Comparison

Checkfront vs FareHarbor Dock

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Checkfront

Manage your tour, activity, rental, or hospitality business with an online booking system. Centralize reservations, process payments, and access booking details on the go. Features include customer check-in, QR code scanning, and direct customer communication.

Highlights
  • Manage online bookings
  • Centralize reservations
  • Process payments
  • Customer check-in/out
  • Scan booking QR codes
  • Create bookings on the go
  • Contact customers directly
Features
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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

About

FareHarbor Dock

This booking point-of-sale solution simplifies in-person sales for businesses. It offers a customer-facing kiosk mode for self-service bookings and a staff mode to efficiently process sales.

Highlights
  • Streamline in-person sales
  • Improve customer experience
  • Kiosk mode for self-service
  • Staff mode for efficient sales
  • Scale business operations
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Checkfront4 screens
FareHarbor Dock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: FareHarbor Dock at 5.0 against Checkfront's 2.1. Checkfront's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Checkfront ships an update monthly, FareHarbor Dock every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Checkfront versus FareHarbor Dock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheckfrontFareHarbor Dock
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.1 (14 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCheckfront IncFareHarbor

Customer experience

Checkfront

All ratings14 ratings
Positive21.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative78.6%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral7.1%
Negative59.5%

FareHarbor Dock

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Checkfront

No in-app purchases

None

FareHarbor Dock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Checkfront free?
Checkfront is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FareHarbor Dock free?
FareHarbor Dock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Checkfront or FareHarbor Dock?
FareHarbor Dock is rated higher. Checkfront averages 2.1 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while FareHarbor Dock averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Checkfront or FareHarbor Dock have ads?
Neither Checkfront nor FareHarbor Dock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Checkfront or FareHarbor Dock?
Checkfront ships an update monthly, and FareHarbor Dock every 3 weeks. Most recently, Checkfront was updated on November 10, 2026 and FareHarbor Dock on November 7, 2026.

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