Qarrot vs PhorestGo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Qarrot
This app facilitates employee recognition and rewards for small to medium-sized businesses. It helps improve morale, strengthen company culture, and drive performance through point and badge-based systems, goal-oriented awards, and milestone celebrations. Users can easily redeem rewards and view program activity.
- Point and badge-based recognition
- Goal-based awards
- Milestone awards for birthdays/anniversaries
- Real-time social feed
- Reporting and analytics
- Easy reward redemption
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Qarrot is THE full-circle employee reward & recognition solution for SMBs. Whether your goal is to improve employee morale, strengthen your organization's culture, drive higher performance, or to simply say "thank-you", we can help! Our new app includes all of our best features and makes Qarrot easier than ever to use on-the-go: - Empower your managers and employees with point and badge-based recognition - Motivate individual and team performance with goal-based awards - Celebrate birthdays and work-anniversaries with milestone awards - Increase your program's visibility & engagement with a real-time and public social feed - Stay on top of your program with reporting & analytics - Redeem for rewards from anywhere in just a few clicks …and so much more! 5/5 “Qarrot, no sticks” 4.5/5 “Qarrot provides excellent employee morale” *A Qarrot account is required to use this app.
PhorestGo
Manage your salon or spa appointments and client information from anywhere. This app provides salon owners and staff with essential tools to run their business on the go, including appointment scheduling and client record access.
- Salon and spa scheduling
- Client record management
- Appointment book access for staff
- Track KPIs and set performance goals
- Supports single and multi-location businesses
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PhorestGo is a powerful scheduling app for spa or salon owners and staff. Whether you have a hair salon, nail salon, beauty salon or spa; PhorestGo can help you manage and run your salon from anywhere, any time. PhorestGo is so easy to use. It takes the most powerful tools from Phorest Salon Software and puts them in your pocket. Single and multi-location businesses supported. Salon staff members can easily access their appointment books and see all of the details of their upcoming appointments on their phones. Access all your client records on the app - notes, allergies, formulas, service history, and more. Empower staff with My Performance - allowing staff to track their KPIs and set performance goals.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PhorestGo at 4.8 against Qarrot's 2.7. PhorestGo also leads on ratings volume (3K vs 7) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, review sentiment, 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.
PhorestGo holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PhorestGo has 3K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Qarrot's written reviews are positive against 35% of PhorestGo's.
Qarrot ships an update every 3 weeks, PhorestGo fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Qarrot | PhorestGo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (7 ratings) | 4.8 (3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 34.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Friendefi Inc. | Phorest |
Customer experience
Qarrot
PhorestGo
Bugs and requests
Qarrot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
PhorestGo
Reported bugs
6 issues- Appointments not showing up correctly
- Issues with deleting or moving appointments
- Inability to see full names or services in columns
- Inconsistent display on iPhone
- Frequent sign-outs and login issues
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- Crashes when viewing client history
Requested features
6 requests- Allow booking color and haircut together
- Set individual client appointment times
- Add ability to edit breaks and move appointments
- Improve notification system
- Automatically update preferred stylist
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- Add a notification center for recent activity
In-app purchases
Qarrot
No in-app purchases
PhorestGo
No in-app purchases








