Comparison

BarkeepApp vs MarginEdge

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

MarginEdge

Capture and submit invoices for processing within 24-48 hours. View sales data from your POS, updated daily, and access your invoice history for the past 90 days. Receive guidance on best practices for image capture.

Highlights
  • Invoice image capture
  • 24-48 hour processing
  • Live image capture recommendations
  • 90-day invoice history
  • POS sales data integration
  • Invoice confirmation
Features
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• Take pictures of invoices right from your devices – we’ll get them processed into our system in 24-48 hours • Get live recommendations for best practices around image capture • See invoice image history – everything you’ve uploaded in the past 90 days • Check confirmation that we received your invoice image • View sales data from your POS, updated daily

Screenshots

BarkeepApp4 screens
MarginEdge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MarginEdge at Free against BarkeepApp's $39.99. MarginEdge also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (649 vs 2). BarkeepApp's advantage is chart position (#21 vs unranked) and review sentiment (48% vs 40%). On rating, 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

MarginEdge 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BarkeepApp against 4.9 for MarginEdge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MarginEdge has 649 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of BarkeepApp's written reviews are positive against 40% of MarginEdge's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, MarginEdge weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
BarkeepApp versus MarginEdge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarkeepAppMarginEdge
Price$39.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (649 ratings)
Positive reviews48.0% of reviews — better40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2649 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#21 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB136 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBarkeepMarginEdge

Customer experience

BarkeepApp

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

MarginEdge

All ratings649 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral1.1%
Negative0.9%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

In-app purchases

None

BarkeepApp

No in-app purchases

None

MarginEdge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BarkeepApp free?
BarkeepApp costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MarginEdge free?
MarginEdge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BarkeepApp or MarginEdge?
BarkeepApp is rated higher. BarkeepApp averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while MarginEdge averages 4.9 from 649 ratings.
Do BarkeepApp or MarginEdge have ads?
Neither BarkeepApp nor MarginEdge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BarkeepApp or MarginEdge?
BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, and MarginEdge weekly. Most recently, BarkeepApp was updated on October 8, 2026 and MarginEdge on October 16, 2026.

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