Fourth vs Polaris Data
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fourth
This app streamlines hospitality operations by centralizing workforce management, purchasing, and inventory. It enhances team collaboration, simplifies scheduling, and improves inventory accuracy for efficient business management.
- Workforce management
- Purchase-to-pay
- Inventory management
- Shift scheduling
- Holiday requests
- Stock counting
- Order management
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Fourth is the world's leading provider of innovative software services to the hospitality industry and the Fourth App is the mobile gateway to access all of Fourth's and our partner's capabilities. Using our purpose built platform, where team collaboration is at the center of everything we provide, the Fourth App brings to life the processes required to run an efficient and effective hospitality business that customers love. Evolving the employee experience while at and away from work, Fourth has a variety of mobile apps, which help run your business with our Workforce Management, and Purchase-to-Pay and Inventory solutions. Allowing employees to collaborate with each other, apply for holidays, view and manage their scheduled shifts, count stock, order and receive deliveries, and much, much more. Fourth’s Workforce Management solution: Makes the lives of your managers and employees easier. Managers save hours every week by quickly building accurate schedules, and approving shift changes at the touch of a button. They can also publish open shifts, keep connected and stay on top of business performance on the go. Employees get more exact schedules, and can quickly and easily requests swaps, suggest unavailability, volunteer for open shifts, request time off and view payroll information, while staying connected with the business, their managers and their colleagues. Managers get out of the back office so they spend more time with their teams and customers, and employees feel happier and more engaged with the business, improving productivity, company culture and employee retention. Fourth’s Purchase-to-Pay and Inventory Management solution: Keeps operators on top of inventory by ensuring regular valuations are quickly and easily captured. Placing orders, completing inventory counts and goods receiving are completed on mobile devices, saving hours of time and eliminating errors caused by re-keying data. Actual Cost of Sales (COS) is easily calculated, and the gap between actual and theoretical is effectively highlighted and can be driven down as actual COS factors in all transactional data, daily sales and other account transfers and inventory movement. The result is better inventory management, ensuring you have sufficient products to meet demand while reducing waste and removing unnecessary administration. Getting started with the Fourth App: The Fourth App requires a Fourth Account to login, your employer needs to have given you access through an activation email and if you have any problems with access you should contact your line manager.
Polaris Data
Access your work schedule in real-time with this secure mobile tool. Manage shifts, request holidays, and receive timely reminders to stay organized and punctual.
- Real-time shift updates
- Holiday request tool
- Shift reminders
- Share contact details
- Record of previous rotas
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The simple and secure mobile gateway to your working rota in real-time. Polaris Data is a free to download real-time rota management and holiday tool. It allows you live access to your future shifts, while keeping a record of previous rota. With its built in holiday request tool and reminder function, will enable you to request holidays on your day off or aid you in making sure you’re not late for a shift, with personalised tones from your device. Key Functions: - Polaris Data updates your shifts in real-time to keep you up to date, as soon as rota sessions are assigned to you they will show on your calendar. - Never miss a shift again with our simple reminders function. - Request holiday with no fuss, all requests are sent through to management for approval - Share and communicate: share your contact details with other staff members at work quickly and easily.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Polaris Data at 40% against Fourth's 4%. Fourth's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, Polaris Data every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fourth | Polaris Data |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (134 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 3.7% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 134 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fourth Limited | The Software Farm |
Customer experience
Fourth
Polaris Data
Bugs and requests
Fourth
Reported bugs
4 issues- Blank screens
- Login failures
- Scheduling issues
- Payslip access problems
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved calendar integration
- Better employee communication tools
Polaris Data
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fourth
No in-app purchases
Polaris Data
No in-app purchases








