CStore Essentials vs Elistars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CStore Essentials
Monitor and manage all your retail stores remotely from your smartphone. Get real-time insights into sales, transactions, and inventory changes, even when you're away.
- Remote store management
- Live transaction monitoring
- Full transaction receipts
- Live department and gas sales
- Add new items
- Change item prices
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Manage all your stores from your phone. Stay on top of everything happening in your store even when you are not present. - View full day reports - See live transactions as they are happing on your register - See full transaction receipts with line voids, full transaction voids and no sale register openings - See live department and gas sales - Add new items and change prices for existing item
Elistars
This is a back-office tool for registered users of elistars. It allows users to manage their store's price book. Access is restricted to authorized personnel.
- Price book management
- Store inventory control
- Registered user access
- Back-office support
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This application is only for registered users of elistars and not available for everyone. It is supporting/back office application for elistars. Manage your store price book.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Elistars at 4.5 against CStore Essentials's 3.0. Elistars also leads on update cadence (every 8 months vs every 30 months). CStore Essentials's advantage is ratings volume (62 vs 11) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Elistars holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CStore Essentials has 62 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, Elistars every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | Elistars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (62 ratings) | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Elistars |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
Elistars
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Elistars
No in-app purchases
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