Comparison

ShiftLife Organizer vs myShiftWork

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

Head to head
About

ShiftLife Organizer

This app is a specialized calendar designed for shift workers. It helps organize shifts, track hours, calculate pay, and manage various work-related events. Users can plan future schedules, record past work details, and sync with multiple calendar services.

Highlights
  • Organize shifts and work events
  • Record and calculate hours and pay
  • Sync with multiple calendar services
  • Fast shift entry and flexible work patterns
  • Bluetooth sync with colleagues
  • Customizable event types and views
Features
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--TRY SHIFTLIFE TODAY FOR FREE-- ShiftLife Organizer is the calendar application designed specifically for shift workers. - Organize your Shifts. - Record your Hours. - Calculate your Pay. ShiftLife provides a clear and easy display of upcoming shifts, training days, holiday, on-call days and other important events. As well as allowing you to plan your future work & play, ShiftLife also allows you to easily maintain a record of your completed shifts, overtime hours, working locations, hourly pay, total pay, sick days and other details. ShiftLife has a simple easy to use interface for quick intuitive operation and functionality designed specifically for easy use. This will quickly become one of your indispensable Apps. FEATURES: * Apple Watch * Notification Center Widget * iPhone, iPad, iPad mini, iPad Pro. * iCloud, Google, Outlook, Yahoo, iCal Sync. * Fast Shift Entry. A whole year of shifts can be done in seconds. * Add, delete, edit calendars. * Flexibility to handle any wok pattern. * Bluetooth sync calendars & shift patterns with your work colleagues & friends. * Pictures for calendar months display. * Import your own images from your photos. * Custom events, sick days, holidays, training days. * Multiple daily events & shifts. * List, Day, Week, Month & Year Views. * Friendly user interface with intuitive touch gestures . * Holiday & Sport Calendars. * Export/import your events & shifts using .ics files. * Create image of month view to use as your phones wallpaper. * Send a picture of your calendar to your friends * Set any day as the start of your work week. * Personalise your display. * Send Email of your shifts. * iCloud calendar support for automatic syncing between your devices. * Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish. -- YOUR WORK LIFE IN YOUR POCKET -- _____________________________________ - THIS IS NOT A FREE APP. DOWNLOAD THE LITE VERSION FOR FREE TO SEE IF YOU LIKE IT BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO PURCHASE. THE LITE VERSION IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL EXCEPT THAT IT CONTAINS ADVERTS AND RESTRICTS THE NUMBER OF EVENTS THAT CAN BE CREATED AND ADDED TO YOUR CALENDARS. A SMALL IN-APP UPGRADE CAN BE PURCHASED TO REMOVE THE RESTRICTIONS AND ADVERTS. THE COMPLETE CURRENT AND NEXT YEAR'S CALENDARS ARE THEN INCLUDED WITH THE INITIAL FULL VERSION UPGRADE PURCHASE. SUBSEQUENT CALENDAR YEARS ARE AVAILABLE AS A SMALL IN-APP PURCHASE. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE DISPLAYED THE COST IN YOUR LOCAL CURRENCY, BEFORE BEING ASKED TO CONFIRM ANY IN-APP PURCHASE. To allow our users to further customise their app to meet their specific needs and interests, there is also a separate Add-on available called the ‘Calendar Store’ provided by SchedJoules. It contains a large selection of great holiday, sport fixtures, weather & lifestyle calendars. These calendars can be set up so they are displayed alongside your other personal calendar events. You can purchase access to the ’Calendar Store’ Add-on for 1 year with a yearly auto-renewable subscription. You get full and ongoing access to the ‘Calendar Store’, including live updates. The 1 year subscription to the ‘Calendar Store’ Add-on starts at $1.99 (Prices may vary by location) and begins with a one-month free trial, so you can try before you buy. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase after the 1 month free trial. Subscriptions to the Add-on automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. You can manage your subscription and turn off the auto-renew for the 'Calendar Store' Add-on at any time from your iTunes Account Settings. Full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy are available at www.ovalkey.com/terms-of-service and www.ovalkey.com/privacy-policy respectively.

