Restbits alternative for restaurants: free forever, with the design and the languages included
Restbits publishes USD 40 a year for its menu tool and USD 45 for the tier that accepts orders, at rest.thrubits.com. Here the menu, more than 20 cuisine templates, 13 item card layouts and Arabic as your base language are all on the free plan, the address is ala.menu/yourname rather than rest.thrubits.com/restaurant/your-name, and WhatsApp ordering costs nothing.
Where the two actually differ
Free beats an annual fee
A full menu, more than 20 cuisine templates, 13 item card layouts, fonts, colours and gradients, your own Page and a QR code, on the free plan, with no card.
Your own address
ala.menu/yourname. Theirs is rest.thrubits.com/restaurant/your-name, which is their brand in front of yours in every link you ever share.
Taking orders is not a tier
Restbits puts order acceptance and order management on its USD 45 plan. WhatsApp ordering is free here, and a website checkout with delivery zones and a live order board is Plus.
Full native Arabic
Full native right-to-left rendering with a loaded Arabic webfont, free as your base language. AI translation across 21 languages, with a diner-facing switcher, is Plus.
Analytics, scheduling, version history
Menu views, unique visitors, the most tapped item and the order funnel; items that hide and reappear on a schedule; and a version history you can restore from. All on Plus.
Nothing to migrate
If your menu hands the order to WhatsApp rather than taking the payment on the page, there is no gateway to disconnect and nothing to port. If you do take cards, you connect your own gateway credentials here the same way. Either way it is the menu that moves, and the QR gets reprinted once.
Moving over
1. Send us your Restbits link
Or a PDF, or a photo. The menu comes back rebuilt, free.
2. Pick a template
Cuisine layouts, your colours, your logo, your photos. All on the free plan.
3. Reprint the QR once
The last time you will have to. Our code points at a short address that never changes again.
Restbits and ala.menu
| Restbits | ala.menu | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | USD 40 a year, or USD 45 with order acceptance | Free forever, paid plans by region |
| Menu address | rest.thrubits.com/restaurant/your-name | ala.menu/yourname |
| Taking orders | On their USD 45 tier | WhatsApp on Free, website checkout on Plus |
| Menu design | No card-layout or template count published | 13 card layouts and more than 20 cuisine templates, on Free |
| Languages | No language count published | Any of 21 as your base, free; a switcher on Plus |
| QR code designs | 8, on their own listing | 4 dot patterns, 5 corner styles, 8 frames and 10 palettes, on Plus |
Restbits compared, answered
How hard is it to switch?
You send us the menu and reprint the QR once. If you take card payments there through Stripe, you connect your own gateway credentials here in the same way, so the payment account stays yours on both sides and nothing has to be unpicked first.
Is my Restbits menu bad?
It works, and at USD 40 a year it is not expensive. Their own pricing page puts order acceptance on the USD 45 tier and publishes no card-layout, template or language count. The comparison worth making is what the free plan here gives you before you pay anything. If none of it changes your day, stay.
Will my link change?
Yes, and that is most of the point. Restbits menus live at rest.thrubits.com/restaurant/your-name. Yours would be ala.menu/yourname: shorter, sayable out loud, and without another company’s name in front of yours.
What do I get for free that I am paying for there?
The menu itself, more than 20 cuisine templates, 13 item card layouts, full design control, item photos, modifiers, allergen filters, a QR code, your own Page, and WhatsApp ordering. Analytics, the QR designer, AI translation, scheduling and version history are on Plus.
Can I keep my prices in Lebanese pounds?
Yes, and you can also price in USD and show LBP at your own rate and rounding step, with your dashboard staying in dollars.
Same job. Better menu. No annual fee.
Send us your Restbits link and see the two side by side before you change anything.
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