Table Order vs Dines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Table Order
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This offers customers the ability to customise their orders while freeing up your staff time to focus on other tasks. Your customers can also place repeat orders without having to grab your waiters’ attention, especially those additional rounds of drinks or that signature must-have dessert. Your customers no longer need to wave for a waiter to order more food or drinks.
Dines
This app is designed for partner venues to manage all incoming orders, including card payments, table service, click and collect, and home delivery. It provides a comprehensive hospitality ordering solution through an easy-to-use dashboard.
- Order management
- Card payment processing
- Table service
- Click and collect
- Home delivery
- EPOS Suite
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This is the Dines App to be used by Partner Venues exclusively. If you are a diner/customer at a venue and wish to pay with Dines, please download 'Dines - Mobile Ordering'. The market-leading table ordering experience loved by 100's of pubs, restaurants, bars, hotels, sports clubs & cafes nationwide, is now evolving into the complete hospitality ordering solution, with the release of our innovative Dines EPOS Suite. Manage all orders, be they card payments, table service, click and collect, or home delivery, all from one slick and easy to use Dashboard on your iOS device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Table Order at every 4 days against Dines's every 2 weeks. Table Order also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). 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.
Table Order ships an update every 4 days, Dines every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Table Order | Dines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Freedom of Creation Limited | Dines App Ltd |
In-app purchases
Table Order
No in-app purchases
Dines
No in-app purchases
