Skills Based Approach vs Pharos HR System
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skills Based Approach
This app facilitates lifelong learning through a cyclical methodology, allowing users to manage and develop evolving skill sets. It supports flexible learning schedules, from daily to monthly, and includes tools for skill discovery and parsing.
- Cyclical learning methodology
- Evolving skill set management
- Flexible learning schedules (daily, weekly, monthly)
- Skill discovery and search
- Onboarding with Skills Parser
- Personality profiler
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Skills Based Approach is a methodology for lifelong learning. Students or workers constantly cycle through four stages with an evolving skill set. This supports not only a traditional learning model for working on skills monthly, but also setting up skill sets daily or weekly. Allowing for responsive pivots during the learning process. The app strongly connotes the color schemes referenced in the Skills Based Approach logo and currently supports finding, discovering and searching for skills. There is an onboarding process with a Skills Parser, personality profiler, and autocompletes for courses and jobs. There is functionality to manage a skill set. Future versions will include features for tasking and working with Skill Emblems.
Pharos HR System
This application offers a comprehensive suite of human resources tools designed to streamline workforce management. It aims to make HR operations more efficient, productive, and employee-centric for organizations.
- Streamline workforce management
- Comprehensive HR tools
- Efficient HR operations
- Productive HR processes
- Employee-centric approach
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Welcome to the HR System app - the comprehensive solution for streamlining your workforce management and human resources processes. Our powerful and user-friendly application empowers your organization with cutting-edge HR tools, making your HR operations more efficient, productive, and employee-centric.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Skills Based Approach at every 3 weeks against Pharos HR System's every 2 months. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Skills Based Approach against 5.0 for Pharos HR System. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Skills Based Approach ships an update every 3 weeks, Pharos HR System every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Skills Based Approach | Pharos HR System |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan M. Frischmann | Pharos Solutions GmbH |
Customer experience
Skills Based Approach
Pharos HR System
In-app purchases
Skills Based Approach
No in-app purchases
Pharos HR System
No in-app purchases
