Upserve Live vs Craftable Inventory
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.
Craftable Inventory
Streamline bar and restaurant inventory audits with barcode scanning and a fast calculator. This app allows you to perform routine inventory checks efficiently, even with unreliable WiFi, by storing counts locally and syncing them later.
- Barcode scanning
- Fast calculator
- Offline count storage
- Cloud sync
- Location selection
- Sorting options
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The Craftable Inventory app allows you to fly through bar and restaurant inventory audits with ease. With barcode scanning and a fast calculator, completing your routine inventory has never been easier! Just sign in with your Craftable account, choose which location you'd like to perform the audit on, and set your sorting options. Unreliable WiFi in your storage locations? No problem! Craftable Inventory stores your counts locally and syncs them with the cloud once internet connection is resumed. Never lose another count again!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Craftable Inventory at 3.9 against Upserve Live's 1.6. Craftable Inventory also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Upserve Live's advantage is review sentiment (19% vs 0%) and ratings volume (59 vs 7). 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.
Craftable Inventory holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Upserve Live has 59 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 19% of Upserve Live's written reviews are positive against 0% of Craftable Inventory's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Upserve Live ships an update every 3 months, Craftable Inventory monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Upserve Live | Craftable Inventory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (59 ratings) | 3.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Upserve, Inc. | FNBTech Inc |
Customer experience
Upserve Live
Craftable Inventory
In-app purchases
Upserve Live
No in-app purchases
Craftable Inventory
No in-app purchases
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