Comparison

Fourth vs HotSchedules Dashboard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Workforce management
  • Purchase-to-pay
  • Inventory management
  • Shift scheduling
  • Holiday requests
  • Stock counting
  • Order management
Features
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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.

About

HotSchedules Dashboard

This app offers a customizable dashboard for restaurant managers to visualize key performance indicators. Track sales, labor costs, employee schedules, and menu trends with dynamic data updates. Tailor your view to focus on the metrics that drive informed business decisions.

Highlights
  • Customizable data visualization
  • Sales performance tracking
  • Labor cost analysis
  • Employee scheduling overview
  • Menu item trending
  • Speed of service metrics
Features
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The HotSchedules Dashboard provides at-a-glance information to help you make informed decisions about your restaurant.  Customize your view to display the data that matters most to you. The HotSchedules Dashboard is a dynamic framework that allows for data visualization from internal and external data sources. Your dashboard will be automatically updated with the data that you want to see most, such as daily sales, speed of service or trending menu items. Application comes with 3 dashboards with setup widgets LABOR DASHBOARD • Labor % of Sales • Total Labor Cost • Average Hourly Pay • Cost Per Position • Top Performer • Total Labor Cost • Hours Worked SALES DASHBOARD • Net Total Sales • Menu % of Sales • Revenue STORE DASHBOARD • Agent manager • Employee Schedule • Menu Trending • Speed of Service • Google Places • Yelp • Weather The widgets can be customized at any time and linked to additional information. Not only can you share the Dashboard with other team members, but each user also gets to customize their view to display information that is interesting to them.   Download and customize your Dashboard today!

Screenshots

Fourth4 screens
HotSchedules Dashboard2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Fourth at every 3 weeks against HotSchedules Dashboard's every 4 months. Fourth also leads on rating (1.3 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (141 vs 3). HotSchedules Dashboard's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fourth holds the better App Store score, 1.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fourth has 141 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, HotSchedules Dashboard every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Fourth versus HotSchedules Dashboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFourthHotSchedules Dashboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (141 ratings) — better1.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews3.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings141 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.07.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFourth LimitedHotSchedules

Customer experience

Fourth

All ratings134 ratings
Positive6.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative91.0%
Written reviews187 reviews
Positive3.7%
Neutral3.2%
Negative93.0%

HotSchedules Dashboard

All ratings3 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

HotSchedules Dashboard

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Fourth

No in-app purchases

None

HotSchedules Dashboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fourth free?
Fourth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HotSchedules Dashboard free?
HotSchedules Dashboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fourth or HotSchedules Dashboard?
Fourth is rated higher. Fourth averages 1.3 out of 5 from 141 ratings, while HotSchedules Dashboard averages 1.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Fourth or HotSchedules Dashboard have ads?
Neither Fourth nor HotSchedules Dashboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fourth or HotSchedules Dashboard?
Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, and HotSchedules Dashboard every 4 months. Most recently, Fourth was updated on October 24, 2026 and HotSchedules Dashboard on October 21, 2026.

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