Go HWS Mobile vs Rounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Go HWS Mobile
This app allows healthcare professionals to search and schedule jobs within a large network. It offers real-time visibility of open shifts and contract positions, enabling users to book and confirm work directly through the application.
- Search jobs by specialty
- Radius map job search
- Instantly book shifts
- Apply to travel jobs
- View shift schedule
- Minimize staffing calls
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HealthTrust now provides both Per Diem and Travel Clinicians the Go HWS Mobile app, which enables you to search and schedule jobs in the nation’s largest healthcare network. Go HWS Mobile has real-time visibility of open shifts, as well as contract jobs, at locations across HealthTrust’s network. It’s designed specifically for the flexibility you need to schedule jobs while managing your busy life. Go HWS Mobile enables you to: • Search jobs by your specialty • Utilize a radius map to find desired job locations • Instantly book and confirm shifts • Apply to travel jobs of your choice • View your shift schedule • Log in using the same username and password from Workforce • Minimize calls with staffing offices Download Go HWS Mobile today, take control of your scheduling, and get back to your life. The Go HWS Mobile application is a product from HealthTrust Workforce Solutions.
Rounds
This app helps bedside nurses manage timed tasks and patient care with customizable reminders and a clear overview of due activities. It prioritizes patient privacy by not collecting any personal data and operates entirely offline.
- Customizable unit setup
- Condition-based task timing
- Delivery and postpartum transition
- Shift timeline log
- PIN lock for privacy
- Offline operation
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I'm a bedside nurse with ADHD, which is a genuinely bad combination on a busy floor. A shift throws off more small timed tasks than I can hold in my head, and the ones that slip are never the ones you'd have chosen to drop. For years my answer was a paper brain sheet — scribbled at 0700, folded into a scrub pocket, and no help at all at 1400 when the recheck was actually due. Rounds is that brain sheet, except it keeps time for you. I built it for me first, which is why it works the way it does: reminders that make a noise instead of sitting quietly as a badge you'll notice at 1530. A list that lives outside your head so you're not spending working memory guarding it. And a screen that tells you plainly when there's genuinely nothing due, because "am I forgetting something?" is its own kind of exhausting. WHAT IT DOES • Set up your unit once. Your tasks, your timings. Every patient you admit after that starts from your setup — not someone else's idea of a shift. • Add a condition, get its checks. Magnesium, epidural, GBS, a fresh post-op — the timing comes with it, and you can change any of it. • Deliveries handled. Record a delivery and the labour reminders stop, the postpartum ones start, and you don't have to think about the switchover in the middle of everything else. • A timeline of what you actually did, in case report goes sideways. • PIN lock, so a phone left on the counter stays shut. Seven units, each with its own starting task list: Labor & Delivery, Postpartum, Antepartum, Med-Surg, ED, ICU, and Telemetry. ABOUT YOUR PATIENTS' PRIVACY — THE SHORT VERSION There is no field for a patient's name. There isn't going to be one. Patients are a room label and a cartoon avatar, and that's deliberate. Rounds has no accounts, no cloud, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no ads. It does not have permission to use the internet at all. That isn't a promise in a policy somewhere — it's in the app's manifest, and your phone enforces it. Nothing you type can leave your device, because there is nowhere for it to go and no way to send it. Uninstall the app and it's all gone. There's no copy anywhere, because there was never anywhere to put one. Some fields let you type free text. Please don't type patient names into them. Whatever your workplace's rules about protected health information are, they apply here too. WHAT ROUNDS IS NOT Rounds is not a medical device and it is not clinical decision support. It doesn't tell you what care to give, it doesn't interpret anything, and it isn't a substitute for your own judgement, your unit's policies, or the chart. It keeps track of your tasks and reminds you when you asked to be reminded. That's the whole job. It's also not a documentation system. Nothing in Rounds goes in the record. THE PRICE Free to download and use. No ads, no subscription, and nothing about you is for sale — "nothing leaves your phone" and "we sell your data" can't both be true, and I picked the first one. Nothing due right now? Good. Go drink some water.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Go HWS Mobile at 4K against Rounds's 5. Rounds's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, 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.
Rounds holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Go HWS Mobile has 4K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Go HWS Mobile ships an update monthly, Rounds every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Go HWS Mobile | Rounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HealthTrust Workforce Solutions | Ashley Rorke |
Customer experience
Go HWS Mobile
Rounds
Bugs and requests
Go HWS Mobile
Reported bugs
4 issues- App suddenly stops working
- Login button not clicking
- Incorrect job listings shown
- Scheduled shifts disappearing
Requested features
3 requests- Show bonus amounts for shifts
- Allow updating job preferences
- Improve shift notification system
Rounds
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Go HWS Mobile
No in-app purchases
Rounds
No in-app purchases









