NextShift vs Shift Work Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NextShift
This app helps manage complex work schedules, automatically calculating hours, overtime, and pay. It allows for adding notes and to-dos to shifts, syncing data across devices, and sharing schedules with others. Plan and adjust work patterns with ease.
- Custom shift patterns and work cycles
- Automatic calculation of hours and earnings
- Overtime, bonuses, and expense tracking
- Detailed statistics and insights
- Notes and tasks in calendar
- Cloud sync and secure backups
- Shareable work schedules
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NextShift is the shift calendar for job schedules. It’s your work schedule calendar for 2‑on/2‑off, 24/72, day/night, and any custom cycle. Automatically totals hours, overtime, bonuses, expenses, and pay. Add notes and to‑dos to each shift and see per‑day and overall stats. Set an alarm before your shift - it will reliably ring on the day of your shift. Sync across devices with secure backups. Share your work schedule with family and coworkers via a link. Use the work schedule planner to build and tweak patterns fast. Features: • Custom shift patterns and work cycles • Automatic calculation of shifts, hours and earnings • Overtime, bonuses, and expense tracking • Shift alarms that always ring on your shift day • Detailed statistics and insights • Notes and tasks in your calendar • Cloud sync and secure backups By using this app, you agree to Apple's Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Shift Work Calendar
This app helps shift workers manage their schedules, track hours, breaks, and overtime. It offers real-time earnings updates, recurring shift scheduling, and planning templates. Integrations with popular calendars and advanced features like earnings forecasts are available with a Pro subscription.
- Shift tracking
- Real-time earnings updates
- Recurring shift scheduling
- Weekly, monthly, yearly views
- Planning templates
- Overtime calculations
- Calendar integration (Pro)
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ShiftGo is a smart shift calendar built for shift workers. • Track shifts, work hours, breaks and overtime • See your earnings update in real time • Schedule recurring shifts • View your schedule by week, month or year • Use templates for faster planning • Create reminders and track extra income • Automatic overtime calculations • Support for 24+ currencies • Public holidays for 53 countries • Pro: Apple Calendar and Google Calendar integration • Pro: earnings forecasts and PDF exports Ideal for nurses, healthcare workers, retail employees, hospitality staff, restaurant teams, warehouse workers, drivers, security personnel, emergency service workers and anyone working rotating, night or irregular shifts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shift Work Calendar at 5.0 against NextShift's 4.3. NextShift's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). 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. NextShift sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Shift Work Calendar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shift Work Calendar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NextShift has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
NextShift ships an update every 2 weeks, Shift Work Calendar every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NextShift | Shift Work Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shift Workers Lab | Enes KAYA |
Customer experience
NextShift
Shift Work Calendar
In-app purchases
NextShift
- Premium7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Premium Plus7 Days trial$4.491 Month
- Premium7 Days trial$23.991 Year
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- Premium Plus7 Days trial$35.991 Year
Shift Work Calendar
- ShiftGo Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- ShiftGo Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
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