Shift4 InCharge vs Cinquo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shift4 InCharge
This app provides restaurant operators with real-time reporting and analytics to manage their business effectively. It offers insights into sales, labor, and employee performance, enabling data-driven decisions on the go. Access detailed metrics for multiple locations or individual restaurants.
- Real-time sales and labor reporting
- Multi-location performance overview
- Employee performance tracking
- Fingerprint and facial recognition login
- Drill-down analytics for detailed insights
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Actionable insights at your fingertips. InCharge is a robust restaurant management platform that gives you a wide variety of real-time reporting and analytics to help you run your business. As a mobile companion to Shift4’s Lighthouse Business Manager, InCharge puts actionable insights at your fingertips so you can make smart, data-driven decisions anytime, anywhere. Features include: - Ability to view stats from multiple locations or hone in on a single restaurant - Syncs in real time with Harbortouch Bar & Restaurant (HBR), CirroTouch, and Duet POS systems - Quick login access with fingerprint and facial recognition options Whenever you enter the app, you’ll see a high-level overview of all your locations that includes a daily or weekly view of: - Total sales - Sales per ticket - Average ticket time - Open tickets - Labor percentage From there, you can drill down to get more details about any of these areas to quickly identify trends and resolve any issues. InCharge also includes labor management tools that allow you to view, assess, and manage your employees to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. - View staff member performance, including hours, sales, tips, ticket time, and more - Compare current labor percentages with the location’s trends - Identify staff currently working overtime
Cinquo
Manage and improve your business's Google Reviews with actionable insights and streamlined workflows. This app helps you track your true rating, plan your path to a 5-star score, and respond to customer feedback efficiently while maintaining your brand's voice. It's designed for business owners to turn online reputation into customer growth.
- Real rating tracking
- Goal calculator for 5-star reviews
- AI-assisted reply suggestions
- Review notification system
- Customer photo and video context
- Simplified owner-focused workflow
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Cinquo is the review management platform local businesses actually use, built for restaurants, hotels, clinics and any group running more than one location. If your Google rating matters to your business, this is the tool. You don't lose customers over one bad review. You lose them when the reviews that matter go unanswered, your rating quietly slips, and nobody has a clear plan to fix it. Cinquo gives you the KPIs and workflows that actually move your Google Maps reputation. WHAT MAKES CINQUO DIFFERENT Your Real Rating Google Maps rounds your score up or down. Cinquo shows your true, unrounded rating, so you always know where you actually stand and catch reputation drops early. A clear path to 5 stars Our goal calculator tells you exactly how many 5-star reviews you need to hit your next milestone. No guessing, no hoping. Reply fast, keep your voice CINTIA, our AI, reads every review and drafts a reply in your tone, using your templates. You approve before anything goes out. Cinquo never auto-posts on your behalf. Collect reviews where it counts Unlimited personalized QR codes, per location, per table or per employee, so customers can leave a review in seconds. Assign a QR to a specific team member and see exactly how many reviews they bring in, and at what rating. Flag removable reviews Cinquo's built-in detector flags reviews that break Google's policies, so once you report them, they come down within hours instead of sitting there for weeks. Share reviews on social media in two taps Turn a great review into a shareable graphic for Instagram in seconds. Pick a template, edit the text, choose what to show, even change the colors. No design skills needed. Built for chains, franchises and groups Delegated Users let local managers handle their own reviews and see their own location's metrics. You keep brand consistency and centralized reporting for HQ. Your whole team, measured for real Compare locations, spot who's falling behind and who's crushing it, and bring real numbers to the meetings that matter, not pretty reports nobody opens again. More power on the web Sign up in the app and you also get access to our web platform, with AI-generated review summaries, custom QR creation, delegated user management, and deeper filtering across all your reviews. WHO CINQUO IS FOR Restaurants, restaurant groups, hotels and hotel chains, clinics, franchises, and any physical-location business that depends on what people say about it on Google. Trusted by 1,100+ active customers across 5 continents, with a 4.9-star average rating and thousands of locations managed every day. Connect your Google Business Profile and stop losing customers to a review nobody answered in time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cinquo at 97% against Shift4 InCharge's 8%. Cinquo also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Shift4 InCharge's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 28). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Cinquo sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Shift4 InCharge asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cinquo holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 92 and 99 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of Shift4 InCharge's written reviews are positive against 97% of Cinquo's.
Shift4 InCharge ships an update every 2 months, Cinquo every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift4 InCharge | Cinquo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (92 ratings) | 4.9 (99 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews | 96.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 92 | 99 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shift4 Corporation | LOCALBOSS SL |
Customer experience
Shift4 InCharge
Cinquo
Bugs and requests
Shift4 InCharge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Cinquo
Reported bugs
1 issue- AI review count discrepancy
Requested features
2 requests- Expand functionality to Yelp
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
Shift4 InCharge
No in-app purchases
Cinquo
- Monthly Plan1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- SOLO MONTHLY$5.991 Month
- LOCALBOSS SOLO Monthly$5.991 Month
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- CINQUO STARTER Monthly$6.991 Month
- CINQUO SOLO Monthly$9.991 Month
- LOCALBOSS STARTER Monthly$9.991 Month
- PRO MONTHLY$12.991 Month
- CINQUO PRO Monthly$14.991 Month
- SOLO Monthly$14.991 Month
- LOCALBOSS PRO Monthly$19.991 Month
- CINQUO CORP Monthly$29.991 Month
- LOCALBOSS CORP Monthly$39.991 Month
- LOCALBOSS SOLO Annual$59.991 Year
- CINQUO STARTER Yearly$69.991 Year
- ENT Monthly$69.991 Month
- LOCALBOSS STARTER Annual$99.991 Year
- SOLO Annual$149.991 Year
- LOCALBOSS PRO Annual$199.991 Year
- LOCALBOSS CORP Annual$399.001 Year
- ENT ANNUAL$699.001 Year
- 20 AI Credits$2.99
- 100 AI Credits$4.99
- 100 Cintia Credits$9.99
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- 500 AI Credits$9.99
- 100 AI Credits$12.99
- 1000 AI Credits$19.99
- 250 AI Credits$29.99
- 500 AI Credits$54.99
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