# Crew Messaging and Scheduling — Team chat + schedule planner

> Team chat and scheduling app for distributed workforces. (iPhone/iPad app by Speramus Inc.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crew-messaging-and-scheduling/id962124015 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Speramus Inc](https://appshunter.io/developer/962124014)
- Category: Business, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.67/5 from 49,006 App Store ratings · 23 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 14.0 · 109 MB
- Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Released: 2015-03-21
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crew-messaging-and-scheduling/id962124015/reviews.md

## What is Crew Messaging and Scheduling?

Crew connects your entire distributed workforce from the frontline to corporate leadership, unifying communications, streamlining scheduling, and making operations hum. Join for free.

Read why customers, operators, and teams LOVE Crew:

- “Being able to communicate and engage with our frontline workforce is absolutely critical to our success. With Crew, we can reach every team member with important information at the touch of a button, and that is invaluable at our size and scale.” - Steve Plank (CTO, Taco Bell Corporate, 10,000+ employees)

- “Crew helps employees engage, feel like part of the organization, and know their role is important - all of which mitigates turnover. This platform is taking our communication to a level we didn’t know was possible.” - Trevor Parris (Director, Affinity Living Group, 4,100+ employees)

Tens of thousands of teams across every industry use Crew every day to support:

UNIFIED COMMUNICATION
• Engage employees with top-down announcements in a familiar chat-like interface
• Send messages to everyone, specific groups or have conversations 1:1
• Connect your entire team without exchanging phone numbers
• See exactly who’s read your messages
• Send unlimited photos and videos
• Know who’s on-site with Location-based groups
• Survey employees to keep a pulse on sentiment and get real-time feedback
• Reflect your organization’s hierarchy and control multi-team communication
• Engage your distributed workforce from a single, system-level dashboard

SCHEDULING & SHIFT COVERAGE
• Distribute work schedules to everyone’s phones at anytime
• Easily get shift coverage or pick-up extra shifts
• Get shift reminders and allow employees to track wages
• Track and manage employees work availability

RECOGNITION & MOTIVATION
• Inspire your employees and build a productive team culture with Gold Stars
• Implement a custom recognition program with customized badges

FILES & TASK MANAGEMENT
• Share and manage files (incl. photos, videos, and documents) with coworkers
• Assign tasks to coworkers and get notified when they’re completed

COMPLIANCE
• Enterprise-level data encryption and security with the ability to wipe company data from devices of terminated employees
• Prevent inappropriate content automatically with Content filters
• Protect team members from harassment with user blocking and content moderation controls
• Protect your organization from liability by creating and enforcing your own opt-in, usage, and conduct policies
• Prevent messages from being sent to team members while off-the-clock
• Advanced user suspension and message flagging features to ensure team members have access to productive and accurate information
• Measure and enforce the timeliness of schedule postings to remain compliant with labor regulations (EOC, Fair Work Week, etc.)

INTEGRATIONS
• Scheduling & rostering (incl. Kronos, Infor, UltiPro, and more)
• Insights & workflow (incl. Square, Docusign, Zendesk, and more)
• Communications & benefits (incl. Facebook, Slack, Qualtrics, and more)

Visit crewapp.com to learn more about Crew's digital workplace platform for businesses large & small.

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Crew is fully committed to your privacy. Your data is encrypted, and will not be shared or sold to any third-party, period.

We offer in-app purchases of auto-renewing subscriptions for Crew Pro. Crew Pro offers Admin-oriented features including enhanced permissions and controls. The amount will be charged to your iTunes account and will vary by plan and country. You’ll see the total price before completing payment.

Crew Pro subscriptions purchased in-app renew monthly or yearly depending on your plan. To avoid renewal, you must turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before your subscription ends. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings.

Terms of Service: crewapp.com/terms
Privacy Policy: crewapp.com/privacy

Disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

## Key features

- Unified team chat
- Streamlined scheduling
- Shift coverage requests
- Employee recognition
- File and task management
- Compliance tools
- Location-based groups

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Crew Pro | $29.99 | per month |
| Crew Pro | $299.99 | per year |
| Crew Pro | $159.99 | per 6 months |
| Crew Minutes | $9.99 | per month |
| Crew Unlimited | $29.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 10 Gold Stars | $0.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Crew Messaging and Scheduling?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Efficient communication and scheduling
- 👍 User-friendly and intuitive
- 💡 Helpful features like shift coverage and rewards
- 🔒 Secure and private communication

**Cons**

- 🐛 Bugs and glitches affecting functionality
- 💰 Pricing changes and limitations for free users
- 🔍 Difficulty searching chat history

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Schedule jumbling and rendering issues
- Private groups being accessible to all employees
- Persistent app update notification glitch

**Most requested features**

- Image gallery for chat
- Faster load times
- Lunch/break time tracking

## Recent user reviews (10 of 23)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crew-messaging-and-scheduling/id962124015/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Crew App

