Comparison

Fourth vs HS Team App

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

HS Team App

Manage team schedules, send important messages, and facilitate shift changes. Team members can easily swap, pick-up, or release shifts, with all updates automatically reflected in the schedule and roster upon manager approval.

Highlights
  • Schedule management
  • Text and email alerts
  • Shift swapping
  • Shift pick-up
  • Shift release
  • Automatic roster updates
Features
Currently charting
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Check schedules and send text or email alerts to notify staff about the schedule or other important messages. Team members can swap, pick-up or release shifts with one click. Schedules and the roster automatically update with any manager-approved changes. NOTE: The HS Team application REQUIRES a valid HS Team user account through your employer.

Screenshots

Fourth4 screens
HS Team App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: HS Team App at 4.4 against Fourth's 1.3. HS Team App also leads on ratings volume (9.3K vs 134) and review sentiment (18% vs 4%). Fourth's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.1). 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

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

HS Team App holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HS Team App has 9.3K ratings behind it against 134, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 4% of Fourth's written reviews are positive against 18% of HS Team App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, HS Team App every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Fourth versus HS Team App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFourthHS Team App
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (134 ratings)4.4 (9.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews3.7% of reviews18.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1349.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#141 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.1
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB59 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFourth LimitedHotSchedules

Customer experience

Fourth

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

HS Team App

All ratings9,251 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral4.4%
Negative12.4%
Written reviews222 reviews
Positive18.5%
Neutral16.2%
Negative65.3%

User reviews

Fourth

From 134 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast app icon
  • 👍 Works without issue

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Constantly crashes
  • 🔒 Authentication issues
  • 👎 Unreliable
  • 👎 Difficult to use
  • 🔍 Lacks functionality

HS Team App

From 9.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Convenient scheduling
  • 👍 Helpful for work
  • 👍 Good app overall

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes/loading issues
  • 🔍 Confusing layout/UI changes
  • 🤔 Unreliable performance
  • 🚫 Login/account issues

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

HS Team App

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Duplicate shifts on calendar
  • Availability changes not working
  • Notifications not working
  • Incompatibility with device updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved calendar sync
  • Better shift management
  • Faster load times

In-app purchases

None

Fourth

No in-app purchases

None

HS Team App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fourth free?
Fourth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HS Team App free?
HS Team App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fourth or HS Team App?
HS Team App is rated higher. Fourth averages 1.3 out of 5 from 134 ratings, while HS Team App averages 4.4 from 9.3K ratings.
Do Fourth or HS Team App have ads?
Neither Fourth nor HS Team App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fourth or HS Team App?
Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, and HS Team App every 2 weeks. Most recently, Fourth was updated on September 23, 2026 and HS Team App on September 23, 2026.

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