Comparison

Scheduler vs Supershift

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

Head to head
About

Scheduler

Easily visualize and manage your rotating work shifts for up to six years in advance. Ideal for public service employees, it handles common and custom schedules, vacation time, and even overlays a partner's schedule for better family planning.

Highlights
  • Visualize schedule for six years
  • Supports custom and common shift patterns
  • Tracks vacation and sick time
  • Records and formats shift trades
  • Overlays partner's schedule
  • Logs events with date, time, and location
  • Countdown to retirement
Features
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Visualize Your Shift Schedule From Jeff: Please don't put questions or suggestions in a review -- there's no way for me to reply directly to you. Instead. use the in-app email buttons (on the Help tab), or send to sched@buddy.com. If your schedule varies from week to week, keeping track of your working days can be a chore, and it’s often difficult to quickly figure out when you’ll be on-duty weeks or months in the future. Scheduler to the rescue! Designed for public-service employees such as police officers, firefighters and health-care workers — anyone who works an unusual but predictable schedule — Scheduler always shows your schedule for the next six years from “today.” Common shift schedules are built-in, such as the “Berkeley” (a.k.a. “California”), “48-96” and “Dupont,” but you can easily change them or create other repeating schedules covering any number of days. See the screenshots (here and on the web site) for some examples. And there’s even a “Doofus” mode for showing irregular schedules (e.g., health-care workers). If your spouse/partner works a shift schedule, too, you can have that entirely different rotation appear on the calendar with yours. This will help you organize family activities such as vacations and day-care. Features: • Displays your schedule for the next six years, including vacations and holidays. • Perfect for public-service workers such as police officers and firefighters. • Records trades (swaps). Tracks hours earned or owed on a person-by-person basis. • Formats emails for sending out trade offers and approval requests. • Maintains a record of your OT hours. • Tracks your vacation time: automatically computes hours earned and shows weekly balances. Also records and totals sick time. • Logs “events” with date, time and location — you can edit the title, text, and location details when you have time. • Overlays an entirely separate schedule for your spouse/partner to help you coordinate your lives. • Adjustable colors for shifts, vacations, Kelly days, holidays, etc. • Mark special days such as Kellys, paydays, “early” shifts, or training days. • Countdown to retirement. • Extensive Help pages for every feature and screen; indexed. • Includes UK Rota features for London train and bus drivers. Notes: 1. You *can* enter a custom schedule. 2. You *can* set the text that appears on each day. 3. You *can* enter very long rotations. 4. You *can* superimpose text to mark special days on the calendar. 5. You *can* set bi-weekly repeating events (e.g., for paydays) 6. Scheduler is complicated. Please don't give up and leave a bad review -- I can't help you that way. If you have questions or comments, the best way to contact me is by using the in-app email button on the Help screen (2nd best: sched@buddy.com). I reply to all emails immediately (or within a few hours if I'm sleeping or traveling, which isn't often). If you didn't hear from me promptly, it means there was failure in the "Tubes." Please try again to contact me. Attention FDNY (firemen): you'll find my other app, FDNY, more useful for FD New York.

About

Supershift

Manage your shift work schedule with ease, track earnings and hours, and view upcoming shifts on your Apple Watch. Customize shifts with colors and icons, and plan rotations up to two years in advance. Includes reporting, dark mode, and widgets for convenient access.

