HotSchedules vs 1Huddle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HotSchedules
This app simplifies employee scheduling and team communication. It allows for easy shift management, time-off requests, and calendar syncing. Managers benefit from faster schedule creation and performance monitoring, while teams stay connected through messaging.
- Shift swapping and pickup
- Time off requests
- Automatic calendar sync
- Manager schedule building
- Sales and labor monitoring
- Team messaging
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HotSchedules is the industry's leading employee scheduling app because it’s the fastest and easiest way to manage your schedule and communicate with your team. Team members love it because they can swap, pick-up or release shifts with one click. Work-life balance is easily managed with automatic shift pick ups when you want more hours, and time off requests for when you don’t. Calendar sync and notifications keep your Schedules and the roster automatically updated to your phone with any manager-approved changes. Managers appreciate the 75% time savings when building schedules and one-click approvals for shift changes. The ability to monitor business performance with sales and labor snapshots from anywhere, keeps them out of the back office. And most importantly, staying connected with broadcast and one-to-one messaging makes for a happy and productive team culture. NOTE: The HotSchedules application REQUIRES a valid HotSchedules user account through your employer. Need help? Contact Customer Care 24x7x365
1Huddle
Transform team knowledge into engaging mobile games for rapid training, onboarding, and upskilling. Access a vast library of science-backed skill games or create personalized content to boost workforce capabilities.
- Mobile game-based learning
- 3,000+ skill games library
- On-demand game marketplace
- Personalized content creation
- Workforce skill development
- Employee training and onboarding
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Everything you need to know. In a game. On your phone. Turn anything your team needs to know into deceptively simple, highly effective quick-burst mobile games proven to level up, train, onboard, and upskill workers quickly. With a mobile library of 3,000+ science-backed employee skill games, an on-demand game marketplace that covers 16 unique workforce skill areas, and the option for personalized content, 1Huddle has helped global brands with millions of games played across every corner of the workforce. How do you train?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: 1Huddle at 75% against HotSchedules's 22%. 1Huddle also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). HotSchedules's advantage is ratings volume (67K vs 3.5K) and chart position (#1 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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
1Huddle is free to download; HotSchedules costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
1Huddle holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HotSchedules has 67K ratings behind it against 3.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of HotSchedules's written reviews are positive against 75% of 1Huddle's.
HotSchedules ships an update every 11 days, 1Huddle weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HotSchedules | 1Huddle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (67K ratings) | 4.8 (3.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.6% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 67K — better | 3.5K |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | #1 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HotSchedules | 1HUDDLE, Inc. |
Customer experience
HotSchedules
1Huddle
User reviews
HotSchedules
From 67K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Convenient for checking schedules
- 💡 Ability to pick up and swap shifts
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
- ⏱️ Slow loading times
- 🔍 Difficult to navigate and find information
- 🔄 Constant need to update app
- 💰 Paid app for employees
1Huddle
From 3.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful for reviewing and learning
- 👍 Engaging and fun to use
- 👍 Convenient for training anytime
- 👍 Promotes healthy competition among coworkers
- 👍 Innovative approach to training
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy video playback and technical issues
- 🤔 Poorly worded questions and answers
- 😕 Too many distracting pop-ups and flashing screens
- 🤔 Lack of actual learning retention
Bugs and requests
HotSchedules
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues after updates
- Calendar sync problems
- Disappearing messages and data loss
- Incompatibility with dark mode
Requested features
5 requests- Show shift end times
- Categorize and filter inbox messages
- Ability to view full team schedules
- Automatic shift rotation algorithm
- Integrated payroll and earnings tracking
1Huddle
Reported bugs
2 issues- Update process issues
- Compatibility problems with older devices
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- More detailed and organized training content
- Improved video quality and stability
In-app purchases
HotSchedules
No in-app purchases
1Huddle
No in-app purchases







