Comparison

Fourth vs Restaurant365

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

Restaurant365

This app allows restaurant employees to manage their schedules, request time off, and communicate with colleagues. Managers can handle logbook entries, inventory counts, and accounts payable tasks.

Highlights
  • View employee schedules
  • Request shift changes
  • Request time off
  • View time punches
  • Secure employee communication
  • Manager logbook entries
  • Inventory counting
  • Accounts payable management
Features
Currently charting
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The Restaurant365 (R365) mobile app makes it easy for restaurant employees to see their schedule, request shift changes, request time off, view their time punches, and securely communicate with other employees. Managers can make logbook entries, respond to all employee scheduling requests, count inventory, and manage accounts payable (AP) tasks. If your restaurant uses the Restaurant365 platform, the R365 app is the best way to accomplish your tasks on a mobile device. Download the Restaurant365 app now!

Screenshots

Fourth4 screens
Restaurant3654 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Restaurant365 at 4.8 against Fourth's 1.3. Restaurant365 also leads on ratings volume (45K vs 134) and review sentiment (28% vs 4%). Fourth's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). 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

Restaurant365 holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Restaurant365 has 45K 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 28% of Restaurant365's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, Restaurant365 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Fourth versus Restaurant365: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFourthRestaurant365
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (134 ratings)4.8 (45K ratings) — better
Positive reviews3.7% of reviews27.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13445K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#205 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB101 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFourth LimitedRestaurant365

Customer experience

Fourth

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

Restaurant365

All ratings44,851 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews194 reviews
Positive27.8%
Neutral12.9%
Negative59.3%

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

Restaurant365

From 45K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient scheduling
  • 💡 Useful for managers
  • 👍 User-friendly interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and unreliable
  • 🔍 Lacks important features
  • 🤔 Confusing layout and navigation
  • 🙅‍♀️ Poor communication and support

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

Restaurant365

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and app freezes
  • Login and password reset issues
  • Inventory count discrepancies
  • Schedule and shift information not updating properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to contact employees directly
  • Calendar sync for schedules
  • Clearer shift assignment and pickup process
  • Improved inventory management tools

In-app purchases

None

Fourth

No in-app purchases

None

Restaurant365

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fourth free?
Fourth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Restaurant365 free?
Restaurant365 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fourth or Restaurant365?
Restaurant365 is rated higher. Fourth averages 1.3 out of 5 from 134 ratings, while Restaurant365 averages 4.8 from 45K ratings.
Do Fourth or Restaurant365 have ads?
Neither Fourth nor Restaurant365 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fourth or Restaurant365?
Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, and Restaurant365 fortnightly. Most recently, Fourth was updated on October 15, 2026 and Restaurant365 on October 16, 2026.

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