Looking at Partender? The Bar Rescue app publishes no price. What we could verify, and the UK alternatives from £0 to £129

Partender is the bar inventory app off Bar Rescue. Tap where the level sits on a picture of the bottle, swipe to the next one, full count in 15 minutes, split across as many staff as you like. The speed is real and I'll credit it properly below. What you won't find, and I went looking today, is a price. No pricing page, no number anywhere on their site, and an Android app last updated in April 2024. Here's what I could verify, and the alternatives that put their prices in writing.

Usual disclosure first. I'm a licensee in Washington, Tyne and Wear, StockTap is my product, and this page compares mine with theirs. So I'll stick to what Partender publishes, credit what's good, and be plain about who I'd point at them. Same as with WISK, Growyze and Backbar, nobody in the trade has written a Partender page for UK operators, just directories quoting each other's stale numbers, so here's one from someone who counts stock for a living.

What Partender actually is

Going off Partender's own App Store listing as of 8 September 2026: a patented, subscription-based inventory app out of the US. You build a virtual blueprint of your venue, split the count across your team, main bar, back bar and stock room all counting at once, and record each open bottle by tapping where the liquor sits on a real image of it. Their claim is up to 99.2% accuracy and a full bar inventory in 15 minutes. Around the counting there are order suggestions, price change alerts, usage and variance reports, cost of goods numbers and ERP integrations. iPhone, iPad and web, plus an Android app.

And it got famous the honest way: it was on Bar Rescue, which makes it the only stock app most people have ever seen on television. That fame is exactly why the search you just typed exists.

The 15 minutes deserves credit

Two things Partender gets right. The split count is a proper idea. Inventory is slow mostly because one person does it alone, and handing the back bar to one colleague and the stock room to another turns a two-hour job into a short one. And tap-and-swipe is quick per bottle, quicker than weighing, no argument from me there.

If your problem is that counting takes so long you've stopped doing it as often as you should, speed like that is worth something real. My own answer to the speed problem is different, spot checks on a handful of lines between full counts, but theirs is a real answer too.

No price on the door

Here's where it thins out. partender.com today is a sign-in screen. No pricing page, no feature pages, and the old pricing address doesn't load at all. The site's own sitemap, the file that tells Google what's there, points at example.com placeholder addresses, which tells you roughly when the website was last anyone's job. Over on Google Play the Android app was last updated on 18 April 2024 and sits at 3.9 stars from 342 ratings.

None of that means the product is dead. The apps still install, the App Store listing is live, and plenty of venues presumably count on it every week. But a subscription is rented software, and before I rented from a landlord whose shop window has been dark for a while I'd want the demo to answer what's shipped in the last twelve months.

Then there's the price itself, which is that there isn't one. The figures floating around the directory sites disagree with each other and none of them come from a page Partender publishes today. Subscription-based is all their own copy commits to, and it's an American company, so expect the number in dollars. I've said before that quote-only pricing is my least favourite habit in this market, the cost guide is full of it, but this is the furthest version I've found. Not a hidden price. No price.

How it counts, and the ceiling

Tap-the-bottle is the eyeball count with better production values. You look at the bottle, you judge the level, and the difference from a clipboard is whether you write 0.6 or tap six tenths up a picture. Partender's algorithm turns the tap into millilitres and claims up to 99.2% accuracy, and I don't doubt the algorithm. The input is still your eye against a brown bottle in cellar light. Call a 70cl bottle four tenths when it's six and you're 140ml out, five and a half 25ml serves, on one bottle. If the person tapping this month squints differently to the person who tapped last month, your variance moves and nothing was poured.

Their own copy calls scales cumbersome. I built StockTap on the opposite bet, bottle on any kitchen scale you already own and the maths does the rest, because when there's a variance argument on the table a number you weighed beats a fast guess. Pick your problem. If counting time is what's killing you, tap-and-swipe fixes it. If it's trusting the number, it can't.

Partender against the alternatives

Published pricing, checked as dated below. The wider field is in the comparison hub.

Partender and the alternatives a UK operator actually shortlists. Prices from each vendor's published pages; confirm before signing.

