Comparison

Fourth vs JoAnna's List

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
  • Employee Scheduling
  • Shift Swaps & Time Off Requests
  • Stock Counting & Order Receiving
  • Sales & Inventory Tracking
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

JoAnna's List

Features
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To do lists for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual tasks. Quick reset for completed tasks by shaking iPhone.

Screenshots

Fourth4 screens
JoAnna's List4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Fourth at every 3 weeks against JoAnna's List's every 38 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, JoAnna's List every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Fourth versus JoAnna's List: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFourthJoAnna's List
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (141 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews3.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings141 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 38 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFourth LimitedStan Baran

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

JoAnna's List

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Fourth

No in-app purchases

None

JoAnna's List

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fourth free?
Fourth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is JoAnna's List free?
JoAnna's List is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fourth or JoAnna's List have ads?
Neither Fourth nor JoAnna's List shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fourth or JoAnna's List?
Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, and JoAnna's List every 38 months. Most recently, Fourth was updated on November 6, 2026 and JoAnna's List on November 3, 2026.

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