Shift Scheduler vs Sked
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Sked
Manage your work shifts, track hours and pay, and view your monthly schedule at a glance. This app handles multiple jobs, overtime, and holiday pay, and allows for easy shift creation and sharing. It also syncs with native calendars and offers Apple Watch alerts.
- Work shift management
- Hours and pay tracking
- Monthly schedule overview
- Multiple job support
- Overtime and holiday pay calculation
- Shift sharing and syncing
- Calendar integration and alerts
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Meet Sked - Your new work schedule manager. Sked gives you total control over your work schedule. It adds your work shifts in seconds. It tracks your hours worked and pay earned. It shows you your monthly schedule at a single glance. It can handle many jobs. It can manage overtime and holiday pay. You can create invoices for hours worked in Sked. And it can add your most common shifts with just a single tap. In fact, there isn’t much that Sked can’t do. Sked has powerful sharing features. You can sync your schedule to your iPhone or iPad’s native calendar, which will give you Apple Watch alerts. You can share just your work day, or entire months of your schedule with friends. And best of all - you can directly sync schedules with close friends and family in the app, so you can always see when everyone is working. Does your schedule involve rotating shifts? No problem. Sked’s robust scheduling features can handle shift addition for certain days of the week. Sked can also add shifts every certain number of days. Sked can add little notes to your calendar as well, to remind you of the most important things. Oh - and of course Sked will alert you when you need to get ready for work. With Sked, your work life just got easier. Subscription pricing and terms: Sked offers three auto-renewing subscription options: $2.99 per week $6.99 per month $29.99 per year These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. Your Sked subscription will automatically renew at the end of each term and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings but refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. Read more about our terms and conditions here: Terms of Use: http://picshiftapps.com/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: http://picshiftapps.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shift Scheduler at 4.7 against Sked's 3.7. Shift Scheduler also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and review sentiment (60% vs 50%). Sked's advantage is ratings volume (164 vs 7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Sked sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Shift Scheduler asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shift Scheduler holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sked has 164 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Shift Scheduler's written reviews are positive against 50% of Sked's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift Scheduler | Sked |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better | 3.7 (164 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 50.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 164 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 洁靖 张 | Owen Schick |
Customer experience
Shift Scheduler
Sked
Bugs and requests
Shift Scheduler
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Sked
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezes and becomes unresponsive
- Subscription not recognized even after purchase
- Shifts and notes randomly deleted
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to delete shifts
- Improve syncing with other calendars
- Add currency options beyond just USD
- Introduce dark mode and customization options
In-app purchases
Shift Scheduler
No in-app purchases
Sked
- 1 Week of Sked Plus3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- 1 Month of Sked Plus3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- 6 Months of Sked Plus$6.996 Months
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- 1 Year of Sked Plus3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- 1 Month of Sked Plus$1.99
- 6 Months of Sked Plus$4.99
- 1 Year of Sked Plus$7.99
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