CStore Essentials vs Backroom Mobile
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
Backroom Mobile
Manage your store's sales and inventory on the go. Track individual transactions, update product prices, and add new items. Receive notifications for product deliveries to keep your stock up-to-date.
- Live store sales reports
- View individual transactions
- Change prices
- Add new items
- Receive product deliveries
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View live store sales and reports View individual transactions Change prices and add new items Receive product deliveries
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CStore Essentials at 40% against Backroom Mobile's 0%. CStore Essentials also leads on ratings volume (62 vs 5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). Backroom Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 30 months) and rating (3.4 vs 3.0). 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.
Backroom Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CStore Essentials has 62 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 0% of Backroom Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, Backroom Mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | Backroom Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (62 ratings) | 3.4 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Scanning Solutions LLC |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
Backroom Mobile
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Backroom Mobile
No in-app purchases
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