Comparison

Text Request vs DOME Counts

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

Head to head
About

Text Request

This app allows businesses to manage customer conversations and send messages on the go. It provides real-time notifications for new messages, enables mass messaging for promotions, and offers team collaboration features. Users can also manage contacts, settings, and request payments via SMS.

Highlights
  • Mobile customer conversations
  • Inbound message notifications
  • On-the-go conversation initiation
  • Mass messaging for promotions
  • Team collaboration features
  • Contact and group list management
  • SMS payment requests
Features
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Connect with customers whenever you want, wherever you work using Text Request’s mobile app. * Take customer conversations with you wherever you go * Get notified of new inbound messages * Spark new conversations on-the-go * Send mass messages for promotions or updates anytime * Keep your team in the loop with shared dashboards, type-alerts, and other team-friendly features * Manage individual contacts and group lists inside the app * Manage your account, settings, and users all from your mobile device * Request payments via SMS Get the power of text messaging to ignite customer engagement. All it takes is an active Text Request account. Already using Text Request? Click Install now. Not using Text Request yet? See what the hype’s all about at textrequest.com/demo. * Take customer conversations with you wherever you go * Get notified of new inbound messages * Spark new conversations on-the-go * Send mass messages for promotions or updates anytime * Keep your team in the loop with shared dashboards, type-alerts, and other team-friendly features * Manage individual contacts and group lists inside the app * Manage your account, settings, and users all from your mobile device Get the power of text messaging to ignite customer engagement. All it takes is an active Text Request account. Already using Text Request? Click Install now. Not using Text Request yet? See what the hype’s all about at textrequest.com/demo.

About

DOME Counts

Streamline inventory management for restaurants by quickly scanning items and calculating volumes. Generate suggested orders based on usage forecasts and track bar performance with detailed cost analysis.

Highlights
  • Scan bottles with camera or barcode scanner
  • Calculate liquid volume for open bottles
  • Organize counts by area
  • Generate suggested orders
  • Track days of supply
  • Analyze bar performance and costs
  • Manage purchasing and invoices
Features
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DOME Counts is the inventory counting app for DOME, the restaurant operations platform. Scan and count your bar for free — or subscribe to DOME Counts Pro to sign in to DOME and run counts, ordering and audits for your stores. SCAN & COUNT — FREE, NO ACCOUNT Scan bottles with the camera or a Bluetooth barcode scanner Built-in catalog of beverage barcodes, and it learns the ones it doesn't know Export the count as a CSV to email or open in a spreadsheet Works offline; nothing leaves your phone COUNT FASTER (Pro) Store worksheets with locations, par levels and units straight from DOME Slide the liquid level on open bottles — DOME does the volume math for every bottle shape Count area by area: back bar, well, walk-in, storeroom Counts save as you go and sync when you're back online KNOW WHAT TO ORDER (Pro) Suggested order for the next delivery, built from your last count, invoices since and forecast usage Days of supply for every item, with what's running short and what's sitting above par Flags for probable missing invoices and mis-keyed deliveries SEE THE BAR'S PERFORMANCE (Pro) Excess inventory and heavy days-of-supply items — where the cash is sitting Actual vs. theoretical cost by month, with the projected food and bar cost for the current period Exceptions from the month close: pour loss signals, phantom stock, rolled counts, cost drift AUDITS, HOT LISTS AND CHECKBOOK (Pro) Daily walk, venue audit and safety meeting with photo capture and Bluetooth thermometer support Watch problem items daily and see how on-hand moves between counts Monthly purchasing envelopes: enter invoices, raise POs, and compare against what was actually invoiced DOME Counts Pro is a yearly auto-renewing subscription with a free trial, billed through your Apple ID and cancellable any time in Settings. Signing in also requires a DOME account issued by your organization. Counts are reviewed and posted to the inventory system from DOME on the web. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tidalexploration.net/privacy

Screenshots

Text Request4 screens
DOME Counts3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: DOME Counts at 5.0 against Text Request's 4.0. Text Request's advantage is ratings volume (54 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

DOME Counts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Request has 54 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Request ships an update fortnightly, DOME Counts every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Request versus DOME Counts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText RequestDOME Counts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (54 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings54 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperText RequestTidal Exploration

Customer experience

Text Request

All ratings54 ratings
Positive72.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive70.7%
Neutral2.4%
Negative26.8%

DOME Counts

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

Bugs and requests

Text Request

Reported bugs

31 issues
  • Aggressively logs out every couple of hours
  • Login process is horrible
  • Notifications of received texts but app logs out
  • Contact management features barely work
  • Can't add tags in contact management
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  • Can't save name or phone changes in contact management
  • App glitches and needs re-downloading
  • Constantly have to force close the app for new messages
  • App is blank and messages won't load
  • App hangs/freezes
  • Requires repeated logging in
  • App crashes
  • Blank screens
  • Messages won't load
  • Force quit app a couple of times a day
  • App is sub mid
  • Over the last few months, the app has been nothing but trouble
  • Seems to lock up or load slowly on occasion
  • Constantly freezes
  • Sound and banner notifications are seemingly random
  • Miss texts from customers
  • Notifications don’t alert when they come thru
  • Badge counts won’t go away
  • Wont send messages have the time
  • Pictures are distorted
  • Half the time the app won’t open at all
  • Cannot start a new conversation from the app
  • Get notifications when logged out
  • On iPhone XS, the app header does not appear properly
  • When login information is auto-filled with a password manager, the login attempt is thwarted by the error “enter password.”
  • For the contact, the “custom” field is called “email address.”

Requested features

7 requests
  • Improve responsiveness when returning to app
  • Add landscape mode for iPad
  • Improve search feature
  • Improve preview to show most recent text
  • Fix app header overlap on iPhone
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  • Allow auto-filled passwords without workaround
  • Clarify 'custom' field name

DOME Counts

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Text Request

No in-app purchases

None

DOME Counts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Request free?
Text Request is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DOME Counts free?
DOME Counts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Request or DOME Counts?
DOME Counts is rated higher. Text Request averages 4.0 out of 5 from 54 ratings, while DOME Counts averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Text Request or DOME Counts have ads?
Neither Text Request nor DOME Counts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Request or DOME Counts?
Text Request ships an update fortnightly, and DOME Counts every 8 days. Most recently, Text Request was updated on November 1, 2026 and DOME Counts on October 20, 2026.

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