Jolt alternative
Jolt is now part of SmartSense. Gid puts the checklists, the schedule, the team chat and the training in one app, at one published price.
No credit card. No commitment.
It’s on us to show you what Gid can do and earn its place in your daily operations.
What
Jolt
Gid
Published price
No price published: quote on request
$29 USD per location, whole team
Who sells it
Merged into SmartSense
Gid AI, directly
Google reviews
Not named on its pages
Included
Training and SOPs
An information library in lists
From your menu, with a roster
From their public pages, checked September 24, 2026. Prices change. See the full comparison
Tasks
Every task gets an owner, a due time and the steps to do it right, with proof where it matters and a reminder before it's late.
The schedule
Forecast, labor targets and confirmations in the same view. Publish it, and every teammate has it live in their pocket, never on a printed sheet.
Learning map
Each teammate opens My Training on the phone and finds the next recommended step under their learning map.
$29 $89 USD per location per month
Your whole team in. Adding people never raises your bill.
Try Gid for freeNo credit card. No commitment.
First 250 worldwide • rate locked, no contract
Lock the Founders rateIncluded in Gid
Also in every Gid plan
Gid POS and Gid Reservations are separate add-ons.
On the page jolt.com now opens, read September 24, 2026, Jolt and SmartSense say they have merged and that Jolt is now a SmartSense solution. Existing customers keep their login, their data and their tools.
Gid is $29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD at the public rate, with your whole team included. Jolt publishes no price: jolt.com/pricing opens SmartSense's quote request form.
Yes. Create a workspace and try every part of Gid on your own. No card, no commitment, cancel anytime. The free workspace brings you plus one helper; the rest of the team rides on a paid location.
Everything on this topic, in detail.
Side by side
Every Jolt line below was read on September 24, 2026, on the SmartSense pages jolt.com now leads to. Where we could not confirm something there, the cell says "to verify" instead of guessing.
| What you are buying | Gid | Jolt |
|---|---|---|
| Who sells it now | Gid AI, which builds Gid and sells it directly on gidai.ca. | "Jolt and SmartSense have merged", and "Jolt.com content now lives on smartsense.co", where the company presents itself as "SmartSense by Digi". |
| Published price | $29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD public. | No price published: jolt.com/pricing opens SmartSense's "Request a Quote" form. |
| Checklists and tasks | Included. Checklists with photos, readings, signatures and a manager's review, repeated on a schedule. | Operate: "Digital task management & checklists for deskless teams", with evidence such as "photos, notes, signatures" before a corrective action is marked complete. |
| Scheduling | Build the week on each person's availability and weekly hours; each person confirms their own shifts on the phone. In the Shift Marketplace, a shift can be handed to a teammate, opened to the team, covered or picked up. | "Employees can submit their availability preferences and request time off directly in the app", and they "drop, pick up, and trade shifts for manager approval". |
| Time clock | Clock in, start a break and clock out with Gid on the phone. | "Integrated time and attendance", with "photo verification". |
| Team communication | Included. Team channels, direct messages and announcements that show who read them. | "a centralized system for messages, announcements, and alerts", with "mass email and SMS messaging". |
| Training and SOPs | Included. Training built from your menu or from scratch, assigned by department, with a completion roster; documents open to the right people. | "Operate lists integrates with the information library, enabling staff to access training videos and SOPs directly within the lists". |
| Google reviews | Included. Reply drafts, recurring themes, lessons for the team. | Not named on these pages. To verify. |
Verified on September 24, 2026. Sources, the pages jolt.com now leads to: smartsense.co/welcome-jolt-users-now-a-smartsense-solution, smartsense.co/operate, smartsense.co/schedule, and jolt.com/pricing, which opened SmartSense's quote request form that day. No Jolt price is published, so there is nothing to convert. SmartSense also writes that existing Jolt customers keep "the Jolt platform, tools, and monitoring hardware you have today". Gid's own figures come from gidai.ca/#pricing and gidai.ca/founders. Anything we could not read on those pages is marked "to verify" rather than filled in.
Who this is for
If one of these is your week, read on.
A new owner
Jolt is now a SmartSense solution. If that makes you look again, look at the whole service, not only the lists.
A published price
Gid publishes one price per location, whole team included, and a free workspace to try it first.
The team side
Menu training, onboarding, team chat and Google reviews are where Gid spends most of its effort.
Where Gid differs
Checklists sit next to the schedule, the team chat, the training and the Google reviews, on iOS, Android and the web.
A published price and a free workspace. You hire, you train, you schedule, and the bill stays where it was.
Build training from your menu or start from the Gid Library, assign it by department, and see who has finished.
250 operations worldwide lock the Founders rate for as long as they run on Gid. When what you need is useful and responsible, our team ships it free of charge. See what shipped this week in the changelog.
A real shift
An example of one closing shift, from the last table to the next morning.
Closing
The Closing Tour asks for a sign-off on the kitchen line, the cash and the lockup.
The walk-in
The cook types the walk-in temperature, and Gid checks it against its safe range at once.
Next morning
A checklist that runs late reminds the person it is assigned to and, after the delay you set, the manager too.
The stack you have today
Nothing here is a knock on any specific tool. It is what happens when the schedule, the tasks, the training, the chat, the documents and the guest reviews were never built to know about each other.
6 apps 6 logins 6 bills
One app on iOS, Android and the web
1 app 1 login 1 price
$29 USD per location per monthWhole team included
First 250 worldwide • rate locked, no contract
Switching
Nobody should move a live kitchen onto a new tool in one Sunday. Four steps, in this order.
Step 1
No card, no commitment. You are not cancelling anything yet.
Step 2
Start from the Gid Library, with a photo, a reading or a sign-off only where the risk is.
Step 3
Bring one location and one week of schedule, one training and the team chat, and let two or three people tell you the truth.
Step 4
When the lists, the schedule and the chat run in Gid, bring the rest of the team. If Gid has not earned its place on your floor, close the workspace. Cancel anytime.
In the app
About this page
Members of the Gid team owned and operated restaurants before building software. Every Jolt line on this page comes from the official Jolt and SmartSense pages, dated where it appears. If one has changed, tell us at contact@gidai.ca and we will correct it.
One connected operations app for restaurant teams: scheduling, tasks, team chat, continuous training, onboarding, performance evaluations and an AI assistant grounded in your own documents. One price per location, whole team included.
Set up your workspace and try every part of Gid on your own. When you know it earns its place, your team rides in next.
No credit card. No commitment.
It’s on us to show you what Gid can do and earn its place in your daily operations.
Last updated October 25, 2026