HotGlue vs PokeSwift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HotGlue
Manage your studio business from your mobile device. This app allows you to check schedules, track attendance, communicate with families, and manage students. Parents and students can also view schedules and track their progress.
- Schedule management
- Attendance tracking
- Family communication
- Student management
- Waiver management
- Progress tracking
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Manage your studio on the go. HotGlue is the mobile companion to the free HotGlue studio management platform for dance studios, cheer gyms, martial arts schools, gymnastics facilities, and more. Check schedules, track attendance, communicate with families, manage students and waivers, and stay on top of your business from anywhere. Parents and students can view class schedules, track progress, and stay connected with their studio.
PokeSwift
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PokeSwift is the point of sale app built specifically for trading card vendors at card shows. Move faster at the booth with a checkout workflow made for buying, selling, pricing, and saving card show transactions. Import your collection inventory, build carts on the fly, adjust prices per item, and keep a complete record of every deal after the show ends. Use camera-powered capture to identify cards and read price stickers, then add them to a cart in seconds. Search the built-in card catalog when you need a manual lookup. Import your inventory price exports so your pricing data is ready before the doors open. Whether you are selling singles, sealed, buying collections, negotiating trade-ins, or reviewing past transactions, PokeSwift helps keep the line moving and the totals organized. Features: • Fast cart building for card show transactions • Camera-powered card and price sticker recognition • Built-in card catalog and price lookup • Per-item price and percentage adjustments • Transaction history for completed sales and purchases • Designed for high-volume vendor booths PokeSwift helps vendors spend less time juggling calculators, spreadsheets, and comp sites, and more time closing clean, accurate transactions. ----------------------- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Disclaimer: PokeSwift is an independent point-of-sale and inventory tool for trading card vendors. All Pokémon names, card designs, images, and related media are the intellectual property of Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK Inc., and The Pokémon Company International, Inc. PokeSwift is not produced by, sponsored, endorsed, administered, authorized by, or affiliated with any of those companies. Card images shown in the app are captured by users or displayed for identification purposes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HotGlue at none against PokeSwift's 2. PokeSwift's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. PokeSwift sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. HotGlue asks for nothing beyond the download.
HotGlue ships an update every 4 months, PokeSwift every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HotGlue | PokeSwift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HotGlue | Yay Fun, Inc. |
In-app purchases
HotGlue
No in-app purchases
PokeSwift
- Weekly Plan3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Yearly Plan3 Days trial$129.991 Year








