HeyMenus vs MenuTiger

What MenuTiger actually is

MenuTiger comes out of QR TIGER, an established QR code platform, and it shows in the product’s centre of gravity: this is a system for turning a table into an ordering terminal. Guests scan a code, browse an interactive menu, add to a cart and pay through Stripe, PayPal or Adyen. Behind that sit a kitchen display, table management, order analytics, and integrations with POS systems, Canva and Zapier.

One thing genuinely worth crediting: their pricing page states no commission per order, no setup fee and no contracts. In a category where ordering vendors routinely take a percentage of every ticket, a flat subscription is the operator-friendly model, and it can make MenuTiger substantially cheaper than a commission-based competitor at volume. Order counts are capped by tier instead, which is a much easier number to forecast.

What HeyMenus actually is

HeyMenus publishes menus. You build the menu in a drag-and-drop editor, and we publish it as a single page a guest opens from a QR code — with allergen declarations, dietary labels and nutrition attached to each dish, and a custom domain if you want the page to live on yours. There is no cart, no payment processing, no kitchen display and no POS integration, and we are not building any of them.

To be straight about our own gaps: HeyMenus is in beta. The Free plan is real and does not expire, but Pro — the tier carrying the custom domain, multi-language menus and analytics — is priced and defined but not yet on sale, because those features are still being built. That is why those rows read “partial” above rather than “yes”. We also have no integrations at all, where MenuTiger has a real integration story.

Pricing, and where the caps actually bite

MenuTiger runs a freemium tier and three paid ones: Regular at 17 US dollars a month, Advanced at 46, and Premium at 119, with roughly 15 per cent off for annual billing. The free tier is a real free tier, not a trial — but it is capped at seven categories of seven items, which is 49 dishes, along with ten QR codes and 200 QR orders a month for a single store.

Forty-nine dishes is the number to hold up against your actual menu. Count starters, mains, sides, desserts, soft drinks, beers, wines by the glass and coffees, and most restaurants are past it before the wine list starts. The second cap worth noting is the custom domain: MenuTiger places white-label domains on Premium at 119 US dollars a month, so publishing the menu on your own address costs seven times the entry tier. That is a common pattern in this market and it is worth pricing deliberately rather than discovering later.

HeyMenus does not cap dishes or edits on any plan, including the free one. Pro is priced at 19 US dollars a month for up to five restaurants, and nothing is billed while we are in beta. If you are comparing like for like at a single venue with no ordering, the honest summary is that HeyMenus costs nothing and MenuTiger costs 17 US dollars a month once you outgrow 49 dishes.

The published page

We would normally measure the competitor’s live menu here, as we do on our other comparison pages. We could not: the hosted menu domain we had on file for MenuTiger did not resolve when we checked in August 2026, so we have marked those rows “not verified” rather than guessing. We would rather leave a hole in the table than fill it with something we did not test.

What can be said without testing anything is structural. A menu with a cart, live order state and payment is an interactive application, and applications are built as client-rendered pages because they have to be. That is the correct engineering choice for what MenuTiger sells. It also means the page has to boot before it can show a dish, and a crawler arriving at it has less to read. HeyMenus makes the opposite trade, because we are not building an application: the published menu arrives complete in a single request, about 6 KB compressed for a twenty-item menu, renders with JavaScript switched off, and carries server-rendered schema.org Restaurant and Menu markup so the dishes themselves are indexable. If you want a cart, that trade is not available to you, and this section is not an argument against MenuTiger so much as a description of what a cart costs.

Allergens and accessibility

HeyMenus models the fourteen EU allergens under Regulation 1169/2011 as first-class per-dish data, alongside dietary labels and nutrition, and puts the statutory disclaimer on the published page rather than leaving it to you. MenuTiger’s own materials reference food labels and ingredient warnings, but we could not find allergen handling documented on their pricing page, so we have scored that row “partial” and flagged the uncertainty rather than claiming they lack it. If EU allergen compliance is a hard requirement for you, ask them directly.

On accessibility, we test every release against axe and with a screen reader, and the published menu ships zero violations. We could not find an accessibility statement or conformance claim on MenuTiger’s site — which is not evidence that their menus are inaccessible, only that they do not publish a position. Since the European Accessibility Act began applying in June 2025, that is a fair question to put to any vendor you are about to sign with, ourselves included.

Switching from MenuTiger

There is no direct transfer, but a PDF of your menu can be imported on any plan, allergens and nutrition included. Failing that you rebuild by hand: sections, dishes, prices and allergens re-entered. For a single-venue menu that is an evening’s work. The part people underestimate is the QR codes. If your printed codes encode a MenuTiger URL you will reprint them; if they point at a domain you control, you repoint the domain and the printed codes keep working. That is an argument for putting the menu on your own domain whoever you buy from — and a reason to look closely at what a vendor charges for the privilege.

The reverse is true too, and worth saying plainly: if you leave HeyMenus you rebuild elsewhere, the same as leaving anyone. We are a small beta-stage product, and that is a real risk to weigh against a vendor with an established platform behind it.

So which should you pick?

Pick MenuTiger if guests should order and pay from the table. That is a genuinely different business — it changes your service model, your staffing and your kitchen flow — and if you want it, you want a platform built for it. Nothing on this page should talk you out of that, and HeyMenus will never be the answer to it.

Pick HeyMenus if the menu is the thing. If your guests scan a code, read, and order from a server; if your menu is bigger than 49 dishes; if you want the page quick on bad wifi, legible to a screen reader, and findable in search — then that is the product we built, and the free plan is a real one rather than a trial.