About this site

Who it’s for

You own a restaurant or run its front of house, and you’re deciding how to handle walk-ins: keep the clipboard, hand out pagers, or move to an app that texts guests when their table opens up. Or you already use an app and want to see what else is out there before your renewal. This site is written for that decision: what each app costs, what it does at the host stand, and how to tell similar options apart.

What you’ll find

• App pages for every restaurant waitlist app on the site: pricing from the vendor’s own page, confirmed features, who each app suits, pros and cons with a source on every line, and the data behind its labels.
• Best-of lists that group apps by need, such as free plans, POS integration or replacing pagers. Each list uses one stated filter, pins TablesReady’s ad card first when TablesReady qualifies, and shows the other apps alphabetically.
• Alternatives pages that set one app beside the rest of the list, for when you’re thinking of switching.
• Guides to practical questions such as paper lists versus apps, texting versus pagers, and quoting wait times.

Who runs it

TablesReady owns and runs this site. TablesReady makes a restaurant waitlist app, and that app is one of those compared here. Its promotional spots carry an “Ad · Our own app” label, and links in them are tagged so TablesReady can see the visits that come from this site. On the lists, its card is pinned first with that label instead of sitting in A-to-Z order.

That ownership is why the rules are public. How we compare explains where each price comes from, how the labels are worked out and what is left out, so you can trace any fact back to its source.

What we don’t do

• Charge other vendors for listings or for placement.
• Copy star ratings from Capterra, G2 or other review sites.
• Repeat vendor marketing claims, such as customer counts or rankings a vendor gives itself.
• Rank the apps or give them scores.

Updates and corrections

The site is updated monthly, and every app page shows when its facts were last checked. If you spot a mistake, or you make an app that belongs here, see Add or correct an app.