Comparison

ShiftLife Organizer vs GROUPS Calendar

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

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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

GROUPS Calendar

Features
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The best application for all those people who want to keep track of their tasks, schedules and appointments, having the possibility of sharing the content in real time with other users or with all the devices of the same user. Ideal for shift workers, families, couples or those who need to know the agenda of their relatives, friends or workmates. CALENDARS / SYNCHRONIZATION / SUBSCRIBERS - Log in with your email and enjoy self-saving in the cloud (forget about back-ups). - Share your calendar with whoever you want and give them the possibility to edit it in real time or to keep it as a spectator of your events. - Add notes associated to a calendar. - Reorder your calendars. EASY USE - Modify your calendar in two ways: (1) Quick mode or paint: Select an event from the drop-down list and click on the days to paint them with that event (2) Multiple Selection Mode: Select one or several days and perform actions in the selected range of days (add event, delete, repeat, copy, cut, paste events and / or notes) - Event menu: you can see all events of that calendar, create new ones, edit, reorder or hide them. EVENTS - Add all the events you want in the same day. - You can create all the events you need and configure them in a modular way. - Modify their appearance. - Add descriptions, images, audios and variable text to the event - Set your earnings and control your work time - Add your workday, salary and rest time and keep an exhaustive control of your schedules - Create alarms associated with that event (for that day or for the previous day). - Add customizable and recursive icons associated with a date. - Use the Birthday function and don't forget any of them NOTES - Create notes in each day and add reminders with alarms. Do not forget about appointments or important events again - Include images and audios in your notes - Mark notes as important - Use the notes, events and icons Searcher to find them easily TOP FUNCTIONS - Export your calendar from "Groups - Work & Family calendar" to Google Calendar. - Add national holidays directly from Google Calendar - See the summary of the next 30 days. - Compare different calendars: select the calendars and the month you want to compare. - Share your calendars easily with your friends as an image or PDF through WhatsApp, email, Telegram ... - Statistics: specific section where you can see the basic income, extra time paid, accumulated time, extra income and total income. Perfect to take a quick and clear control of all your earnings - Holidays: mark a day as a holiday and you can also choose to repeat it every year. FEATURED FEATURES - Easy to use. - Clear interface. - Customizable. - Different payment accounts that adapt to your needs - Fast and personalized user service - Social networks, enjoy explanatory videos, information about new updates and more visual content by joining our "Groups - Work & Family calendar" community. SUPPORT OUR WORK We are a very small team of people who make a great effort to develop "Groups - Work & Family calendar". If you like this application, you can help us continue improving and adding new features. By upgrading "Groups - Work & Family calendar" you will not only get a lot of professional premium features but also greatly support the continuous development of the app.

Screenshots

ShiftLife Organizer4 screens
GROUPS Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: GROUPS Calendar at none against ShiftLife Organizer's shown. GROUPS Calendar also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, in-app purchases 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. ShiftLife Organizer sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and GROUPS Calendar sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShiftLife Organizer ships an update every 5 weeks, GROUPS Calendar every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ShiftLife Organizer versus GROUPS Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShiftLife OrganizerGROUPS Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOvalKey Ltd.Luis Alberto Reyes Halaby

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

GROUPS Calendar

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
Show 8 more
  • 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
12 purchases

GROUPS Calendar

One-time12
  • Component: Alarms Silencer$0.99
  • Component: Variable text$0.99
  • Component: Variable Schedule$0.99
Show 9 more
  • Component: Audio$1.99
  • Platinum account$1.99
  • Component: Images$2.99
  • Gold Account$2.99
  • Platinum Account$3.99
  • Silver account$4.99
  • Platinum account$6.99
  • Donation$9.99
  • Donation$19.99

Questions

Is ShiftLife Organizer free?
ShiftLife Organizer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GROUPS Calendar free?
GROUPS Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ShiftLife Organizer or GROUPS Calendar have ads?
ShiftLife Organizer shows ads; GROUPS Calendar does not.
Which is updated more often, ShiftLife Organizer or GROUPS Calendar?
ShiftLife Organizer ships an update every 5 weeks, and GROUPS Calendar every 5 days. Most recently, ShiftLife Organizer was updated on October 18, 2026 and GROUPS Calendar on October 8, 2026.

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