Poster vs Pocket PoS
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).
Pocket PoS
This system replaces traditional cash registers with a tablet-based point-of-sale solution. It offers comprehensive tools for managing sales, inventory, and staff, with offline functionality and remote business oversight.
- Offline operation
- Restaurant, cafe, and retail support
- Delivery and takeaway management
- Multi-user access and timesheets
- Stock and cash management
- Sales analytics reports
- Remote business management
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Pocket PoS is an affordable, simple and efficient Electronic Point-of-Sale (EPoS) system that operates on tablet PCs and mobile devices. It is an innovative solution to replace the traditional till system and provide modern day businesses with not only a tool for till management, but also varieties of support to facilitate better decision making. Pocket POS has the following key features: - No internet connection required - Designed to suit majority of small to medium businesses such as restaurants, cafés and retail shops etc. - Kitchen friendly order management - Built-in delivery and takeaway management including driver management function - Multiple portable devices enabled - Multi-user access and timesheet management - Till cash, stocks management - Integrated with Card payment (Third party payment App) - Integrated Loyalty scheme ready to use (through ‘Loyal Pocket’, a separate app also developed by us) - Sales analytic reports - Remotely organise, analyse and control your business from mobile devices (Pocket PoS Business) Supported receipt printers: Star Micronics (TSP100LAN, TSP650, TSP650II, FVP10, TSP700II, TSP800II, TUP500, SP700) Epson (TM-T20, TM-T20II, TM-T70, TM-T70II, TM-T81II, TM-T82, TM-T82II, TM-T83II, TM-T88V, TM-T90II, TM-m10, TM-m30, TM-P20, TM-P60, TM-P60II, TM-P80, TM-U220, TM-U330) Chuan Xiang (C90, C90i) We offer a 30-day free trial. You could access the Pocket POS through the following log on details after download and it is ready to use straight away: Admin PIN: 1111 Manager PIN: 2222 Staff PIN: 3333
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Poster at every 4 days against Pocket PoS's every 10 days. Pocket PoS's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Poster ships an update every 4 days, Pocket PoS every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Poster | Pocket PoS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 67.2% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Poster POS Inc | Pocket Intelligence Limited |
Customer experience
Poster
Pocket PoS
In-app purchases
Poster
No in-app purchases
Pocket PoS
No in-app purchases
