Comparison

Call vs Shiftlyx

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Call

This communication app enables seamless voice and video calls, instant messaging, and meeting participation for businesses. It enhances productivity by streamlining team communication across mobile devices, offering high-definition quality and background operation for uninterrupted connectivity.

Highlights
  • VoIP and SIP voice and video calls
  • Instant messaging
  • Team meetings with HD video and audio
  • Push Service for battery life
  • Background operation for multitasking
  • High-definition video and audio codecs
Features
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Softphone App for VoIP and SIP voice and video calls, instant messaging and more! Stay connected wherever you go. Start or join meetings with high definition, face-to-face video, high quality audio, and instant messaging - with Push Service for enhanced battery life. Call App is a softphone that increases your business productivity by streamlining business communication across mobile devices and teams. Whether you are a small start-up or a global enterprise, take the power of this award-winning softphone with you – at work, at home or anywhere in-between to ensure you stay connected and more productive. Use the new Call App app to: • Message or call any person or group within your team for fluid business communication • Join team meetings easily using voice and video calling Technical Features Highlights: • Thoughtfully innovated, with over 10 years of technology development, Call App is now available either monthly or on an annual basis, which includes ongoing updates,Push Service (for enhanced battery life), high definition video calling, G.729 and other Wideband Codecs (previously paid add-ons). • Highly secure, SIP-based softphone with exceptional voice quality • Pre-defined VoIP provider list available when adding new accounts • Multi-tasking support for background operation, such as fielding incoming calls while using other applications • HD Audio Codecs including G.722, Opus and SILK • Video in 720p HD when using H.264 or VP8 on supported devices • Supported accessories include headsets, headphone, as well as other BluetoothTM devices • IPv4 and IPv6 support, including NAT64 IMPORTANT NOTE Call App is a standalone softphone subscription and not a VoIP service. A SIP server or subscription with a SIP-based VoIP provider is required to make calls. IMPORTANT VOIP OVER MOBILE/CELLULAR DATA NOTICE Some mobile network operators may prohibit or restrict the use of VoIP functionality over their network and may also impose additional fees, or other charges in connection with VoIP. You agree to learn and abide by your cellular carrier's network restrictions. EMERGENCY CALLS Call Apps products provide handling designed to redirect emergency calls to the Native Cellular Dialler when possible on a best reasonable commercial efforts basis, however this functionality is also dependent on the operating system of the mobile phone which is outside of our control and subject to change at any time. As a result, the official position of Vonex is that Call App a product is not intended, designed, or fit for placing, carrying or supporting Emergency Calls.

About

Shiftlyx

This app helps shift workers manage fatigue, track pay, and coordinate schedules with family and colleagues. It analyzes your rota to predict fatigue levels and calculate earnings, and can find days when everyone is free. Voice planning and partner sync features simplify complex scheduling.

Highlights
  • Fatigue scoring across entire rota
  • Detailed pay calculation
  • Crew availability finder
  • Partner sync for dual-shift families
  • Voice-controlled schedule planning
  • Rota import (iCal, file, paste)
  • Night shift recovery windows
Features
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Shiftlyx is a shift planner built by a nurse, for everyone who works shifts. Not a calendar with a night mode bolted on. A planner that understands a run of nights is a different physiological state, that a long day and a night shift on the same date means nobody is home, and that "are you free Thursday" is a harder question than any office worker will ever have to answer. Built first for healthcare nurses, paramedics, doctors, midwives, healthcare assistants because that is the hardest version of the problem. It works the same way for police, fire, hospitality, logistics, manufacturing, security, and anyone else living on a rota. SEE THE BAD WEEK BEFORE YOU'RE IN IT Shiftlyx scores your fatigue across your whole rota, not one shift at a time. Shift type, length, transitions, and the load stacking up behind you. Recovery gaps, night density and consecutive days, all in one score. KNOW WHAT YOU EARNED, BEFORE PAYDAY Every long day, every night, every unsocial hour, added up. Base pay, night premiums and weekend enhancements broken down, with your real effective hourly rate. Works from a band or a straight hourly rate. MY CREW — FIND THE DAY EVERYONE'S ACTUALLY FREE Getting eight people off the same team into one room is impossible by text. Someone's on nights. Someone's just come off them. Import your rotas and Shiftlyx finds the day for you: who's free, who's free-ish and could make it around a shift, and who's working. It even knows who's coming off nights and shouldn't be counted. PARTNER SYNC — FOR TWO SHIFT WORKERS AND ONE FAMILY Put your rota next to your partner's and Shiftlyx reads every day of the month. Both off, that's a shared day off. One of you off, childcare is covered. Both of you working, that's the one you need to know about. It counts them. It flags the uncovered weekends. And it shows you the longest run of days where neither of you is home. PLAN WITH YOUR VOICE Say "nights this month, weekends off, max three in a row." Florence builds it. No forms, no settings screens. ALSO INSIDE Rota import from an iCal link, a file, or paste. Night shift recovery and sleep windows. Commute timing so a bad journey doesn't cost you a shift. Swap preview. Eight shift patterns, so your dashboard matches how you actually work. YOUR EMPLOYER CANNOT SEE ANY OF THIS Shiftlyx is not connected to your employer's rostering system and never will be. Your rota, your fatigue, your pay, your family. Yours. Free to use. One month of Shiftlyx Pro free for everyone, no card needed. Your shift. Your terms. https://www.shiftlyx.com/terms https://www.shiftlyx.com/privacy

Screenshots

Call4 screens
Shiftlyx4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shiftlyx at 100% against Call's 0%. Shiftlyx also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months). Call's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shiftlyx sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Call asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Call ships an update every 4 months, Shiftlyx every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Call versus Shiftlyx: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCallShiftlyx
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIP VOICE AND DATA PTY LTDBeemal Innovation Ltd

Customer experience

Call

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Shiftlyx

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Call

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Shiftlyx

Subscriptions2
  • Shiftlyx Pro Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • Shiftlyx Day One Annual1 Month trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Call free?
Call is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shiftlyx free?
Shiftlyx is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Call or Shiftlyx have ads?
Neither Call nor Shiftlyx shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Call or Shiftlyx?
Call ships an update every 4 months, and Shiftlyx every 5 days. Most recently, Call was updated on November 3, 2026 and Shiftlyx on October 31, 2026.

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