Comparison

Podium vs Lizzy Count

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Podium

Manage all customer communications and payments from a single inbox. This platform helps local businesses collect payments, manage online reputation, and send targeted marketing messages via text.

Highlights
  • Unified customer inbox
  • Automated review collection
  • Bulk text messaging
  • Business phone number
  • In-app payment processing
  • Reputation management
Features
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Podium® is a communications and marketing platform that helps small local businesses manage all customer communications in one easy-to-use inbox, from collecting payments to managing your online reputation and reviews. Podium is changing the way local business gets done everywhere. More than 100,000 businesses rely on Podium to grow and do more as a team. Key features include: - Inbox: Bring every customer conversation from every channel into a single, easy-to-use inbox. See and respond to every chat, review, text, social media message, and phone call in a single thread. - Reviews: Double your monthly review volume in less than 60 days and increase website and foot traffic to your business by sending review invitations via text through Podium. - Bulk Messaging: With a 98% open rate, Podium’s text marketing software allows you to send tailored messages to your customer base that turn into customer sales in minutes. - Phones: Don't let missed calls fall through the cracks, with a singular business number for calls and texting you can keep all communications in one place and avoid everyone give out their personal number to customers. - Payments: Get paid with just a text. Payments through Podium gather more reviews, generate higher quality leads, and centralize your customer data to communicate and market in a more targeted way.

About

Lizzy Count

Streamline inventory management with this mobile tool designed for the Lizzy BMS system. It enables cycle counting, inventory adjustments, and automatic photo uploads of parts and units directly to your Lizzy account.

Highlights
  • Inventory counting
  • Cycle counting
  • Inventory adjustments
  • Photo upload for parts/units
  • Integration with Lizzy BMS
Features
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This application is an inventory counting and cycle counting app for the Lizzy BMS system. In order to use the application you have to have an account with Lizzy. The app will allow you to perform cycle counting the same way Lizzy does, perform inventory adjustments as well as take pictures of units or parts and have them uploaded to Lizzy automatically.

Screenshots

Podium4 screens
Lizzy Count4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Podium at every 3 days against Lizzy Count's every 3 weeks. Podium also leads on ratings volume (32K vs 2). Lizzy Count's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lizzy Count holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Podium has 32K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Podium ships an update every 3 days, Lizzy Count every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Podium versus Lizzy Count: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPodiumLizzy Count
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (32K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings32K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size297 MB30 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPodium Corporation, Inc.NizeX, Inc.

Customer experience

Podium

All ratings31,918 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews196 reviews
Positive61.2%
Neutral5.1%
Negative33.7%

Lizzy Count

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Podium

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Frequent app crashes
  • Login issues and logout problems
  • Inconsistent review posting
  • Unreliable SMS/text functionality
  • Syncing issues between web and mobile

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to edit auto-replies
  • Access to custom templates on mobile
  • Improved media handling (photos, videos)
  • Easier contact import from phone
  • Word search functionality

Lizzy Count

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Podium

No in-app purchases

None

Lizzy Count

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Podium free?
Podium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lizzy Count free?
Lizzy Count is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Podium or Lizzy Count?
Lizzy Count is rated higher. Podium averages 4.7 out of 5 from 32K ratings, while Lizzy Count averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Podium or Lizzy Count have ads?
Neither Podium nor Lizzy Count shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Podium or Lizzy Count?
Podium ships an update every 3 days, and Lizzy Count every 3 weeks. Most recently, Podium was updated on November 4, 2026 and Lizzy Count on November 2, 2026.

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