Events vs Shift Work Calendar & Schedule
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Events
This app helps you remember important dates, track tasks, and build or break habits. It assists in achieving goals, staying focused, and monitoring your progress over time.
- Task tracking
- Habit building
- Habit breaking
- Progress monitoring
- Customizable reminders
- Event countdowns
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Events is an essential app for everyone who wants to remember important things, keep track of their completed tasks, develop useful habits or break bad ones. The app helps you achieve your goals, focus on what's important and track your progress. - When is your friend's birthday? - How many days left before your vacation? - How to always remember the wedding anniversary date or the day you started dating someone? - When do your beauty products expire? - How to not forget to take your vitamins? - When to buy a new toothbrush? - When was the last time you watered your plants or cleaned your house? - When was the last time you fuelled your car? Events will help you sort this all out! --- The app offers a paid subscription with a trial period. The subscription price starts from $3.99 converted to your currency. The trial period is one week. After the expiration of the free trial period, your iTunes Account will be automatically charged for the following period if the subscription is not canceled. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your iTunes account settings. Privacy Policy: https://wagenleitner.me/events/agreement
Shift Work Calendar & Schedule
Organize your work and personal life with this calendar app designed for shift workers. Easily plan your schedule, track income, and manage multiple jobs with customizable shifts and detailed analytics. Ideal for professionals with rotating work hours.
- Customizable shift patterns
- Multiple calendar creation
- Income and hourly rate tracking
- Personal event scheduling
- Date search functionality
- Backup and restore calendars
- Working hours analytics
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Shift Work Calendar Planner is a free calendar app for shift workers or for people who want to organise their work and everyday life. The simple and concise interface of the application allows you quickly display a schedule of any complexity. You can plan your off days with ease and keep track of your ever-changing schedule. It is especially beneficial for firefighters, nurses, linemen, deputy sheriffs, and other professionals who have a constantly changing schedule. You can create as many calendars as you want and use them for different jobs or to track coworkers' schedules. This app offers its own list of preset work shift patterns that you can immediately use. If your shift work doesn’t fall into any of those patterns, you can set a custom shift pattern and use it, or adjust and edit preconfigured ones. The app is not only for work schedule roster, you can input your vacations, personal events, gym, holidays, etc. The app also has a date search feature that lets you check if you’re supposed to be working on a particular day in the future, or compare calendars with coworkers. Shifts : Create or use preset, fully configurable shifts. Enter your income, hourly rate, working time. Customise it with different colours and icons. Type a note for a shift or change its description. Put as many shifts on any date as you need. Use preset shift patterns to add shifts quickly for longer periods. Multiple Calendars : Create multiple Jobs/Calendars. Create job schedules for multiple people. Compare them on one page, date by date. Backup and restore your calendars. Personalize your calendar with multiple color palettes, icons and themes. Analytics: Track your working hours, shifts, personal events and money earned. Select a period to see your income for each week, month or year. Working goals and custom periods are under development. If you have any suggestions or questions, or you do not understand how to make your custom pattern, or you want to correct or add a translation for this app, send me an email please - 4thfloorapps.help@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shift Work Calendar & Schedule at 4.6 against Events's 3.4. Shift Work Calendar & Schedule also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (378 vs 5). Events's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (69% vs 47%). On price, 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. Events sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year and Shift Work Calendar & Schedule sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shift Work Calendar & Schedule holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shift Work Calendar & Schedule has 378 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Events's written reviews are positive against 47% of Shift Work Calendar & Schedule's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Events ships an update every 9 days, Shift Work Calendar & Schedule every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Events | Shift Work Calendar & Schedule |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 4.6 (378 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better | 46.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 378 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hermann Wagenleitner | 4TH FLOOR APPS SIA |
Customer experience
Events
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In-app purchases
Events
- Events Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Year
- Events Premium Unlimited$4.99
- Events Premium Unlimited$9.99
Shift Work Calendar & Schedule
- 1 Month of Shift Work Calendar7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Shift Work Calendar Premium7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- 1 Month of Shift Work Calendar7 Days trial$2.991 Month
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- 3 Months Shift Work Schedule7 Days trial$5.993 Months
- 1 Year of Shift Work Calendar7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- 1 Year of Shift Work Calendar$11.991 Year
- 1 Year of Shift Work Calendar14 Days trial$11.991 Year
- 1 Year of Shift Work Calendar7 Days trial$22.991 Year
- Shift Work Lifetime Premium$12.99
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