Timegate Employee vs Shift Work Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timegate Employee
This app allows support services employees to manage their work schedule and attendance directly from their mobile device. It enables booking shifts, reporting incidents, completing forms, and accessing employee portal features like holiday requests and viewing schedules.
- Clock in/out of shifts
- Health and safety check calls
- Report incidents
- Complete forms and tours
- Book holidays
- View work schedule
- Access company announcements
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Timegate is the world’s leading Workforce Management solution for support services businesses. The Timegate Employee app removes the need to use a site telephone to record attendance, by allowing you to book on and off your shift, make health and safety check calls, raise incidents and complete forms and tours using the app. The app allows seamless access to the employee portal to allow you to book holidays, view your schedule, make requests, view company announcements and much more! Install Guide: 1. Ensure your mobile device is using the latest system update. 2. Install or Reinstall Timegate Employee App from store. 3. Once installed, ensure the Timegate Employee app is allowed to access your devices location services. 4. Enter your Client code and Personal Identification Number (PIN). If you do not have these, please ask a member of your management team. NB. Your employer may not make all features available as this is subject to the security policies of your employer.
Shift Work Calendar
Easily plan your work schedule with custom shift patterns, colors, and names. Add events, set reminders, and sync across devices. Protect your schedule with a lock option and undo button.
- Custom shift patterns with colors and names
- Automatic repeating shifts
- Add paydays and events
- Notification reminders
- Cloud storage and sharing
- Multiple calendar support
- Lock and undo options
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Keep track of your life with this Shift Work Calendar, designed to make planning easier for people who work Shifts. Shift Work Calendar allows you to easily build different Shift patterns by choosing your own colours and names which can be speedily added to the calendar and visible at a quick glance. Features: Custom labels can be created with unique colours and names. Custom shift patterns can be created. Shift Patterns can be quickly added to the calendar automatically repeating for years if required. Pay days can be quickly added to the calendar. Events can be added to the calendar to show appointments / meetings etc. Events can have a notification reminder. 2 Labels per date available. Calendars can be stored in the cloud for easy transfer between your devices. Calendars can be shared with friends / family / colleagues using cloud share. Multiple calendars can be stored. Lock option can be enabled to stop accidental changes of the calendar. Undo button allows mistakes to be rectified when adding labels / shifts to the calendar. Email support@shifts.tech for support. Feedback and suggestions are most welcome.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shift Work Calendar at 60% against Timegate Employee's 8%. Shift Work Calendar also leads on ratings volume (74 vs 1). Timegate Employee's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Shift Work Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timegate Employee asks for nothing beyond the download.
Timegate Employee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shift Work Calendar has 74 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 8% of Timegate Employee's written reviews are positive against 60% of Shift Work Calendar's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Timegate Employee ships an update every 11 days, Shift Work Calendar every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timegate Employee | Shift Work Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (74 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 7.9% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 74 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Innovise Software | Shwoca Technologies Ltd |
Customer experience
Timegate Employee
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In-app purchases
Timegate Employee
No in-app purchases
Shift Work Calendar
- Remove Ads$1.99
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