Comparison

BarkeepApp vs DSDLink Mobile

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

DSDLink Mobile

Streamline beverage ordering for bars, restaurants, and liquor stores. Discover and order products from all your distributors, plan ahead with sales history, and view accurate pricing with discounts. Manage payments and invoices in one convenient platform.

Highlights
  • Order from all distributors
  • Discover new products
  • Plan orders ahead
  • Utilize sales history for ordering
  • View accurate pricing and discounts
  • Pay distributors in one place
  • Download invoices
Features
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DSDLink Mobile is the go-to app for beer, wine, spirits, and energy drink ordering for bars, restaurants, liquor stores, and any other establishments. Find and Order Products from ALL your Distributors - Explore and order any new products that your distributor is allowed to sell in your area - Plan and place orders as far ahead of time as needed - Use calculated sales history to right-size your orders Accurate Pricing - Know exactly what you're going to pay for your order before you buy - View available discounts and any quantity based or mix-and-match deals Manage & Pay - Pay all your distributors in one place with ACH or card - Download PDFs of your delivered invoices. Even if they were not placed on DSDLink! - Schedule and pay on your due date using PayLink.

Screenshots

BarkeepApp4 screens
DSDLink Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DSDLink Mobile at Free against BarkeepApp's $39.99. DSDLink Mobile also leads on ratings volume (8.3K vs 2) and review sentiment (63% vs 48%). BarkeepApp's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and chart position (#182 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

DSDLink Mobile 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 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DSDLink Mobile has 8.3K 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 63% of DSDLink Mobile'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, DSDLink Mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
BarkeepApp versus DSDLink Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarkeepAppDSDLink Mobile
Price$39.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.7 (8.3K ratings)
Positive reviews48.0% of reviews63.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#182 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB18 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperBarkeepEncompass Technologies Development Inc.

Customer experience

BarkeepApp

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

DSDLink Mobile

All ratings8,300 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews377 reviews
Positive63.4%
Neutral5.6%
Negative31.0%

Bugs and requests

BarkeepApp

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

DSDLink Mobile

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes and freezes frequently
  • Order history and order placement issues
  • Inconsistent product availability information
  • Difficulty removing specific products from order guide

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a favorites or frequently ordered section
  • Improve communication with sales representatives
  • Allow printing of orders
  • Organize products by category or type (bottles vs cans)
  • Provide more prominent low/out of stock indicators

In-app purchases

None

BarkeepApp

No in-app purchases

None

DSDLink Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BarkeepApp free?
BarkeepApp costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DSDLink Mobile free?
DSDLink Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BarkeepApp or DSDLink Mobile?
BarkeepApp is rated higher. BarkeepApp averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while DSDLink Mobile averages 4.7 from 8.3K ratings.
Do BarkeepApp or DSDLink Mobile have ads?
Neither BarkeepApp nor DSDLink Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BarkeepApp or DSDLink Mobile?
BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, and DSDLink Mobile every 2 months. Most recently, BarkeepApp was updated on September 21, 2026 and DSDLink Mobile on September 23, 2026.

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