Comparison

BambooHR Hiring vs Almanac

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BambooHR Hiring

Streamline your hiring process with this mobile recruiting tool. Review candidates instantly, evaluate resumes, communicate via multiple channels, and collaborate with your team to secure top talent quickly.

Highlights
  • Candidate review
  • Resume evaluation
  • Applicant communication (email, phone, text)
  • Team collaboration
  • Talent acquisition management
Features
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BambooHR Hiring is a mobile recruiting app available for BambooHR Applicant Tracking System (ATS) users. Any recruiter can tell you that the most talented candidates don’t stay on the market for long. A fast, efficient hiring process makes all the difference in finding and hiring the best people for your organization. With the BambooHR Hiring app, you and your hiring team can review a candidate the instant they apply. Evaluate resumes, review answers to application questions, communicate with applicants via email, phone & text, and collaborate with hiring managers and recruiters—all from one talent acquisition app that moves at the speed of your candidates.

About

Almanac

This app provides a persistent record of your App Store Connect analytics, overcoming Apple's rolling data window. It aggregates data across all your apps, allowing for detailed comparisons and insights into performance trends, user engagement, and search rankings.

Highlights
  • Persistent analytics history
  • Portfolio view with aggregated data
  • App family organization
  • Daily change digest
  • Release performance tracking
  • App Store search ranking insights
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Almanac reads your App Store Connect analytics and keeps them. Apple serves a rolling window of daily reports, and a one-time snapshot reaches back only 365 days from the date you ask. Days older than that stop being available. Almanac saves every day it has ever seen, so instead of a window that slides forward and drops your early months, you get a record that only grows. EVERY APP YOU SHIP, ON ONE SCREEN The portfolio view pools all of your apps and aggregates once, so ratios are weighted properly rather than averaged from per-app averages. Downloads, proceeds, impressions, product page views, conversion, active devices, crashes and ratings, over the last 7, 30 or 90 days, six months or everything you have, or by calendar month, quarter and year, each compared with the one before. FAMILIES, SO A CROWDED CHART STAYS READABLE Sort your apps into families of your own. Each family gets one color and its apps get shades of it. The chart and the leaderboard group by family; tap one to see its apps. Families follow you between your devices. WHAT CHANGED SINCE YESTERDAY A digest of what actually moved: apps up or down against their own recent normal, new reviews, crash spikes, apps that went quiet, and download and proceeds milestones. Movers rank on median and absolute change rather than percentage, because across small apps one download to three is a 200 percent increase and would top every list forever. Almanac also marks your firsts, best days, streaks, comebacks and anniversaries. WHICH RELEASES PEOPLE KEPT Each app's page shows how many people took each update, from the day it shipped until the next one. WHERE YOU RANK IN SEARCH Each app's page shows where it ranks in App Store search for the words in its name, subtitle and keywords, checked once a day, with a chart that marks the days your listing changed. Thinking about a new keyword? Look it up first to see who ranks for it and how crowded the search is. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND IN THE MORNING Widgets in three sizes, plus an optional note each morning with the latest totals. Both always state the day the numbers are complete through, because App Store Connect reports run one to three days behind and "yesterday" is never what they mean. NUMBERS THAT ARE HONEST ABOUT THEMSELVES Proceeds is labeled proceeds, never revenue, because it is Apple's post-commission figure. Active devices averages across days rather than summing, since the same device appears on every day. Conversion is downloads per product page view, with Tap-through (page views per impression) beside it, so you can see which half of the page needs work; both are recomputed from summed parts, never averaged from daily rates. A day Apple never reported shows as no data, not as a zero, so the charts have no invented valleys. YOUR WEBSITE, TOO Optional: connect your own WordPress site and see its Jetpack Stats traffic next to your apps. It is outside the purchase. NOTHING REACHES THE DEVELOPER Almanac has no account, no server and no sign-in. Your App Store Connect API key is stored in the keychain and used only to talk to Apple, and a website's password, if you connect one, is kept there too. Your history stays on your device, with a backup in your own iCloud Drive so a new device can get it back. No analytics, no tracking, nothing collected. On iPhone and iPad, with one purchase covering both. Requires an App Store Connect API key with the Admin role. Apple restricts the Analytics Reports API to Admin keys, and App Store Connect will not warn you if yours is scoped lower. Almanac tells you before you create the key, and says so plainly if the key you paste cannot read reports. Not affiliated with Apple Inc.

Screenshots

BambooHR Hiring4 screens
Almanac4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Almanac at 5.0 against BambooHR Hiring's 3.9. Almanac also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). BambooHR Hiring's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (146 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Almanac sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BambooHR Hiring asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Almanac holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BambooHR Hiring has 146 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BambooHR Hiring ships an update every 2 months, Almanac every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BambooHR Hiring versus Almanac: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBambooHR HiringAlmanac
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (146 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews30.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings146 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBambooHRDaniel Hinkson

Customer experience

BambooHR Hiring

All ratings146 ratings
Positive72.6%
Neutral4.8%
Negative22.6%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive30.3%
Neutral3.0%
Negative66.7%

Almanac

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

BambooHR Hiring

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Login triggers 2FA loop
  • SSO login broken for months
  • App crashes on Microsoft SSO login
  • Cannot view resumes or cover letters
  • Ratings do not save
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  • App not iPad compatible
  • App does not scale on iPad
  • App does not load (animated b repeats)
  • Latest update causes app to not open

Requested features

7 requests
  • Ability to send candidates to talent pools from mobile
  • Ability to copy phone number and choose texting app
  • Need a Messages center for communications
  • Support for iPad
  • Texting from within the app recorded in ATS
Show 2 more
  • More functionality
  • All functionality in one app

Almanac

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

BambooHR Hiring

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Almanac

One-time1
  • Portfolio Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is BambooHR Hiring free?
BambooHR Hiring is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Almanac free?
Almanac is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BambooHR Hiring or Almanac?
Almanac is rated higher. BambooHR Hiring averages 3.9 out of 5 from 146 ratings, while Almanac averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do BambooHR Hiring or Almanac have ads?
Neither BambooHR Hiring nor Almanac shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BambooHR Hiring or Almanac?
BambooHR Hiring ships an update every 2 months, and Almanac every 3 days. Most recently, BambooHR Hiring was updated on November 2, 2026 and Almanac on November 6, 2026.

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