Comparison

Rinvy vs PrimeBites for Restaurants

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

Head to head
About

Rinvy

Manage restaurant inventory efficiently with this app. Track stock, process deliveries, plan prep, and handle recipes and costs. Features smart ordering and automatic invoice processing for a streamlined operation.

Highlights
  • Stock tracking
  • Delivery management
  • Prep planning
  • Recipe management
  • Cost monitoring
  • Smart order recommendations
  • Automatic invoice processing
Features
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Take control of your restaurant inventory without the hassle. Count stock, receive deliveries, plan prep, cost recipes and see your real food cost. No consultants, no contracts, no complexity. COUNTING • Count together. Your whole team counts one session at once, from their own phones, storage area by storage area. • Cases and loose units, par levels and low-stock alerts on every product. • A health check after every count flags numbers that look wrong before you save. • Every count, delivery, prep and waste log carries a name and a time. INVOICES AND RECEIVING • Snap a photo of the delivery invoice. Rinvy reads the lines, updates stock and records the new prices. • Forward supplier invoice emails or upload PDFs. Shorts, credits and returns are handled. • Price alerts when a supplier raises a price. FOOD COST • Recipes and menu items costed from the invoices you already receive. Real food cost percentage on every dish. • Variance report: what you should have used against what you actually used, product by product. • COGS, inventory value, spending, usage and waste reports for any period. Menu engineering shows which items earn their spot. ORDERING • Order lists by supplier, built from par levels or burn rate. Pending orders are netted out so you never double-order. • AI demand forecasting (Pro) turns your sales history, the weather and local events into next week's order. • Supplier scorecards: fill rate, on-time delivery and price stability. PREP AND WASTE • Prep lists from burn rate and stock on hand. Templates for the daily list, with a printable PDF. • Log waste by reason, backdated if you need to, so the cost lands where it belongs. • Expiration tracking, one alert per lot. INTEGRATIONS • Toast POS sales sync every day. CSV sales upload from any other POS. • QuickBooks Online and Xero bills export. • Works on iPhone, iPad and the web. Same data everywhere. PLANS • Free: up to 50 products, 10 recipes and 7 users. No credit card. Free for as long as you like. • Standard, $29 a month per location: 300 products, every report, invoice scanning and prep lists. 30-day free trial. • Pro, $69 a month per location: no limits, AI demand forecasting and multi-location rollup. 90-day free trial. Billing runs on rinvy.app. No setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime. Comparable tools start at $199 to $330 a month plus a setup fee. Rinvy runs the kitchen at Superdog in Ames, Iowa, every day: what we order, what we prep, what we throw out and what the numbers say at month end. The numbers on rinvy.app come from that kitchen, and they are labeled as ours on purpose. Questions? Email support@rinvy.app. Help articles at rinvy.app/docs.

About

PrimeBites for Restaurants

This app helps single-location restaurant owners track their finances. Connect your POS, upload invoices via photo, and instantly see food, beer, wine, and liquor costs. It offers daily and weekly sales and spend tracking by category.

Highlights
  • POS integration
  • Invoice photo upload with AI categorization
  • Food, beer, wine, liquor cost tracking
  • Daily and weekly sales and spend reports
  • Categorized spending by day and week
Features
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PrimeBites — see where your restaurant's money is going. Now in pilot. PrimeBites is a MarginEdge Labs project and is currently in its pilot phase, so you're getting an early look while we keep building and refining it. Built for single-location restaurant owners. Connect your POS, snap a photo of an invoice, and see your food, beer, wine, and liquor costs in seconds. What you get: * Sales and spend tracked by day, week, and category * Snap-a-photo invoice upload — line items automatically categorized using AI for you * Connections to Toast, Square, Clover, SpotOn, and SkyTab * Answer "what did I spend on food last week?" in seconds From MarginEdge Labs, the team behind MarginEdge, trusted by 11,500+ restaurants. PrimeBites is the simpler, faster version — built for owner-operators running the whole show themselves. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Rinvy4 screens
PrimeBites for Restaurants4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rinvy at none against PrimeBites for Restaurants's 1. PrimeBites for Restaurants's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). 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. PrimeBites for Restaurants sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $49.99 per month. Rinvy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Rinvy against 5.0 for PrimeBites for Restaurants. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rinvy ships an update every 4 days, PrimeBites for Restaurants every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Rinvy versus PrimeBites for Restaurants: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRinvyPrimeBites for Restaurants
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMax PetersonMarginEdge

Customer experience

Rinvy

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PrimeBites for Restaurants

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Rinvy

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PrimeBites for Restaurants

Subscriptions1
  • PrimeBites Premium (Monthly)$49.991 Month

Questions

Is Rinvy free?
Rinvy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PrimeBites for Restaurants free?
PrimeBites for Restaurants is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rinvy or PrimeBites for Restaurants?
Rinvy and PrimeBites for Restaurants are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Rinvy or PrimeBites for Restaurants have ads?
Neither Rinvy nor PrimeBites for Restaurants shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rinvy or PrimeBites for Restaurants?
Rinvy ships an update every 4 days, and PrimeBites for Restaurants every 3 days. Most recently, Rinvy was updated on October 28, 2026 and PrimeBites for Restaurants on October 31, 2026.

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