Comparison

Lowdown vs Craftable Mobile

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

Head to head
About

Lowdown

Manage brewery operations directly from your iPhone. This app allows you to view and update your to-do list, edit brew sheets in real-time, and scan kegs. It's the mobile extension of a comprehensive brewery management system.

Highlights
  • View To-Do list
  • Update brew sheets
  • Scan kegs
  • Real-time updates
  • Brewery operations management
Features
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The mobile counterpart to Lowdown's Brewery Management Software. View your location's To-Do list, update brew sheets in real time, scan kegs, and more all from your iPhone.

About

Craftable Mobile

This app streamlines operations for hospitality businesses by integrating vendor purchases with sales to reduce costs. It simplifies ordering, payments, inventory, invoicing, and recipe costing, while also offering menu engineering and price comparison tools.

Highlights
  • Vendor purchase integration
  • Sales data synchronization
  • Inventory management
  • Electronic invoicing
  • Recipe and menu costing
  • Multi-location management
Features
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Craftable significantly lowers food, beverage, and labor costs by combining vendor purchases with sales. We serve hospitality groups by simplifying ordering, payments, inventory management, electronic invoicing, and recipe and menu costing while reducing back-office labor hours. Our platform integrates with the most popular POS and accounting platforms to give you unprecedented visibility into your operations. Built to handle the most demanding beverage programs in the country, our platform is made to control every feature of your bar program and menu offerings. From ordering with vendors, costing every dash and counting every bottle, now you can keep a watchful eye on variance and cost percentage without needing a stiff drink at the end. With menu engineering, recipe costing and price comparison, your team behind the burners can easily adjust their culinary creations to protect margins in our cost-sensitive industry. Easily manage multiple locations, different vendors, and complex recipes with sub-recipes and batches.

Screenshots

Lowdown3 screens
Craftable Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Lowdown at 5.0 against Craftable Mobile's 4.7. Craftable Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lowdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Craftable Mobile has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lowdown ships an update every 11 months, Craftable Mobile every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on June 21, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lowdown versus Craftable Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLowdownCraftable Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 months — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.111 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB8 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperLOWDOWN, LLCFNBTech Inc

Customer experience

Lowdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Craftable Mobile

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lowdown

No in-app purchases

None

Craftable Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lowdown free?
Lowdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Craftable Mobile free?
Craftable Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lowdown or Craftable Mobile?
Lowdown is rated higher. Lowdown averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Craftable Mobile averages 4.7 from 7 ratings.
Do Lowdown or Craftable Mobile have ads?
Neither Lowdown nor Craftable Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lowdown or Craftable Mobile?
Lowdown ships an update every 11 months, and Craftable Mobile every 17 months. Most recently, Lowdown was updated on June 21, 2026 and Craftable Mobile on September 8, 2026.

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