Fourth vs HotSchedules Reveal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Workforce Management
- Purchase-to-Pay
- Inventory Management
- Employee Scheduling
- Shift Swaps & Time Off Requests
- Stock Counting & Order Receiving
- Sales & Inventory Tracking
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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.
HotSchedules Reveal
Access real-time business performance reports on your mobile device. Identify trends and variances to improve forecasting and management. Gain a competitive edge with instant data insights.
- Real-time reporting
- Customizable KPIs
- Multi-store support
- Variance identification
- Trend analysis
- Business forecasting
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HotSchedules Reveal for iPhone and iPad allows HotSchedules customers access to real-time reporting across any number of custom key performance indicators and any number of stores. With this app, customers can easily identify variances and trends that affect their business so they can more accurately forecast and manage their business activities to gain the upper hand in a competitive market.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HotSchedules Reveal at 100% against Fourth's 4%. HotSchedules Reveal also leads on rating (3.5 vs 1.3) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.0). Fourth's advantage is ratings volume (141 vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HotSchedules Reveal holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fourth has 141 ratings behind it against 2, 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 100% of HotSchedules Reveal's.
Fourth ships an update every 3 weeks, HotSchedules Reveal every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fourth | HotSchedules Reveal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (141 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 3.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 141 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fourth Limited | HotSchedules |
Customer experience
Fourth
HotSchedules Reveal
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 Reveal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fourth
No in-app purchases
HotSchedules Reveal
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Fourth free?
Is HotSchedules Reveal free?
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