Restaurant Depot Mobile vs CakeCost
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Restaurant Depot Mobile
This app allows active members to conveniently order food items for pickup or delivery. Members can also access a shoppable flyer, download receipts, and use a virtual membership card for branch entry.
- Online ordering for pickup/delivery
- Shoppable flyer access
- Downloadable receipts
- Order guides creation
- Virtual membership card
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Make shopping easier with the new Restaurant Depot app, exclusively for active members. Place an order for pickup or delivery, access a shoppable flyer, download receipts, create order guides and scan into the branch using the virtual membership card.
CakeCost
This app helps bakers and cake decorators accurately calculate the cost of their creations. It factors in ingredients, expenses, and your time, ensuring you charge appropriately and understand your profit margins.
- Calculate ingredient costs
- Cost time and expenses
- Set profit margins
- View net costs
- Determine what to charge customers
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Are you struggling to figure out what to charge for your cakes and baking services? - CakeCost is designed for bakers and cake decorators, and makes recipe pricing easy. Are you unsure if you are charging enough for your baking? - CakeCost removes uncertainty by calculating prices including ingredients, expenses and your valuable time. Do you usually estimate prices and are unsure of your actual profits? - CakeCost accurately calculates prices with the profit margin you want. With CakeCost you can: - Determine the costs for your ingredients. - Properly cost your time and expenses. - Set your profit and view net costs. Use CakeCost to know exactly what to charge your customers. For more details refer to our website: http://www.cakecost.net Our Terms of Use can be found here: https://www.cakecost.net/pages/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CakeCost at 50% against Restaurant Depot Mobile's 7%. CakeCost also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (3.2 vs 2.8). Restaurant Depot Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#205 vs unranked). On price, ratings volume 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. CakeCost sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Restaurant Depot Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
CakeCost holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 29 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of Restaurant Depot Mobile's written reviews are positive against 50% of CakeCost's.
Restaurant Depot Mobile ships an update fortnightly, CakeCost monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Restaurant Depot Mobile | CakeCost |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (21 ratings) | 3.2 (29 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #205 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 297 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Restaurant Depot LLC | CakeCost |
Customer experience
Restaurant Depot Mobile
CakeCost
Bugs and requests
Restaurant Depot Mobile
Reported bugs
72 issues- App doesn’t accept password
- Delivery never arrived
- Blank screen issues
- Nothing comes up at all
- App always crashing or always down
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- App is not working
- App not responsive
- Sends back to login again
- Everything is slow
- Search terms have to be exact
- No description of anything
- Loads very slowly and clunky
- Horrible app design
- Search loads forever
- Won’t operate as advertised
- Doesn’t work 99.9% of the time
- Doesn’t search when item is put in
- Impossible to use
- Literally none of the buttons work
- Millions of bugs on the app
- Unresponsive at best
- Search functions nonexistent
- Lag time is terrible
- Janky app
- Unsure if it received typed input
- Doesn’t store sign on info
- Slow and heavy
- Doesn’t show related products
- Shows random stuff
- Incredibly slow
- Takes forever to load pages
- Forces sign in again
- Inventory rarely up to date
- Items show as in stock but aren't
- Nearly useless for planning
- Poorly designed user experience
- Navigation confusing and clunky
- Nothing works in this app
- Severely limits sales
- Ruins the brand overall
- Worst exp
- Very slow response
- Nothing works as it should
- Very slow and nothing works
- Takes forever to loading
- Utterly useless, worthless nonfunctioning
- Amazing that a company can't have a functioning app
- Extremely slow and inefficient
- Inventory not up to date
- Not efficient
- Don't waste your time
- Easier calling the store directly
- Practically unusable
- None of the buttons work
- Can't find items
- Too glitchy to use
- Laziest most shameful app
- Worse than using phone browser
- Doesn’t stay logged in
- App using mobile website
- App too slow
- App needs an update
- Always freezes
- Can’t see items to add to charts
- Must login every time
- Not organized at all
- Slow and miss-organized
- Behind today technology
- Charged 5% additional in store price
- The App seems like a pretty Good idea but realistically you're better off just going yourself.
- First Time they said they didnt have the order after showing it on my phone.
- Second time things were Missing i ordered.
Requested features
8 requests- Make adjustments for in store purchases
- Fix the app
- Upgrade the app
- Develop a working app
- Outsource app development if necessary
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- Have a functioning app
- Update the app
- Revamp the app
CakeCost
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Restaurant Depot Mobile
No in-app purchases
CakeCost
- Premium Plan - Monthly$8.991 Month
- English US$99.991 Month
Questions
Is Restaurant Depot Mobile free?
Is CakeCost free?
Which has better reviews, Restaurant Depot Mobile or CakeCost?
Do Restaurant Depot Mobile or CakeCost have ads?
Which is updated more often, Restaurant Depot Mobile or CakeCost?
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