Comparison

Shift Work Calendar vs Halaal

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

Head to head
About

Shift Work Calendar

Easily plan your work schedule with custom shift patterns, colors, and names. Add events, set reminders, and sync across devices. Protect your schedule with a lock option and undo button.

Highlights
  • Custom shift patterns with colors and names
  • Automatic repeating shifts
  • Add paydays and events
  • Notification reminders
  • Cloud storage and sharing
  • Multiple calendar support
  • Lock and undo options
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Keep track of your life with this Shift Work Calendar, designed to make planning easier for people who work Shifts. Shift Work Calendar allows you to easily build different Shift patterns by choosing your own colours and names which can be speedily added to the calendar and visible at a quick glance. Features: Custom labels can be created with unique colours and names. Custom shift patterns can be created. Shift Patterns can be quickly added to the calendar automatically repeating for years if required. Pay days can be quickly added to the calendar. Events can be added to the calendar to show appointments / meetings etc. Events can have a notification reminder. 2 Labels per date available. Calendars can be stored in the cloud for easy transfer between your devices. Calendars can be shared with friends / family / colleagues using cloud share. Multiple calendars can be stored. Lock option can be enabled to stop accidental changes of the calendar. Undo button allows mistakes to be rectified when adding labels / shifts to the calendar. Email support@shifts.tech for support. Feedback and suggestions are most welcome.

About

Halaal

This Islamic application serves as a digital companion for Muslims, offering essential features like prayer times, Quran recitation with search functionality, and Qiblah direction. It prioritizes user privacy by only using location data temporarily for prayer time calculations.

Highlights
  • Next prayer display
  • All prayer times
  • Sunnah and fard Rakaas
  • Full Quran with search
  • Qiblah direction
  • Location-based prayer calculation
Features
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Prayer, Quran, hadith and remembrance — one beautiful app, made with care, that keeps your data on your phone. THE DAY, ANCHORED Prayer times calculated with the official method for your region. The next prayer front and center, the full day beneath it, sunnah and fard rakaat for each prayer, and a qibla compass when you need it. THE QURAN, AS PRINTED The complete Madinah Mushaf, page-true and pixel-exact. Read with translations, search any ayah or surah, and share verses as clean citation cards. Optional downloads add more ways to read: • A tajweed Quran with color-coded recitation rules • The Warsh narration, with its own numbering, text and font THE SIX BOOKS Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, Jami at-Tirmidhi, Sunan an-Nasai and Sunan Ibn Majah. Arabic with English translation, downloaded book by book, searchable down to a single line. REMEMBRANCE Morning and evening adhkar from Hisn al-Muslim, every supplication with its source, each one shareable as a card. ONE SEARCH A half-remembered phrase is enough. Search the Quran, hadith and adhkar together and land on the exact verse or narration. CALENDAR A clean, simple calendar for your events. Sign in with your Halaal account and it goes where you go — the same calendar in the app and on halaal.app. YOURS, PRIVATELY Everything else works with no account and no sign-up. Your location is used once, on your phone, to calculate prayer times — it is never stored or sent anywhere. Scripture lives on your device and works offline.

Screenshots

Shift Work Calendar4 screens
Halaal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Halaal at 4.5 against Shift Work Calendar's 3.8. Halaal also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Shift Work Calendar's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, 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. Shift Work Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Halaal asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Halaal holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shift Work Calendar has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Shift Work Calendar's written reviews are positive against 100% of Halaal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shift Work Calendar ships an update every 5 weeks, Halaal every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Shift Work Calendar versus Halaal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift Work CalendarHalaal
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (13 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShwoca Technologies LtdHalaal Inc LTD

Customer experience

Shift Work Calendar

All ratings13 ratings
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative33.3%

Halaal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Shift Work Calendar

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Halaal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shift Work Calendar free?
Shift Work Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Halaal free?
Halaal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shift Work Calendar or Halaal?
Halaal is rated higher. Shift Work Calendar averages 3.8 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Halaal averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Shift Work Calendar or Halaal have ads?
Shift Work Calendar shows ads; Halaal does not.
Which is updated more often, Shift Work Calendar or Halaal?
Shift Work Calendar ships an update every 5 weeks, and Halaal every 5 days. Most recently, Shift Work Calendar was updated on October 10, 2026 and Halaal on October 18, 2026.

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