Revinate Mobile vs Hotel Effectiveness
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Revinate Mobile
Access and manage online reviews, surveys, and reputation reports from your hotel. Monitor guest feedback, respond to reviews, and track sentiment trends anytime, anywhere. This app is for existing Revinate customers.
- View review and survey stream
- In-app notifications for new feedback
- Respond directly to online reviews
- Manage and assign review tickets
- Reputation overview report
- Sentiment and trend reporting
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The Revinate mobile app gives you one-tap access to your online reviews, surveys, and reputation reporting. Now you can stay connected by monitoring, reporting and taking action on reviews and on any changes to your hotel's guest feedback anytime, anywhere. For current Revinate customers only. Key features include: MANAGING REVIEWS & SURVEYS • View your full review & survey stream • Receive in-app notifications for new reviews & surveys that arrive • Respond directly to online reviews & surveys • Access filtered views of your review & survey stream • Take action on reviews - Manage and assign tickets - Reply to reviews & surveys - Save a review or survey - Post to Facebook or Twitter - Forward a review as a text message or email - Translate reviews REPUTATION SNAPSHOT • Review overview report • Engagement summary including social media site activity and review response coverage • Positive, neutral and negative review reporting • Sentiment mention summary and trend reporting -- What's the word on the Revinate mobile app? “Logging in to the Web-based site to take action can sometimes be cumbersome given the fact that my job often keeps me away from my desk. I like that I can, by using the Revinate mobile app, receive alerts, research and respond to travelers concerns on the app, from anywhere.” - Scott Youngblood, GM at The Hilton Minneapolis St. Paul Airport, Mall of America “Revinate’s mobile app is an invaluable tool for all of our managers. Being able to save and respond to reviews on the go is vital to staying on top of our guest’s observations and sentiments.” - Guy Wheelwright, GM, Bambara
Hotel Effectiveness
Optimize labor costs with intelligent scheduling and real-time performance monitoring. Gain full control over wages, overtime, and contractor expenses. This solution helps managers create labor plans based on business drivers and standards, saving hotels an average of 5% on labor costs.
- Labor cost optimization
- Real-time performance monitoring
- Daily labor check-in
- Shift scheduling
- Hotel group summary reports
- Departmental position details
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Hotel Effectiveness is a Labor Management solution that gives you full control over your total labor costs - optimizing for business drivers, wages, productivity, contractors, regulations, overtime, and more. Our intelligent solution enables your managers to create labor plans based upon real business drivers and standards, with intuitive analysis built-in to monitor and improve performance across your hotels. We save hotels 5% or more on labor costs. Maria D’Alessandro, CFO of Hospitality Ventures Management Group Says: “Hotel Effectiveness helps our GMs be more efficient at managing their labor. It gives them the tools they need to control their labor costs and improve house profit.” 2019 Top Rated Labor Management Software by Hotel Tech Report. The Hotel Effectiveness mobile application provides on the go access to functionality that enhances visibility and provides full control of labor costs. HOME PAGE Land into a hotel view and get a snapshot of what is happening with your property along with daily tasks. When managing multiple hotels, you’ll have a snapshot of labor win/loss by hotel. 5 MINUTE DAILY LABOR CHECK-IN **TOP FEATURE** Follow a 5 minute guided tool to create full accountability and transparency of labor costs in real-time down to the line-level manager at every property. As the most popular feature in the system, it is used daily to see hotel performance history as well as performance for the week. SEE WHO’S SCHEDULED View a single day scheduled shifts at a glance. You can also find available staff when you need to fill a shift with access to information such as employees on call, unscheduled or scheduled time off. HOTEL GROUP SUMMARY REPORT View a snapshot of labor win/loss by hotel in hours or wages. You can drill into any day to view the details by position for that hotel. POSITION DETAILS REPORT View a snapshot of labor win/loss by department in hours or wages for a given hotel. You can drill into any day to view the details by position along with all employees and their hours. Note: Mobile application does not include Time and Attendance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Revinate Mobile at 55% against Hotel Effectiveness's 0%. Revinate Mobile also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Hotel Effectiveness's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 3.2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Hotel Effectiveness holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 23 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Revinate Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of Hotel Effectiveness's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Revinate Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Hotel Effectiveness fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Revinate Mobile | Hotel Effectiveness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (30 ratings) | 4.1 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Revinate | Hotel Effectiveness Solutions, LLC |
Customer experience
Revinate Mobile
Hotel Effectiveness
In-app purchases
Revinate Mobile
No in-app purchases
Hotel Effectiveness
No in-app purchases
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