Comparison

Shift+ vs Awareness

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Awareness

Visualize your life's timeline, transforming abstract days, weeks, months, and years into tangible shapes and stories. Track important dates, milestones, and goals with beautiful, calming designs and always-visible widgets.

Highlights
  • Count days up or down from any date
  • Visualize life in weeks, months, quarters, years
  • Track birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, goals
  • iOS 26 liquid glass design with animations
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Cross-device support (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
  • One-time purchase
Features
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Time Awareness helps you experience time the way it really feels. Life has a strange rhythm—sometimes racing past before you notice, sometimes stretching endlessly. This app makes the invisible visible, turning abstract days, weeks, months, and years into something you can see, feel, and understand. Instead of staring at a clock or scanning a calendar, you see the bigger picture. Time Awareness transforms numeric dates into living timelines: how many days have passed since you were born, how many remain until an important milestone, how this quarter or year is unfolding right now. Suddenly, time isn’t a blur of numbers—it’s a shape, a story, a perspective you can hold in your hands. Use it to track birthdays, anniversaries, or personal goals. Mark the days since a meaningful event, or count down to the ones you’re waiting for. Explore the flow of your week, month, quarter, or year and watch how each piece fits into your life’s rhythm. These simple, beautiful visualizations help you feel grounded, present, and more connected to where you are in time. What users love most is the sense of calm and clarity it brings. Time Awareness isn’t about productivity hacks or constant reminders. It’s about perspective. It gently shifts how you see your life—not as a string of hours to fill, but as a landscape of moments to notice and experience. Many describe it as unexpectedly eye-opening, even beautiful. Design matters too. Time Awareness is crafted to look and feel as good as it works. Built with the new iOS 26 liquid glass design language, it feels smooth, modern, and calming. Animations give a sense of depth and flow, while Home Screen widgets keep your chosen timelines visible at a glance. Awareness isn’t hidden in an app—it’s right there, living alongside you. And with full Mac support, the same perspective follows you across every device. Ownership is simple: one purchase, forever yours. No subscriptions, no recurring payments—just a single decision that unlocks everything, including updates as the app grows. Whether you want to reflect on the past, anticipate the future, or simply feel the rhythm of everyday life, Time Awareness is your companion for living with presence. Key Features: • Count days up or down from any meaningful date • Visualize your life in weeks, months, quarters, and years • Track birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, and goals • Beautiful iOS 26 liquid glass design with smooth animations • Home Screen widgets for always-visible perspective • Works seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • One-time purchase with lifetime access Time Awareness helps you see the bigger picture, stay connected to your moments, and rediscover how it feels to live in time instead of losing track of it. Make your days visible. Make your life tangible. Live with awareness.

Screenshots

Shift+4 screens
Awareness4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Awareness at 100% against Shift+'s 50%. Awareness also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shift+ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Awareness sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shift+ ships an update every 10 days, Awareness every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Shift+ versus Awareness: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift+Awareness
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (24 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS1716.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer辉 彭TakeOnePiece LLC

Customer experience

Shift+

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Awareness

All ratings24 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Shift+

One-time1
  • 永久会员$14.99
3 purchases

Awareness

One-time3
  • Pro$6.99
  • Pro Membership$9.99
  • Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Shift+ free?
Shift+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Awareness free?
Awareness is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shift+ or Awareness have ads?
Neither Shift+ nor Awareness shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shift+ or Awareness?
Shift+ ships an update every 10 days, and Awareness every 9 days. Most recently, Shift+ was updated on September 23, 2026 and Awareness on September 18, 2026.

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