17hats vs Session
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
17hats
This business platform helps organize, systemize, and grow your small business. Manage clients, projects, documents, and workflows on the go. Stay connected to your business activities from anywhere.
- Client activity dashboard
- Email templates for leads
- Contact and project management
- Calendar viewing and editing
- Document sending and signing
- Workflow automation
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17hats is the #1 business platform to guide you through organizing, systemizing and growing your small business. To utilize the platform and app, you will need to sign-up for a 17hats account on 17hats.com. The 17hats app was created for you to keep you in touch with your business while you are on the go. What can you do on the App: - Dashboard - Check out our recent client activity, pending documents and upcoming todos. - Emails - Use your email templates to quickly respond to a lead. - Contacts and Projects: Create new contacts and projects as well as view and edit existing ones. Also, quickly access details like email addresses, phone numbers and locations to name a few. - View your Calendars: Easily check or adjust your calendar on the go. Goodbye double bookings. - Documents - Quickly send a document, counter-sign a contract or view a completed questionnaire. - Workflows - Assign workflows to leads and clients and let 17hats do the work for you. Your client relationship is top priority for us, and now, with the 17hats app, you will be able to provide that stellar experience wherever you go. Need help? Just hit the green support chat bubble in the bottom right.
Session
Manage your photography sessions, bookings, and schedule directly from your mobile device. This app requires an existing Session account to access your information.
- View session details
- Manage bookings
- Access calendar on the go
- Requires Session account
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View your session details, bookings and calendar on the go. A Session account is required to use the Mobile App.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Session at 79% against 17hats's 31%. Session also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.1). 17hats's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Session holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 34 and 28 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of 17hats's written reviews are positive against 79% of Session's.
17hats ships an update every 6 weeks, Session every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 17hats | Session |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (34 ratings) | 4.4 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.6% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Isomnio, Inc. | Session Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
17hats
Session
Bugs and requests
17hats
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes when creating estimates or quotes
- App freezes when sending emails
- Blank white screen on notification clicks
- Blank screen on app launch
- App crashes when accessing calendar section
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- App crashes when viewing project documents
- Login failures with correct credentials
- Password not recognized despite being correct on desktop
- Automatic logout after viewing projects
- Duplicate invoices and correspondence sent to clients
- Projects displaying with incorrect dates
- Calendar not updating in app despite desktop changes
- App incompatible with recent iOS updates
- Notifications not functioning properly
- Activity page not updating (stuck on old data)
- Unable to apply payments from bookkeeping section
- Questionnaire form auto-fills instead of sending
- Notification links leading to blank pages
- App won't launch or continuously crashes
- Scheduling information not syncing between devices
Requested features
25 requests- Ability to book clients directly from dashboard without external page
- Auto-populate client information in booking system
- Override booking times internally for phone orders
- Create and send invoices from mobile app
- Create and send quotes from mobile app
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- Create and send contracts from mobile app
- Biometric login (Touch ID/Face ID)
- Save login credentials for faster access
- Monthly calendar view instead of limited day view
- Create new projects from mobile app
- Edit existing projects from mobile app
- View and edit project notes from mobile app
- View email history within client/project pages
- Create and manage workflows from mobile app
- View and manage to-do lists with checkoff capability
- Mileage tracker integration
- Receipt upload functionality
- Timer functionality with pause capability
- Organize projects by date order
- View event details within projects
- Access all templates from mobile app
- Reconcile bank ledger from mobile
- Tax rate auto-calculation for invoices
- Integration with additional auto-responders
- Improved mobile browser experience
Session
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
17hats
No in-app purchases
Session
No in-app purchases
