Shift+ vs DoBuff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shift+
This app helps you track work hours and manage schedules with a visual calendar. It supports multiple shift types, offers detailed reports, and allows for extensive customization. Secure iCloud backup ensures your data is always synced and safe.
- Calendar view with clock-in/out times
- Multiple shift type support
- Weekly/Monthly/Yearly reports
- Customizable widgets
- iCloud auto-backup
- Shift templates
- Batch shift creation
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Shift+ is a shift planner, work-hours tracker and earnings companion built for people with rotating, changing or flexible schedules. Record your shifts on a calendar and let Shift+ organize your workdays, hours, overtime and earnings automatically. Whether you are paid hourly, daily or monthly, your schedule and work records stay clear and easy to understand. SHIFT RECORDING Create reusable shifts with start time, end time, working hours and pay settings. Add a shift to any day directly from the calendar and build your work history without complicated forms. FLEXIBLE PAY MODES Shift+ supports: • Hourly pay • Daily pay • Monthly salary • Overtime hours • Overtime earnings • Different pay settings for different shifts This makes it suitable for schedules and payroll periods that do not always match a standard calendar month. ROTATING SCHEDULES Create repeating work patterns and quickly generate recurring schedules. Useful for rotating shifts and repeating work/rest cycles without entering every day manually. WORK HOURS & EARNINGS View your records across different time ranges, including: • Work days • Rest days • Work hours • Overtime hours • Shift distribution • Earnings • Long-term totals See how your schedule, hours and earnings change over time. CALENDAR Your shifts are organized in one clear calendar. Assign different colors to different shift types so morning, evening, night, rest and custom shifts are easy to recognize at a glance. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Check important information without opening the app: • Today's shift • Upcoming shifts • Work countdown • Monthly calendar • Shift distribution • Monthly hours and earnings Widget colors match the shift colors you set in Shift+. APPLE WATCH Check today's shift, start and end times, work progress, upcoming schedule and monthly summaries directly from your wrist. REMINDERS Set reminders before work or before the end of a shift so important times are easier to keep track of. ICLOUD SYNC Keep important shift data, shift names and colors synchronized between your devices with iCloud. IMPORT & EXPORT Import your data and export records as PDF, images or CSV for backup, review or further organization. Shift+ brings your schedule, working hours and earnings together in one simple calendar. Open it and immediately know what shift you have today, how long you work, and how much you earn. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Privacy Policy:https://www.notion.so/15347e115165808299b3d224db8173c6?pvs=4
DoBuff
Enhance your reminders and calendar with powerful tools for time management, progress tracking, and goal setting. Visualize your tasks on a timeline, create unique weekly and yearly plans, and utilize focus timers with progress bars. Gain insights with trend statistics and countdowns.
- Timeline view for tasks
- Weekly, monthly, and yearly planning
- Focus timer with progress bar
- Trend statistics and heatmaps
- Countdown timers
- Calendar integration
- Widgets
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“DoBuff” is primarily built around Reminders and Calendar, providing core features such as time management, progress tracking, goal management, and more. “DoBuff” is designed to enhance Reminders and Calendar with a range of powerful additional features, helping you use them more effectively. “DoBuff” started as a collection of tools I built for my own use with Reminders and Calendar. It was developed around my personal needs and is now available for anyone with similar needs. If you are also a Reminders or Calendar user like me, “DoBuff” may be a great fit for you. Core features and goals (supported for both Reminders and Calendar events): 1. Display tasks and events on a timeline. 2. Unique weekly, monthly, and yearly planning views. 3. Two separate tag systems that can be used independently or synced with Reminders. 4. Focus timers based on Reminders for better time management. 5. Progress bars based on Reminders, with lists serving as progress trackers for goals. 6. Completion and time-spent statistics for Reminders lists. 7. Trend analytics, including tag-based focus time statistics, list tracking, yearly heatmaps, time paths, footprint maps, and more. 8. Countdown support for Reminders. 9. Mark Reminders as abandoned or postponed. 10. Calendar integration, including reading events and writing focus sessions to Calendar. 11. Counting and count tracking. 12. Enhancements available for Reminders are also supported for Calendar events. 13. Export and back up Reminders. 14. Reminder countdowns with support for system alarm countdowns. 15. Note templates for quickly adding notes. 16. Add notes to lists. 17. A range of widgets, including Focus widgets, Calendar widgets, Goal Tracking widgets, Today widgets, and more. 18. Automatic focus timing. 19. Favorites for Reminders and Calendar events. 20. Enhanced global search. 21. Apple Watch version. 22. Turn Reminders into anniversary reminders. 23. Pomodoro focus timer support. 24. Health and sleep data integration, including automatic sleep focus tracking. 25. Energy and focus management. 26. Energy level management. 27. Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly records and summaries. 28. Daily mood tracking. 29. List migration. And several other feature enhancements. For Calendar events, DoBuff also provides workflow-based event management, such as marking events as completed or abandoned. These are only some of the features currently available in “DoBuff”. More features are being organized and will be released gradually. *Membership Subscription: Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the renewal price will be confirmed at that time. Subscriptions can be managed by the user. Auto-renewal can be turned off after purchase by going to the user’s App Store account settings. 【Feedback & Support】 If you have any questions or issues while using the app, please contact us at: liyubelief@iCloud.com Terms of Use: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFZOeURmQk1McGVu Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFBQSWJwcERmRUhB
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DoBuff at 100% against Shift+'s 50%. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Shift+ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DoBuff sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shift+ ships an update every 10 days, DoBuff weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift+ | DoBuff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (39 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 辉 彭 | 宇 李 |
Customer experience
Shift+
DoBuff
In-app purchases
Shift+
- 永久会员$14.99
DoBuff
- 月会员$0.991 Month
- 年会员$2.991 Year
- 永久会员$6.99