*2023-12-13*

The Crew App is one of the best apps I’ve ever used it for small businesses trying to manage their employees. You can contact everyone right to the app without having to exchange phone numbers and all the private information you can see shifts real time updates get shift coverage a word, gold stars and hearts to people and it’s you can even upload files like we work at a bar so there’s certain people who aren’t allowed in the bar we put their pictures in there so everybody has access to it right on their phone, wonderful wonderful App thank you for making it

### 3/5 — It works but a bit clunky in places

*2023-11-13*

We are a nonprofit cat rescue organization, and we only use a small portion of the functionality in Crew pro.  
Basically we use: team files, calendar, scheduling, covers, and chat. all of our people are volunteers, so there's no payroll to worry about.

Everything works adequately for us except searching the chat boards are essentially impossible.  As an example, say we adopted a cat out six months ago, and discussed it. Today the cat is going to be returned, and we want to go back to the previous communication to reference and the easiest way would simply be to search for the name of the cat. But this is impossible.   It is such a problem for us, as the Director, I'm considering using a different program.

### 2/5 — was good while it lasted.

*2023-06-28*

DO NOT DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE A MANAGER: 
crew app was extremely convenient for so long for me. i could see when my schedule was posted and keep up on all the updates from where i work. 
however this new update where we can’t text fellow coworkers is gunna send the app down the trash VERY SOON. how am i supposed to text my coworker to ask them to trade me shifts if i can’t contact them?  i can’t. i either have to wait to end up at work at the same time as them (which is extremely difficult because what if they don’t work any time soon how am i supposed to talk to them now??) or i have to text the manager and depend on her to relay my message and then relay the response. that means my manager will be relaying MANY messages that could have just been sent within the chat. if you wanted to make the app less inappropriate you very well could have made it impossible to send messages that had foul language. but instead you went and ruined the app entirely. thank you👍🏼

### 3/5 — Just got notice u must pay now for over 5 employees (was 10)

*2022-12-02*

Not understanding why they’re taking away from their free version customers. If I have to pay for a scheduling app, i’m going to find one that holds the past schedule longer than two weeks, one where you can change the shift time as far as if the crew ended early, you used to be able to adjust the time after the fact, but now you have to create an entirely new shift to correct the times. Also, they never added the lunch/break times feature, so it wouldn’t get added to employees total work hours (I constantly got calls from employees stating the Crew app tells them they have seven hours more than I paid them for -each time. I have to remind them that the crew app doesn’t account for lunch breaks.

### 1/5 — Decent app, bad business practices

*2022-10-14*

I used this app with my small team from reopening of my fitness club from Covid. Was using it for a little over two years but I have since decided to switch to another competitor due to their poor business practices. I understand they need to make money but changing the limit to 10 people without a tiered membership offering is bogus. Like other reviewers, I am just one or two above the the new limit. I loved the app and how responsive they were with changes or recommendations but they’ve lost me for good. 

I have found a way better competitor offering much more, for free and a limit of 30 people. Now that’s what I call supporting small business. Sorry Crew but you lost me and any referrals I would of had for you. You should of acted quicker when I emailed you over 6 months ago about offering tiered plan or reverting the limit. Good luck.

### 5/5 — Awesome!!

*2020-01-03, version 7.7*

I would recommend this to anyone with a small business who needs better communication within their employees. I am an employee of a small business and I use this app to connect with my coworkers. It is super efficient and it makes things like shifts and cover and taking time off a LOT easier to establish. There is a cool feature where you can give your coworkers a star for good things they have done. There is a small problem I do need to complain about:
When the app updates it had a handy feature where is highlights an improved feature or something else that changed during the update. When this happens, the screen dims and a circle appears around what is being shown. I am aware that this should only happen once, but after the recent update it hasn’t stopped. It has been weeks since the update has finished and this small glitch hasn’t stopped. I complained to the Crew workers and a change hasn’t happened yet about it. It is not a big glitch and I can easily ignore it, but it can be very annoying. 

Other than that small thing, Crew has been a great app that I will keep. I highly recommend it to anyone, and I am thankful for this app because it lets me connect with my coworkers and manager. Thanks Crew!

### 5/5 — Is super easy to use 🤗🤗🤗

*2019-08-20*

I love this app because I can interact with ALL my employees especially the one I barely see due to different schedules, I love that I can share our success as a group instead of one by one. And that I can communicate new products that are coming up etc. The only thing that I would change is that when I post a picture on the group or individually and I put the comment then submit it, the comment is over the picture instead of being below the picture. You really need to pay attention to the picture to see the comment, the majority of my employees are teens if is not really visible they won't read it and it will lose the importance of the message.

