HotSchedules
80
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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HotSchedules is an iOS app from HotSchedules in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 67,295 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 80: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities app, that means strong product-market fit. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$25.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$26.0K – $54.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$32.2K – $96.5K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
87 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
67,295 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$25.1K
Snapshots tracked
87
since May 2023
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~6 months at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (59 MB) | +$3K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-8096 |
| ⚙ 17.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$107K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$450K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $325K – $600K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~2.9× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 17.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
9.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
375K
Daily active
75K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅 17.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 59 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-28 · 5 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 5 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$25.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$23.8K – $39.7K
12 months
$26.0K – $54.4K
24 months
$32.2K – $96.5K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
9.2
Revenue Strength
4.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $17K - $37K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 67,235 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $451K-$803K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (67,295 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v6.0.3
- Bug fixes & performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- HotSchedules
- Developer
- HotSchedules
- Bundle ID
- com.hotschedules.hotschedules
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, FR, ES
Company
- Website
- www.hotschedules.com
- Tagline
- HotSchedules Scheduling & Team Management
- Description
- HotSchedules is the ideal online employee scheduling and engagement app for independent hospitality business owners.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $25.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#95 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- linkedin linkedin.com/company/fourth
- Not found
- Phone
- 1-2 3-4 5-9 10-35
- Contact page
- hotschedules.com/support/customer-sup…
- About page
- hotschedules.com/company/contact
📈Ratings growth67,271 ratings+14983% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #95 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#95 now · best #95 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $2.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
HotSchedules is the industry's leading employee scheduling app because it’s the fastest and easiest way to manage your schedule and communicate with your team.
Team members love it because they can swap, pick-up or release shifts with one click. Work-life balance is easily managed with automatic shift pick ups when you want more hours, and time off requests for when you don’t. Calendar sync and notifications keep your Schedules and the roster automatically updated to your phone with any manager-approved changes.… View full description on the official store →
Team members love it because they can swap, pick-up or release shifts with one click. Work-life balance is easily managed with automatic shift pick ups when you want more hours, and time off requests for when you don’t. Calendar sync and notifications keep your Schedules and the roster automatically updated to your phone with any manager-approved changes.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 59 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 17.1+🔖 v6.0.3🔄 updated 5d ago🌐 EN, FR, ES📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2008 (17y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-09
📦
Bundle ↓ 103MB → 61MB — likely major code refresh
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 10 of 10 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v5.26.4 → v6.0.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +40 low · multiple changes
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v5.26.1 → v5.26.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +61 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.24.0 → v5.26.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +80 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.40 → 4.61 (improved 1.21★)
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v5.24.0
→ 30 days after: rating +1.21★ · reviews +9 low · multiple changes
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +1.21★ · reviews +9 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.62 → 3.40 (improved 1.78★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.21★ · reviews +9 high confidence
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$26.8K/mo · rating +1.78★ · reviews +66,621 high confidence
2023-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +11 high confidence
2023-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +118 high confidence
2023-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +118 medium · co-occurring
2023-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +118 medium · co-occurring
2023-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +27 high confidence
2023-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +27 high confidence
2023-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +27 high confidence
2023-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +27 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
10 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPad screenshots
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2 ver.
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2 ver.
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iPhone screenshots
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2 ver.
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2 ver.
2 ver.
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2026-09-15
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #15Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
scheduling·#15🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.33333★ | 24 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.41099★ | 983 | 4.41099★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.4★ | 5 | 3.4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.53125★ | 352 | 4.53125★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.5★ | 2 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.77778★ | 9 | 4.77778★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.59963★ | 67,292 | 4.59963★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for HotSchedules: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 83% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 67,295 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does HotSchedules make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, HotSchedules earns approximately $25K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is HotSchedules profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $25K, HotSchedules looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 6 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does HotSchedules have?▴
Estimated audience: ~9.4M lifetime downloads, ~375K monthly active users, and ~75K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like HotSchedules?▴
Browse the full Utilities category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is HotSchedules built with?▴
Our heuristic places HotSchedules on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is HotSchedules still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would HotSchedules sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $450K (marketplace range $325K – $600K). Calculated as 18× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was HotSchedules last updated?▴
HotSchedules last shipped a new version on 2026-09-28 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes HotSchedules?▴
HotSchedules is published by HotSchedules on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is HotSchedules's BU Score?▴
HotSchedules has a BU Score of 80/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.