Dinlr KDS: F&B Kitchen Display
Kitchen Display System for F&B
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
It's designed with the unique needs of the food service industry in mind, Dinlr is the perfect fit for business of any size such as multi-outlet franchises, full-service restaurants, quick-service venues, food trucks, cafes, bars, coffee shops, hawker centre stalls, breweries, and pizzerias.
Packed with features:
- Kitchen Display: For chefs to mark food readiness status
- Expeditor Display: For waiters to mark food serving status
- Sequential kitchen ticket: Newly added items will be tiled at the back to provide fair waiting time for existing orders
- Fully Integrated: Fully integrated with other Dinlr solutions
- Readily Available Hardware: Work with iPad and almost any receipt printers (Epson, Star Micronics or other brands that use ESC/POS command)
No internet connection? It will not affect your operation. Dinlr uses a proprietary local network communication between the devices which does not require any internet connection for it to work. Devices will be able to send & receive data among them with or without internet connection. All the sales information will be uploaded automatically when the internet is back online.
Dinlr is compatible with Epson, Star Micronics & any ESC/POS receipt printers (LAN, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi) and any cash drawers that can be connected to the receipt printer.
more Bug fixes:
- Fixed camera orientation
- Fixed crash caused by certain scenario when printing receipt
4.15.3 Sep 23
New features:
- Charge by per item
- Customer registration terms
- Item commissions
- Item source/upselling/recommendation tracking
New changes:
- Receipt QR shrinked and aligned to left/right for better clarity
4.15.2 Sep 23
New features:
- Support car plate for drive-thru online orders
- Support employee 2FA authentication
- Logs for all setting changes
New changes:
- Receipt will reflect both order no and receipt no
Bug fixes:
- Fixed crash when filter categories when station category filtering disabled
4.15.1 Sep 7
New features:
- Stations to manage kitchen & expeditor display filters for categories, collections and dining options (Support auto order close when fulfilling all items within filterable items)
4.15.0 Aug 19
New features:
- Filter kitchen chit by dining options
- Ticket sound volume setting
- Ticket sound repeating setting
- Support item variant override price
- Support customer custom field selections
- Support dining option icon images
- Support rollover register closing balance to next day opening
- Support promotion rollover item & compound discount
4.14.1 Jul 9
New features:
- KDS show hold item setting
- New incoming ticket sound
- Receipt copies override based on device
- Printer print order void tickets setting
- Fallback printer
- Kitchen ticket layout: Saver layout (No Pax)
- Item able to print multiple docket with printed expiry date (Suitable to use as redemption ticket)
- Kitchen printer setting to show/hide all or specific customer information
- Support modifier option support exempting charges for item
- Support reservation tags
- Support reservation conversion to order
- Support table to auto hold all items
- Support variant filter by dining option
Bug fixes:
- Fixed printer modifiers filter not working when used with collection filter on item with collections
- Fixed app hang/freeze caused by other (3rd-party) printers on poor network connection
- Fixed reprint receipt missing terminal information for terminal payment
- Fixed order not syncing to backoffice on rare scenario that require app restart
4.14.0 Jun 19
New features:
- Kitchen ticket setting to turn on/off table change notification ticket
- Support manual promotion
- Upgraded database system
- iOS/iPadOS 26 compatible
Bug fixes:
- Fixed device settings reset when reinstalling or reset device data after 6 April 2026
- Fixed combo item printing issue when single quantity per line item is on
- Fixed crash when updating app from much older version
4.13.0 Apr 17
Bug fixes:
- Fixed epson dot-matrix printer not working after previous update
- Fixed crash caused by printer status check after previous update
4.12.1 Mar 20
Major update: New devices can only be set up using this version of the Dinlr KDS app or later
New features:
- Improved database performance & stability
- Improved epson printer support
- Printer kitchen ticket setting to split combo item as single item
- Support non-stackable tax
- Additional loggings
- Export all logs
New changes:
- Receipt combo sub items will be tiled together with the main combo item
Bug fixes:
- Fixed raster printing spacing
- Fixed certain Star Micronics printer receipt getting truncated
- Fixed crash when updating too far apart, jumping to latest version from a much older version
4.12.0 Mar 18
Bug fixes:
- Fixed crash upon tapping on item in expeditor display when setting expeditor display as default
- Fixed memory issue buildup by use of other (3rd-party) printers in raster mode
4.11.1 Feb 17
New features:
- Itemize ticket view (Single item per ticket)
- Support circle table shape
- Support quickgrid times
- Payment icons
New changes:
- Debug and export logs will be password protected for security reasons
Bug fixes:
- Fixed kitchen ticket saver layout not showing table change information
- Fixed crash when fulfilling combo items
- Fixed QR misaligned in Star Micronics printer with absolute alignment settings
4.11.0 Feb 8
Major update: Single-device merchants may continue using older versions, but multi-device setups should update all devices to this version or newer by 1 April 2026.
