Toast Now vs ShiftForce Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Real-time sales data
- Delivery channel control
- Manager log communication
- Multi-location view
- Stock management
- Team labor management
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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.
ShiftForce Mobile
Manage shift-based teams with a comprehensive mobile solution. Facilitates scheduling, communication, task management, and daily logging for both managers and employees in industries like hospitality and retail.
- Daily log and notes
- Schedule building and publishing
- Request approvals (time off, shifts)
- Task and checklist assignment
- Team communication and messaging
- Shift reminders and updates
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ShiftForce is the mobile app for running a shift-based business — not just checking your schedule. Managers keep the daily log, build and change schedules, approve requests, and run the shift from a phone or tablet. Employees see what’s posted, pick up work, request time off, and stay in the loop without chasing texts. Used by restaurants, hotels, retail, manufacturing, and other shift teams. Requires a ShiftForce company account. FOR MANAGERS • Daily log (ShiftNote) — shift notes, stats, cash counts, deposits, petty cash, checklists, weather, and meeting topics so the next manager is never starting from scratch • Scheduling — build and publish schedules, use templates, make last-minute changes, and watch labor • Approvals — time off, shift release, and pickup requests in one place • Tasks and checklists — assign work, track completion, keep standards consistent across shifts • Search and reports — find notes, people, and history without digging through paper or email FOR EMPLOYEES • See upcoming shifts the moment a schedule is published • Set availability and request time off • Release, swap, or pick up shifts • Bulletin board for posted schedules and location updates • Messages and team chat • Shift reminders so you’re not guessing what’s next ONE APP FOR THE WHOLE TEAM • Documents and files your location actually uses • Calendar and events • Push notifications for new schedules, messages, time-off decisions, and urgent log entries • Built for phones and tablets, so it works on the floor and in the office ShiftForce replaces the binder, the group text, and the “who’s on tomorrow?” scramble. If your company already uses ShiftForce on the web, this is that same system in your pocket. Need an account? Ask your manager, or visit shiftforce.com to start a trial.
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Verdict
Toast Now and ShiftForce Mobile both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of ShiftForce Mobile's written reviews are positive against 32% of Toast Now's. ShiftForce Mobile also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Toast Now's advantage is ratings volume (12K vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Toast Now against 5.0 for ShiftForce Mobile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Toast Now has 12K ratings behind it against 1, 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 ShiftForce Mobile's.
Toast Now ships an update weekly, ShiftForce Mobile every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Toast Now | ShiftForce Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (12K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 220 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Toast, Inc. | ShiftNote |
Customer experience
Toast Now
ShiftForce Mobile
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
ShiftForce Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Toast Now
No in-app purchases
ShiftForce Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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