Comparison

NextShift vs ShiftRoster

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

Head to head
About

NextShift

Manage your work schedule with a customizable shift calendar. Automatically calculates hours, overtime, and pay. Set shift alarms, add notes, and sync across devices. Share your schedule easily with others.

Highlights
  • Custom shift patterns and work cycles
  • Automatic calculation of hours and earnings
  • Overtime, bonuses, and expense tracking
  • Shift alarms
  • Detailed statistics and insights
  • Notes and tasks
  • Cloud sync and secure backups
Features
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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/

About

ShiftRoster

Features
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A shift-rotation calendar that gets 12-hour and DuPont overtime right, because most don't. Pick a rotation pattern — including 12-hour, DuPont, or your own custom cycle — set the day it starts, and ShiftRoster projects every month forward: your shift, your rest days, and public holidays for your German state (Bundesland), computed on your device with no yearly update needed. Why this app exists: shift-roster apps compute overtime by counting shift days, so a 12-hour rotation with 16 rest days a month shows overtime that makes no sense. ShiftRoster computes your target from your actual contract hours, so working a rest day adds real overtime and a rest day never inflates your target. Vacation and sick days are credited correctly. Your running hours balance (Stundenkonto) carries over month to month and is always something you can check against your own contract. FEATURES • Rotation patterns — 8-hour, 12-hour and DuPont templates, plus a custom cycle editor for any pattern not on the list • Month calendar — your shifts, rest days and public holidays at a glance • Hours & overtime — target vs. worked, computed correctly for 12-hour rotations, with vacation, sick and training days credited • Public holidays for all 16 German states (Bundesländer), calculated on your device with a local Easter-based algorithm — no network fetch, no yearly content update • A home-screen and Lock Screen widget showing today's and tomorrow's shift, built to keep working after iOS updates Unlock "Full roster" once, for EUR 5.99 / USD 5.99, to add: • Pay estimate — enter your hourly rate and night/Sunday/holiday supplement percentages for an estimated gross per period (not a payslip, not tax advice) • Calendar export — send your shifts to the iOS Calendar • CSV month sheet — a shareable hours-and-pay spreadsheet for payroll disputes • iCloud sync — your roster on every device you own Everything else — the full rotation calendar for any month, hours and overtime, one Bundesland's holidays, and the widget — is free, no trial, no time limit. This is a one-time purchase. No subscription, no ads. No account. No tracking. Your data stays on your device. ShiftRoster gives no legal, tax or payroll advice — the pay estimate is arithmetic on the rate and percentages you enter, so you can sanity-check your own payslip.

Screenshots

NextShift4 screens
ShiftRoster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: NextShift at 15.1 against ShiftRoster's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. NextShift sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and ShiftRoster sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
NextShift versus ShiftRoster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextShiftShiftRoster
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShift Workers LabSoin

In-app purchases

4 purchases

NextShift

Subscriptions4
  • 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
1 purchases

ShiftRoster

One-time1
  • Full roster$5.99

Questions

Is NextShift free?
NextShift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShiftRoster free?
ShiftRoster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NextShift or ShiftRoster have ads?
Neither NextShift nor ShiftRoster shows ads.

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