ST POS vs Aldelo Kitchen Display
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ST POS
This app serves as a dual-purpose tool for businesses, functioning as a point-of-sale system for restaurants and bars, and as an age-verification and admission management system for venues. It allows for order placement, payment processing, and customer tracking.
- Table-side order and payment processing
- ID and age verification for admissions
- Customer and VIP tracking
- Accepts various payment methods
- Employee scheduling and management
- Inventory and product customization
- Tab management and split payments
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SmartTab POS & ADMISSION app is both a restaurant/bar/nightclub point-of-sale (POS) app and an age-verification/admission app for bouncers and doormen. The SmartTab POS app is optimized for tablet POS (iPad) and handheld table-side service POS (iPod) and gives you everything you need to place orders and accept payments from a mobile device. The SmartTab ADMISSION feature (iPod) provides ID and Age Verification while keeping track of customer admission, VIPs, bottle service guests, and 86’d guests. Accept cash, debit, credit card and SmartTab payments (see companion SmartTab CUSTOMER app). Funds are deposited fast—see money in your bank account in one to two business days. Use SmartTab POS to keep track of all your customers, tabs, tables, admissions, products, modifiers, tenders, inventory, courses, gratuity, taxes, surcharge, employees, schedule and timesheets. All this with no long term obligation and simple month-to-month contracts. FEATURES SmartTab POS & ADMISSION can operate independently through the cloud, or connect locally as part of a broader POS configuration that works in tandem with resistive-touch POS stations. Get the latest features and enhanced functionality with regular app updates. - Accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, AMEX (optBlue), cash, gift cards, and other forms of tender - Customers can pay, tip, and sign right on your device - Integrated for SmartTab payments where customers can open their tab with their ID or through the SmartTab CUSTOMER app - Full-featured POS functionality with transfers, merges, coursing, covers, itemized or entire check discounts, repeat order, drag select, remaining counts, 86’d items, mods, gratuity, surcharge, tax, and more... - Employee scheduling along with staff management tools and reports - Customize your products with names, prices, tax rules, recipes, mods, and ingredient tracking - Construct a venue customer and product social graph - 1-click tab lookup with robust tab management and filtering - Dynamic split check / split payment for quick and flexible customer split management - Connects to a receipt printer, kitchen / bar remote ticket printer, barcode scanner, and cash drawer ----------------------------- NEXT-DAY DEPOSITS Get your money fast. SmartTab deposits payments into your bank account in one to two business days. SECURE MOBILE CREDIT CARD READER Credit card information is encrypted from start to finish.
Aldelo Kitchen Display
This system enhances kitchen productivity by digitizing order tickets, eliminating paper clutter. It supports multiple screens for different stations and can optionally print physical tickets or labels. Seamlessly integrated with a cloud POS system, it improves coordination and speed in busy restaurant environments.
- Digital order tickets
- Customizable screen layouts
- Consolidated item views
- Bump single items or entire orders
- Optional ticket/label printing
- Delayed prep time alerts
- Supports up to 20 kitchen screens
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*** Aldelo Express Restaurant Kitchen Display requires Aldelo Express Restaurant Cloud POS to be paired *** Aldelo Express Restaurant Kitchen Display System streamlines and improves kitchen productivity like never before. No more lost kitchen paper tickets, or shuffling through stacks of slips in a busy kitchen environment. Aldelo Express Restaurant Kitchen Display supports up to 20 kitchen screens for various stations and expeditors. Best of all, if you still need a paper slip for each item made, you can still print them via our KDS system. Aldelo Express Restaurant Kitchen Display is seamlessly integrated with Aldelo Express Restaurant Cloud POS. Internet is not required for its operations. Start enhancing your kitchen coordination better and faster with Aldelo Express Restaurant Kitchen Display System (KDS) *** Key Features *** Customizable Traditional KDS Screen Layout Consolidated Items View Layout Ability to Bump Single Item or Entire Order Ability to View Each Item's Details Instant Item or Order Void Notification Delayed Prep Time Alert Expeditor Coordination Up to 20 Kitchen Screens Ability to Optionally Print Kitchen Tickets Ability to Print Kitchen Single Item Ticket Upon Bump Ability to Print Labels Upon Bump Ability to Display Multilingual Text Seamlessly Integrated with Aldelo Express Restaurant Cloud POS and Much More Get the Aldelo Express Restaurant Kitchen Display today, and increase kitchen productivity and operations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Aldelo Kitchen Display at 5.0 against ST POS's 4.5. Aldelo Kitchen Display also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). ST POS's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (26 vs 3). 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.
Aldelo Kitchen Display holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ST POS has 26 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ST POS ships an update every 5 days, Aldelo Kitchen Display every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ST POS | Aldelo Kitchen Display |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Smarttab Corp | Aldelo |
Customer experience
ST POS
Aldelo Kitchen Display
In-app purchases
ST POS
No in-app purchases
Aldelo Kitchen Display
No in-app purchases
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