Simple POS vs POS Forge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple POS
This app serves as a comprehensive point-of-sale system for small businesses, offering features like checkout, inventory tracking, barcode scanning, and receipt generation. It helps manage sales, profits, and customer records, replacing manual methods with a user-friendly mobile solution.
- Fast checkout and sales
- Inventory tracking with cost and selling prices
- Barcode scanning via phone camera
- PDF receipt and invoice generation
- Sales and profit reporting
- Offline selling capability
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Simple POS is a mobile point of sale and cash register for shops, market stalls, cafés and other small businesses. Record sales from your phone with a focused register and a cloud account. REGISTER AND CATALOG Add products to a sale by tapping, searching or scanning a barcode with the phone camera. Organize products into categories, track stock and use local low-stock notifications on the device. TAX, TENDER LABELS AND PDF RECEIPTS Apply your configured tax rate and create PDF receipts to share or print. Label a sale as cash, card or another tender for your records. These are record-keeping labels; Simple POS does not accept or process payments. REPORTS AND PROFIT Review sales, orders and product performance. Profit estimates are available when cost prices have been entered. CACHED SELLING AND CLOUD SYNC After sign-in and the initial data load, the cached catalog can continue recording sales during a temporary connection loss. Changes wait in a queue and sync when the connection returns. Initial setup and some actions require internet access. PLANS AND CONTROL The free plan includes core features with product and order caps configured remotely by the service and subject to change. Optional Pro supports unlimited products and orders. Delete your account from the app when needed, and choose from 41 supported languages. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
POS Forge
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POS Forge is a modern, cloud based point of sale platform built for hospitality and service businesses that need more than a basic till system.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: POS Forge at none against Simple POS's 2. POS Forge also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Simple POS sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. POS Forge asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple POS ships an update every 2 months, POS Forge every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple POS | POS Forge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CodeCross | Dwayne Baird |
In-app purchases
Simple POS
- Unlimited Access to Simple POS$4.991 Month
- Unlimited Access to Simple POS$34.991 Year
POS Forge
No in-app purchases
