Comparison

Fourth vs PayDayPortal

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

PayDayPortal

This app automates daily earnings processing, including tips, time, and attendance. It allows employees to create a payday on the same day they work, managing hours and calculating payouts for tips, commissions, and service charges.

Highlights
  • Automated daily earnings processing
  • TIPS, Commissions, Service Charges calculation
  • Time and attendance management
  • Same-day payday creation
  • Wage management
  • Employee earnings control
Features
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New - One Stop – PayDayPortal App Automated processing of PayDay for daily earnings, TIPS, Time/Attendance and Wage Management Software as a Service, which calculates, allocates and pays out TIPS, Commissions, Service Charges, and manages your hours worked and give employees the power to create a payday the same day they work.

Screenshots

Fourth4 screens
PayDayPortal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PayDayPortal at 1.9 against Fourth's 1.3. PayDayPortal also leads on review sentiment (28% vs 4%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

PayDayPortal holds the better App Store score, 1.9 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 141 and 186 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 4% of Fourth's written reviews are positive against 28% of PayDayPortal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, PayDayPortal monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fourth versus PayDayPortal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFourthPayDayPortal
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (141 ratings)1.9 (186 ratings) — better
Positive reviews3.7% of reviews28.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings141186 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFourth LimitedGratuity LLC

Customer experience

Fourth

All ratings141 ratings
Positive6.4%
Neutral2.1%
Negative91.5%
Written reviews188 reviews
Positive3.7%
Neutral3.2%
Negative93.1%

PayDayPortal

All ratings186 ratings
Positive19.4%
Neutral4.3%
Negative76.3%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive28.1%
Neutral1.6%
Negative70.3%

User reviews

Fourth

From 141 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

PayDayPortal

From 186 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Transparent service
  • 👍 Helpful support (Anika mentioned)
  • 👍 Accurate earnings tracking
  • 👍 User-friendly interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent logouts
  • 🐛 Difficulty logging in
  • 🐛 Username recovery issues
  • 🐛 App freezes on launch
  • 🐛 Redirects to settings

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

PayDayPortal

Reported bugs

24 issues
  • App freezes when opening
  • App forces opening settings
  • Login issues
  • Update required loop with no update available
  • Cannot recover username
Show 19 more
  • App freezes and doesn't advance to login
  • Verification code not received
  • Server not responding errors
  • No data available when cashing out
  • Account disabled
  • Cannot log in or reset password due to forgotten username
  • App won't load, says update required, no update available
  • App randomly logs out and cannot log back in
  • App doesn't recognize employee ID or birthday for setup
  • No option to transfer funds
  • App is slow and constantly on edge
  • Tips not loaded on daily basis
  • App signs out regularly and struggles to sign back in
  • Tips are not accurate, discrepancies in amounts
  • "Keep me logged in" feature is ineffective
  • App is a web-app baked into a browser
  • Keychain doesn't save credentials
  • No Face ID support
  • Lost details after last update

Requested features

5 requests
  • Simple way to find username
  • Option to see full tip pooling amounts
  • Better notification settings
  • Dark mode option
  • Face ID login support

In-app purchases

None

Fourth

No in-app purchases

None

PayDayPortal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fourth free?
Fourth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PayDayPortal free?
PayDayPortal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fourth or PayDayPortal?
PayDayPortal is rated higher. Fourth averages 1.3 out of 5 from 141 ratings, while PayDayPortal averages 1.9 from 186 ratings.
Do Fourth or PayDayPortal have ads?
Neither Fourth nor PayDayPortal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fourth or PayDayPortal?
Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, and PayDayPortal monthly. Most recently, Fourth was updated on November 1, 2026 and PayDayPortal on October 29, 2026.

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