Shifter vs Embly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shifter
Easily manage your work schedule with a vast database of company shifts worldwide. Add notes, track multiple profiles for friends, and never miss holidays with country-specific assignments.
- Global company shift database
- Add notes to shifts
- Multiple profile tracking
- Country-specific holiday assignments
- Custom shift creation support
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Keep all your work shifts organized in one place. Unlike traditional shift calendar apps, Shifter doesn't require you to manually configure complicated shift patterns. Simply choose your company, select your shift, and your calendar is ready in seconds. And if your shift isn't in our database yet, just let us know and we'll add it. Shifter offers: • Clear Planning of Shifts, Notes, Vacation and Other Events • View Shifts of Family Members or Friends • Smart Home Screen Widgets • Display of Public Holidays • Notifications Before Shifts or Notes • Weather Forecast Before Your Shift • Dark Mode • Monthly Summary of Worked Hours with an Approximate Earnings Calculation TERMS OF SERVICE: https://www.idevband.com/shifter/terms-of-service/ PRIVACY POLICY: https://www.idevband.com/shifter/privacy-policy/
Embly
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Embly is a habit tracker you pay for once and keep for good. No account, no ads, and nothing you log ever leaves your device. Add a habit with a tiny "if I do nothing else" version for the hard days. Tap once to log it. Watch your day fill in. Miss a day and your streak holds — the app notices you came back and does not guilt you for leaving. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Embly has no account, no login, and no server. Your habits, your history, your streaks all live only in this app, on this device. There is no analytics pipeline sending your data anywhere and no ad network — nothing to opt out of, because nothing is collected in the first place. A STREAK THAT SURVIVES A BAD WEEK One missed day is forgiven and your streak keeps going. Miss two days in a row and it resets — honestly — but a single slip never costs you everything, and recovering is always free. FREE FOREVER, EVEN IF YOU NEVER PAY • Up to 5 habits, kept for as long as you like • Logging every day, with no cap on history • Your full streak and progress view • The forgiving-streak engine itself • Export your entire history to a file, any time • Restore from a backup file WHAT PAYING UNLOCKS Paying does one thing: it removes the 5-habit ceiling. Nothing else is gated. • Lifetime — pay once, yours forever. No further purchase, ever. • Yearly or Monthly — auto-renewing, cancel any time in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. In the United States, Yearly includes a 7-day free trial. TICK IT WITHOUT OPENING THE APP • Home Screen widget: tap a habit done from the widget itself • Lock Screen widget: today's progress at a glance • Reminder banner: "Done" or "Just the tiny version" right from the notification • Siri: "Log reading in Embly" WHAT EMBLY DOES NOT DO • No account or sign-in • No ads, ever • No paid streak repair — recovering a missed day is free, always • No data leaves your device — nothing uploaded, shared or sold • No cross-device sync — everything lives on this one device; export a backup file if you want a copy elsewhere Built for people who have quit every habit app they have tried — usually right after one missed day sent the streak back to zero. ——— Embly Pro is available as a one-time Lifetime purchase, or as a Monthly or Yearly auto-renewable subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nebulacraftlabs.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Embly at none against Shifter's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Shifter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Embly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shifter ships an update every 2 weeks, Embly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shifter | Embly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (18 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iDevBand s.r.o. | Nebulacraft Labs Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Shifter
- Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
- Plus$7.99
Embly
- Embly Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Embly Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Unlock$19.99
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