Comparison • Restaurant teams
A Jolt alternative for restaurant teams.
Jolt is now part of SmartSense. If that has you looking again, look at the whole service: Gid puts the checklists, the schedule, the team chat and the training in one app, at one published price per location.
No contract. No commitment. No credit card.
Our job is to earn our place on your floor, not to lock you in.
Last updated September 24, 2026
Gid
Founders rate • Lifetime$29 $89 USD per location per month
- Tasks, schedule and team chat in one app
- Continuous training tuned to your menu
- Daily reports that surface what matters
- An AI assistant that knows your documents
- Your whole team in. Adding people never raises your bill.
First 250 worldwide • rate locked, no contract
Who this is for
Three reasons restaurants look again at Jolt
If one of these is your week, read on. If none of them is, Jolt may well be the better fit, and we say where below.
A new owner
Your tool changed hands
Jolt is now a SmartSense solution. If that makes you look again, look at the whole service, not only the lists.
A published price
You want the price before the call
Gid publishes one price per location, whole team included, and a free workspace to try it first.
The team side
The lists work, the team is the hard part
Menu training, onboarding, team chat and Google reviews are where Gid spends most of its effort.
Side by side
Gid and Jolt, on the record
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. |
| Temperature logs | Readings typed in by the employee, each checked against its safe range. No probes or sensors. | "Probe and sensor temperature logging powers digital HACCP workflows", and Jolt Sensors join SmartSense's monitoring platform. |
| Food labels | Not a Gid product today. | "The Jolt labeling system carries forward", with labels and hardware sold in the Jolt supplies store. |
| 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. A direct trade of one shift for another is not available today. | "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". |
| Audits | Walkthrough tasks by area, with a sign-off per section. | SmartSense ONE adds "Digital Audits" with "weighted scoring", and "Corrective Actions". |
| Maintenance | Not a Gid product today. | "Work Orders" for repairs and special projects. |
| Google reviews | Included. Reply drafts, recurring themes, lessons for the team. | Not named on these pages. To verify. |
| Hardware | None. Gid runs on the phones, tablets and computers you already have. | Sensors and probes for monitoring, and labels and hardware from the Jolt supplies store. |
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.
Where Gid differs
The team side of the service, at a published price
The lists and the team in one app
Checklists sit next to the schedule, the team chat, the training and the Google reviews, on iOS, Android and the web.
One price per location, whole team in
A published price and a free workspace. You hire, you train, you schedule, and the bill stays where it was.
Training that is part of the job
Build training from your menu or start from the Gid Library, assign it by department, and see who has finished.
Founders write the roadmap
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.
The stack you have today
Six apps that do not talk to each other, or one that does
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
- SchedulingThe week is posted, the swaps still happen by text.
- Tasks and checklistsA missed closing task shows up the next morning.
- Onboarding and trainingNew hires learn from whoever is on shift.
- Team chatShift talk buried between personal texts.
- Documents and menusRecipes and SOPs lost in folders and binders.
- Google reviewsReplies go out, the lesson never reaches the team.
Gid
One app on iOS, Android and the web
1 app 1 login 1 price
- Scheduling
- Tasks and checklists
- Onboarding and training
- Team chat
- Documents and menus
- Google reviewsReply drafts, recurring themes, lessons for the team
$29 USD per location per monthWhole team included
First 250 worldwide • rate locked, no contract
Switching
How to try Gid without giving up what works
Nobody should move a live kitchen onto a new tool in one Sunday. Four steps, in this order.
Step 1
Open a workspace, keep your current tools running
No card, no commitment. You are not cancelling anything yet, and your sensors and label printers stay where they are.
Step 2
Rebuild the opening and closing lists
Start from the Gid Library, with a photo, a reading or a sign-off only where the risk is.
Step 3
Add the team side
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
Move the team when it has earned it
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
What your team actually looks at
The honest part
Where Jolt may be the stronger fit, and what Gid does not do yet
A comparison page that only flatters the vendor who wrote it is worth nothing. Here is the side of the ledger that costs us signups.
Pick Jolt if
- You want wireless sensors and probes to log temperatures on their own. In Gid, readings are typed in.
- You print food prep labels, and want the labels, the printers and the lists from one vendor.
- You need audits with weighted scoring and corrective actions across many sites.
- You want maintenance work orders in the same tool.
- You want employees to trade one shift for another directly. Jolt lists shift trades for manager approval; in Gid, a direct trade of one shift for another is not available today.
- You already use SmartSense monitoring and want one vendor for all of it.
Limits of Gid today
- Gid POS and Gid Reservations are listed as coming soon. They are not in your hands yet, and we will not bill you for them until they are.
- Gid is not SOC 2 audited and not ISO/IEC 27001 certified. We use relevant practices from those frameworks as references; our providers' certifications cover their services, not Gid as a company. See our exact security status.
- The Founders Programme is deliberately small: 250 operations worldwide, onboarded personally. That is a promise about attention, and also a queue.
- The free workspace brings you plus one helper. Bringing the full team means a paid location.
- Gid does not connect to wireless temperature probes or label printers today.
Questions, answered
What happened to Jolt?
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.
Is Gid a drop-in replacement for Jolt?
For checklists, the schedule, the time clock, the team chat and the training, yes. For wireless temperature sensors, probes, food labels and work orders, no. Those are not Gid products today.
What does Gid cost next to Jolt?
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.
Can I keep my temperature sensors?
Gid does not replace sensors or probes. Keep them where they are, and try the lists, the schedule and the training in Gid next to them.
Can I try Gid without a credit card?
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.
Make every shift lighter.
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 contract. No commitment. No credit card.