Comparison

Deputy vs MyShiftWork

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

MyShiftWork

This app helps shift workers manage their schedules with automatic generation of shift patterns, incident tracking, and customizable calendar views. It allows for saving and sharing shifts, managing holidays, and exporting/importing data. Widgets are also available for home screen access.

Highlights
  • Automatic shift pattern generation
  • Customizable calendar appearance
  • Incident and holiday tracking
  • Shift sharing and export/import
  • Home screen widgets
  • Extensive incident list
Features
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MyShiftWork is a calendar for people who work shifts. Among its features are: - Adds all shift changes / incidents that are wanted for the same day. - Enter the shift patterns and generate automatically. - Enter new tags to collect new incidents. - Allows you to customize the appearance of icons on the calendar. - You can save the image to send shifts with another person - You can enter the holidays. - Allows the export / import of the database. - You can customize the date format and the starting day of the week. - Allows add widgets to home screen - You can collect the following incidents: * Off * Day * Evening * Night * Night's rest * Teacher permission * Unpaid leave * Holidays * Paid leave * Medical leave * Double shift * Guard located * Guard physical presence * 2/3 Day * 1/2 Day * 1/3 Day * 2/3 Night * 1/2 Night * 1/3 Night * Learning permission * 2/3 Evening * 1/2 Evening * 1/3 Evening * Previous year holidays * Maternity leave * Days by age * Strike * Permission elections * Paternity leave * Family needs permission * Permission union release * Permission for marriage * Moving house * Examination leave Subscription • Periodicity: Monthly • Product : Groups subscription • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Private Policy https://sites.google.com/site/myshiftworkpro/policy-privacy Terms of use https://sites.google.com/site/myshiftworkpro/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Deputy4 screens
MyShiftWork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Deputy at Free against MyShiftWork's $1.99. Deputy also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.0) and review sentiment (59% vs 25%). MyShiftWork's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On ads, 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

Deputy is free to download; MyShiftWork costs $1.99 up front. Deputy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per month and MyShiftWork sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. 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 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deputy has 5.4K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Deputy's written reviews are positive against 25% of MyShiftWork's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deputy ships an update weekly, MyShiftWork every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Deputy versus MyShiftWork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeputyMyShiftWork
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (5.4K ratings) — better2.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews58.9% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5.4K — better4
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size285 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDeputy.comMTSoft MTSoft

Customer experience

Deputy

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

MyShiftWork

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral11.1%
Negative63.9%

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

MyShiftWork

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

MyShiftWork

Subscriptions1
  • Groups subscription$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Deputy free?
Deputy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MyShiftWork free?
MyShiftWork costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Deputy or MyShiftWork?
Deputy is rated higher. Deputy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.4K ratings, while MyShiftWork averages 2.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Deputy or MyShiftWork have ads?
Neither Deputy nor MyShiftWork shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deputy or MyShiftWork?
Deputy ships an update weekly, and MyShiftWork every 2 weeks. Most recently, Deputy was updated on September 24, 2026 and MyShiftWork on September 24, 2026.

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