Shift Calendar vs JFRD Hydrants
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shift Calendar
A customizable shift calendar designed for firefighters, paramedics, and EMS workers. Easily track work and off days for important personal events, supporting various common shift patterns. Includes note-taking for each shift day.
- Customizable shift schedules
- Supports 24/24, 24/48, 24/72 patterns
- Supports 48x96 pattern
- Alpha and Numeric shift naming
- Notes for each shift day
- Designed for firefighters and EMS
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Thank you for your interest in Shift Calendar, the app designed by Firefighters and built for Firefighters. Shift Calendar is the full functioning, eternal shift calendar specifically for the professional firefighter, paramedic, EMS worker, their family and friends. No more checking shift cards to see if you will be working or off on your anniversary, birthday or other important events. This version of the Shift Calendar is configurable to present shift schedules specifically for the following: 24/24 for departments working 2 platoons 24 on 24 off. 24/48 for departments working 3 platoons 24 on 48 off. 24/72 for departments working 4 platoons 24 on 72 off. For departments working more complex schedules such as 24 on and 24 off for 5 days with 96 off as A-C-A-B-A-B-C-B-C-REPEAT, look for our ShiftCal Kelley schedule app. Newly released is the popular 48x96 for departments working 3 platoons 48 on 96 off as A-A-B-B-C-C-REPEAT. Search on Cal30 to see these other options. Shift Calendar provides for both Alpha and Numeric shift naming conventions. As of version 2.0, users can now keep notes on each shift day. Future enhancements will target Kelly Day/ADO. Spread the word and pass it around. Most of all...Thank you for all you do...
JFRD Hydrants
Access a public map of fire hydrant locations and information. Explore hydrant data, search areas, and enhance emergency preparedness. Authorized municipal users can sign in for additional operational tools.
- Interactive fire hydrant map
- Publicly available hydrant data
- Searchable map areas
- Optional sign-in for municipal users
- Emergency preparedness information
- Community infrastructure access
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The Fire Hydrant Map app provides public access to fire hydrant locations and related information through an interactive map. Citizens, community members, and organizations can explore hydrant locations, search areas of interest, and view publicly available hydrant data without creating an account. For authorized municipal users, the app also offers optional sign-in access to additional operational and inspection tools. The app is designed to improve public awareness, emergency preparedness, and access to community infrastructure information. The app provides full public access to hydrant map layers without login. Login is only required for operational workflows used by authorized personnel.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: JFRD Hydrants at Free against Shift Calendar's $1.99. JFRD Hydrants also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.3). Shift Calendar's advantage is ratings volume (71 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.4 vs 15.0). On update cadence, ads, 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
JFRD Hydrants is free to download; Shift Calendar costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
JFRD Hydrants holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shift Calendar has 71 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Shift Calendar ships an update fortnightly, JFRD Hydrants every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift Calendar | JFRD Hydrants |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.3 (71 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gil Estes | City of Jacksonville, FL |
Customer experience
Shift Calendar
JFRD Hydrants
Bugs and requests
Shift Calendar
Reported bugs
26 issues- Download did not complete
- App keeps crashing
- App does not open
- App is inoperable after Apple update
- App crashes when opening date and adding notes
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- App disappears after iOS update
- App not compatible with latest iOS
- App crashes when trying to open
- App crashes when trying to open it closes back
- Update 14.2 made app crash
- App will not open since last IOS update
- App ceased working upon 14.2 iOS update
- App will not open, crashes immediately
- App needs to be updated to new IOS
- App will not even open with new iPhone update
- App needs an update
- App crashes every time you enter a note
- App closes every time you try to enter information
- App closes as soon as you try to type anything in the notes
- Crashes when I add notes
- App shuts down when you hit the space bar
- App will shut down when you hit the space bar
- App crashes and does not save information
- App crashes when entering notes for specific days
- App crashes when hitting the return key
- App crashes when adding notes
Requested features
14 requests- Accommodate 48/96 schedules
- Support for 4 on 4 off shifts
- Support for 5 days on, 4 days off schedules
- Support for split shifts (2x10hrs off 24 then 2x14hrs then off for 4 days)
- Add more shift variations
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- Update Kelly Style app
- Add built-in alarm for shift days
- Allow multiple calendars
- More shift color options
- Faster month/year scrolling
- Auto-generated payday
- Add more custom markers (T, M, etc.)
- Option to change pattern like Kelly shift calendar
- Notify of scheduled events
JFRD Hydrants
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shift Calendar
No in-app purchases
JFRD Hydrants
No in-app purchases
Questions
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