BarkeepApp vs SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries
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.
SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries
Receive instant alerts for new inquiries and send automatic responses to secure bookings. Manage event sales, payment statuses, and cancellations on the go. Streamline your event management to focus on hosting.
- Instant inquiry alerts
- Automatic response sending
- Track payment statuses
- Manage cancellations
- Event sales tracking
- Mobile event management
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Stay Updated! Receive instant alerts for new inquiries, no matter where you are. Keep on top of confirmations, cancellations, & critical follow-ups. Send automatic responses as soon as you get an inquiry! Quick replies increase your chances of securing bookings for groups, private parties, corporate events, etc. Keep track of private event sales! Check payment statutes, deposits, & cancellation fees anytime, anywhere. Handling private parties, large group reservations, catering, & hefty orders directly on your phone lets you focus more on hosting rather than managing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries at Free against BarkeepApp's $39.99. SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (646 vs 2). BarkeepApp's advantage is review sentiment (48% vs 21%) and chart position (#22 vs unranked). 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
SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries is free to download; BarkeepApp costs $39.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BarkeepApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries has 646 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 21% of SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries's.
BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BarkeepApp | SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (646 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.0% of reviews — better | 21.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 646 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #22 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Barkeep | SpotHopper |
Customer experience
BarkeepApp
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In-app purchases
BarkeepApp
No in-app purchases
SpotHopper Sales & Inquiries
No in-app purchases
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