, and you can watch a whole tab play out and settle it on your own — before you rely on it in front of people. FREE, AND QUIET No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, and no tracking of any kind. Sign in with Apple or Google — there's no password to invent — and delete your account, and everything attached to it, from inside the app whenever you like.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Transact Mobile Ordering at #177 against Tabby's unranked. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Transact Mobile Ordering | Tabby |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (68K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 93.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 68K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #177 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Transact Campus, LLC | John Kealy |
Bugs and requests
Transact Mobile Ordering
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen issues and white screen problems
- Menus not loading properly
- Order confirmation and pickup process inconsistencies
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to customize orders and remove ingredients
- Implement option to hide food items with specific allergens
- Improve order tracking and status updates
- Provide a way to leave order feedback and comments
Tabby
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Transact Mobile Ordering
No in-app purchases
Tabby
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Transact Mobile Ordering free?
Is Tabby free?
Do Transact Mobile Ordering or Tabby have ads?
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