Checkfront vs FareHarbor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Checkfront
Manage your tour, activity, rental, or hospitality business with an online booking system. Centralize reservations, process payments on your website, and access bookings on the go. Quickly check in customers, create new reservations, and communicate with your staff.
- Manage online inventories
- Centralize reservations
- Process payments on website
- Access bookings on the go
- Check in/out customers
- Create new reservations
- Scan QR codes for lookup
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Checkfront is an award winning booking app that allows tour & activity operators, rental companies, and hospitality businesses to manage their inventories online, centralize reservations, and process payments directly on their own websites. The Checkfront app allows you to quickly access bookings, check in customers, create new reservations on the go, and keep in touch with your staff. Features include: - View current and upcoming bookings - Create bookings on the go - Find bookings by customer or date - Scan booking QR codes to quickly look-up a booking - Check in and check out customers - Record payments - View and update booking notes - Access your bookmarks - Call customers directly from the app - Quickly review booking availability
FareHarbor
Manage your tour, activity, or rental business from anywhere. This platform allows operators to handle bookings, communicate with customers, process payments, and check in guests efficiently. It's designed for existing users to streamline daily operations on the go.
- Manage schedule and reservations
- Communicate with customers
- Process credit card payments
- QR code check-ins
- Push notifications for business activity
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FareHarbor is the leading management and online booking platform for activity, tour, and rental operators. With our app you can manage your business on the go. Use the app to: • Easily check your schedule, add reservations, and call or message customers • Run payments from your device using credit card readers • Quickly check in your customers using QR codes • Receive push notifications to stay up to date with your business activity • Access all of FareHarbor quickly Our app is only for businesses who are already using FareHarbor.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FareHarbor at 4.1 against Checkfront's 2.1. FareHarbor also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 33%) and monetization model (free vs freemium). Checkfront's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FareHarbor holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FareHarbor has 108 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Checkfront's written reviews are positive against 71% of FareHarbor's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkfront | FareHarbor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (14 ratings) | 4.1 (108 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 71.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 108 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Checkfront Inc | FareHarbor |
Customer experience
Checkfront
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In-app purchases
Checkfront
No in-app purchases
FareHarbor
No in-app purchases
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