Comparison

Toast Now vs Crowded Barrel B

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 team coordination tools. Track inventory, view employee shifts, and communicate effectively from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Real-time sales data and insights
  • Delivery channel control
  • Manager log communication
  • Multi-location management
  • Remote 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

Crowded Barrel B

Features
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Crowded Barrel B-Roll is an internal tool for the staff of Crowded Barrel Whiskey, a distillery in Austin, Texas. It is not a general-purpose app and is distributed unlisted for employee use only. CAPTURE FOOTAGE WITHOUT THE PAPERWORK Good behind-the-scenes footage is usually lost because logging it is tedious. B-Roll removes that step. Pick your name, choose a clip from your library or record a new one, then say out loud what the footage shows and a few tags to file it under. That is the whole job. Your spoken notes are transcribed automatically, tidied into editor-ready notes, and filed alongside the clip. Nothing has to be typed on a phone while standing in a distillery. BUILT FOR THE FLOOR - Large 4K clips are shrunk on your device before upload, so a long take does not mean a long wait. - The screen is held awake for the whole transfer — no more uploads killed by auto-lock. - Clips go straight to the company's shared drive rather than through an intermediate server, which keeps big files fast and reliable. - Progress is visible at every stage, so you know whether it is optimizing, uploading, or finishing. THE EDITOR GETS IT IMMEDIATELY Every upload lands in the team's channel with the clip, your notes, the tags, and a playable preview. The editor can send feedback straight back to you, so a note about framing or lighting reaches the person who shot it while they are still on site. SCHEDULE THE NEXT SHOOT The second tab books a film shoot: pick the show, the date and time, how long it will run, and who is filming. Everyone on the crew gets a calendar invite automatically, and cancelling in the app notifies them and clears the event. NO ACCOUNTS, NO SIGN-IN There is nothing to log into. Pick your name from the staff list and start working.

Screenshots

Toast Now4 screens
Crowded Barrel B2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Crowded Barrel B at 3 against Toast Now's 1. Crowded Barrel B also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Toast Now versus Crowded Barrel B: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToast NowCrowded Barrel B
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (12K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews32.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings12K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB2 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperToast, Inc.Brandon Day

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

Crowded Barrel B

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Toast Now

No in-app purchases

None

Crowded Barrel B

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Toast Now free?
Toast Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crowded Barrel B free?
Crowded Barrel B is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Toast Now or Crowded Barrel B have ads?
Neither Toast Now nor Crowded Barrel B shows ads.

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