Poster vs TableSide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poster
A cloud-based point-of-sale system designed for various food service businesses like cafes, restaurants, and food trucks. It offers sales, cash, inventory, and financial accounting tools to help manage operations and make informed decisions.
- Cloud-based POS system
- Sales and cash tracking
- Inventory management
- Financial accounting
- Reporting and analytics
- Mobile POS for food trucks
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Poster POS is a cloud-based iPad Point-of-sale system for cafe, restaurant, coffee shop, bar, pub, fastfood, streetfood, shops, bakeries, food truck, festivals (mobile POS). Setup takes less than 15 minutes, and it is cheaper and more powerful than most POS solutions on the market. Poster POS has sales, cash, inventory and financial accounting. We offer modern hardware and technologies for your business. Our product will help you to keep track of everything happening at your restaurant or store and to make right decisions based on powerful reporting. Check out Poster POS for cafe and restaurant POS (Point-of-sale).
TableSide
Streamline restaurant operations with this mobile point-of-sale client. Enhance service speed, reduce table turn times, and optimize staffing. Designed for efficiency in the hospitality industry.
- Fast order taking
- Efficient service
- Reduced turn time
- Optimized staffing
- Mobile POS functionality
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The mobile client for the best Point of Sale system in the industry! TableSide ordering lets you provide the fastest, most efficient service possible while reducing turn time and employment costs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TableSide at 4.6 against Poster's 3.3. Poster's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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.
TableSide holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 9 respectively.
Poster ships an update every 4 days, TableSide every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poster | TableSide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Poster POS Inc | Point of Sail, LLC |
Customer experience
Poster
TableSide
In-app purchases
Poster
No in-app purchases
TableSide
No in-app purchases
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