Comparison

BarkeepApp vs Bar Patrol Inventory App

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

Head to head
About

BarkeepApp

Streamline liquor inventory management for bars with speech recognition, barcode scanning, and automatic lookups. Designed by bar owners, it simplifies tracking usage and pour costs efficiently.

Highlights
  • Speech recognition for inventory entry
  • Barcode scanning with device camera
  • Automatic product lookup
  • Manage multiple venue inventories
  • Track products by category and weight
  • Generate Excel spreadsheets
  • Banquet and batch item tracking
Features
Currently charting
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Barkeep is your virtual inventory assistant. Using our speech recognition, audio confirmations and barcode scanning your inventory process has never been easier. Barkeep is an iOS based Liquor Inventory System. Designed and built by real bar owners, this product is ideally suited for quickly and easily monitoring your liquor usage and pour cost without a large investment in either time or money. Because Barkeep was designed and built by liquor industry professionals (We are bar Owners & Managers just like you), Barkeep provides all the features you need to keep your liquor costs under control. Barkeep is also a great solution for professional Auditors who can use Barkeep's platform to provide liquor audit services to their customers. Barkeep is extremely fast and easy to use, so you can get up and running with Barkeep in no time. BarkeepApp Features include: - Barcode scanning using your iOS device's built-in camera or an optional barcode scanner - Automatic Product lookup from Barkeep's extensive liquor database - Extremely fast inventory entry by product name - Speech recognition so you can just say the quantity of each item and Barkeep - Audio confirmations - your Barkeep virtual inventory assistant will repeat your entries back to you to avoid mistakes - Manage inventories for multiple locations within your venue - Track products by category (beer, liquor, call liquor, vodka, etc) - Automatically generated Excel Spreadsheets - Track product by weight for high-cost items (accurate to .01 oz) - Banquet tracking - Repeat an existing Inventory - Track liquor for multiple Venues - Batch Items BarkeepOnline (available with online subscription at www.barkeepapp.com) provides highly sophisticated pour-cost analysis with features including: - track expected pour cost versus actual pour cost - pour cost alerts - best practices guidelines - sales trends and analysis - manage vendors and liquor ordering Competing products require expensive scanning devices which can be clunky, slow and difficult to use. Our bar managers love us for developing Barkeep. It has cut their inventory time in half. Inventory no longer has to be slow and painful. Check out www.barkeepapp.com for a more detailed feature list.

About

Bar Patrol Inventory App

This app streamlines bar and restaurant inventory management with a Bluetooth scale for precise measurements. It offers features like 1-click ordering, invoicing, and powerful analytics to reduce costs and save time.

Highlights
  • Bluetooth scale integration for accurate weighing
  • Fast shelf-to-app matching
  • Cloud sync to online dashboard
  • POS system integration
  • Automated ordering and invoicing
  • Detailed reports and analytics
  • Multi-device inventory counting
Features
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Created by renowned bar inventory consultant Dave Allred, Bar Patrol App is a powerful and affordable subscription-based inventory app and online software system that uses a Bluetooth scale for precision accuracy. Bar Patrol App cuts your inventory time in half, provides 1-click ordering and invoicing, and saves owners and managers $1,000’s per month. NOTE: Search for Bar Patrol App online to learn more. In addition, Bar Patrol App has the same or more features than 90% of the systems on the market, but cost 1/3 of those systems because our main goal is to help as many bar & restaurant owners/managers as possible to succeed. Win-win. FEATURES -Match app to shelf for lightning fast counting -Point count or weigh with Bluetooth scale for dead-on accuracy -Sync directly from app to dashboard through the cloud -Integrates with any POS systems - simply export and upload the sales data -Powerful reports and analytics, including: stock-on-hand report, variance report, usage report, invoice report, summary report, COGS -Automatic ordering and invoicing -Take inventory with multiple devices in multiple locations to save even more time -Item costing tool and recipes to determine pricing Questions: Email: info@barpatrol.net Cheers, Dave Allred Founder/CEO Bar Patrol

Screenshots

BarkeepApp4 screens
Bar Patrol Inventory App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bar Patrol Inventory App at Free against BarkeepApp's $39.99. Bar Patrol Inventory App also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 48%) and ratings volume (26 vs 2). BarkeepApp's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and chart position (#194 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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

Bar Patrol Inventory App is free to download; BarkeepApp costs $39.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BarkeepApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bar Patrol Inventory App has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of BarkeepApp's written reviews are positive against 89% of Bar Patrol Inventory App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, Bar Patrol Inventory App every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
BarkeepApp versus Bar Patrol Inventory App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarkeepAppBar Patrol Inventory App
Price$39.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.5 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews48.0% of reviews89.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings226 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid — betterSubscription
Best chart rank#194 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB28 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperBarkeepDave Allred20425863482

Customer experience

BarkeepApp

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive48.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative36.0%

Bar Patrol Inventory App

All ratings26 ratings
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.7%

In-app purchases

None

BarkeepApp

No in-app purchases

None

Bar Patrol Inventory App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BarkeepApp free?
BarkeepApp costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bar Patrol Inventory App free?
Bar Patrol Inventory App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BarkeepApp or Bar Patrol Inventory App?
BarkeepApp is rated higher. BarkeepApp averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Bar Patrol Inventory App averages 3.5 from 26 ratings.
Do BarkeepApp or Bar Patrol Inventory App have ads?
Neither BarkeepApp nor Bar Patrol Inventory App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BarkeepApp or Bar Patrol Inventory App?
BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, and Bar Patrol Inventory App every 2 months. Most recently, BarkeepApp was updated on September 21, 2026 and Bar Patrol Inventory App on September 12, 2026.

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