Roster vs GROUPS 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.
GROUPS Calendar
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The best application for all those people who want to keep track of their tasks, schedules and appointments, having the possibility of sharing the content in real time with other users or with all the devices of the same user. Ideal for shift workers, families, couples or those who need to know the agenda of their relatives, friends or workmates. CALENDARS / SYNCHRONIZATION / SUBSCRIBERS - Log in with your email and enjoy self-saving in the cloud (forget about back-ups). - Share your calendar with whoever you want and give them the possibility to edit it in real time or to keep it as a spectator of your events. - Add notes associated to a calendar. - Reorder your calendars. EASY USE - Modify your calendar in two ways: (1) Quick mode or paint: Select an event from the drop-down list and click on the days to paint them with that event (2) Multiple Selection Mode: Select one or several days and perform actions in the selected range of days (add event, delete, repeat, copy, cut, paste events and / or notes) - Event menu: you can see all events of that calendar, create new ones, edit, reorder or hide them. EVENTS - Add all the events you want in the same day. - You can create all the events you need and configure them in a modular way. - Modify their appearance. - Add descriptions, images, audios and variable text to the event - Set your earnings and control your work time - Add your workday, salary and rest time and keep an exhaustive control of your schedules - Create alarms associated with that event (for that day or for the previous day). - Add customizable and recursive icons associated with a date. - Use the Birthday function and don't forget any of them NOTES - Create notes in each day and add reminders with alarms. Do not forget about appointments or important events again - Include images and audios in your notes - Mark notes as important - Use the notes, events and icons Searcher to find them easily TOP FUNCTIONS - Export your calendar from "Groups - Work & Family calendar" to Google Calendar. - Add national holidays directly from Google Calendar - See the summary of the next 30 days. - Compare different calendars: select the calendars and the month you want to compare. - Share your calendars easily with your friends as an image or PDF through WhatsApp, email, Telegram ... - Statistics: specific section where you can see the basic income, extra time paid, accumulated time, extra income and total income. Perfect to take a quick and clear control of all your earnings - Holidays: mark a day as a holiday and you can also choose to repeat it every year. FEATURED FEATURES - Easy to use. - Clear interface. - Customizable. - Different payment accounts that adapt to your needs - Fast and personalized user service - Social networks, enjoy explanatory videos, information about new updates and more visual content by joining our "Groups - Work & Family calendar" community. SUPPORT OUR WORK We are a very small team of people who make a great effort to develop "Groups - Work & Family calendar". If you like this application, you can help us continue improving and adding new features. By upgrading "Groups - Work & Family calendar" you will not only get a lot of professional premium features but also greatly support the continuous development of the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: GROUPS Calendar at none against Roster's shown. GROUPS Calendar also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 GROUPS Calendar sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Roster ships an update every 2 months, GROUPS Calendar every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roster | GROUPS Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (63 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | michael heinz | Luis Alberto Reyes Halaby |
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
GROUPS Calendar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
GROUPS Calendar
- Component: Alarms Silencer$0.99
- Component: Variable text$0.99
- Component: Variable Schedule$0.99
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- Component: Audio$1.99
- Platinum account$1.99
- Component: Images$2.99
- Gold Account$2.99
- Platinum Account$3.99
- Silver account$4.99
- Platinum account$6.99
- Donation$9.99
- Donation$19.99
Questions
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