FusionPrep vs Sidewerk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FusionPrep
Streamline kitchen operations with a paperless system for managing recipes, training materials, and food safety labeling. This cloud-based solution allows for easy communication across multiple locations and provides real-time data for culinary and operations teams.
- Paperless recipe and training document management
- Customizable food safety labels
- Interactive on-hand counts and prep lists
- Wireless temperature monitoring and alerts
- Cloud-based data management
- Above-store reporting
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FusionPrep is a paperless kitchen solution for restaurants. FusionPrep allows you to store and communicate your recipes, builds, training documents, photos, and videos to all of your kitchens with ease. No more emailing new & updated recipes, mailing large recipe binders, producing and shipping out training videos and documents. With FusionPrep all of this can be done easily from any computer with an Internet connection and seen in all of your kitchens in seconds! Food Safety Labels: Get rid of the inefficiencies and frustrations of using masking tape and sharpies or single function label printing solutions. Prep cooks can quickly and easily print Food Safety Labels directly from FusionPrep from the same screen they view their prep recipe. Labels for portioned items can also be printed to show a full history of that item along with maintaining the original expiration date. Label everything! You can now print custom expiration/food rotation, chemical and equipment labels as well as simple time stamp labels. We didn't stop there! You can also print these commonly-used labels: Actions: == - Discard - Do Not Use - Pull - Thaw - Use First Days of the Week: == - Sunday - Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday We also provide interactive on-hand counts, prep lists, line checks, temp logs (with wireless thermometer support), and check lists and we can even wirelessly monitor the temperature of walk-ins, freezers, hot/cold wells, etc. and alert you before it's too late! Not only does FusionPrep remove all of this paper from your kitchens, but it provides above-store reporting that culinary and operations teams can use to see exactly what's happening in all of their kitchens. There is no software required to manage all of your data. FusionPrep is a cloud-based solution. Culinary and operations teams are given access to our secure, web-based control panel to manage their data. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection. Visit our website to find out more information or install the app to take a test-drive today!
Sidewerk
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Sidewerk is the kitchen app for restaurants that run on Sidewerk. Managers write recipes and prep procedures on the web; this app puts them in the hands of the cooks on the line, on iPhone and on shared kitchen iPads. COOKBOOK Every recipe and build for your locations, with photos, search, and filters by type and category. EVERY CONCEPT AND STORE If your company runs more than one concept or store, the switcher at the top of the cookbook picks whose recipes you see, in a tap. Shared kitchen iPads stay on the store they are paired to. RECIPES BUILT FOR SERVICE Components with checkable rows and notes, step-by-step methods with photos and video, and details like storage, shelf life, allergens and equipment. SCALE TO WHAT YOU HAVE Tap any quantity or the yield and type the amount in front of you; every component rescales. Presets for half, double and triple batches. LABELS Print prep labels on your kitchen's Zebra printer, previewed exactly as they print: name, prepped by, prep date and use-by. One-off labels for anything that isn't a recipe. WORKS WITHOUT WI-FI Shared kitchen iPads keep the whole cookbook, with photos and video, encrypted on the device, and keep working when the network drops. A small banner says you're offline; nothing else changes. TEAM Managers add staff and set roles, locations, access and PINs, with the same permissions as on the web. SHARED DEVICE SIGN-IN Pair an iPad to a location once; staff sign in with a 4-digit PIN. It locks itself when idle. ACCOUNTS Sidewerk is issued by your employer. A manager creates your account and sets what you can see. There is no public sign-up and nothing to buy in the app. You can delete your account from User Settings at any time. Questions: sidewerk.ai/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sidewerk at every 5 days against FusionPrep's every 6 weeks. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FusionPrep ships an update every 6 weeks, Sidewerk every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FusionPrep | Sidewerk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 344 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 212 Digital Inc. | NICHOLAS ANDREW MAHONEY |
In-app purchases
FusionPrep
No in-app purchases
Sidewerk
No in-app purchases








