Hotel Effectiveness vs ROAR Alert Console
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hotel Effectiveness
Optimize labor costs with intelligent scheduling and real-time performance monitoring. Gain full control over wages, overtime, and contractor expenses. This solution helps managers create labor plans based on business drivers and standards, saving hotels an average of 5% on labor costs.
- Labor cost optimization
- Real-time performance monitoring
- Daily labor check-in
- Shift scheduling
- Hotel group summary reports
- Departmental position details
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Hotel Effectiveness is a Labor Management solution that gives you full control over your total labor costs - optimizing for business drivers, wages, productivity, contractors, regulations, overtime, and more. Our intelligent solution enables your managers to create labor plans based upon real business drivers and standards, with intuitive analysis built-in to monitor and improve performance across your hotels. We save hotels 5% or more on labor costs. Maria D’Alessandro, CFO of Hospitality Ventures Management Group Says: “Hotel Effectiveness helps our GMs be more efficient at managing their labor. It gives them the tools they need to control their labor costs and improve house profit.” 2019 Top Rated Labor Management Software by Hotel Tech Report. The Hotel Effectiveness mobile application provides on the go access to functionality that enhances visibility and provides full control of labor costs. HOME PAGE Land into a hotel view and get a snapshot of what is happening with your property along with daily tasks. When managing multiple hotels, you’ll have a snapshot of labor win/loss by hotel. 5 MINUTE DAILY LABOR CHECK-IN **TOP FEATURE** Follow a 5 minute guided tool to create full accountability and transparency of labor costs in real-time down to the line-level manager at every property. As the most popular feature in the system, it is used daily to see hotel performance history as well as performance for the week. SEE WHO’S SCHEDULED View a single day scheduled shifts at a glance. You can also find available staff when you need to fill a shift with access to information such as employees on call, unscheduled or scheduled time off. HOTEL GROUP SUMMARY REPORT View a snapshot of labor win/loss by hotel in hours or wages. You can drill into any day to view the details by position for that hotel. POSITION DETAILS REPORT View a snapshot of labor win/loss by department in hours or wages for a given hotel. You can drill into any day to view the details by position along with all employees and their hours. Note: Mobile application does not include Time and Attendance.
ROAR Alert Console
This app provides a proprietary panic button solution for organizations to ensure employee safety. It offers continuous coverage, even in dead zones, and operates independently of facility networks for reliable emergency communication.
- Proprietary panic button solution
- Continuous coverage
- Operates independently of facility networks
- Reliable emergency communication
- Ease of use
- Redundant backups
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When it comes to safety, nothing is more important than being able to reach help when you need it. That is why we designed our proprietary panic button solution for organizations that need to protect employees and others who may be at risk. It consists of proprietary technology that provides continuous coverage throughout a facility, even in dead zones to provide a lifeline when it is needed most. It operates independently of the facilities network, so it is always on. ROAR’s solution is the choice of major hotel chains and healthcare providers due to its ease of use, redundant backups, and maintainability. Built by ROAR, award-winning and mission-driven technology company empowering people through technology to create safer organizations. The ROAR Panic Button Solution requires a subscription. For more information, contact us at sales@roarforgood.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ROAR Alert Console at 5.0 against Hotel Effectiveness's 4.1. ROAR Alert Console also leads on iOS requirement (13.6 vs 15.0). Hotel Effectiveness's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
ROAR Alert Console holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hotel Effectiveness has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hotel Effectiveness ships an update fortnightly, ROAR Alert Console every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on September 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Hotel Effectiveness | ROAR Alert Console |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hotel Effectiveness Solutions, LLC | Roar for Good LLC |
Customer experience
Hotel Effectiveness
ROAR Alert Console
In-app purchases
Hotel Effectiveness
No in-app purchases
ROAR Alert Console
No in-app purchases







