simplehuman vs Hotel Collection
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
simplehuman
Explore a wide range of products, including exclusive online items. Visualize items in your home using augmented reality before purchasing. Automate refills for essential items and manage deliveries with flexibility.
- Shop full product lineup
- Augmented Reality visualization
- Automated replenishment
- Flexible delivery management
- Online-only exclusives
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Shop our full product lineup including online-only exclusives. Using Augmented Reality (AR), see what products would look like anywhere in your home before you buy. Activate auto-replenishment of custom liners and soap refills so you never run out. Adjust, pause or cancel deliveries at any time - with no commitments.
Hotel Collection
Discover exclusive discounts and get early access to new product launches. Browse the latest arrivals and enjoy a seamless, secure checkout experience for all your favorite items.
- Exclusive discounts
- Early access to launches
- New arrivals browsing
- First-to-know notifications
- Secure and easy checkout
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Download the Hotel Collection app to access exclusive discounts, early access to collection launches. Everything you love, right at your fingertips. EASY BROWSING Shop the freshest new arrivals across our entire catalog. EXCLUSIVE ACCESS Be first to know about exclusive offers and launches through first-to-know notifications and app-user-only early access. SECURE CHECKOUT IN A FLASH Tap, swipe, shop and secure your new products in an instant with our super easy checkout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: simplehuman at free against Hotel Collection's free with in-app purchases. simplehuman also leads on ratings volume (918 vs 88). Hotel Collection's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 31%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, update cadence, 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 Collection holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: simplehuman has 918 ratings behind it against 88, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of simplehuman's written reviews are positive against 50% of Hotel Collection's.
simplehuman ships an update every 5 weeks, Hotel Collection every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | simplehuman | Hotel Collection |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (918 ratings) | 4.7 (88 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 918 — better | 88 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | simplehuman LLC | Hotel Collection |
Customer experience
simplehuman
Hotel Collection
Bugs and requests
simplehuman
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login/verification process not working
- Shipping address always marked as invalid
- App crashes when trying to remove items from cart
- Duplicate order notifications
Requested features
4 requests- Add shopping cart functionality
- Sync app and website orders/account
- Improve checkout process and payment options
- Provide email-only registration option
Hotel Collection
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
simplehuman
No in-app purchases
Hotel Collection
No in-app purchases