Highlights
  • Shift scheduling and tracking
  • Earnings and hours reports
  • Customizable shifts with colors/icons
  • Rotation planning up to 2 years
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Widgets for schedule view
  • Dark mode
Features
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Supershift is the world's most downloaded and highest-rated shift calendar app on iOS. It is built specifically for nurses, doctors, paramedics, police officers, firefighters, factory and manufacturing workers, retail staff, airport crew, and bus, train, and tram drivers. No account required. No internet required. Open the app and start planning immediately - your schedule is yours, stored entirely on your device, and available anywhere from the ward to the cab to the factory floor. If you are looking for an alternative to bloated shift apps that track your data or force you to log in, Supershift is the cleaner and faster. WHY SHIFT WORKERS CHOOSE SUPERSHIFT • Multiple shifts per day: Easily schedule early + late shifts, main + on-call, split shifts, or second jobs. • Custom emojis & colors: Assign specific colors and icons to every shift type so you can read your month at a glance. • Full Dark Mode: A beautiful, eye-friendly dark mode for comfortable night-shift viewing. • No account required: Start using it in seconds. • Works fully offline: Your schedule is always accessible, even without a cell signal or Wi-Fi. CALENDAR SHARING Share your work schedule with family, partners, friends, or coworkers so everyone stays in sync. Coordinate shift swaps, check availability instantly, and cut out the endless back-and-forth texting. SMART SHIFT ALARMS Stop setting alarms manually every Sunday night. Assign a wake-up time to each shift type once, and Supershift automatically sets the right alarm for every early, late, or night shift based on your schedule. COMPLEX ROTATIONS Define your rotation pattern once and apply it up to 2 years in advance. Supershift effortlessly handles 4-on-4-off, DuPont, Pitman, Panama, Continental, 2-2-3, and any custom rotation you throw at it. REPORTS & TRACKING Track earnings, shift differentials, hours per shift type, overtime, and shift counts (e.g., vacation days, sick days, training days). Perfect for verifying payroll checks and simplifying tax time. APPLE WATCH Glance at current and upcoming shifts right from your wrist. Watch complications include countdown timers showing exactly when your shift starts and how much time is remaining. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Keep your schedule front and center with Day, 2-week, 4-week, or Agenda view widgets right on your home screen and lock screen. CLOUD SYNC Use optional Cloud Sync to keep your iPhone and iPad perfectly aligned, and to instantly restore your data when you get a new device. SUPERSHIFT PRO FEATURES • iOS Calendar Export: Push your shifts directly to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. • PDF Export: Create and share a polished PDF version of your monthly calendar complete with title, times, breaks, notes, location, and total hours worked. • External Calendar Integration: See birthdays, appointments, and personal events from your external calendars right alongside your shifts. Privacy Policy: https://supershift.app/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Scheduler4 screens
Supershift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Supershift at Free against Scheduler's $7.99. Supershift also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.9) and ratings volume (5.7K vs 75). Scheduler's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, chart position 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

Supershift is free to download; Scheduler costs $7.99 up front. Supershift sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Scheduler asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Supershift holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Supershift has 5.7K ratings behind it against 75, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Scheduler's written reviews are positive against 96% of Supershift's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scheduler ships an update every 9 days, Supershift weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Scheduler versus Supershift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchedulerSupershift
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (75 ratings)4.9 (5.7K ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.9% of reviews96.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings755.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#103 — better#125
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB240 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Buddy System, LLCSupershift GmbH

Customer experience

Scheduler

All ratings74 ratings
Positive67.6%
Neutral6.8%
Negative25.7%
Written reviews171 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral6.4%
Negative14.6%

Supershift

All ratings5,684 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews1,166 reviews
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.2%
Negative2.3%

User reviews

Scheduler

From 75 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Outstanding app for shift workers
  • 👍 Highly customizable and flexible
  • 📆 Excellent for planning schedules years in advance
  • 💰 Worth every penny
  • 🤝 Great customer support

Room to improve

  • 🕰️ Steep learning curve
  • 🔀 Issues with repeating events and schedules
  • 🔄 Problems with updates causing data loss
  • 💤 Outdated UI and appearance

Supershift

From 5.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Customizable
  • 💡 Useful features (pay calculation, reports)
  • 🚀 Efficient shift management
  • 👍 Intuitive interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional sync issues
  • 💡 Desire for more customization options
  • 💡 Need for better export/sharing functionality
  • 🐛 Bugs with shift deletion/editing

Bugs and requests

Scheduler

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Events and schedules disappearing after updates
  • Vacation and overtime tracking not working correctly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Drag and drop support for shift swapping
  • List view option for events
  • Ability to use emojis in event titles
  • Removal of unnecessary time zone settings

Supershift

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Incorrect public holiday dates
  • Issues with app icon customization
  • Shift time overlapping in week view

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to share calendars with family/coworkers
  • More detailed pay/overtime tracking
  • Improved widget functionality
  • Ability to set custom shift reminders
  • Option to archive/delete old shifts

In-app purchases

None

Scheduler

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Supershift

Subscriptions2
  • Supershift Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Supershift Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Supershift Pro Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Scheduler free?
Scheduler costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Supershift free?
Supershift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scheduler or Supershift?
Supershift is rated higher. Scheduler averages 3.9 out of 5 from 75 ratings, while Supershift averages 4.9 from 5.7K ratings.
Do Scheduler or Supershift have ads?
Supershift shows ads; Scheduler does not.
Which is updated more often, Scheduler or Supershift?
Scheduler ships an update every 9 days, and Supershift weekly. Most recently, Scheduler was updated on October 27, 2026 and Supershift on October 28, 2026.
Which is more popular, Scheduler or Supershift?
Scheduler currently peaks at #103 in the App Store charts, and Supershift at #125. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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