Option	Price	Built around	Best fit
Partender	No published price (US company, demo only)	Tap-the-level counts split across a team	Teams who want the fastest eyeball count, if the demo lands a sensible number
Backbar	$0, then $99 / $149 a month (USD)	Slider and barcode counts, the free tier is real	Trying software before spending anything; see the Backbar guide
Growyze	£79 to £139 per venue	Barcode counts, invoice reconciliation, 30-day trial	Mixed sites wanting integrations in pounds; see the Growyze guide
Jelly	£129 per location, flat	Invoice scanning, live GP	Food-led sites with heavy invoice volume; see the Jelly guide
WISK	$249 a month plus $750+ onboarding	Bluetooth scale, proper weighing	Multi-outlet groups with budget; see the WISK guide
StockTap	£19 (Pro), £39 (Premium)	Weight-based counting on your phone and any scale you own	Wet-led UK pubs that want open stock measured, not guessed
Spreadsheet	£0	Your own discipline	Tight single sites, until part-bottles outgrow it; see when that happens

The pints arithmetic, minus one row

Price every subscription in gross profit, because gross profit is what pays for it. At the Morning Advertiser's 2026 average lager price of £4.89, a pint leaves about £2.24 of GP after VAT at a 55% margin. Growyze Pro costs about 8 pints of GP a week, Jelly 13, Backbar Essential 8, StockTap Pro 2. Partender's row is blank, and that's not a small thing. A subscription with no public price is one you can't budget, can't compare, and can't hold to anything later. When the demo gives you a number, do the division before you sign: the monthly price divided by £2.24 is the pints of GP it has to find every month before it has saved you a penny. The ROI guide shows the rest of the method.

So who should actually use Partender?

Straight answer. If you're a cocktail-led bar with mostly sealed stock, a team big enough to split the count, and the demo lands a price that survives the arithmetic above, Partender will organise you far better than the clipboard it replaces, and faster than anything else on this page. The workflow was good enough to get on television and it's still a good workflow.

If you run a UK pub, get three things answered in that demo before anything else. What's shipped in the last twelve months. The price, in writing, and what it converts to in pounds after your card provider's conversion fee. And how two different people tapping the same open bottle land on the same number. If the answers are vague, everything else in the table publishes its price and three of them bill in pounds.

My own trial is 14 days, no card. Count one shelf your current way and the same shelf on a set of scales in the same week, and see which number you'd defend to a stocktaker. Take the buyer's checklist into every demo you book, theirs and mine.

Common questions

How much does Partender cost?

There is no published price. As of 8 September 2026 partender.com carries no pricing page, and the old pricing address doesn't load. Partender's own App Store copy describes it as subscription-based, and it's an American company, so expect a number in dollars. The only way to get a current number is to book a demo and ask for it in writing.

How does Partender count stock?

You record each open bottle by tapping where the liquor level sits on a real image of the bottle, then swipe to the next one, and you can split the count across as many users as you like. Partender claims up to 99.2% accuracy for converting the tap into a quantity. There is no weighing; their own copy calls scales cumbersome.

Is Partender still being actively updated?

What can be verified from the outside, checked 8 September 2026: the Android app was last updated on 18 April 2024 per Google Play, where it holds 3.9 stars from 342 ratings, and the marketing site has been stripped back to a sign-in page. The apps still install and the App Store listing is live. Ask in the demo what has shipped in the last twelve months.

Does Partender work for UK pubs?

The app runs anywhere. The catches for a UK pub are no published UK pricing, a price you should expect in dollars, US-centric integrations and reference customers, and nothing published about cask or UK tills. A cocktail-led bar with mostly sealed stock loses least in translation. A draught and cask led pub will find gaps.

What are the best Partender alternatives for a UK venue?

Backbar's Basic plan at $0 is the cheapest way to try organised counting. In pounds: Growyze at £79 to £139 a venue with a 30-day trial, Jelly at £129 a location for food-led sites, and StockTap at £19 a month with weight-based counting for wet-led pubs. All of them publish their prices, which Partender does not.