Roster vs Shift Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roster
Easily manage your work shifts by entering them into your calendar with a single tap. Customize shift times, colors, and names to fit your specific needs. Quickly create complex shift patterns and add notes for each day.
- Quick shift entry
- Customizable shift details
- Editable templates
- Add notes to days
- Double shifts
- Recurring shift cycles
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Get the best free roster app now. Quickly enter your shift patterns into your calendar. Just choose your shift, morning, regular or late and tap the corresponding day. You can define work times, colors, names and many more to fit your needs. With our unique app you can create your whole shift pattern in less than a minute. No app can beat this. Unique features: - Free editable templates. - Single tap to add or delete calendar entries. - Double tap to switch shift entries - Choose work times, names, colors and more. - Option to add notes to any calendar day - double shifts optional: - free of Ads - monthly export of services as PDF-file - matching of the data with iCloud - matching of your services, and notes in your device -calendar (manual and automatic) - Automatically add recurring shift cycles to roster-calendar - Calculations - Auto- Delete for shifts - entries of holiday, vacations, etc. - backup/restore - password protection for App - overtime - fully functioning audio recorder for each day - full-fledged camera application for each day You can purchase Website+Extras for 1 month for the price of $ 1.49. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription period, and identify the cost of the renewal. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. A once completed subscription can not be canceled before its term expires. You can find our privacy policy under https://www.roster-calendar.com/privacy_app.html and terms of use for more information under https://www.roster-calendar.com/terms_app.html.
Shift Calendar
Easily manage your work schedule with this app designed for shift workers. Customize your shifts, generate schedules automatically, and add important notes to your calendar.
- Customizable shift work
- Automatic cycle scheduling
- Calendar notes
- Clear shift display
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Shift Calendar is designed for people who do shift works. It's easy to manage your job and work time - you can customize your shift work - Cycle scheduling, automatic generation of shift work for each day - Calendar notes, write important notes for each day - Shift works display in calendar clearly
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Verdict
Roster and Shift Calendar both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 74% of Roster's written reviews are positive against 51% of Shift Calendar's. Shift Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Roster sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Shift Calendar sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Roster holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 63 and 144 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Roster's written reviews are positive against 51% of Shift Calendar's.
Roster ships an update every 2 months, Shift Calendar every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roster | Shift Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (63 ratings) — better | 4.2 (144 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.2% of reviews — better | 51.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 | 144 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | michael heinz | 章健 杨 |
Customer experience
Roster
Shift Calendar
User reviews
Roster
From 63 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Helpful for shift work
- 💡 Customizable color coding
- 🚀 Efficient scheduling
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Difficult navigation
- 💸 Too many ads
- 🔒 Sync and backup issues
Shift Calendar
From 144 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Good for tracking shifts
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 👍 Customizable shift times
- 👍 Useful for irregular schedules
Room to improve
- 😠 Excessive ads
- 😠 Ads interrupt workflow
- 😠 Ads in free version are frequent
- 😠 Paid version still has issues
- 😠 Limited shift cycle (31 days)
Bugs and requests
Roster
Reported bugs
4 issues- App suddenly stops working
- Notes and schedules disappearing
- Inability to access past/future months
- Compatibility issues with device updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add multiple shifts per day
- Improve month-to-month navigation
- Integrate with other calendar apps
- Provide better customer support
Shift Calendar
Reported bugs
8 issues- One year old records are missing
- Calendar does not always show the correct day
- Data not included in backups
- Recurring shifts require manual setup even in paid version
- Full-length ads for multiple date additions
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- Forced to watch ads to close
- No option for 'no' for premium purchase prompts
- Inability to write to the next day
Requested features
18 requests- Add hourly payment tracking
- Add advance payment tracking
- Add black theme (dark mode)
- Increase character limit for shift names
- Expand emoji usage for shifts
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- Add ability to select multiple days for one entry (iOS)
- Add save and restore feature (e.g., Dropbox)
- Add widget support
- Add option for military time or normal time
- Add ability to add additional users
- Add reminders for shifts
- Sync to iOS calendar
- Add ability to delete users
- Add ability to delete incorrectly added user shifts
- Add ability to write to the next day
- Add statistics for hours worked
- Add support for shift cycles longer than 31 days
- Add ability to share schedule with family members
In-app purchases
Roster
- Website+Extras$1.491 Month
- Extra 1$0.99
- Extra 2 - Security$0.99
- Extra 3 - Overtime$0.99
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- Extra 4 - Audio$0.99
- Extra 5 - Pictures$0.99
- "More comfortable"$1.99
- No advertising$1.99
- All Extras$3.99
Shift Calendar
- Calendar Notes$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Pro Version$0.99
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- Add User$0.99







