Comparison

Table Order vs TheBarcode

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

Head to head

Venue Management and Tracking

Free

🍔 Food & Drink

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About

Table Order

Features

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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.

About

TheBarcode

Features

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The Venue Owner App is an easy and speedy way of tracking orders, updating status and to commute the notification's buzzer. Modernize features to fetch order updates. With The Venue Owner App venue owners propound existing orders and its updates.The venue owner application is for venue owners to change the order status and to commute the notification buzzer.

Screenshots

Table Order4 screens

TheBarcode4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Table Order at every 4 days against TheBarcode's every 3 months. Table Order also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Table Order ships an update every 4 days, TheBarcode every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level

Table Order versus TheBarcode: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	Table Order	TheBarcode
Price	Free	Free
Update frequency	Every 4 days — better	Every 3 months
Ads	No	No
In-app purchases	No	No
Devices	iPhone, iPad, iPod — better	iPhone, iPod
Requires iOS	8.0 — better	11.0
Further details — not scored
Size	49 MB	30 MB
Age rating	12+	17+
Developer	Freedom of Creation Limited	Milnes May Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

Table Order

No in-app purchases

None

TheBarcode

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Table Order free?

Table Order is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Is TheBarcode free?

TheBarcode is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Do Table Order or TheBarcode have ads?

Neither Table Order nor TheBarcode shows ads.

Which is updated more often, Table Order or TheBarcode?

Table Order ships an update every 4 days, and TheBarcode every 3 months. Most recently, Table Order was updated on October 2, 2026 and TheBarcode on September 30, 2026.