New features:
- Printer label break setting for label printer to allow/disallow continuous printing on subsequent labels
New changes:
- Improved sync speed
- Sync progress status changed to incremental counter number
4.10.0 12/31/2025
New features:
- Ticket display filter to support closed order tickets
- Combo item using combo groups
- Item variant support override modifiers to display unique modifiers specific to that variant
- Receipt will print loyalty points equivalent in cash if there's cash offset loyalty reward configured
- Support promotion & discount setting to exclude combo sub items
- Support location business information
- Detect printer online status for other (third-party) printers
- Support promotion rollover surplus condition setting
- Support receipt auto merge receipt discounts
- Failed print jobs will insert the failed timestamp at the end of the print
- Passcode input using in-app camera scanner
New changes:
- Summary list fulfilled/expedited item with 0 qty when filter pending
- Kitchen chit table number will show before dining option name
- Less accurate sync percentage shown due to optimization done to improve sync speed
- Bolder font for label printer
- Receipt balance due will use bigger font
- Kitchen ticket for voided items will no longer strikethrough the **VOID** header wording
Bug fixes:
- Fixed long label getting chopped off prematurely, long label will extend to the next label till completion
- Fixed receipt balance due not reflecting rounding
- Fixed item void kitchen ticket not printing for item in modifier filters
- Fixed 3rd party (other) bluetooth printer not working for specific newer batch
4.5.0 12/21/2025
New features:
- KDS require employee login
- KDS/EDS ticket will reflect course & seat number and items sorted accordingly
- KDS/EDS print item on completion can specify kitchen printers to use
- Setting to prevent disconnection bypass for DinlrNode devices when DinlrCore is unreachable
- Receipt tax summary
- Printer kitchen ticket filter by table settings
- Printer word break setting
- Printer receipt combine variant/modifier in line item setting
- Printer IntellTea kitchen ticket layout setting
- Support customer custom field key
New changes:
- Customer email & phone will be masked in printed receipts
- Kitchen ticket item quantity change will reflect as "UPDATE QTY"
- Kitchen ticket voided items will be displayed at the top
Bug fixes:
- Fixed receipt item variant/modifier option price from being perfectly aligned with item price causing customer confusion
- Fixed IntellTea kitchen ticket QR overlapping item name
- Fixed printer combine variant/modifier quantity can be turned on with other hide item variant settings
- Fixed crash when there's changes to category, collection or printers and device is in KDS/EDS settings
4.4.0 09/15/2025
New changes:
- Filter and summary button changed to icon button
Bug fixes:
- Improved app stability
- Fixed receipt to only show e-invoice claim QR for eligible order based on dining option
4.3.2 07/07/2025
Bug fixes:
- Fixed crash in expeditor display
4.3.1 07/05/2025
New features:
- Summary for all pending items
- Summary filter item to show tickets containing that item
- Receipt support show/hide discount percentage
- Support customer external reference
- Support show/hide dynamic QR receipt header logo
- Support payment method allow fixed payment amount
New changes:
- Kitchen ticket will include time info at header
- Smaller QR for loyalty claim and e-invoice claim in receipt
Bug fixes:
- Fixed receipt word splitting at end of line (Experimental feature)
- Fixed receipt text not precisely aligned to center (Experimental feature)
- Vouchers will be reflected in receipts
- Receipt e-invoice claim QR guidance message moved to correct position
4.3.0 07/02/2025
New features:
- Print kitchen chit item on completion
- Multi queue printing
- Show/hide pending order in KDS/EDS
New changes:
- Print button for kitchen chit will now only print items inside the chit instead of whole order
