HotSchedules
80
Quality Score
Excellent
HotSchedules
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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HotSchedules is an iOS app from HotSchedules in the Business category, currently rated 4.6★ across 67,183 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 Business 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
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4 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 (97 MB) | +$18K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$34K |
Total estimate
$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$475K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $350K – $600K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~4.5× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
4.3M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
955K
Daily active
285K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🔬
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: 4.61★ across 67,131 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 (67,183 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 · v5.25.0
- We heard your feedback. Loud and clear. This release focuses on fixing crashes, improving performance, and making the app feel reliable again.
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
- Business
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, ES
Company
- Website
- www.hotschedules.com
- Tagline
- AI-Powered Restaurant Software
- Description
- Restaurant and hospitality-specific technology, services, and analytics to manage your workforce and inventory.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $27.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#81 /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
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.86★ · 2.0% 5★ · 59.2% 1★
5★1 (2%)
4★6 (12%)
3★7 (14%)
2★6 (12%)
1★29 (59%)
+2 ratings/week
Praise: great ×3 recommend ×1 love ×1 favorite ×1Complaints: crash ×19 bug ×5 subscription ×1 hate ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ App doesn’t open
Just clicked the recommended update and now the app doesn’t open up. Did update on my phone too and that didn’t help.…
★★★★☆ Update issues
Ever since the update yesterday I cannot approve or deny shifts without an issue. I can get some approvals through but no denials.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Sf
Very bad app
Always asking for subscriptions
I am already paid for it
Twice
In App Store and google store
This is crazy…
★☆☆☆☆ Very glitchy
Roster page won’t open and I do t have an option to update. Can’t see the whole schedule anymore.…
📈Ratings growth67,183 ratings+47% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (36 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #81 / 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#81 now · best #74 · 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%)
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 →💾 97 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 17.1+🔖 v5.25.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Business💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.40 → 4.61 (improved 1.21★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v5.24.0
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.62 → 3.40 (improved 1.78★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2023-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.50 (dropped 0.50★)
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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
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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★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.77778★ | 9 | 4.77778★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.60286★ | 67,183 | 4.60286★ 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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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 67,183 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 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 $26K/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.
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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.