Comparison

Toast Now vs Kintow

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

Head to head
About

Toast Now

Manage your business operations remotely with real-time sales data, delivery channel control, and labor management tools. Coordinate with your team, update inventory, and view performance across multiple locations from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Real-time sales data
  • Delivery channel control
  • Manager log communication
  • Multi-location view
  • Stock management
  • Team labor management
Features
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Run your business on the go with Toast Now, Toast’s mobile app designed to give you total freedom. Real-time insights, channel controls, labor management, and more – all conveniently in your pocket. GET IMMEDIATE INSIGHTS Live sales data with hour-by-hour totals and helpful breakdowns, including comparisons to the same day last week and year. CONTROL DELIVERY CHANNELS Curb the flow of orders with easy on-off toggles for online ordering, Local by Toast, and third-party apps like Grubhub. COMMUNICATE & COORDINATE Add and edit entries to your manager log, synced with Toast Web, and reply quickly with simple conversational threads. EASILY TOGGLE BETWEEN LOCATIONS The multi-location view keeps things simple. Log in once and see all your locations and performance in a single place. MANAGE STOCK FROM ANYWHERE Mark items in stock and out of stock so employees can keep customers informed and solve for shortages and in real time. STAY CONNECTED TO YOUR TEAM See who’s clocked in or out, edit employee shifts, and view shift information, including tips earned and break times. Download Toast Now for iOS. Please note: Toast Now is only available for Toast customers.

About

Kintow

Streamline restaurant inventory management with voice or swipe input. This tool offers real-time syncing to a dashboard for accurate food cost tracking and automated ordering. Designed for efficiency in busy kitchen environments.

Highlights
  • Voice-activated inventory counting
  • Swipe-based item selection
  • Support for dual units
  • Real-time dashboard syncing
  • Automated ordering integration
  • Food cost tracking
Features
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Kintow is the copilot for the modern restaurateur. Count inventory fast with voice or swipe — no clipboards, no spreadsheets. Say item names and quantities naturally. Our AI understands "5 cases of oat milk" and saves instantly. Or swipe through items and tap to count — with support for dual units like cases and individual bottles. Counts sync to your Kintow dashboard in real time, so your food cost tracking and automated ordering stay up to date. Designed for walk-in coolers, storage rooms, and busy kitchens where hands-free counting saves time.

Screenshots

Toast Now4 screens
Kintow4 screens

Verdict

The call

Toast Now and Kintow both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Kintow's written reviews are positive against 32% of Toast Now's. Kintow also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Toast Now's advantage is ratings volume (11K vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Toast Now against 5.0 for Kintow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Toast Now has 11K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 32% of Toast Now's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kintow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Toast Now ships an update weekly, Kintow every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Toast Now versus Kintow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToast NowKintow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (11K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews32.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11K — better3
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperToast, Inc.Kintow Inc.

Customer experience

Toast Now

All ratings11,492 ratings
Positive98.7%
Neutral0.5%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive32.4%
Neutral12.7%
Negative54.9%

Kintow

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Toast Now

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Double charging customers and failure to refund
  • Incorrect or outdated data on the reporting page

Requested features

4 requests
  • Weekly/monthly sales and labor reporting
  • Ability to view individual orders/tabs and transaction details
  • Separate reporting for cash vs. credit card sales, tips, etc.
  • Multi-location/group-level sales overview

Kintow

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Toast Now

No in-app purchases

None

Kintow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Toast Now free?
Toast Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kintow free?
Kintow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Toast Now or Kintow?
Kintow is rated higher. Toast Now averages 4.9 out of 5 from 11K ratings, while Kintow averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Toast Now or Kintow have ads?
Neither Toast Now nor Kintow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Toast Now or Kintow?
Toast Now ships an update weekly, and Kintow every 10 days. Most recently, Toast Now was updated on September 23, 2026 and Kintow on September 9, 2026.

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