Rhumbix vs Hoyst
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rhumbix
This platform streamlines construction site operations by digitizing timecards, delay reporting, and quantity tracking. It enables real-time data capture from the field, providing insights to boost productivity and enhance jobsite safety.
- Real-time timecard management
- Cost code level time tracking
- Digital timecard signatures
- Delay reporting with photos and voice notes
- Daily quantity installed reporting
- Productivity and performance analysis
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Rhumbix is a mobile platform designed for the construction craft workforce. Using our mobile app, foremen and workers manage and approve timecards from the field in real-time, ensuring accurate reporting of time, quantities installed and delay information and saving hours of time previously spent on paperwork. Rhumbix is a mobile platform designed to replace the paper time card and daily reporting process on jobsites with an intuitive and easy to use construction app designed for the construction worker. The mobile app is designed to capture field production and safety data in real-time from the jobsite. Rhumbix closes the data gap that exists between the work face and project administrators and managers by delivering real-time, data-driven insights that save time, boost productivity and increase construction site safety. Timekeeping & real-time cost coding: • Record time spent by workers at the cost code level • Assign workers to company-specific codes in real-time • Adjust hours worked per worker and address potential disputes easily. • Secure a digital timecard signature from workers daily Delay reporting: • Record delay conditions against specific cost codes in real-time • Standardize delay reporting with easy select delay reporting • Capture photos and notes of delay events in real-time • Record notes using voice-to-text feature Quantities reporting: • Record daily quantities installed against cost codes and tasks • Report installed quantities daily against key commodities • Create rich data on weekly impacts and restrictions • Increase visibility into work completed on a daily basis Productivity: • Identify common delay conditions that can be addressed to improve crew productivity • Determine daily cost & labor performance • Measure progress at the cost-code or sub-task level • Monitor and measure field impacts and restrictions • Determine daily performance factors
Hoyst
This app allows construction site hoist operators to manage passenger requests directly from their iPhone or iPad. It facilitates sending, accepting, and rejecting requests, as well as reserving the hoist for material transport. Operators can also clock in and out and view average wait times.
- Send hoist requests
- Manage pickup, drop-off, and rejection
- Pair hoists for shared requests
- Clock-in/out as operator
- View average wait time
- Reserve hoist for materials
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With the Hoyst app, operators of your construction job site hoists can take requests from passengers on their iPhone or iPad. The app includes the ability to: - Send a hoist request - Pickup, drop-off and reject a hoist request - Pair two hoists to field the same requests - Clock-in and clock out as operator of a hoist - Show average wait time for the hoist - Reserve the hoist in advance for materials. - Manage the flow of material reservations and notify staff when necessary.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rhumbix at weekly against Hoyst's every 7 months. Rhumbix also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 33%). Hoyst's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 3.8) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Hoyst holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36 and 19 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Rhumbix's written reviews are positive against 33% of Hoyst's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Rhumbix ships an update weekly, Hoyst every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rhumbix | Hoyst |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (36 ratings) | 4.1 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rhumbix | Voyage Control |
Customer experience
Rhumbix
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In-app purchases
Rhumbix
No in-app purchases
Hoyst
No in-app purchases









