Comparison

BarkeepApp vs Toast Now

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

Toast Now

Manage your business operations remotely with real-time sales data, delivery channel control, and labor management tools. Coordinate with your team, update inventory, and view performance across multiple locations from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Real-time sales data
  • Delivery channel control
  • Manager log communication
  • Multi-location view
  • Stock management
  • Team labor management
Features
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Run your business on the go with Toast Now, Toast’s mobile app designed to give you total freedom. Real-time insights, channel controls, labor management, and more – all conveniently in your pocket. GET IMMEDIATE INSIGHTS Live sales data with hour-by-hour totals and helpful breakdowns, including comparisons to the same day last week and year. CONTROL DELIVERY CHANNELS Curb the flow of orders with easy on-off toggles for online ordering, Local by Toast, and third-party apps like Grubhub. COMMUNICATE & COORDINATE Add and edit entries to your manager log, synced with Toast Web, and reply quickly with simple conversational threads. EASILY TOGGLE BETWEEN LOCATIONS The multi-location view keeps things simple. Log in once and see all your locations and performance in a single place. MANAGE STOCK FROM ANYWHERE Mark items in stock and out of stock so employees can keep customers informed and solve for shortages and in real time. STAY CONNECTED TO YOUR TEAM See who’s clocked in or out, edit employee shifts, and view shift information, including tips earned and break times. Download Toast Now for iOS. Please note: Toast Now is only available for Toast customers.

Screenshots

BarkeepApp4 screens
Toast Now4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Toast Now at Free against BarkeepApp's $39.99. Toast Now also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (12K vs 2). BarkeepApp's advantage is review sentiment (48% vs 32%) and chart position (#118 vs unranked). On rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Toast Now 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 Toast Now. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Toast Now has 12K 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 32% of Toast Now's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, Toast Now weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
BarkeepApp versus Toast Now: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarkeepAppToast Now
Price$39.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (12K ratings)
Positive reviews48.0% of reviews — better32.4% of reviews
Number of ratings212K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#118 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB216 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBarkeepToast, Inc.

Customer experience

BarkeepApp

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

Toast Now

All ratings11,676 ratings
Positive98.7%
Neutral0.5%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive32.4%
Neutral12.7%
Negative54.9%

Bugs and requests

BarkeepApp

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Toast Now

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Double charging customers and failure to refund
  • Incorrect or outdated data on the reporting page

Requested features

4 requests
  • Weekly/monthly sales and labor reporting
  • Ability to view individual orders/tabs and transaction details
  • Separate reporting for cash vs. credit card sales, tips, etc.
  • Multi-location/group-level sales overview

In-app purchases

None

BarkeepApp

No in-app purchases

None

Toast Now

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BarkeepApp free?
BarkeepApp costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Toast Now free?
Toast Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BarkeepApp or Toast Now?
BarkeepApp is rated higher. BarkeepApp averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Toast Now averages 4.9 from 12K ratings.
Do BarkeepApp or Toast Now have ads?
Neither BarkeepApp nor Toast Now shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BarkeepApp or Toast Now?
BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, and Toast Now weekly. Most recently, BarkeepApp was updated on September 21, 2026 and Toast Now on October 2, 2026.

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