Scheduler vs Shift Work Calendar & Schedule
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Shift Work Calendar & Schedule
Organize your work and personal life with this calendar app designed for shift workers. Easily plan your days off, track income, and manage complex schedules. Supports multiple calendars for different jobs or colleagues.
- Create custom and preset shift patterns
- Track income and hourly rates
- Manage multiple job calendars
- Input personal events and vacations
- Analyze working hours and earnings
- Compare schedules with coworkers
- Backup and restore calendars
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Shift Work Calendar Planner is a free calendar app for shift workers or for people who want to organise their work and everyday life. The simple and concise interface of the application allows you quickly display a schedule of any complexity. You can plan your off days with ease and keep track of your ever-changing schedule. It is especially beneficial for firefighters, nurses, linemen, deputy sheriffs, and other professionals who have a constantly changing schedule. You can create as many calendars as you want and use them for different jobs or to track coworkers' schedules. This app offers its own list of preset work shift patterns that you can immediately use. If your shift work doesn’t fall into any of those patterns, you can set a custom shift pattern and use it, or adjust and edit preconfigured ones. The app is not only for work schedule roster, you can input your vacations, personal events, gym, holidays, etc. The app also has a date search feature that lets you check if you’re supposed to be working on a particular day in the future, or compare calendars with coworkers. Shifts : Create or use preset, fully configurable shifts. Enter your income, hourly rate, working time. Customise it with different colours and icons. Type a note for a shift or change its description. Put as many shifts on any date as you need. Use preset shift patterns to add shifts quickly for longer periods. Multiple Calendars : Create multiple Jobs/Calendars. Create job schedules for multiple people. Compare them on one page, date by date. Backup and restore your calendars. Personalize your calendar with multiple color palettes, icons and themes. Analytics: Track your working hours, shifts, personal events and money earned. Select a period to see your income for each week, month or year. Working goals and custom periods are under development. If you have any suggestions or questions, or you do not understand how to make your custom pattern, or you want to correct or add a translation for this app, send me an email please - 4thfloorapps.help@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shift Work Calendar & Schedule at Free against Scheduler's $7.99. Shift Work Calendar & Schedule also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.9) and ratings volume (365 vs 75). Scheduler's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Shift Work Calendar & Schedule is free to download; Scheduler costs $7.99 up front. Shift Work Calendar & Schedule sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Scheduler asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shift Work Calendar & Schedule holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 75 and 365 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Scheduler's written reviews are positive against 47% of Shift Work Calendar & Schedule's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Scheduler ships an update every 9 days, Shift Work Calendar & Schedule every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.
| Parameter | Scheduler | Shift Work Calendar & Schedule |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (75 ratings) | 4.6 (365 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better | 46.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 75 | 365 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Buddy System, LLC | 4TH FLOOR APPS SIA |
Customer experience
Scheduler
Shift Work Calendar & Schedule
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
Shift Work Calendar & Schedule
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Scheduler
No in-app purchases
Shift Work Calendar & Schedule
- 1 Month of Shift Work Calendar7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Shift Work Calendar Premium7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- 1 Month of Shift Work Calendar7 Days trial$2.991 Month
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- 3 Months Shift Work Schedule7 Days trial$5.993 Months
- 1 Year of Shift Work Calendar7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- 1 Year of Shift Work Calendar$11.991 Year
- 1 Year of Shift Work Calendar14 Days trial$11.991 Year
- 1 Year of Shift Work Calendar7 Days trial$22.991 Year
- Shift Work Lifetime Premium$12.99
Questions
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