Square vs Buzzshot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Square
Monitor your business performance, finances, and team from anywhere in real time. Track sales, manage cash flow, and update schedules with this powerful analytics tool.
- Real-time business monitoring
- Sales and performance tracking
- Financial management
- Team scheduling and payroll
- Customer management
- In-app notifications
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Have peace of mind with the new Square Dashboard app. Get a unified look at your business and manage essential tasks from anywhere in real time. Track business performance, monitor your finances, manage your team, and connect with your customers, all while you’re on the go. Stay on top of your business. Get alerts with in-app notifications. Track your business with multilocation reporting and sales reports. Plus, get data on your top sellers and performers. Understand and control your cash flow. Integrate your sales and spend reports, automate your budgeting, pay your bills, and manage your linked credit cards. Maintain smooth operations with team management tools. Make updates to schedules, view and edit timecards, and run payroll all in real time.
Buzzshot
Streamline your escape room business with tools for player check-in, branded photo capture, and automated post-game messaging. Enhance customer experience, drive social media sharing, and manage online reviews from multiple platforms in one place.
- Player check-in and registration
- Branded photo capture
- Automated post-game email/SMS
- Social media posting and uploads
- Review aggregation from multiple platforms
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Escape Room Software: Powering Business Growth, Player Marketing, and Customer Experience. Player Check-In! ============ Painless check-in and registration workflows to collect the data and waiver agreements your business needs. Branded Photos ============ Capture game stats and take multiple team photos that your players want to receive and share, instantly. Player Messaging ============= Personalised post-game Email & SMS to encourage social media sharing and get you even more player reviews! Social Media ========== Hassle-free social media posts and facebook uploads. Plus integrations to make marketing easy. Amazing Reviews ============= Search and find all your player reviews – Tripadvisor, Google, Facebook, Yelp, Morty – everything in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Buzzshot at 100% against Square's 25%. Buzzshot also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Square's advantage is ratings volume (3.4K vs 6) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, 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.
Buzzshot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Square has 3.4K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Square's written reviews are positive against 100% of Buzzshot's.
Square ships an update weekly, Buzzshot fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Square | Buzzshot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.4K ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 319 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Block, Inc. | Thomas Parslow Limited |
Customer experience
Square
Buzzshot
Bugs and requests
Square
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes after updates
- Login issues after updates
- Widget stopped working after updates
- Freezing and not loading data
Requested features
8 requests- Make 52 weeks the default comparison
- Add iPad version
- Projections and estimated future income
- Ability to control what clients see
- Sound notifications for orders
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- More detailed reporting and breakdowns
- iPhone X support
- Ability to track net sales instead of just gross
Buzzshot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Square
No in-app purchases
Buzzshot
No in-app purchases
