HotSchedules vs GratShare
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
GratShare
This app connects to a cloud-based service for restaurants to manage tip receipts, fairly allocate and distribute tips to employees, and securely archive records. It is designed for registered users of the gratuity management software.
- Automated gratuity management
- Tip receipt management
- Fair tip allocation
- Employee tip distribution
- Secure record archiving
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GratShare user application (registered users only) Connection to Automated Gratuity Management Software as a service solution that protects your restaurant and your tipped employees by accurately managing tip receipts, fairly allocating and distributing tips to your employees and securely archiving your records.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: GratShare at Free against HotSchedules's $2.99. GratShare also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.1). HotSchedules's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 1.8) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
GratShare is free to download; HotSchedules costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HotSchedules holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HotSchedules has 67K ratings behind it against 43, 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 11% of GratShare's.
HotSchedules ships an update every 8 days, GratShare every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HotSchedules | GratShare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (67K ratings) — better | 1.8 (43 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.6% of reviews — better | 10.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 67K — better | 43 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #1 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HotSchedules | Gratuity LLC |
Customer experience
HotSchedules
GratShare
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
GratShare
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HotSchedules
No in-app purchases
GratShare
No in-app purchases









