Comparison

eSchedule Mobile App vs Oncall Shift

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

Head to head
About

eSchedule Mobile App

Manage your workforce with powerful scheduling, timekeeping, and messaging tools. This app allows users to view schedules, bid on shifts, manage timecards, and receive important notifications. It's designed for public safety, government, and healthcare organizations.

Highlights
  • View schedules
  • Bid on open shifts
  • Initiate/approve shift swaps
  • Clock in/out
  • View timecard and PTO
  • Request time off
  • Receive push notifications
Features
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eSchedule is a powerful, easy-to-use, mobile workforce management solution designed to meet the unique needs of public safety, government and healthcare organizations. Version 2 of the eSchedule Mobile App includes new, powerful scheduling, timekeeping and messaging functionality. You can view your schedule and your organization's schedule, bid on open shifts, initiate and approve swaps and covers, clock in and out, view your timecard and PTO balances, and request time off. Depending on your organization's configuration and your messaging preferences, you can receive open shift, shift swap, shift bid, event and PTO notifications as push notifications. You can also receive messages from administrators and set default shift reminders so you are never late for your scheduled shifts!

About

Oncall Shift

Features
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Oncall Shift is for engineers who carry the pager. It keeps your rota, reminds you before a shift starts, logs every call-out, and works out exactly what you're owed — standby hours and call-out time, split the way your contract actually pays. YOUR ROTA Add your shifts and your teammates', each in their own colour, as primary or backup. Repeat a week every two, three or four weeks to lay down a whole rotation in a few taps. The schedule shows who's on call right now. REMINDERS THAT LAND BEFORE THE SHIFT Get a notification before your shift starts and before it ends, with the lead time you choose. Only your own shifts alert you. IN YOUR CALENDAR, WHEREVER IT LIVES Shifts are written to any calendar on your iPhone, so they show up in Google, iCloud, Outlook or Exchange without any extra setup. Already have a team rota in a shared calendar? Import it by keyword. WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY OWED Set separate hourly rates for weekdays, weekends and public holidays. Shifts are split day by day, so a week containing a holiday is counted correctly — and a holiday falling on a Sunday bills as a holiday. Log call-outs and the app adds the worked time, with an optional minimum billed per incident. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS WITHOUT THE TYPING Load a full year of public holidays for any of 204 countries, moving feasts like Easter included. Regional days are listed separately so you only take the ones that apply where you work. INCIDENTS IN SECONDS Paste an alert from your pager app, chat or ticket mail and Oncall Shift fills in the ticket reference, the tool it came from, the severity and the summary. It recognises the ticket formats used by the major ITSM and issue trackers. Ongoing incidents run a live timer; monthly stats show how many call-outs you took and the average time each one cost you. PAYROLL-READY EXPORT Share two CSV files for any week or month: one row per shift with hours split by rate band, one row per incident with duration, billed time and pay, each ending in a total. Columns line up in Excel and Numbers without an import wizard. MADE FOR NIGHT SHIFTS Follow your phone's light and dark setting, or pick one of four always-dark themes. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your rota, your incidents and your rates never leave your iPhone. There are no accounts, no analytics and no ads. FREE FOR 30 DAYS Everything works for a month. After that, one payment unlocks the app for good — no subscription. Whatever you've already logged stays readable and exportable either way.

Screenshots

eSchedule Mobile App4 screens
Oncall Shift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: eSchedule Mobile App at none against Oncall Shift's 1. eSchedule Mobile App also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Oncall Shift's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Oncall Shift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. eSchedule Mobile App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eSchedule Mobile App ships an update monthly, Oncall Shift weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
eSchedule Mobile App versus Oncall Shift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereSchedule Mobile AppOncall Shift
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (330 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews30.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings330 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DevelopereScheduleLUCIAN ALBESCU

In-app purchases

None

eSchedule Mobile App

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Oncall Shift

One-time1
  • Full Version$17.99

Questions

Is eSchedule Mobile App free?
eSchedule Mobile App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Oncall Shift free?
Oncall Shift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do eSchedule Mobile App or Oncall Shift have ads?
Neither eSchedule Mobile App nor Oncall Shift shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eSchedule Mobile App or Oncall Shift?
eSchedule Mobile App ships an update monthly, and Oncall Shift weekly. Most recently, eSchedule Mobile App was updated on September 27, 2026 and Oncall Shift on September 13, 2026.

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