Shifthacker vs Ameego
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shifthacker
This app helps businesses foster a culture of success by automating staff engagement and interaction. It ensures frontline team members are consistently aware of their contributions to achieving organizational goals, making success a repeatable outcome of effective processes.
- Automated staff engagement
- Team member interaction
- Culture building
- Process-driven success
- Performance awareness
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Shifthacker automates staff engagement and interaction – building a culture in which frontline Team Members are continually aware of whether they are doing the right things to achieve success. Where success happens repeatedly as a result of process instead of luck.
Ameego
This app streamlines restaurant employee scheduling by connecting staff, offering sales and labor forecasting, and enabling one-touch schedule creation. It allows employees to manage availability, view shifts, request time off, and communicate directly with managers and colleagues, all with real-time notifications.
- One-touch schedule creation
- Sales & labor forecasting
- Employee availability management
- Shift swapping and pickup
- Direct messaging and inbox
- Push notifications
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Ameego helps restaurants create better employee schedules. We connect you with your staff, provide sales & labour forecasting, and best of all - create one touch restaurant schedules. This free app is the mobile version of Ameego you're used to seeing online. It allows our users to login, view and edit availability, view shifts, create bookoffs, send direct messages, pick up and drop shifts in the shift shop, create new availability requests, and message through a new inbox system. All these features come with push notifications so you're always in the know! Using Ameego drives value for your restaurant in three main areas: - Reduce labour costs - Align your labour spend with sales traffic to provide a better customer experience and on average save 0.05%-2% of annual spend. - Freeing up managers time - The average restaurant using Ameego is generating 30-35 hours of management time savings a month. - Enhancing employee experience - Staff are able to better manage their work and social lives resulting in a more engaged and productive workforce. What Ameego features make YOUR life easier? Lets break it down: For Owners: - Multi Unit reporting - POS Integration - Strategic use of managers time For Managers: - One touch schedules - Sales forecasts and budgets - Overtime tracker For Staff: - Text & push notifications about shift changes - Automated time tracking - Change or update availability online Download today and discover how Ameego scheduling software can create a smarter schedule for your managers and staff.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ameego at 14% against Shifthacker's 0%. Shifthacker's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shifthacker | Ameego |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 2.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 14.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SIR Corp. | Ameego |
Customer experience
Shifthacker
Ameego
Bugs and requests
Shifthacker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ameego
Reported bugs
18 issues- No notifications received on iPhone
- App glitches out all the time
- App crashes a lot
- App doesn't load
- App is slow to load schedule and messages
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- App crashes after latest upgrade
- App rarely shows accurate information
- App is a glitchy jumbled mess
- Cannot view next week's schedule until the next week starts
- Cannot view whole week's schedule on one page
- Redirects to download new app repeatedly
- Cannot see future schedules as manager
- Only half of the schedule section is displayed
- Upcoming shifts layout was better in old version
- Always logs out and won't let back in
- Cannot see the employee lineup on the dashboard
- Cannot sync schedule to iPhone or calendar app
- Cannot see full roster schedule, only whose working
Requested features
10 requests- Widget feature for iPhone
- Update log book feature to be easier
- Add an area for employees to view calculated hours and money made
- Sync to calendar option for iPhone
- Add manager reports like hours worked
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- Display scheduled end time for labor management
- Allow viewing future schedules
- Display notes and reservations
- Adjust font size for readability
- Improve typing experience to proofread
In-app purchases
Shifthacker
No in-app purchases
Ameego
No in-app purchases