About

myShiftWork

This app helps shift workers plan, organize, and share their work schedules. It allows for custom shift creation, future date planning, and detailed reporting. Sync your shifts with your device calendar and manage multiple patterns easily.

Highlights
  • Create custom shift types with icons
  • Plan and view future shift rotations
  • Color-coded calendar with icons
  • Generate PDF and text reports
  • Cloud backup and restore
  • Sync with device calendars
  • Manage multiple shift patterns
Features
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Create, plan, publish and share your shift schedule. myShiftWork (My Shift Work) is a useful and simple calendar for shift workers. You can use it as a shift planner, shift scheduler or a shift calendar. View your rotations one month at a time in a clear, colour-coded format, with icons for each date, then easily navigate to future dates to check your schedule as far into the future as you need. It is suitable for any repeating pattern and will prove useful to shift workers. You can organize all your shift patterns and can see at a glance what shift or roster you are on what day. - Create shift types with the title, characters, an icon as many as you want. - Enter shifts on the calendar months. - Create or enter shift rotations on the calendar for future dates. - Jump easily to any date by selecting a specific date from the date picker. - Multi-Language Support. - Send a detailed pdf report to others or to yourself via email. - Send a text list of your shifts to others or to yourself via email. - Backup and Restore your data to the cloud. - Facebook and Gmail login. - Manage different shift patterns if you want to see shift patterns of another person. You can create different shift types and rotations for this shift pattern. - Calendar sync with device calendar(s). - Multiple custom patterns. - Set payday on a specific date or recurring paydays via preferences. - Create custom events. - Create personalized notes for any date on the calendar. - Switch month by swapping left or right. - Export calendars screenshots - Event reminders - Employee Calendar Manager - Manage Holiday Calendar - Shift Planner - Holiday Planner - Shift Work Scheduling Calendar You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase and use calendar sync subscription • Auto-renewable subscription • 1 month ($1), 6 month ($4.5) and 12 month ($10) durations • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase •Privacy policy: http://www.myshiftworkapp.com/privacy-policy •Terms of use: http://www.myshiftworkapp.com/Terms_Conditions.aspx The calendar sync subscription will allow the users to have the following features: 1- Users can sync their shifts & events with any calendar. 2- Users can sync the edited shifts & events with any calendar. 3- Users can delete the synced shifts & events with any calendar. 4- Users can sync the shifts & events edited in Shift Manager with any calendar. 5- Users can delete the shifts & events from their calendar by deleting it from Shift Manager. Subscription features are the same for any subscription plan (1 month, 6 months or 12 months) - Auto-renewal of your subscriptions. Cancel anytime. - Subscribe for one month, six months or twelve months - One month subscription costs $1 per 1 month. Six months subscription costs $4.5 per 6 months. Twelve months subscription costs $10 per 12 months. Please email your questions and concerns by using Contact Developer in the app. Please leave your rating! Thank you Email: support@myshiftworkapp.com

Screenshots

ShiftLife Organizer4 screens
myShiftWork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: myShiftWork at none against ShiftLife Organizer's shown. myShiftWork also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). ShiftLife Organizer's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 141). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. ShiftLife Organizer sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and myShiftWork sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ShiftLife Organizer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShiftLife Organizer has 1.8K ratings behind it against 141, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of ShiftLife Organizer's written reviews are positive against 71% of myShiftWork's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShiftLife Organizer ships an update every 5 weeks, myShiftWork every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ShiftLife Organizer versus myShiftWork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShiftLife OrganizermyShiftWork
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.8K ratings) — better4.5 (141 ratings)
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1.8K — better141
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOvalKey Ltd.Vozye SMC-PVT LTD

Customer experience

ShiftLife Organizer

All ratings1,802 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral3.1%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews935 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral7.5%
Negative14.7%

myShiftWork

All ratings141 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral2.1%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews98 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral2.0%
Negative26.5%

