WaiterOne vs Rhombus POS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WaiterOne
This comprehensive point-of-sale software streamlines operations for cafes, bars, restaurants, and events. It transforms iPads and iPhones into powerful ordering and management tools, offering real-time sales monitoring and paperless kitchen order systems.
- iPad-based POS system
- iPhone/iPod order taking
- Kitchen Display System (KDS)
- Real-time sales dashboard
- Printer integration
- Cloud-based reporting
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WaiterOne is a fast and complete POS system for cafes, bars, restaurants, food trucks, events, terraces, and hospitality businesses that want professional point-of-sale software on iPad. Built for real service, WaiterOne helps you take orders, manage tables, print tickets, process payments, follow reservations, organize staff, and keep your business running smoothly from one central iPad. WaiterOne for iPad is the heart of the system. It manages your products, tables, printers, payments, reports, remote devices, kitchen screens, customer displays, reservations, and cloud connections. It is designed for speed during busy service, with clear screens, fast ordering, and reliable offline-first workflows. Use WaiterOne Remote on iPhone or iPod touch to take orders directly at the table. Orders are sent to the main POS and can be printed in the kitchen or bar, helping your team work faster and reduce mistakes. WaiterOne KDS turns an iPad or iPhone into a kitchen display system. Chefs and bartenders can follow orders on screen, organize preparation, and reduce paper ticket handling. WaiterOne Kiosk adds self-service ordering for customers. It supports add-ons, tips, calories, localized payment messages, and a modern ordering flow for venues that want faster counter or self-service experiences. Customer Display and Digital Signage options let you show order information, totals, and customer-facing content on additional screens. Reservations and planning tools help you manage bookings, table reservations, upcoming reservations, staffing context, and forecast information, so your team can prepare better before service starts. Attendance management helps track clock-in and clock-out, breaks, manager corrections, audit history, and attendance reports. WaiterOne supports a wide range of receipt and kitchen printers, including Epson, Star Micronics, Citizen, AirPrint-compatible printers, and many printers using Epson-compatible ESC/POS modes. Print receipts, kitchen tickets, bar tickets, reports, and fiscal documents depending on your setup. At the end of the day, WaiterOne can generate useful reports for sales, payments, discounts, users, fiscal data, attendance, and operational totals. Reports can be printed, exported, or sent by email when an internet connection is available. WaiterOne also supports many professional workflows, including: - Table plans and table moves - Split bills and multiple payment types - Tips and configurable tip suggestions - Product import and export with CSV files - Price levels and automatic price rules - Barcode and Socket Mobile scanner support - Kitchen and bar ticket routing - AirPrint and POS printer reports - Remote ordering and communication recovery - Fiscal workflows for supported countries - Payment provider integrations such as SumUp, Zettle, Stripe, TWINT, FlatPay, CM, Pin Vandaag, and more depending on country and configuration Because WaiterOne runs on iPad, you do not need a traditional PC server for daily operation. The system is built to stay practical, fast, and reliable during service, even when the internet connection is limited. WaiterOne is made for hospitality teams that need a powerful POS without unnecessary complexity: quick to learn, flexible to configure, and strong enough for serious restaurant and bar operations. WaiterOne can scale from a single iPad at a small bar to a connected setup with remote ordering devices, kitchen screens, customer displays, kiosks, scanners, multiple printers, and cloud reporting. You choose only the tools you need, while the POS stays focused on fast service, clear information, and dependable operation. Whether you run a small cafe, a busy bar, a restaurant terrace, a food truck, an event setup, or a multi-device hospitality workflow, WaiterOne gives you the tools to serve faster, stay organized, and keep control of your business.
Rhombus POS
This free point-of-sale software offers flexible inventory management with unlimited items, categories, and user accounts. It supports various payment types, including split payments and tips, and provides essential business reports. Enhance functionality with optional add-ons for multiple locations and advanced reporting.
- Unlimited inventory items and categories
- Unlimited user accounts with PIN protection
- Multiple payment types and split payments
- Email and text receipt options
- X and Z business reports
- Optional multi-location and advanced reporting
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Download and use for FREE! See Overview Demonstration here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3biQr0zKzeo&t=22s) Rhombus POS Point of Sale App is a FREE software with flexible ways to set up your inventory in categories and sub categories. The ability to set up unlimited individual items allow options for add-ons and variations of the item. This ability to have unlimited items provides restaurants and retail stores with small inventories to stores with numerous items a flexible way to sell their merchandise. You are also able to have unlimited users on your account! The user/employee option allows for PIN protection of the users and are categorized as an administrator or employee. This allows protection of sensitive areas of your business with employees and access to areas needed as a manager. The payment Checkout functions allows for various types of payments and includes auto-split payments and splitting the payments in different amounts. There is also the ability for tips to be included and receipts to be sent by email or text. The app provides both X and Z Reports allowing you to keep track of your business performance. The advantages of the features are too numeral to mention here and can be seen in an overview video of the app here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3biQr0zKzeo&t=22s) In order to use the App with credit card and debit card payments an account with one of our preferred processors will need to be set up. The App Software is still free to use, but there will be very competitive transaction charges applied when using card payments. Click here to get further information. There is also the ability to enhance the app with other features including multiple locations, kitchen screen and extensive business reporting for an added cost.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rhombus POS at 4.8 against WaiterOne's 3.5. Rhombus POS also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and device support (3 vs 1). WaiterOne's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rhombus POS holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of WaiterOne's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rhombus POS's.
WaiterOne ships an update every 2 days, Rhombus POS every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WaiterOne | Rhombus POS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (13 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 190 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WaiterOne SL | Rhombus POS, Inc. |
Customer experience
WaiterOne
Rhombus POS
In-app purchases
WaiterOne
No in-app purchases
Rhombus POS
No in-app purchases
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