PinnBook vs foundU
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PinnBook
Manage your hospitality shifts, bookings, and availability. Access payslips and personal details, and easily contact your staffing agency. This app connects temporary employees with staffing opportunities.
- Receive and respond to shifts
- Manage bookings
- Update availability
- Access payslips
- Update account details
- Contact offices
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PinnBook is Pinnacle People’s employee App! Receive and respond to shifts, manage bookings, update availability and account details, access payslips and details and contact our Pinnacle offices! If you want to join Pinnacle People as a temporary hospitality employee, head to our website www.pinnaclepeople.com.au Pinnacle People is proudly recognised as the leading hospitality staffing and recruitment partner in Australia and has leveraged this strong national brand presence to cultivate the country’s largest network of quality hospitality professionals.
foundU
This mobile application allows employees to manage their work schedule, including clocking in/out, updating availability, and submitting leave requests. It integrates with a larger platform to streamline payroll processes.
- Clock in and out
- Update availability
- Submit leave applications
- Manage personal employee information
- Real-time attendance tracking
- Streamlined payroll integration
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foundU for iOS makes it easy for you as an employee to clock in and out for work, update your availability, submit leave applications and manage your personal employee information from your pocket. Real-time attendance is fed directly into the foundU Platform to streamline the payroll process. The foundU app must be used with an operational foundU Platform.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: foundU at 3.0 against PinnBook's 1.0. PinnBook's advantage is review sentiment (22% vs 13%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). 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.
foundU holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of PinnBook's written reviews are positive against 13% of foundU's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PinnBook ships an update every 2 months, foundU every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 19, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PinnBook | foundU |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PINNACLE PEOPLE PTY LTD | foundU |
Customer experience
PinnBook
foundU
In-app purchases
PinnBook
No in-app purchases
foundU
No in-app purchases
