Comparison

Shift Worker vs ShiftWork

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

Head to head
About

Shift Worker

Easily enter and view your work schedule with custom shift types, icons, and colors. Quickly add entire months or years of shifts and share them with others. Save your schedule to your device's background for instant access.

Highlights
  • Custom shift types with icons and colors
  • Quick shift entry for months/years
  • Multiple calendar support
  • Share shifts with others
  • Save schedule to background
  • Personalized notes for dates
  • Timeline view
Features
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Shift Worker is designed for people who need a quick and easy way to enter and view their shifts. A traditional calendar is not always ideal for shift workers. Sometimes it's not easy to see your upcoming shift schedule very clearly, especially if your shifts don't fall into the traditional working week. Shift Worker solves this problem and turns the frustrating task of entry into a quick and easy experience. Shift Worker allows you to create your own types of shifts by combining visually-attractive icons with letters/numbers so that they can be easily identified at a glance. By including a range of icons (such as suns and stars for day and night shifts) in a variety of colors, any combination is possible for all types of shifts. Entering shifts can be done quickly by simply selecting a type of shift and tapping on each date it occurs. An entire month of shifts could be entered in seconds, an entire year in a few minutes! In addition, Shift Worker allows you create multiple calendars to see friends and family shifts! You can send your shifts to others so they can also see your shifts at a glance as an image or in their copy of Shift Worker. To make things even simpler, you can even save your shifts to your iPhone/iPod's background so that referring to your upcoming shift schedule is as simple as picking up your iPhone/iPod. Shift Worker also includes the ability to create colored personalized notes for each date. Notes can be used anytime additional information needs to be added to a date. FEATURES: - Create a virtually unlimited amount of shift types - Enter shifts on the calendar months in advance in seconds - Add your rotation and automatically fill the calendar in a few simple steps - Show friends and family shifts using multiple calendars - View the calendar in timeline format to see your shift flow at a glance - Create colored personalized notes for any date on the calendar - Include week of year or week 1/2 alternating pattern on calendar - Jump to any month by using the "Goto" button - Save a month's worth of shifts to your background - Share your shifts to others via email, messages and social media. - Import other Shift Worker shifts and view them all within the one app - No ads! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ShiftWork

Easily create custom shift work calendars by registering templates and repeat cycles. View iOS calendar events alongside your shifts, add notes, and sum up monthly totals. Customize the look with various styles and colors.

Highlights
  • Register unlimited shift templates
  • Register unlimited repeat cycles
  • Display iOS calendar events
  • Add unlimited shift work calendars
  • Add notes to shifts
  • Sum shifts per month
  • Choose style and color
Features
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This app divides functions to create shift work calendar. Register templates of work shift in advance, easily create calendar by choosing from them. ◉Functions ◎Can register templates of work shift without limit ◎Can register repeat cycle of work shifts without limit ◎Display iOS calendar events at the same time ◎Can add shift work calendars without limit ◎Can add notes ◎Sum up shifts per month ◎Get public holidays from iOS calendar ◎Can choose style and color ◎Can take screenshot per month ◉In-App Purchase ◎Remove ads **Remove advertisements **Can save work shifts to iOS calendar **Can set maximum number of calendar events can display per day **Can make backup using Dropbox (automatically or manually) ◎Multi-calendar display **Display shifts in multiple calendars at the same time. **Can edit shifts in multiple calendars at the same time. **Can write to pdf file ◉Important points ◎Work shifts are effective in this app only **Using in-app purchase, can save them to iOS calendar ◎Can set one shift per day **If need to set multiple shifts per day, add new calendar and set second shift to it. **Using in-app purchase, can display multiple calendars at the same time. ◉Other ◎URL scheme (adicto-shiftwork://) ◎User support **E-mail (usersupport@adicto-software.com) **Can access in info view of this app

Screenshots

Shift Worker4 screens
ShiftWork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ShiftWork at Free against Shift Worker's $1.99. ShiftWork also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.7). Shift Worker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On review sentiment, ratings volume, 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

ShiftWork is free to download; Shift Worker costs $1.99 up front. Shift Worker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and ShiftWork sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ShiftWork holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 103 and 56 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Shift Worker's written reviews are positive against 48% of ShiftWork's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shift Worker ships an update weekly, ShiftWork every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Shift Worker versus ShiftWork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift WorkerShiftWork
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.7 (103 ratings)4.8 (56 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.5% of reviews48.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings103 — better56
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#134 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProduction Shed Pty LtdAkira Takahashi

Customer experience

Shift Worker

All ratings103 ratings
Positive65.0%
Neutral15.5%
Negative19.4%
Written reviews458 reviews
Positive46.5%
Neutral20.7%
Negative32.8%

ShiftWork

All ratings56 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive48.3%
Neutral13.8%
Negative37.9%

Bugs and requests

Shift Worker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes when trying to add notes
  • Notes disappearing after iOS updates
  • Calendar dates/days not displaying correctly
  • Inability to export/import schedules

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to view full notes
  • Implement iCloud/calendar sync
  • Allow multiple shift entries per day
  • Add recurring note/reminder features
  • Develop Apple Watch app integration

ShiftWork

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Shift Worker

Subscriptions2
  • Shift Worker Premium Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Shift Worker Premium Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
2 purchases

ShiftWork

One-time2
  • Multi-calendar display$1.99
  • Remove ads and unlock limits$1.99

Questions

Is Shift Worker free?
Shift Worker costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is ShiftWork free?
ShiftWork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shift Worker or ShiftWork?
ShiftWork is rated higher. Shift Worker averages 3.7 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while ShiftWork averages 4.8 from 56 ratings.
Do Shift Worker or ShiftWork have ads?
ShiftWork shows ads; Shift Worker does not.
Which is updated more often, Shift Worker or ShiftWork?
Shift Worker ships an update weekly, and ShiftWork every 3 months. Most recently, Shift Worker was updated on October 3, 2026 and ShiftWork on October 1, 2026.

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