Shift Calendar vs Shift Calendar
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
Shift Calendar
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This is an intelligent scheduling tool designed for frontline and shift workers. It supports customized settings for generating cycle shifts, reminders based on work schedules, and a sleek and attractive desktop widget. It also supports multi-person shift schedules, shift schedule sharing, and shift statistics to make your scheduling more simple and convenient. 「Calendar Scheduling」 The main interface is based on a monthly calendar view, which clearly displays lunar and holiday information. Click on a date to easily add today's shifts. Default shifts include day shift, night shift, rest, morning shift, mid-shift, and night shift. You can freely add/modify/delete shifts, and each shift can be customized with shift color, work start and end times, and rest times. Supports left and right swipe to switch between months, and you can also quickly jump to custom years and months. Note: Supports setting multiple shifts for a single day. 「Cycle Shifts」 You can set regular cycle shifts based on your needs, with a default cycle of 1 year that can be set to 3 years. Note: Cycle shifts also support setting multiple shifts for a single day. 「Shift Alarm」 Thoughtful shift alarms that can set multiple alarms for different shifts. Alarm reminder methods include local calendar reminders, alarm clock reminders, and WeChat reminders. Note: You can set alarms based on work start/end times, with a service that can be advanced or delayed by xx minutes. 「Widget」 Supports displaying today/tomorrow's shifts, weekly view, and monthly view widgets. Note: Widgets support different light/dark display styles. 「Other Features」 Data Sync: After logging in to your account, you can enjoy cloud synchronization. You no longer have to worry about losing your data; Multi-person shift schedule: Supports adding multi-person shift schedules, clearly displaying the scheduling for multiple people on a given day; Shift schedule sharing: Supports sharing a month's shift schedule with WeChat friends; Shift statistics: Supports shift count statistics, shift duration statistics, and daily duration statistics. "Intelligent scheduling, happy life!" Welcome doctors, nurses, workers, bankers, security personnel, and friends from other industries to experience and use this tool.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Shift Calendar at none against Shift Calendar's shown. Shift Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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. Shift Calendar sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Shift Calendar sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shift Calendar ships an update every 3 months, Shift Calendar every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift Calendar | Shift Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (144 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 51.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 章健 杨 | Shanghai Fengcong Technology Co., Ltd. |
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
Shift Calendar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Shift Calendar
- Premium VIP 1 Month$0.99
- Premium VIP 3 Month$2.99
- Premium VIP 12 Month$5.99
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- Premium VIP Lifetime$9.99








