Comparison

BarkeepApp vs Pole Position

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

Pole Position

Features
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The Pole Position Club App is the official companion app for the Pole Position platform, built specifically for venues, club owners, and booking agents who coordinate with independent Entertainers. This mobile app gives you fast, secure access to your club’s activities, tools, and in-app communication. This app is not for Entertainers. Entertainers should download the original Pole Position app. What You Can Do With This App: See Who’s Coming In: Track incoming booking requests in real time and see which Entertainers are lined up for upcoming booking windows. Reduce uncertainty and eliminate last-minute surprises. QR Check In: Scan your club’s custom QR code to confirm when Entertainers arrive and leave. Centralized Communication: Send messages about special events, weather closures, or club updates without relying on text chains. Help Support Entrepreneurship: Entertainers use the main Pole Position app to request bookings, grow their brands, and promote themselves to clubs across the country. This app gives your venue a way to connect with an ecosystem of talented Entertainers.

Screenshots

BarkeepApp4 screens
Pole Position3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pole Position at Free against BarkeepApp's $39.99. Pole Position also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). BarkeepApp's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). On 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

Pole Position is free to download; BarkeepApp costs $39.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, Pole Position every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
BarkeepApp versus Pole Position: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarkeepAppPole Position
Price$39.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#195 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB43 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperBarkeepIndyWork, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

BarkeepApp

No in-app purchases

None

Pole Position

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BarkeepApp free?
BarkeepApp costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pole Position free?
Pole Position is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BarkeepApp or Pole Position have ads?
Pole Position shows ads; BarkeepApp does not.
Which is updated more often, BarkeepApp or Pole Position?
BarkeepApp ships an update every 3 months, and Pole Position every 3 weeks. Most recently, BarkeepApp was updated on September 21, 2026 and Pole Position on September 9, 2026.

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