Shift Work Calendar vs Hey Max
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Hey Max
An intelligent AI personal assistant that can chat, generate ideas, write emails, send messages, and make calls. It offers real-time visual analysis through your camera and remembers your preferences for a personalized experience.
- AI-powered chat and idea generation
- Email and message composition
- Voice and video calling
- Real-time visual analysis via camera
- Multilingual translation
- Personalized memory and assistance
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Meet Hey Max, your AI companion for everyday life. Talk naturally with Max, ask questions, get help, create, translate and use Max Vision to understand what’s around you. ENHANCED CALLS & MESSAGING Make voice and video calls with Hey Max contacts, send messages and easily see recent, incoming, outgoing and missed calls. MAX DESKTOP Turn ideas into reality. Max Desktop is a powerful workspace for iPad and desktop computers. Build apps and websites, create images and social content, write books, scripts and documents, and organize projects and files with Max helping you along the way. CREATOR MODE Create content, captions, images and projects with Max. MAX PORTAL Extend Hey Max to supported devices and stay connected with Max, friends and family. TRANSLATION & LANGUAGES Translate conversations, practice languages and communicate across language barriers. MAXINE A kid-focused experience for learning, homework, languages, creativity and projects with parental controls. Talk. Create. Learn. Communicate. Build. Just say, “Hey Max…” TERMS OF USE {EULA}: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hey Max at 5.0 against Shift Work Calendar's 3.8. Hey Max also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Shift Work Calendar's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Shift Work Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hey Max asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hey Max holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shift Work Calendar has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Shift Work Calendar ships an update every 5 weeks, Hey Max every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift Work Calendar | Hey Max |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shwoca Technologies Ltd | stephen marlow |
Customer experience
Shift Work Calendar
Hey Max
In-app purchases
Shift Work Calendar
- Remove Ads$1.99
Hey Max
No in-app purchases
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