Comparison

Deputy vs Flexitime

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

Head to head
About

Deputy

This app simplifies employee scheduling, time tracking, and workforce management for businesses. It allows for easy creation of balanced schedules, communication with staff, and integration with payroll systems. Employees can view their schedules, manage availability, and clock in/out.

Highlights
  • Create balanced, cost-effective schedules
  • Publish shift information via push notification
  • Fill open shifts with team pick-up
  • Approve leave and shift changes
  • Manage team communications and tasks
  • Track time and attendance
  • Integrate with payroll and POS systems
Features
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Deputy is the ultimate employee scheduling app, shift planner, staff timesheet app, & complete workforce management solution. Get started for free today! Over 250,000 workplaces in 90+ countries trust Deputy for their employee scheduling software, leave management, time & attendance tracking, team task management, staff communication, demand forecasting and performance management. HOW DEPUTY HELPS BUSINESSES ◆ Easily create balanced, cost-effective schedules in minutes from any device. ◆ Publish personalized shift information to your team via push notification, email, and SMS. ◆ Fill open shifts easily by pushing alerts to your team and letting them pick up available shifts. ◆ Approve leave from your mobile easily so you're never caught off guard. ◆ Quickly approve employee shift swaps and shift changes in seconds straight from a mobile device. ◆ Manage team communications easily in one place: broadcast announcements, assign tasks to specific individuals / shifts, and get confirmation that your team has seen it. ◆ Get greater insight and control of your business, and keep yourself compliant with inbuilt fair workweek compliance. ◆ Connect with your existing apps to give you end-to-end visibility. Deputy syncs with over 300+ of the world's most used solutions such as ADP, Square, QuickBooks, Xero, Gusto, NetSuite, Revel, LightSpeed and many more! HOW DEPUTY HELPS EMPLOYEES ◆ Get your work schedule on your device as soon as it’s published. ◆ View all your upcoming shifts in one place and receive alerts on days when you’re due to work. ◆ Manage your availability and time off easily, see what’s approved, and make it simple for your manager to know when you are and aren’t available. ◆ Clock in and out of work quickly from the app. ◆ See important company updates, manage your tasks and communicate with your team from your mobile device. TRY DEPUTY TODAY Setting up your business? Sign up for a free trial today. No setup fee. Pick the plan to suit your business: monthly, annually or flexi. Always know that you have the right people scheduled with our Shift Planner: Deputy makes it easy to create fully costed schedules in minutes, then notify staff when they’re working. Deputy will even automatically remind employees of their shifts on the morning that they are due to work. Manage employees’ leave requests or unavailability from a central location, then integrate with your online schedules so there’s no risk of scheduling someone who is not available. Need to be smart about staffing levels? Deputy integrates with your POS & payroll information to make sure you’re scheduling efficiently, and pulls in real-time weather information so you know if you need extra shifts or not! Clocking in to work is made simple with our time clock software, including GPS validation, to quickly track time and attendance (or optionally from a tablet Kiosk, using our inbuilt facial detection technology). Finalizing your timesheets and exporting to payroll can be done with one click from your mobile device. Joining an existing team? It's free - just log in. CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS “Straightaway, the time and attendance headache disappeared. There’s no need to manually enter data from one system to another. It’s all uploaded effortlessly. And on our tablets or phones, we can sign off timesheets with a swipe." "Everyone gets alerted to their shifts, which they can check on their smartphones. Everyone knows where they should be, when they should be there and what they should be doing." "Deputy has been a revelation for our business. We’re saving approximately $30,000 a year in admin costs alone. But even more importantly, we’re now able to optimize all shifts and staffing levels." ABOUT DEPUTY APP Our staff scheduling app is updated regularly to make sure we’re always providing the best and most flexible features to the businesses we work with. Any feedback? Need help? Email experience+ios@deputy.com Terms of Use: https://www.deputy.com/subscription-agreement

About

Flexitime

Manage your work shifts with a simple and elegant calendar. Easily set your start date, customize shift patterns, and track vacations or changes. The app visually highlights your workdays for quick understanding.

Highlights
  • Custom shift pattern setup
  • Vacation and change tracking
  • Automatic workday highlighting
  • Widget for quick viewing
  • Simple and elegant calendar interface
Features
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Flexitime is a free work shift schedule calendar. This app has a simple and elegant calendar that you can use to show your work shift pattern. Flexitime offers you easily set start date and custom shift pattern. You can setup and switch directly in calender between all your work shifts. In case of vacation or any changes in your usual work shift, we have possibility to setup these changes. The app will automatically highlight all corresponding days of your work week based on all settings you choose, so you can see which day you are working or not. Setup widget to quickly viewing of the nearest two weeks of current month. Calendar does not sync with Google calendars, all it does is shows you work shifts pattern in a nice way.

Screenshots

Deputy4 screens
Flexitime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Deputy at 4.8 against Flexitime's 3.5. Deputy also leads on ratings volume (5.4K vs 6) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Flexitime's advantage is review sentiment (68% vs 59%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Deputy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per month and Flexitime sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Deputy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deputy has 5.4K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Deputy's written reviews are positive against 68% of Flexitime's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deputy ships an update weekly, Flexitime monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Deputy versus Flexitime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeputyFlexitime
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.4K ratings) — better3.5 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews58.9% of reviews67.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.4K — better6
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size285 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDeputy.comDzmitry Sharkou

Customer experience

Deputy

All ratings5,355 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral1.2%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews423 reviews
Positive58.9%
Neutral9.9%
Negative31.2%

Flexitime

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive67.6%
Neutral12.7%
Negative19.7%

Bugs and requests

Deputy

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes or freezes frequently
  • Timesheets not accurately recording hours worked
  • Shift scheduling issues after updates
  • Notification system not reliable

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to cancel shifts
  • Improve communication features between employees
  • Provide more detailed reporting and analytics
  • Allow employees to view their leave balances
  • Integrate with more payroll/HR systems

Flexitime

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Deputy

Subscriptions2
  • 10 users1 Month trial$59.991 Month
  • 25 users1 Month trial$144.991 Month
3 purchases

Flexitime

One-time3
  • Vacations and Changed Shifts$0.99
  • Several work shifts$0.99
  • Shift Colors$0.99

Questions

Is Deputy free?
Deputy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flexitime free?
Flexitime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Deputy or Flexitime?
Deputy is rated higher. Deputy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.4K ratings, while Flexitime averages 3.5 from 6 ratings.
Do Deputy or Flexitime have ads?
Neither Deputy nor Flexitime shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deputy or Flexitime?
Deputy ships an update weekly, and Flexitime monthly. Most recently, Deputy was updated on September 24, 2026 and Flexitime on September 23, 2026.

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