Comparison

HotSchedules vs Teamwork App

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Shift swapping and pickup
  • Time off requests
  • Automatic calendar sync
  • Manager schedule building
  • Sales and labor monitoring
  • Team messaging
Features
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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

About

Teamwork App

Features
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Get started with 15+ readily available tools like contacts, calendar, news, blogs, wiki, projects, training, scheduling, photos, incident logging, to-do lists, chats, timelog, leave requests and add custom features on the fly. Our hybrid app technology combines smartphone features such as calling, push messages, camera and gps with custom functionality such as crm and time registration. The Teamwork App is suitable and affordable for organizations with 10 to 10,000 employees, for example as an employee engagement app in construction, retail or healthcare or on a smaller scale as a productivity and knowledge tool for projects. Thanks to the underlying innovative API technology, the app can connect to 3rd party systems such as Sharepoint online and can be completely tailored to your own aesthetic and functional wishes. This way it becomes your own Teamwork App!

Screenshots

HotSchedules4 screens
Teamwork App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Teamwork App at Free against HotSchedules's $2.99. Teamwork App also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.1). HotSchedules's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 31 months) and chart position (#1 vs unranked). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Teamwork App is free to download; HotSchedules costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HotSchedules ships an update every 2 weeks, Teamwork App every 31 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
HotSchedules versus Teamwork App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHotSchedulesTeamwork App
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (67K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings67K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 31 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#1 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB22 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHotSchedulesi-Concept InternetWorks BV

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

Teamwork App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

HotSchedules

No in-app purchases

None

Teamwork App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HotSchedules free?
HotSchedules costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Teamwork App free?
Teamwork App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HotSchedules or Teamwork App have ads?
Neither HotSchedules nor Teamwork App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HotSchedules or Teamwork App?
HotSchedules ships an update every 2 weeks, and Teamwork App every 31 months. Most recently, HotSchedules was updated on September 27, 2026 and Teamwork App on September 17, 2026.

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