ShiftLife Organizer vs Roster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Roster
Easily manage your work shifts by entering them into your calendar with a single tap. Customize shift times, colors, and names to fit your specific needs. Quickly create complex shift patterns and add notes for each day.
- Quick shift entry
- Customizable shift details
- Editable templates
- Add notes to days
- Double shifts
- Recurring shift cycles
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Get the best free roster app now. Quickly enter your shift patterns into your calendar. Just choose your shift, morning, regular or late and tap the corresponding day. You can define work times, colors, names and many more to fit your needs. With our unique app you can create your whole shift pattern in less than a minute. No app can beat this. Unique features: - Free editable templates. - Single tap to add or delete calendar entries. - Double tap to switch shift entries - Choose work times, names, colors and more. - Option to add notes to any calendar day - double shifts optional: - free of Ads - monthly export of services as PDF-file - matching of the data with iCloud - matching of your services, and notes in your device -calendar (manual and automatic) - Automatically add recurring shift cycles to roster-calendar - Calculations - Auto- Delete for shifts - entries of holiday, vacations, etc. - backup/restore - password protection for App - overtime - fully functioning audio recorder for each day - full-fledged camera application for each day You can purchase Website+Extras for 1 month for the price of $ 1.49. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription period, and identify the cost of the renewal. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. A once completed subscription can not be canceled before its term expires. You can find our privacy policy under https://www.roster-calendar.com/privacy_app.html and terms of use for more information under https://www.roster-calendar.com/terms_app.html.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShiftLife Organizer at 4.8 against Roster's 4.4. ShiftLife Organizer also leads on ratings volume (1.8K vs 63). Roster's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. ShiftLife Organizer sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and Roster sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShiftLife Organizer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShiftLife Organizer has 1.8K ratings behind it against 63, 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 74% of Roster's.
ShiftLife Organizer ships an update every 5 weeks, Roster every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | ShiftLife Organizer | Roster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.8K ratings) — better | 4.4 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.9% of reviews — better | 74.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 63 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | OvalKey Ltd. | michael heinz |
Customer experience
ShiftLife Organizer
Roster
User reviews
ShiftLife Organizer
From 1.8K App Store ratingsWhat 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
Roster
From 63 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Helpful for shift work
- 💡 Customizable color coding
- 🚀 Efficient scheduling
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Difficult navigation
- 💸 Too many ads
- 🔒 Sync and backup issues
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
Roster
Reported bugs
4 issues- App suddenly stops working
- Notes and schedules disappearing
- Inability to access past/future months
- Compatibility issues with device updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add multiple shifts per day
- Improve month-to-month navigation
- Integrate with other calendar apps
- Provide better customer support
In-app purchases
ShiftLife Organizer
- Calendar Store Add-On1 Month trial$1.991 Year
- Premium Unlimited Access1 Month trial$9.991 Year
- 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
Roster
- Website+Extras$1.491 Month
- Extra 1$0.99
- Extra 2 - Security$0.99
- Extra 3 - Overtime$0.99
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- Extra 4 - Audio$0.99
- Extra 5 - Pictures$0.99
- "More comfortable"$1.99
- No advertising$1.99
- All Extras$3.99
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