BJ's Restaurants vs FridgeCatalyst
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BJ's Restaurants
Discover handcrafted beers, pizzas, entrees, and desserts. Order ahead for dine-in or takeout, join the waitlist, and pay with your phone. Earn rewards for every visit.
- Locate nearby restaurants
- View specials and offers
- Dine-in order ahead
- Join preferred waitlist
- Order takeout and curbside pickup
- Mobile payment
- Group ordering
- Join rewards program
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The BJ’s Restaurants app makes it easy to find the BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse near you, browse the menu, order takeout or delivery, and access meal deals, happy hour offers, and late night food options. Guests can explore pizza and slow roast favorites, burgers, craft beer selections, outdoor seating at select locations, and the world-famous Pizookie®. Use mobile pay when you dine in and also earn rewards through Premier Rewards Plus.
FridgeCatalyst
This app helps you manage your kitchen inventory and plan meals. It tracks ingredients, suggests recipes based on what you have, and generates shopping lists to reduce food waste and simplify cooking.
- Smart ingredient tracking with photos and expiration dates
- Recipe saving and import
- Recipe suggestions based on available ingredients
- Automated meal planning
- Auto-generated shopping lists
- Cooking timers
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FridgeCatalyst turns your fridge into your meal-planning brain. Track what you have, save recipes, and we'll match the two - so you always know exactly what you can cook right now, what's about to expire, and what to grab next time you shop. EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN ONE APP - Smart Fridge: track ingredients with photos, expiration dates, and multiple locations - Recipe Library: save your favorite recipes, scale servings, and find them instantly - What Can I Make: get recipe matches based on what's already in your fridge - Recipe Suggestions: search recipes by name or paste any recipe URL to import it - Autofill: turn a screenshot or a video's caption into a recipe, read on your device - Meal Planner: plan your week with daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views - Shopping List: auto-generated from missing ingredients with smart price estimates - Cooking Timers: multiple timers running at once with an alarm that wakes the device - iCloud Sync: all your data, in sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT - Stop wasting food: get reminders before things expire - Stop guessing what to cook: your fridge tells you - Stop forgetting groceries: shopping lists build themselves - Stop juggling apps: recipes, fridge, planner, and shopping in one place FREE, WITH EVERYTHING UNLOCKED Every feature above is included for everyone. No subscription, no ads, no locked features, and no limit on how many recipes or fridge items you keep. MAKE IT YOURS WITH INVADER COINS Earn coins just by using the app, 5 a day and 500 for sharing it, and spend them on extra colors and app icons in the Coin Shop. Coins change only how the app looks, never what it can do. They never expire, they work in every Invader Studio app through your iCloud account, and on invaderstudio.net if you connect with Apple. Packs are there if you'd rather not wait. Privacy: Your recipes and fridge data live in your private iCloud account. We never see them. No third-party analytics, no tracking, no ads. Cook smarter. Waste less. Eat better. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://invaderstudio.net/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FridgeCatalyst at 5.0 against BJ's Restaurants's 4.1. FridgeCatalyst also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). BJ's Restaurants's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ratings volume (10K vs 1). On price, ads 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. FridgeCatalyst sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. BJ's Restaurants asks for nothing beyond the download.
FridgeCatalyst holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BJ's Restaurants has 10K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BJ's Restaurants ships an update every 3 months, FridgeCatalyst every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BJ's Restaurants | FridgeCatalyst |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (10K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #103 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BJ's Restaurants Inc. | LOUIS GREGORY CARO VARGAS |
Customer experience
BJ's Restaurants
FridgeCatalyst
Bugs and requests
BJ's Restaurants
Reported bugs
4 issues- App not recognizing valid receipts for rewards
- Inability to change email address associated with account
- Ordering issues with app not communicating with restaurant
- Forced updates locking out users with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to use gift cards through the app
- Improve app stability and reliability
- Allow more flexibility for larger party sizes
- Better integration between app and restaurant systems
FridgeCatalyst
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BJ's Restaurants
No in-app purchases
FridgeCatalyst
- Pro Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly1 Month trial$49.991 Year
- 500 coins$1.00
- Coffee$1.99
- Lunch$4.99
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- 10,000 coins$5.00
- Groceries$9.99
- 100,000 coins$10.00
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