Comparison

shift vs TruckPack by dgApps

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

shift

This tool helps lighting designers and electricians monitor show progress on an Eos family console. It allows observation of pending and active cues, annotation of any cue, and live streaming of channel levels. Users can manage notes, track progress, and even edit console labels directly from their device.

Highlights
  • Connect to Eos consoles
  • Monitor cue details
  • Annotate cues with custom tags
  • View live channel levels
  • Manage and filter notes
  • Edit console labels and notes
  • Apple Watch app for cue monitoring
Features
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An essential new tool for Lighting Designers and Electricians Shift-Label allows you to monitor the progress of your show on an eos family console - observe the pending and active cue and annotate any cue you wish. Key features include (note that some features require an in app purchase): - Connect to any Eos family console with minimal setup - Monitor details of all cues in any cue list, viewing labels, times and other attributes - divided by scene if required - Follow along with the current cue - Add multiple notes to cues, tagging notes with categories such as "Plotting", "Cueing" or "Focus" - all tags are user definable - View live streaming channel levels directly on your device (uses sACN) - Review all notes, or filter them down by taf - Mark notes as completed, or 'sleep' notes for a set time period to revisit later - Maintain separate sets of notes for different shows (great for when working in rep, or revisiting an old production) - Keeps cue details cached on device, allowing you to review details of the show and your notes when not at the console - On iPad run app in "split view" so you can monitor your show while using another app (such as safari or reading a pdf) - Jump directly to a cue on the console from a note - Edit the console label and notes fields directly from your iPad - Keypad control for basic channel manipulation from within app - Apple Watch app - monitor your console's current cue on your wrist! Note that for the watch app to function it must be paired with an iPhone with Shift-Label active and open, I suggest enabling "stop device from sleeping" in shift-label's settings Note that Shift-Label is not an official ETC product and is not authorised or endorsed by ETC in any way. ETC technical support will have no knowledge of the app

About

TruckPack by dgApps

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"What's next on the truck?" There's now an app to tell you that! TruckPack by dgApps! The gig's over, the walkout music is running, the work lights are on, the local crew want to know what's first, and it's all got to go back on the truck. Craig's in the truck with Frank and some locals, ready and waiting... Kedge is on the loading dock with a couple more local crew... Your're on stage, with the few remaining local crew that the lampies haven't nicked yet... TruckPack by dgApps tells you which flightcase is first on the truck, and then what's next, what's next, what's next... When everything is checked off in TruckPack then the equipment is finally all on the truck, and there's nothing left hiding in the stage right wing somewhere. Time for a glass of something red! As well as being named, Flightcases can have colours assigned to them, yellow for everything in Monitor World for example. Flightcases can then be double tapped to check them off as on the truck. The app can handle multiple TruckPacks, and each TruckPack is shareable as a .truckpack file and as plain text, so everyone on the crew knows the order of flightcases on the truck, even Matt the FOH Engineer. There's an included example "Blur Audio Truck One" TruckPack from the Blur "The Ballad of Darren" World Tour 2023. Help is available throughout TruckPack wherever you see a question mark button.

Screenshots

shift4 screens
TruckPack by dgApps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TruckPack by dgApps at daily against shift's every 2 months. shift's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (10.2 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. shift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TruckPack by dgApps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

shift ships an update every 2 months, TruckPack by dgApps daily. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
shift versus TruckPack by dgApps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametershiftTruckPack by dgApps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard WilliamsondgApps

In-app purchases

1 purchases

shift

One-time1
  • Full Access$10.99
2 purchases

TruckPack by dgApps

Subscriptions2
  • TruckPack Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • TruckPack Annual Subscription$8.991 Year

Questions

Is shift free?
shift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TruckPack by dgApps free?
TruckPack by dgApps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do shift or TruckPack by dgApps have ads?
Neither shift nor TruckPack by dgApps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, shift or TruckPack by dgApps?
shift ships an update every 2 months, and TruckPack by dgApps daily. Most recently, shift was updated on October 22, 2026 and TruckPack by dgApps on October 20, 2026.

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