Homebase: App performance and availability issues
Users are experiencing significant frustration with the app due to its slow performance and frequent bugs. The managing availability feature is particularly problematic, often failing to work and requiring multiple restarts to function.
6 different people have complained about this since 14 Jan 2021, most recently on 21 Aug 2026.
No new posts for 78 days. This may have been fixed, or people stopped writing about it — the evidence below is from before 21 Aug 2026.
- “This is a frustrating and buggy product.”
- “This app is incredibly frustrating to use- constant issues with message lag and staff profiles not syncing with Clover device, takes forever to load, I’m constantly updating to new versions claiming “bug fixes” but the…”
- “Quite buggy and keeps crashing and slow to bring up schedules but functionality is good”
6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · 0 in the last 30 days, 0 in the 30 before
The pain
shares of 6 peopleWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 6 people using Homebase: Employee Scheduling
- What goes wrong
- App freezes or hangs on loading5 people · 83%
- Unavailability requests fail to save2 people · 33%
- Since
- 14 Jan 2021 → 21 Aug 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Homebase: Employee Scheduling
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
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- Complaint6100%
Sources
6 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
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Homebase: Employee Scheduling — Would not recommend This is a frustrating and buggy product. When we were deciding whether or not to purchase this software for our team, we were promised a bunch of features by the sales rep. After we signed up, those features have never been delivered. Basic things like calendar…
FrustratedHomebase: Employee Scheduling — Worst. This app is incredibly frustrating to use- constant issues with message lag and staff profiles not syncing with Clover device, takes forever to load, I’m constantly updating to new versions claiming “bug fixes” but the user experience and most impactful issues never improve.…
Frustrated…the screen will go black- and my phone will stop for several seconds. Most annoying app I’ve ever had to use.
FrustratedHomebase: Employee Scheduling — Homebase Quite buggy and keeps crashing and slow to bring up schedules but functionality is good
Homebase: Employee Scheduling — Easy, but has bugs The managing availability part of the app refuses to work, super slow to load app and usually have to restart app few times before it responds.
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Score 21.4 → 21.3 · 07 Nov 2026, 15:00 → 16:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is App performance and availability issues a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 14 Jan 2021 and the most recent from 21 Aug 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: quiet — no new posts in the last 60 days. 0 people raised it in the last 30 days and 0 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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