Menyo Pro vs iMenuPro: Which QR Menu Tool Wins in 2026?

If you've been comparing QR menu platforms, you've probably run into iMenuPro. It's one of the longest-running names in digital menu tools, and it does certain things genuinely well. But "menu tool" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that phrase — because iMenuPro and Menyo Pro solve very different problems for very different kinds of restaurants. This head-to-head breaks down exactly where each one wins, where it falls short, and which one fits your restaurant in 2026.

1The 30-Second Verdict

Here's the short version before we get into the details.

iMenuPro is, by its own description, a restaurant menu maker — a design-and-print tool for creating attractive PDF menus and QR codes that point at them. It's built for independent restaurants that want professional-looking printed menus and are happy to handle ordering, payments, and multi-location management elsewhere.

Menyo Pro is a full QR menu platform — AI digitization of your paper menu, contactless scan-to-order, local payment integrations (InstaPay, Fawry), multi-branch management, POS and kitchen display, reservations, loyalty, and analytics. It's built for restaurants that want the menu, the ordering flow, the payments, and the back-office in one place — especially in Egypt and the wider MENA region. If you're new to the concept, our 5-minute QR menu setup guide walks through how that actually works.

2What iMenuPro Does Well (Credit Where It's Due)

iMenuPro has been around since 1994, and that longevity shows in one specific area: menu design. It's not trying to be an ordering engine or a POS, and that focus is a strength for restaurants whose primary pain is "my printed menu looks amateur."

A genuinely good menu designer

The core product is a drag-and-drop menu maker built on what iMenuPro calls a "patented auto-design algorithm." The practical upshot: you drop items onto a layout and the software auto-formats spacing, columns, and alignment. You don't fight with text boxes in a generic design tool. For a busy owner who needs a clean menu by tonight, that's a real feature, not marketing fluff.

Live-sync across printed and QR menus

Change a price once and it propagates to your printed PDF, your QR menu, your digital TV signage, and your syncs to TripAdvisor and Yelp. If your menus change constantly — daily specials, 86'd items, seasonal swaps — that single-source-of-truth model saves real time. (Menyo Pro takes a different approach to the same problem: instant menu price updates across your digital menu and all branches from one dashboard.)

Honest, simple pricing

iMenuPro's pricing is unusually straightforward. As of July 2026:

• Monthly plan: $16/month
• Annual plan: $11.25/month effective (billed as $135/year, a 30% saving)
• Unlimited QR scans, multiple QR locations, and TV signage included at no extra cost
• 14-day free trial, no credit card required

That's a flat fee with no per-transaction commissions and no tiered upsells on the menu features themselves. For a restaurant that only wants the design tool, it's a clean deal.

Human support, no AI

iMenuPro leans into this as a selling point — "Human support, no AI Chatbots." If you've been burned by chatbot support loops elsewhere, that's a refreshing positioning. (Menyo Pro, notably, uses AI in the opposite way — to digitize your menu — which we'll get to.)

3Where Menyo Pro Pulls Ahead

Here's where the two products diverge sharply, because they're optimized for different jobs. Menyo Pro's edge isn't "better menu design" — it's everything that happens after the menu exists.

Scan-to-order with real local payments

iMenuPro's QR codes point guests at a menu to view. Menyo Pro's QR codes let guests order and pay — and crucially, through payment rails that Egyptian restaurants actually use. Menyo Pro integrates with InstaPay and Fawry, the dominant local payment networks. iMenuPro has no documented Egypt-specific payment integration. For a Cairo or Alexandria restaurant that wants guests to settle the bill through the QR without a card terminal or a delivery-app middleman, that's the decisive difference. (See how it works in practice: integrating InstaPay and Fawry into your QR menu.)

AI menu digitization in ~60 seconds

With Menyo Pro you upload a photo or PDF of your existing paper menu and the AI extracts every item, price, and description automatically — the company cites roughly 60 seconds for extraction, with most restaurants live within minutes. iMenuPro's model is the opposite: you manually build and drag-and-drop each menu. For a 120-item restaurant menu, that manual build is hours of work in iMenuPro versus a photo upload in Menyo Pro. If you're starting from a paper menu (as most Egyptian restaurants are), this alone can be the deciding factor.

Built Arabic-first and MENA-localized

Menyo Pro lists Arabic among its core languages alongside English, Spanish, and French, and supports 50+ languages for guest-facing menus. iMenuPro is an English-first US product with no documented Arabic interface. For restaurants whose staff and guests operate in Arabic, that's not a nice-to-have — it's table stakes.

