Checkfront vs FareHarbor Dock
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 Dock
This point-of-sale solution streamlines in-person sales for businesses, offering both customer-facing kiosk and staff-friendly modes. It aims to improve customer experience and scale operations by simplifying the booking process.
- Streamlined in-person sales
- Customer-facing kiosk mode
- Staff-friendly booking interface
- Improved customer experience
- Scalable operations
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Introducing FareHarbor Dock, our booking point-of-sale solution designed to streamline in-person sales, improve customer experience, and scale operations. This solution offers two powerful modes: • Kiosk Mode: Empower your guests to book independently with our customer-facing booking interface, designed to provide a seamless self-service experience. • Staff Mode: Enhance staff efficiency with our easy and touch-friendly booking interface, designed to speed through sales with minimal training. Spend less time selling and more time creating unforgettable experiences for your guests.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FareHarbor Dock at 5.0 against Checkfront's 2.1. FareHarbor Dock also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Checkfront's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). 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.
FareHarbor Dock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checkfront has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Checkfront ships an update every 2 months, FareHarbor Dock every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkfront | FareHarbor Dock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Checkfront Inc | FareHarbor |
Customer experience
Checkfront
FareHarbor Dock
In-app purchases
Checkfront
No in-app purchases
FareHarbor Dock
No in-app purchases
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