Comparison

ShiftZen vs MyShift

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

Head to head
About

ShiftZen

This app helps individuals with irregular work schedules or freelance jobs accurately track their earnings. It calculates hourly wages, overtime, and unpaid breaks, providing real-time insights into income and offering detailed reports.

Highlights
  • Track hourly earnings and overtime
  • Calculate unpaid breaks
  • Organize shifts with color-coding
  • Export payroll reports in CSV
  • View shift and hours charts
  • Sync with Apple Calendar
  • Password lock with biometrics
Features
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EARN EVERY DIME YOU'RE OWED ShiftZen 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. Watch your earnings grow in real time with the live-view feature! EASILY TRACK YOUR WAGES • Create an unlimited number of jobs and shifts for free • Add up hours worked and pay earned with nano-accuracy • Visually organize shifts using intuitive color-coding • Calculate overtime wages and unpaid breaks • Works as both a shift and hourly wage calendar REPORTS AND TRACKING • Export your payroll report in CSV format • View charts of hours and shifts worked ADDITIONAL FEATURES • View your monthly schedule with a handy Today widget • Sync with Apple's built-in Calendar • Password lock with Touch ID and Face ID • Add an unlimited number of quick memos • Automatic backup • Stunning user interface

About

MyShift

Easily plan and schedule your work shifts with a monthly and yearly calendar view. Add notes, reminders, track income, and view statistics. Share your schedule and data in various formats.

Highlights
  • Monthly and yearly shift calendar
  • Add, edit, and repeat shifts
  • Track income and hours
  • Notes and checklists
  • Shift reminders
  • Data sharing (image/text)
  • Cloud backup (premium)
Features
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MyShift - Work Shift Calendar is a quick and simple app that helps you to plan or schedule your shifts. => Monthly shift view – You can view your monthly shifts. In this view, you can easily add, update and erase your shifts with help of Paint and Edit tools. Using paint, you can easily add your shift to the day in the month view by just tapping on the day. You can add two shifts per day. Using edit tool you can cut, copy and paste shifts. You can also repeat the selected shift for number of time or for the selected date range. The view is very compact and you can see all the shifts of the month in one view. You can click on the day to add more information for the day like note, image, reminders, extra income, early exit, extra time and a tag (important, holiday and more). You can also share the monthly data as image(Premium feature) and text. => Yearly shift view – You can view yearly shifts. You can also share yearly view as image(Premium feature). => Statistics – You can view statistics data for a month, year and a date range. You can view statistics like number of shifts, number of hours and income for each shift with the total of number of hours, extra income amount and income. You can share the statistics. => Notes – You can create your coloured notes or checklist. You can export to text file / PDF file and share the note’s content. => Other features - -> You can add shifts in multiple calendars. -> You can add, update and remove the shifts. You can change name, abbreviation, text colour, shift time, rest time, currency symbol, income per hour, income per extra hour for the shift. -> Cloud backup and restore data (Premium feature) -> You can add reminder for each work shift. -> You can add daily reminder to add work shift.

Screenshots

ShiftZen4 screens
MyShift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MyShift at every 2 months against ShiftZen's every 12 months. MyShift also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 59%) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 18.0). ShiftZen's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 6). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ShiftZen sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and MyShift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ShiftZen holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of ShiftZen's written reviews are positive against 72% of MyShift's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShiftZen ships an update every 12 months, MyShift every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ShiftZen versus MyShift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShiftZenMyShift
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (18 ratings) — better3.7 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews59.4% of reviews72.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.012.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBohee SimMonali Paghadal

Customer experience

ShiftZen

All ratings18 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive59.4%
Neutral15.6%
Negative25.0%

MyShift

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.8%

Bugs and requests

ShiftZen

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App keeps crashing after update
  • App stops working, keeps quitting
  • App closes immediately upon opening
  • App opens to a specific date (10/21) and requires scrolling
  • Duplicate dates in April
Show 8 more
  • Missing days in March and April
  • Dates and weeks not matching actual calendar
  • Wrong start date and week of April
  • Calendar shows titles instead of times
  • Two dates for April 3rd
  • Missing 27th March, messing up the rest of the year
  • Calendar dates are wrong
  • Date not coinciding with the day

Requested features

4 requests
  • Update for ISO18
  • Add ability to display non-shift appointments
  • Add ability to display holidays
  • More color options

MyShift

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ShiftZen

One-time2
  • ShiftZen Pro$2.99
  • ShiftZen Pro$4.99
1 purchases

MyShift

One-time1
  • Premium Version$11.99

Questions

Is ShiftZen free?
ShiftZen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MyShift free?
MyShift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ShiftZen or MyShift?
ShiftZen is rated higher. ShiftZen averages 3.9 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while MyShift averages 3.7 from 6 ratings.
Do ShiftZen or MyShift have ads?
Both ShiftZen and MyShift show ads.
Which is updated more often, ShiftZen or MyShift?
ShiftZen ships an update every 12 months, and MyShift every 2 months. Most recently, ShiftZen was updated on September 22, 2026 and MyShift on September 3, 2026.

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