Comparison

BarkeepApp vs NCR Voyix Pulse

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

NCR Voyix Pulse

Access real-time business performance data, including sales, labor, and forecasts, directly on your mobile device. Make informed decisions instantly and communicate with your team. Monitor social media activity and receive critical alerts.

Highlights
  • Real-time sales and labor data
  • Up-to-the-second forecasting
  • Employee messaging
  • Social media monitoring
  • Restaurant Guard alerts
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Get actionable information delivered directly to your mobile device in real-time! NCR Voyix Pulse lets you know exactly how your business is performing, regardless of where you are. With up-to-date information collected automatically from the POS system, NCR Voyix Pulse Real Time gives you the power to make insightful and immediate decisions that directly impact the bottom line. Get Pulse for your business today to: • Get real time data (sales, labor, comps, voids) • Get up to the second sales and labor forecasting • Send messages to your employees. • React to and track social media posts in real time (Twitter & Facebook) Are you currently a NCR Voyix Restaurant Guard Customer? If so, retrieve real time Restaurant Guard alerts to your mobile device so you can take immediate action. REQUIREMENTS • To receive real time updates, a NCR Voyix POS system (Aloha) is required • To use My Schedule, Schedule Manager or Mobile Inventory, NCR Voyix Back Office (NBO) is required

Screenshots

BarkeepApp4 screens
NCR Voyix Pulse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NCR Voyix Pulse at Free against BarkeepApp's $39.99. NCR Voyix Pulse also leads on ratings volume (475 vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months). BarkeepApp's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 1.8) and review sentiment (48% vs 11%). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

NCR Voyix Pulse 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 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NCR Voyix Pulse has 475 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of BarkeepApp's written reviews are positive against 11% of NCR Voyix Pulse's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, NCR Voyix Pulse every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
BarkeepApp versus NCR Voyix Pulse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarkeepAppNCR Voyix Pulse
Price$39.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better1.8 (475 ratings)
Positive reviews48.0% of reviews — better10.9% of reviews
Number of ratings2475 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#121 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB37 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBarkeepNCR Voyix Corporation

Customer experience

BarkeepApp

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

NCR Voyix Pulse

All ratings468 ratings
Positive14.3%
Neutral7.1%
Negative78.6%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive10.9%
Neutral10.9%
Negative78.2%

Bugs and requests

BarkeepApp

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

NCR Voyix Pulse

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Inventory data not saving properly
  • Hourly sales feature crashes the app
  • Schedule not loading or displaying correctly
  • Frequent login issues and password reset failures
  • Unreliable real-time data and connectivity

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add calendar sync
  • Improve communication and notifications
  • Implement custom alerts and reporting
  • Develop a native iPad version
  • Provide better support and troubleshooting options

In-app purchases

None

BarkeepApp

No in-app purchases

None

NCR Voyix Pulse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BarkeepApp free?
BarkeepApp costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is NCR Voyix Pulse free?
NCR Voyix Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BarkeepApp or NCR Voyix Pulse?
BarkeepApp is rated higher. BarkeepApp averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while NCR Voyix Pulse averages 1.8 from 475 ratings.
Do BarkeepApp or NCR Voyix Pulse have ads?
Neither BarkeepApp nor NCR Voyix Pulse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BarkeepApp or NCR Voyix Pulse?
BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, and NCR Voyix Pulse every 2 months. Most recently, BarkeepApp was updated on October 8, 2026 and NCR Voyix Pulse on October 22, 2026.

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