The short answer: it is the same app. Same features, same data, same price, and the same account signs in on either. If you are choosing a phone for the counter, the app is not the deciding factor — the hardware is, and this article is mostly about that.
What is genuinely identical
- Billing, including completing a sale with no connection and syncing afterwards.
- The khata — the running balance per customer, and the reminders you send against it.
- Stock, purchase orders, and the cost and margin per item.
- Staff logins and per-module permissions, so a cashier sees no margins on either platform.
- All the reports, and the daily closing reconciliation.
- The price, which is nothing, on both.
The three places the platforms differ
None of these is a difference in the app. All three are the phone underneath it, which is why the answer for your shop depends on the handset you already own.
| What differs | On Android | On iPhone & iPad |
|---|---|---|
| Bluetooth thermal printing | Pairs with most counter printers sold in the region | Works, but check your specific printer model before buying one |
| Sharing a bill | The system share sheet, straight into WhatsApp | The system share sheet, straight into WhatsApp |
| Barcode scanning | Depends on the camera's focus speed on your model | Generally fast on recent models |
Two counters, two phones, one shop
Nothing stops you mixing. A common arrangement is the owner on whichever phone they already carry and a cheap dedicated Android on the counter, both signed into the same business, with the counter device on a staff login so it cannot see margins.
Two people can bill at the same time on two devices without anything being counted twice — there is a separate guide on how that is kept straight. What matters here is that it is not a paid tier or a per-device licence. Add the second device and sign in.
And the screen that is not a phone
There is a third surface, which is the web dashboard in a browser. It is not a replacement for either app and it is not free — it is for the back-office work that is genuinely miserable on a phone, like correcting two hundred product prices at once. If that is the job you have, the phone-versus-desktop guide covers when it is worth asking for.
For selling, though, the phone is the product. Both of them.