Comparison

Shift Scheduler vs iShift Calendar

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

Head to head
About

Shift Scheduler

Manage your work schedule with this app. It offers flexible shift arrangement, holiday tracking, and customizable calendar views with icons and colors. Record clock-in/out times and set reminders for your shifts.

Highlights
  • Flexible shift arrangement
  • Holiday tracking (US, UK, Canada, etc.)
  • Customizable calendar with 40+ icons and unlimited colors
  • Clock-in/out time recording
  • Shift reminders
  • Enable/disable shifts for calendar view
Features
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Shift Scheduler is a useful shift management tool with holiday, free combo shift, alarm for work, and more... It use freedom algorithm to pick shift days, can arrange every shift with combo of the unlimited shifts. It will show your shift schedule in a calendar with Character or 40+ icons combine with unlimited colors, so it will be very easy to show when you arrange much of shift. It can disable shift you don’t need show in calendar recently, and don’t needs to delete it, only one click it can be re-show in your calendar again. It also support record the clock in time and work off time, and it can alert you when it coming with much of time option can be choose. Feature which supported: • Freedom pick shift days, can arrange every shift ! • (NEW!) Holiday, you can show US, UK, Canada, HongKong, Taiwan, China Holidays in your calendar. • ICON: You can now choose your favorite ICON of you shift, about 40+ icon can be choose ! • Character: show the first character on shift name in your calendar view. • Color: You can choose different color with the ICON, unlimited color can be choose! • Unlimited Shift Profile: You can enable or disable the shift in shift list menu, so you don't need to delete any shift configure! disable the shift will let shift not show on your calendar view! • Clock In time: you can choose every shift 's clock in time and off time ! • Reminder: You can choose let Shift Scheduler remind you before Clock in or work off ! • Setting & Review & Feedback: Setting Menu can now feedback to me and rating this app now!

About

iShift Calendar

This app generates repeating shift calendars based on user-defined shift rules. It allows for the management of multiple shift tables, supporting both personal and enterprise use cases with an integrated database for some enterprise schedules.

Highlights
  • Automatic shift calendar generation
  • Input custom shift rules
  • Manage multiple shift tables
  • Support for personal and enterprise tables
  • Built-in enterprise shift table database
Features
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iShift Calendar is a general-purpose shift calendar generator. Features: 1. Input 'shift rule' (e.g.: 22330110 or 33221100), iShift will automatically generate a repeating shift calendar for you. 2. Manage multiple shift tables. 3. Support two types of shift tables: Personal and Enterprise. 4. Build-in database for some enterprise shift tables.

Screenshots

Shift Scheduler4 screens
iShift Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: iShift Calendar at fortnightly against Shift Scheduler's every 2 months. iShift Calendar also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iShift Calendar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shift Scheduler ships an update every 2 months, iShift Calendar fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Shift Scheduler versus iShift Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift ScheduleriShift Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer洁靖 张Sheng-Yi Chang

Customer experience

Shift Scheduler

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

iShift Calendar

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Shift Scheduler

No in-app purchases

None

iShift Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shift Scheduler free?
Shift Scheduler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iShift Calendar free?
iShift Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shift Scheduler or iShift Calendar?
iShift Calendar is rated higher. Shift Scheduler averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while iShift Calendar averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Shift Scheduler or iShift Calendar have ads?
Neither Shift Scheduler nor iShift Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shift Scheduler or iShift Calendar?
Shift Scheduler ships an update every 2 months, and iShift Calendar fortnightly. Most recently, Shift Scheduler was updated on October 13, 2026 and iShift Calendar on October 6, 2026.

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