QR menus you own forever — update a price and the guest sees it the instant they scan.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Toast QR menus, at $29+/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Menuly does the job for a one-time $24 — running on infrastructure you control.
Categories and items with name, description, photo and dietary tags, all drag-to-reorder.
For freelancers, menu builder pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
Pure HTML with inline critical CSS and no JS bundle, so it loads instantly on any phone with sticky category nav.
For freelancers, server-rendered menu page pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
Toggle an item out of stock and it vanishes from the live menu immediately, toggle back when the kitchen restocks.
For freelancers, 86 it in one click pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
One payment of $24 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/restaurant-menu-qr-mvp and run it free.
Use desktop mode at the counter to add categories, items, photos and branding for each venue.
Deploy to a $5 VPS with docker compose up -d, print the QR table tent, and guests scan a live menu you control.
Menuly is $24, once. Toast QR menus at $29+/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Menuly pays for itself in under one month of a QR-menu subscription — and it never charges you per location.
Menuly pays for itself in under one month of a QR-menu subscription — and it never charges you per location. Menuly costs $24 once; Toast QR menus charges $29+/mo — about $348 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — Menuly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/restaurant-menu-qr-mvp. The $24 buys the packaged Windows installer with zero setup; building from source is free.
In your own SQLite file with images in local storage, served from your own server — no telemetry and no third-party calls, so your menu is never hostage to a SaaS.