Rescue Shift vs Frontline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rescue Shift
This app helps firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs manage their complex rotating work schedules. It displays your entire work calendar, tracks overtime and training, and allows you to share your schedule with family.
- Custom rotation scheduling
- Overtime and training tracking
- Retirement countdown
- Family schedule sharing
- First responder focused
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RescueShift is shift scheduling software built for fire departments, EMS agencies, and 24/7 public-safety crews. Retire the station whiteboard, the group text, and the spreadsheet. Your whole crew (and your family) works off one live schedule. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See who's on duty today, by station and apparatus • Run traditional rotations: 24/48, 48/96, 24/72, 3x12, 4x10, Kelly days, or a custom pattern • Post open shifts to a sign-up board and let members claim them from their phone • Catch coverage gaps before a unit drops below minimum staffing • Approve trades, PTO, and shift drops in one inbox with a staffing-impact check • Track FLSA 7(k) overtime across 7–28 day work periods • Put a live, read-only coverage board on any station TV, no login needed • Track certifications and continuing education so nothing expires unnoticed • Share your personal schedule with up to 10 family members BUILT FOR FIRST RESPONDERS Firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, engineers, and 911 dispatchers. It also fits contract ambulance services, hospital emergency departments, and any team that runs around-the-clock coverage. PRICING Free for individuals (ad-supported). Premium ($2.99/mo) removes ads and adds family sharing. Department plans add the admin dashboard, roster, trades, whiteboard, and analytics. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rescueshift.com/privacy https://rescueshift.com/terms
Frontline
This app helps first responders manage their complex work schedules with a user-friendly calendar. It supports various shift patterns, allows for logging events and incidents, and offers a private, device-only storage solution. Optional Pro features enhance functionality with advanced logging and widgets.
- Supports diverse shift patterns
- Month and week view
- Home-screen widgets
- Shift trade logging
- Event and reminder management
- Incident and exposure log
- PDF and calendar export
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Frontline is the shift calendar built for first responders - Firefighters, EMS, Police and 911 Dispatch. Set up your rotation in about 30 seconds, then see your whole month at a glance. Frontline knows the schedules crews actually work - 24/48, 48/96, 24/72, 1/3/2/3, Kelly, Pitman, 4-on/4-off, DuPont and more - so you pick yours and you're done. No account. No setup headache. Not on a rotation? Straight days, a 9/80, a regular work week - Fire Marshals, inspectors, detectives, SROs, retirees, spouses and office staff all have a setup, or you can skip work days entirely and just use the calendar. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU WORK - Large month calendar. Your on-duty days, events and reminders at a glance, in a dark design made for night shift. - Shift trades. Log who's covering, track who owes who, and text a clean trade card that makes it obvious to everyone involved. - Events and quick adds. Court, training, overtime, appointments, sick, vacation - color-coded, with reminders that fire before your shift. - Share your rotation. Send your schedule to a new hire or your spouse with a code to scan or a link to text - they get your work days on their phone in one tap. - Home-screen widgets. Your month or your week, always on. - Hours tracked. Log OT, sick, vacation and comp by the day, and see the totals. - Career tracking. Career shift count, rank history, milestones, and the day you clear probation. - Print and export. A clean PDF of your month, or send your shifts to your other calendars. - Dark and light. Night-shift ready either way. FRONTLINE PRO - Leave balances. Vacation, sick and comp counted down in shifts as you use them and up on every payday. Set your own accrual rate and cap, and get warned before you hit the ceiling and stop earning. - Vacation bids. Tap every day you picked, across the whole year, and stamp them all in one pass. - Calendar sync. Keep your shifts on your Google or Apple calendar so your family sees them without you texting a screenshot. - More calendar views. Week, day timeline and agenda. - Certifications. CPR, ACLS, HazMat and the rest, counting down in shifts, with reminders before anything lapses. - Incident and exposure log. A fast, private, date-stamped record of the calls that matter - cancer presumption, bloodborne exposure, a court date years out. Export it as a clean PDF. - Partial trades and hours owed. Trade part of a shift instead of the whole thing, and see exactly how many hours you owe each person. - Partner schedule. Your next day off together, and every day you both work, in a color you pick. - Month, week and day widgets, unlimited share cards, and PDF exports by week, day or year. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Your schedule, events, trades and notes are stored on your phone, not on our servers. Your schedule is yours. Free includes the full rotation calendar, events and quick adds, shift trades, rotation sharing, hours tracking, career tracking, the week widget, and month PDF and calendar-file export. Frontline Pro unlocks the rest, as a one-time Lifetime purchase or a yearly subscription. Made by Code 3 Tek. Built by a Fire Captain who got tired of clunky schedules. Privacy Policy: https://frontlinecalendar.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Frontline at 100% against Rescue Shift's 0%. Frontline also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). Rescue Shift's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Rescue Shift sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Frontline sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Frontline holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Frontline has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Rescue Shift's written reviews are positive against 100% of Frontline's.
Rescue Shift ships an update monthly, Frontline every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rescue Shift | Frontline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eduardo Verde | Code3Tek |
Customer experience
Rescue Shift
Frontline
In-app purchases
Rescue Shift
- Premium RescueShift$2.991 Month
Frontline
- Frontline Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Frontline Pro (Lifetime)$14.99
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