Upserve Live vs Lobby Buzz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Upserve Live
Monitor real-time sales, guest volume, and loss prevention metrics for your restaurant. Access historical reports, top menu items, and your logbook from anywhere.
- Real-time sales monitoring
- Guest volume tracking
- Loss prevention metrics
- Historical report comparison
- Top menu item analysis
- Logbook access
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Upserve Live helps operators stay connected to restaurant performance, from anywhere. Get real-time visibility into sales, labor costs, guests, checks, comps, voids, and other key metrics from your phone, whether you’re managing one location or several. See how sales are trending, monitor labor as a share of sales, and keep an eye on comps and voids. Dig into the details to see which categories are driving the night and how performane compares with previous days. Upserve Live also keeps you connected to your team when you’re off-site. Read and respond to manager notes so you can stay informed about how the shift is going without being on the floor.
Lobby Buzz
This app provides Hilton Team Members with company and brand news, updates, and engagement opportunities. It delivers timely information tailored to individual roles and locations, fostering connection and awareness within the organization.
- Company and brand news
- Timely updates
- Role and location specific content
- Team member engagement
- Internal communication platform
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Lobby Buzz is Hilton’s custom Team Member app and desktop platform for company and brand news, updates, and engagement. Designed specifically for Hilton Team Members, Lobby Buzz delivers timely information and content that matters most to your role and location.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lobby Buzz at 100% against Upserve Live's 19%. Lobby Buzz also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.6). Upserve Live's advantage is ratings volume (59 vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lobby Buzz holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Upserve Live has 59 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Upserve Live's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lobby Buzz's.
Upserve Live ships an update every 3 months, Lobby Buzz every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Upserve Live | Lobby Buzz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (59 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Upserve, Inc. | Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. |
Customer experience
Upserve Live
Lobby Buzz
In-app purchases
Upserve Live
No in-app purchases
Lobby Buzz
No in-app purchases
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