Bug fixes:
- Improved database performance
4.2.2 03/04/2025
Bug fixes:
- Fixed kitchen chit jumping when fulfilling new item after the last update
4.2.1 02/25/2025
New features:
- Kitchen chit timer
- Print kitchen chit
- Support receipt large table number
Bug fixes:
- Fixed kitchen chit from jumping to the top after acting on an item in chit
4.2.0 02/24/2025
New features:
- E-Invoice QR in receipt for customer self-submission to regulatory
- Improved sync speed
- Kitchen ticket hide item spaces setting
- Support item-level charges (Experimental feature)
- Support charge apply all items & default selected (Experimental feature)
- Support tax apply all items (Experimental feature)
- Support iOS 18 & iPadOS 18
- Support promotion stackable
New changes:
- Receipt item single variant will show together with item name line if hide single variant is on and item quantity is more than 1
Bug fixes:
- Fixed occasional issue that cause the data to be out-of-sync with backoffice data when connection is slow
- Receipt not showing item variant if hide single variant turned on but it's multiple quantity
4.1.0 01/10/2025
New features:
- Support print job type
- Saver kitchen ticket layout
- Support icon for category & collection
- Support menu show item summary
New changes:
- Receipt order item variants & modifier options will have a leading dash for better clarity
- Receipt order item quantity shifted to front
- Kitchen ticket order item variants & modifiers leading space reduced
- Kitchen ticket order item variants & modifier options will have a leading dash for better clarity
Bug fixes:
- Fixed collections filter not working in KDS & EDS after updating collection from backoffice
- Fixed printer receipt auto merge items not merging similar items correctly when receipt hide item notes enabled
- Fixed kitchen printer irregular font size on certain Epson printers
4.0.1 11/04/2024
We have important news: this major update (4.0.0) is not compatible with previous versions (2.x.x, 3.x.x). Please make sure to update all your Dinlr apps to the latest version.
New features:
- Support default customer fields requirement adjustment (Mandatory/optional fields)
- Receipt auto merge item line discounts setting
- Voided items will be striked-off in kitchen ticket for raster print type
- Secondary font size setting for kitchen ticket printer
New changes:
- Logs format include spacing for easier readability
Bug fixes:
- Fixed sync issues
- Fixed alignment issue when printing caused by unicode characters in raster print type
4.0.0 10/07/2024
New features:
- Support raster content print type for other ESC/POS printers (3rd party printers)
- Receipt to show customer's group and expiry information
- Receipt will show balance due amount
- Receipt to show terminal information
- Local log files
- Support max order ticket number before reset
- Kitchen ticket show/hide course no
Bug fixes:
- Fixed long variant & modifier option name not shown in full but shown in single line with ellipsis at the end
- Fixed long item name shrinking in font size with ellipsis at the end
- Fixed sync error when the connection is slow
- Fixed network print jobs not sending to core device
- Experimental feature: Fixed alignment issue when printing caused by unicode characters in raster print type
3.2.0 09/11/2024
New features:
- Support modifier settings for specific dining options
- Kitchen ticket to show/hide customer information
- Support default customer group for new customer
- Loyalty QR at end of receipt for member self-registration & points claiming for that order
- Discount non-stackable setting
- Support variant & modifier option image
- Support 3rd party dot matrix printer
- Item barcode printing
New changes:
- Kitchen ticket will show "FIRE" for fired items
Bug fixes:
- Fixed printer setting not showing receipt width for other/3rd party printer
3.1.0 06/03/2024
Bug fixes:
- Fixed camera orientation
- Fixed crash caused by certain scenario when printing receipt
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