Square vs Square Mobile App
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.
Square Mobile App
Create a branded mobile ordering experience for your customers, complete with personalized recommendations and easy checkout options. Offer convenient in-person pickup or on-demand delivery, and integrate loyalty programs and gift cards to enhance customer engagement.
- Personalized customer ordering experience
- Brand customization with colors and images
- Display recent orders, recommendations, and favorites
- Support for Apple Pay and saved credit cards
- In-person pickup and on-demand delivery
- Integration with Square Loyalty
- Redeem and sell eGift cards
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Delight customers with a personalized ordering experience that is customized with your brand colors and images to give your app a million dollar digital presence. Display recent orders, personal recommendations, and favorites right on the home screen so your customers can quickly reorder, select Apple Pay or a saved credit card, and check out. Give your customers the convenience to pick up orders in person—for free. With on-demand delivery, professional DoorDash couriers get automatically dispatched when a delivery order gets placed in your app. They deliver the order and you don’t pay any marketplace commissions. The app integrates seamlessly with Square Loyalty to reward repeat customers and encourage future visits. The app can also redeem online and physical Square Gift Cards. Plus, sell eGift cards for your business right in the app. Check us out at https://tryperdiem.com/ Are you a business owner looking to have your own mobile app, signup here at https://onboarding.tryperdiem.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Square at 3.4K against Square Mobile App's 6. Square also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Square Mobile App's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Square Mobile App 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.
Square ships an update weekly, Square Mobile App monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Square | Square Mobile App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.4K ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 319 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Block, Inc. | Per Diem Subscriptions, Inc. |
Customer experience
Square
Square Mobile App
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
Square Mobile App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Square
No in-app purchases
Square Mobile App
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Square free?
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