**Developer response:** Hello, thanks for the review and feedback! I've passed your feedback and suggestion along to our product team for review. Feel free to send over any other feedback to Crew Support in your Coworkers tab or to help@crewapp.com! ~Crew Support

### 1/5 — Bugs. Private groups, random employees are added without you knowing

*2019-06-04*

I have used crew for my businesses for over a year. I created two businesses and groups under each. I created a group specifically for management so other employees were not privy to some information. To my horror all of my employees were randomly added to this group and I couldn’t even see them listed. I brought it to crew support attention and they brushed it off. A day later my employees were being added to my other business. Again I reached out for crew support and I was once again brushed off. Either something major changed with crew or they are experiencing some major issues with their app that they will never be aware of because they won’t acknowledge there is a problem. Beware business owners of you think your group is private for the people you invited only it is NOT.

### 3/5 — Some minor improvements

*2019-03-27, version 6.5.3*

The Crew app is great, I use it every day for work and overall it’s worked great. Some minor things that Would make the Crew app a more enjoyable experience would be faster load times and an image gallery. 
     Making the loading times for the crew chat faster would improve the experience tremendously, when it’s being used at work sometimes you only have a second to check the chat to make sure you don’t miss any information, but I have noticed on my IPhone XR and iPhone 7 that it can sometimes take a couple minutes for the chat to load.
     Another recommendation would be to have an image gallery for the chat. I have found myself in the past scrolling through the news feed to find the right picture with the information I need. It would be very helpful if we could click on a sub menu in the chat to a gallery of the pictures posted

### 1/5 — Worked great until the bug... now I’m left in the dark by customer support

*2019-01-26, version 6.5.3*

The crew app seemed like the solution for my business and worked well for several months. I recommended it to many until a sudden bug actually created great turmoil in our operations. Three months ago the app jumbled my schedule up on its own and has not been functional for is since. At first the customer support team blamed me, my devices and my competence , only later to admit that there was in fact a bug when I sent them screenshots of a schedule I re-created at least 20 times only to have the application render it useless. Since then there have been other features that have broken down for us. I wanted to stick with Crew because at one point it was a great tool, but when I inquire about the fix I’m told that my ticket has been submitted but is not a priority and there’s no ETA on this issue. This feels like a blatant disregard from Customer Service for the integrity of our operations. We have a super simple calendar with not many changes to it but Crew has been able to hold up their end.

## Frequently asked questions about Crew Messaging and Scheduling

### What does Crew Messaging and Scheduling do?

Crew Messaging and Scheduling is designed to connect distributed workforces by unifying communications and streamlining scheduling. It allows for top-down announcements, 1:1 chats, photo/video sharing, and helps manage work schedules, shift coverage, and employee availability.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include a familiar chat-like interface for announcements and messages, the ability to distribute work schedules, facilitate shift coverage, offer employee recognition through Gold Stars and custom badges, manage files and tasks, and provide robust compliance tools for data security and labor regulations.

### Is Crew Messaging and Scheduling free to use?

The app offers a free plan for users to join. However, it also has in-app purchases, suggesting that advanced features or enterprise-level functionalities may come at a cost.

### What kind of businesses use Crew Messaging and Scheduling?

Tens of thousands of teams across every industry use Crew daily. It's particularly beneficial for businesses with distributed workforces, including those in retail, hospitality, healthcare, and manufacturing, to connect frontline employees with corporate leadership.

### How does this app help with compliance?

The app provides enterprise-level data encryption and security, with features to manage terminated employee data. It includes content filters to prevent inappropriate content, user blocking for harassment protection, and tools to enforce timely schedule postings to comply with labor regulations like EOC and Fair Work Week.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 8.7.4 — 2024-03-04

This release fixes numerous bugs reported by users like you. 

If you see something that looks off, email us at bugs@crewapp.com. Also, please consider leaving a review for us. It really helps.

### 8.7.3 — 2022-12-14

This release fixes numerous bugs reported by users like you. 

If you see something that looks off, email us at bugs@crewapp.com. Also, please consider leaving a review for us. It really helps.

### 8.7.2 — 2022-12-10

This release fixes numerous bugs reported by users like you. 

If you see something that looks off, email us at bugs@crewapp.com. Also, please consider leaving a review for us. It really helps.

### 8.7.1 — 2022-10-05

Fixes a bug when setting the start and end time for a shift

### 8.7 — 2022-09-08

Crew v8.7 is here and comes loaded with new capabilities to take advantage of Apple’s latest operating systems.

New in Crew v8.7:

• Select text in images when opened in the full screen viewer.
• Search the text history of your conversations and PDFs shared in Team Files.
• New Lock Screen widgets and Apple Watch complications for Up Next and Gold Star Leaderboard.
• As always, we've also smoothed some edges and squashed some bugs under the hood.

Note: With this release, Crew’s minimum support is now iOS 14, macOS 11, and watchOS 6.

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