User reviews

ShiftLife Organizer

From 1.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent for shift workers
  • 👍 Highly customizable
  • 🔒 Secure and reliable
  • 💡 Helpful for work and personal life
  • 👍 Easy to use and navigate

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive yearly subscription
  • 🐛 Occasional data loss or deletion
  • 🐛 Compatibility issues with newer devices
  • 🐛 Buggy or glitchy at times
  • 🔧 Difficult to set up or configure

myShiftWork

From 141 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Quick and easy shift entry
  • 📅 Excellent calendar synchronization with Google Calendar and iCal
  • 🎨 Customizable shift icons and color coding
  • 💰 Affordable pricing with bi-annual subscription option
  • 🔄 Automatic shift pattern rotation feature

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent data loss and deletion of shifts
  • 😞 Poor customer support responsiveness
  • 📵 App crashes and freezes after updates
  • 💸 Hidden additional costs (iCloud sync, calendar features)
  • 📺 Unwanted ads appearing in paid version

Bugs and requests

ShiftLife Organizer

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Shifts or events randomly disappearing
  • Inability to update shift patterns
  • Syncing issues across devices
  • Crashes or freezes when adding events

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to import/export data
  • More advanced reporting and analytics
  • Improved shift pattern templates
  • Seamless integration with other calendars
  • Customizable alarm/reminder options

myShiftWork

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Data mysteriously deleted after app updates
  • Unable to restore purchases and account data
  • Shift time input fields cut off screen on some devices
  • Black text on dark background making notes unreadable
  • Shifts disappear when using airplane mode in different time zones
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  • December 2020 date selection not available
  • App unable to open after June 14th update
  • Paid version features reverting to free version after update
  • In-app purchase errors when upgrading to paid version
  • iCloud backup and restore functionality not working
  • App icons appearing as unloaded images
  • Login loop preventing account access

Requested features

6 requests
  • More shift icon options
  • Better notes functionality for personal and work use
  • Ability to add non-shift appointments and events
  • Improved app design and layout
  • Google Calendar sync (in addition to iCal)
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  • More streamlined and intuitive interface

In-app purchases

13 purchases

ShiftLife Organizer

Subscriptions2
  • Calendar Store Add-On1 Month trial$1.991 Year
  • Premium Unlimited Access1 Month trial$9.991 Year
One-time11
  • Holidays United States$0.99
  • AR Calendar Add-on$1.99
  • ShiftLife Full Version$4.99
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  • ShiftLife 2020 Calendar$4.99
  • ShiftLife 2021 Calendar$4.99
  • ShiftLife 2022 Calendar$4.99
  • ShiftLife 2023 Calendar$4.99
  • ShiftLife 2024 Calendar$4.99
  • ShiftLife 2025 Calendar$4.99
  • ShiftLife 2027 Calendar$6.99
  • ShiftLife 2026 Calendar$6.99
7 purchases

myShiftWork

Subscriptions6
  • 1 month subscription$0.991 Month
  • 1 month subscription$2.991 Month
  • Biannual subscription$4.496 Months
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  • 1 year subscription.$9.991 Year
  • Biannual subscription$14.996 Months
  • 1 year subscription$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Remove Ads and Limitations$4.99

Questions

Is ShiftLife Organizer free?
ShiftLife Organizer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is myShiftWork free?
myShiftWork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ShiftLife Organizer or myShiftWork?
ShiftLife Organizer is rated higher. ShiftLife Organizer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.8K ratings, while myShiftWork averages 4.5 from 141 ratings.
Do ShiftLife Organizer or myShiftWork have ads?
ShiftLife Organizer shows ads; myShiftWork does not.
Which is updated more often, ShiftLife Organizer or myShiftWork?
ShiftLife Organizer ships an update every 5 weeks, and myShiftWork every 3 months. Most recently, ShiftLife Organizer was updated on November 1, 2026 and myShiftWork on October 24, 2026.

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