Shift Calendar vs Shiftify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shift Calendar
Easily manage your work schedule with this app designed for shift workers. Customize your shifts, generate schedules automatically, and add important notes to your calendar.
- Customizable shift work
- Automatic cycle scheduling
- Calendar notes
- Clear shift display
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Shift Calendar is designed for people who do shift works. It's easy to manage your job and work time - you can customize your shift work - Cycle scheduling, automatic generation of shift work for each day - Calendar notes, write important notes for each day - Shift works display in calendar clearly
Shiftify
This app helps individuals with irregular work schedules accurately track their earnings. It calculates wages, overtime, and unpaid breaks, providing detailed payroll reports. The app offers visual organization of shifts and syncs with other calendars.
- Wage tracking
- Shift scheduling
- Overtime calculation
- Payroll reports
- Color-coded shifts
- Calendar sync
- Multi-device sync
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EARN EVERY DIME YOU'RE OWED Shiftify is an easy-to-use shift planning calendar that accurately tracks your wages by adding up hourly earnings, overtime, and unpaid breaks. It's perfect for anyone with irregular shifts or freelance work. EASILY TRACK YOUR WAGES • Create an unlimited number of jobs, shifts and rotations for free • Visually organize shifts using intuitive color-coding • Add up hours worked and pay earned with nano-accuracy • Calculate overtime wages, extra pays and unpaid breaks • Easily and quickly calculate your net pay REPORTS AND TRACKING • Detailed payroll report • Export your payroll report and shift calendar in printable PDF format • View charts of hours and shifts worked ADDITIONAL FEATURES • View your monthly and weekly schedule with a handy Today widget • Sync with Apple's built-in Calendar • Multi-device sync • Password lock with Face ID & Touch ID • Automatic backup • Alarm Clock
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shiftify at 94% against Shift Calendar's 51%. Shiftify also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). Shift Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Calendar sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Shiftify sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shiftify holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 144 and 472 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Shift Calendar's written reviews are positive against 94% of Shiftify's.
Shift Calendar ships an update every 3 months, Shiftify every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift Calendar | Shiftify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (144 ratings) | 4.7 (472 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.5% of reviews | 94.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 144 | 472 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 章健 杨 | Bohee Sim |
Customer experience
Shift Calendar
Shiftify
User reviews
Shift Calendar
From 144 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Good for tracking shifts
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 👍 Customizable shift times
- 👍 Useful for irregular schedules
Room to improve
- 😠 Excessive ads
- 😠 Ads interrupt workflow
- 😠 Ads in free version are frequent
- 😠 Paid version still has issues
- 😠 Limited shift cycle (31 days)
Shiftify
From 472 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Convenient and organized
- 👍 Helpful for tracking shifts and pay
- 👍 Customizable with color-coding
- 👍 Useful for multiple jobs
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes when adding shifts
- 🐛 Daylight savings time issues
- 🐛 Limited editing options for shifts
- 🔒 Limited free features, need to pay for full access
Bugs and requests
Shift Calendar
Reported bugs
8 issues- One year old records are missing
- Calendar does not always show the correct day
- Data not included in backups
- Recurring shifts require manual setup even in paid version
- Full-length ads for multiple date additions
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- Forced to watch ads to close
- No option for 'no' for premium purchase prompts
- Inability to write to the next day
Requested features
18 requests- Add hourly payment tracking
- Add advance payment tracking
- Add black theme (dark mode)
- Increase character limit for shift names
- Expand emoji usage for shifts
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- Add ability to select multiple days for one entry (iOS)
- Add save and restore feature (e.g., Dropbox)
- Add widget support
- Add option for military time or normal time
- Add ability to add additional users
- Add reminders for shifts
- Sync to iOS calendar
- Add ability to delete users
- Add ability to delete incorrectly added user shifts
- Add ability to write to the next day
- Add statistics for hours worked
- Add support for shift cycles longer than 31 days
- Add ability to share schedule with family members
Shiftify
Reported bugs
3 issues- Calendar always defaults to January
- Calendar not fitting properly on screen
- Inability to search for job locations
Requested features
5 requests- Repeat/recurring shift feature
- Ability to edit shift times without creating new shift
- Overtime pay calculations
- Widget support
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
Shift Calendar
- Calendar Notes$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Pro Version$0.99
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- Add User$0.99
Shiftify
- SHIFTIFY PRO$4.99
- SHIFTIFY PRO$5.99
- SHIFTIFY PRO$8.99
