Overtime Live vs ShiftCheck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Overtime Live
Track your earnings in real-time directly on your iPhone Lock Screen. This app visualizes your pay, overtime, and take-home pay after estimated taxes. It helps manage complex pay structures and plan your schedule.
- Live earnings on Lock Screen
- Real-time pay calculation
- Take-home pay estimator
- Overtime and unsocial hours tracking
- Rota planning and calendar sync
- Shift insights and goal tracking
- Data export (CSV)
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Know exactly what every shift is worth. Watch your pay tick up live on your Lock Screen, plan your work schedule in seconds and see your take-home pay before you say yes to overtime. Built by a shift worker, for shift workers. Free, no subscription, no sign-up. YOUR EARNINGS, LIVE ON THE LOCK SCREEN The moment you start a shift, a Live Activity shows your pay ticking up and the time left, without opening the app. On iPhone 14 Pro and later it appears in the Dynamic Island too. WATCH YOUR PAY TICK UP Enter your hourly rate and Overtime Live counts your earnings up second by second, with overtime tracked separately from regular hours. KNOW YOUR REAL TAKE-HOME PAY See past the gross figure. The What-If calculator compares hours, rate and estimated take-home pay before you accept a shift, and the Take Home Pay card estimates what you actually keep after tax. Set your pay period to weekly, biweekly, monthly or a custom date and track every payday. BUILT FOR SHIFT WORK Handle the pay that office apps ignore: overtime multipliers like time and a half and double time, shift differentials, on-call days with separate callback pay, flat-rate sleep-ins, shifts with no set end that count up until you finish, and custom rates for any arrangement. Split a shift across different rates or an unpaid break and track comp time. Add expenses and receipt photos to any shift. PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE IN SECONDS Pick a popular rotation such as DuPont, Pitman or 4 on 4 off, or build your own and fill in weeks or months ahead. Save your usual shifts as templates, set reminders and see everything in month, week, day, agenda or full-screen calendar views. Overlap warnings, schedule export and iPhone calendar sync included. INSIGHTS, STATS & GOALS Explore a 12-month hours and earnings heatmap, track totals and averages, set a yearly goal and unlock achievements as your shifts add up. On compatible iPhones, optional Apple Intelligence creates a short personalized briefing on-device. YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY Your shift, pay and goal data stays on your device. Optional iCloud backup uses your personal iCloud account and keeps earlier copies automatically, so you can restore if you need to. Export your hours and pay history as CSV or a monthly PDF for taxes or bookkeeping. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL ONE-TIME PRO UNLOCK Shift tracking, live earnings, your schedule calendar, stats and iCloud backup are free. Your first 30 days include every Pro feature. After that, a one-time Pro purchase removes ads, adds the Apple Watch app and lifts the limits on What-If calculations, exports, expenses and pay period tracking. No subscription. WHO IT'S FOR Nurses, CNAs and caregivers. Police, EMTs and firefighters. Retail, restaurant and warehouse workers. Security, delivery drivers and gig workers. Anyone paid by the hour who wants to see what their time is really worth. Available in English, German, Spanish and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). Download Overtime Live and make every hour count.
ShiftCheck
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Nurses work twelve-hour shifts with night differentials, weekend differentials, charge pay and overtime stacked on top. Paychecks get it wrong, and working out what you were owed by hand takes longer than the error is worth chasing. ShiftCheck logs your shifts and does that work for you. **Track every shift** Log shifts in seconds on a calendar built for twelve-hour blocks. Repeat a shift weekly for a whole rotation. Mark the shifts you were in charge or precepting. Nights, weekends and holidays are picked up automatically from the times you worked. **Know what you should be paid** See your expected gross for the current pay period, broken down line by line — base hours, each differential, and overtime — with an explanation of the rule behind every line. **Then check it actually arrived** Enter what your paystub says, or photograph it, and ShiftCheck compares the two line by line. When something is short it tells you which line and why, in words you can send straight to payroll. It catches the two most common errors: • **Overtime paid on your base rate.** Under the FLSA, overtime is paid on the regular rate, which includes your shift differentials. Payroll systems routinely use the base rate instead. On a fortnight with eight overtime hours that is real money. • **Meal breaks you never took.** Many hospitals deduct thirty minutes automatically. If you worked through it, those hours are payable. **Built for how nurses are actually paid** United States: hourly rates with flat differentials, FLSA 40-hour overtime, the hospital 8/80 rule, and California daily overtime including the 3×12 alternative workweek. United Kingdom: NHS Agenda for Change. Pick your band and pay point and your rate, Section 2 unsocial hours enhancements and overtime rules follow from the national agreement. Please note the England pay structure is supported; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use separate pay circulars. **Reminders that earn their place** One before your shift, if you want it. One on payday, to check your check. That is all. **Your data stays on your phone** No account. No sign-up. Nothing uploaded. Your pay rates and paychecks never leave your device — we could not read them if we wanted to. **Also included** Track more than one job for per-diem and agency work. Keep a running time-off balance in hours, which is the only way it works out on twelve-hour shifts. --- **ShiftCheck Pro** Shift tracking and expected pay are free, and stay free. Pro adds paycheck comparison, paystub scanning, multiple jobs and time-off tracking. $4.99 per month, or $29.99 per year with a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Payment is charged to your store account at confirmation. Manage or cancel in your account settings. Terms of Use: https://coralcellcompany-boop.github.io/shiftcheck/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://coralcellcompany-boop.github.io/shiftcheck/privacy/ ShiftCheck provides estimates for personal record-keeping only. It is not legal, tax, or payroll advice. Always verify with your employer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ShiftCheck at none against Overtime Live's shown. ShiftCheck also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). Overtime Live's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases 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. Overtime Live sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ShiftCheck sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Overtime Live ships an update every 3 weeks, ShiftCheck daily. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Overtime Live | ShiftCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andy Mesa | Coralcell Limited |
In-app purchases
Overtime Live
- Overtime Live Pro$1.99
ShiftCheck
- ShiftCheck Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- ShiftCheck Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
- Pro — Lifetime$59.99









