BarkeepApp vs Clubessential POS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Clubessential POS
This application is designed exclusively for employees of Clubessential. It provides essential tools and functionalities required for their daily operations within the company.
- Employee-exclusive access
- Operational tools
- Business functionality
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For clubessential employees only
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Clubessential POS at Free against BarkeepApp's $39.99. BarkeepApp's advantage is chart position (#182 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.2). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Clubessential POS is free to download; BarkeepApp costs $39.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BarkeepApp against 5.0 for Clubessential POS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.
BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, Clubessential POS every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BarkeepApp | Clubessential POS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #182 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Barkeep | Clubessential, LLC |
Customer experience
BarkeepApp
Clubessential POS
In-app purchases
BarkeepApp
No in-app purchases
Clubessential POS
No in-app purchases
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