Comparison

Deputy vs MyShift

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

MyShift

Easily plan and schedule your work shifts with a monthly and yearly calendar view. Add notes, reminders, track income, and view statistics. Share your schedule and data in various formats.

Highlights
  • Monthly and yearly shift calendar
  • Add, edit, and repeat shifts
  • Track income and hours
  • Notes and checklists
  • Shift reminders
  • Data sharing (image/text)
  • Cloud backup (premium)
Features
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MyShift - Work Shift Calendar is a quick and simple app that helps you to plan or schedule your shifts. => Monthly shift view – You can view your monthly shifts. In this view, you can easily add, update and erase your shifts with help of Paint and Edit tools. Using paint, you can easily add your shift to the day in the month view by just tapping on the day. You can add two shifts per day. Using edit tool you can cut, copy and paste shifts. You can also repeat the selected shift for number of time or for the selected date range. The view is very compact and you can see all the shifts of the month in one view. You can click on the day to add more information for the day like note, image, reminders, extra income, early exit, extra time and a tag (important, holiday and more). You can also share the monthly data as image(Premium feature) and text. => Yearly shift view – You can view yearly shifts. You can also share yearly view as image(Premium feature). => Statistics – You can view statistics data for a month, year and a date range. You can view statistics like number of shifts, number of hours and income for each shift with the total of number of hours, extra income amount and income. You can share the statistics. => Notes – You can create your coloured notes or checklist. You can export to text file / PDF file and share the note’s content. => Other features - -> You can add shifts in multiple calendars. -> You can add, update and remove the shifts. You can change name, abbreviation, text colour, shift time, rest time, currency symbol, income per hour, income per extra hour for the shift. -> Cloud backup and restore data (Premium feature) -> You can add reminder for each work shift. -> You can add daily reminder to add work shift.

Screenshots

Deputy4 screens
MyShift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Deputy at 4.8 against MyShift's 3.7. Deputy also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). MyShift's advantage is review sentiment (72% vs 59%) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Deputy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per month and MyShift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 3.7. 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 72% of MyShift'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, MyShift every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Deputy versus MyShift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeputyMyShift
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.4K ratings) — better3.7 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews58.9% of reviews72.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.4K — better6
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.012.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size285 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDeputy.comMonali Paghadal

Customer experience

Deputy

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

MyShift

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.8%

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

MyShift

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
1 purchases

MyShift

One-time1
  • Premium Version$11.99

Questions

Is Deputy free?
Deputy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MyShift free?
MyShift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Deputy or MyShift?
Deputy is rated higher. Deputy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.4K ratings, while MyShift averages 3.7 from 6 ratings.
Do Deputy or MyShift have ads?
MyShift shows ads; Deputy does not.
Which is updated more often, Deputy or MyShift?
Deputy ships an update weekly, and MyShift every 2 months. Most recently, Deputy was updated on September 24, 2026 and MyShift on September 3, 2026.

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