Multi-branch management out of the box

Menyo Pro is explicitly built for restaurants with multiple locations — centralized menu control, per-branch analytics, and consistent menus across branches. iMenuPro supports "multiple QR locations" as an included feature, but those are QR endpoints, not a multi-branch management system with per-location menus, reporting, and hierarchy. For a group running three, five, or ten branches, Menyo Pro's architecture fits; iMenuPro's doesn't pretend to. (Read a real example: how QR menu centralization scaled one group from 1 to 5 locations.)

The full back-office, not just the menu

Menyo Pro bundles POS and kitchen display, reservations, loyalty, and marketing analytics alongside the QR menu. iMenuPro doesn't — by design. iMenuPro's pitch is "we do menus, and we do them better than a generalist." Menyo Pro's pitch is "run your whole restaurant on one platform." Neither is objectively wrong; which is right depends entirely on how many separate tools you're currently paying for and duct-taping together.

4Feature-by-Feature Snapshot

Here's the side-by-side on the dimensions that actually matter when choosing between these two.

Capability	iMenuPro	Menyo Pro
Primary purpose	Menu design & printing	QR menu + ordering platform
Menu creation	Manual drag-and-drop	AI photo/PDF extraction (~60s)
QR menu type	Display (view only)	Order & pay at table
Local payments (InstaPay, Fawry)	Not documented	Integrated
Arabic interface	No (English-first)	Yes (Arabic, EN, ES, FR + 50 langs)
Multi-branch management	Multiple QR endpoints only	Full multi-branch with analytics
POS & kitchen display	No	Yes
Reservations & loyalty	No	Yes
Analytics & reporting	Limited (menu-side)	Full restaurant analytics
Starting price	$16/month	$9.99/month
Commission on orders	N/A (no ordering)	None — 0%
Free trial	14 days, no card	Yes, no card required
Geographic focus	US, independent restaurants	Egypt / MENA, multi-location

5Pricing: The Real Math for an Egyptian Restaurant

Headline prices only tell part of the story. The real question is total cost to get the outcome you need.

6Who Should Use Which (By Restaurant Type)

The "better" tool is the one that matches how you actually run your restaurant.

• A single-location independent restaurant whose main pain is ugly printed menus
• Already happy with your POS and ordering setup, and just want better menu visuals
• US-based, operating in English, with no need for Arabic or local Egyptian payments
• Running a wine bar, hotel, or café where the printed menu is a brand object and design polish matters most

• An Egyptian or MENA restaurant that needs InstaPay and Fawry at the table
• Starting from a paper menu and want it digitized in minutes, not rebuilt by hand
• Running multiple branches and need centralized menu control with per-location reporting
• Looking to replace a patchwork of menu + ordering + POS tools with one platform at 0% commission
• Serving international or tourist guests who need a menu in their own language

7Common Mistakes When Choosing Between Them

8Frequently Asked Questions

Is iMenuPro free?

iMenuPro offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, after which it's $16/month or $135/year. It does not have a permanent free tier.

Does Menyo Pro charge commission on orders?

No. Menyo Pro uses flat monthly pricing with zero commission on orders — you keep 100% of your revenue. This is a deliberate contrast with platforms that take a percentage of each transaction.

Can I use iMenuPro for scan-to-order and payment?

iMenuPro's QR menus are display-oriented — guests view the menu rather than ordering and paying through it. If scan-to-order with payment is a requirement, that points toward Menyo Pro or a similar ordering platform rather than a menu-design tool.

Which one is better for a restaurant in Egypt?

For Egyptian restaurants specifically, Menyo Pro is the stronger fit because of InstaPay and Fawry integration, Arabic support, AI digitization of paper menus (the common starting point locally), and multi-branch management. iMenuPro is a US-focused product without documented local payment or language support for the Egyptian market.

Do both offer a free trial?

Yes. iMenuPro offers 14 days, no card required. Menyo Pro offers a free trial on all plans, also with no credit card required.

9The Verdict

These aren't really competitors — they're tools for different jobs that happen to share the word "menu."

Pick iMenuPro when the job is designing and printing beautiful menus, full stop. Its auto-formatting designer, live-sync, and dead-simple $16/month pricing are excellent for that specific job, and if you already have ordering and POS sorted elsewhere, it's a clean, focused choice.

Pick Menyo Pro when the job is running a restaurant on a QR menu platform — especially in Egypt or the MENA region. AI menu digitization, scan-to-order with InstaPay and Fawry, Arabic-first design, multi-branch management, and a 0%-commission model make it the better fit for restaurants that want the menu, the ordering, the payments, and the back-office in one place, starting at $9.99/month.

The deciding question is simple: do you need a menu designer, or a menu platform? Answer that honestly, and the right choice becomes obvious.