CareShiftER vs Schedule Auto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CareShiftER
This app simplifies shift scheduling for nurses and medical professionals. It offers smart tracking, customizable alerts, and analytics to manage work hours and pay. Easily share your schedule and sync with your calendar.
- Smart shift tracking with preset and custom shifts
- Healthcare role templates and custom icons
- Recurring shift pattern setup
- Analytics for hours worked and pay estimates
- Customizable reminders and alerts
- Schedule sharing via text, email, or calendar export
- Cross-device sync and Face ID/Touch ID login
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Your shifts, your time, your life outside work. CareShiftER helps nurses and healthcare shift workers organize changing schedules, build rotations, and track hours and estimated pay. PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE • See your shifts in weekly and monthly calendars. • Create named custom shift presets with exact start and end times, colors, and optional workplaces. • Add a shift to several dates at once or copy a week. • Review the proposed schedule, overlaps, and long-day warnings before saving. • Undo a recent schedule change when you need to. KEEP THE DETAILS TOGETHER • Open any day to see its shifts, workplaces, notes, and tags. • Follow overnight shifts across midnight with clear next-day end times. • Edit a shift or duplicate it to a new date. • Mark shifts as Scheduled or Worked and record unpaid breaks. BUILD REPEATING PATTERNS • Create a rotation that matches your working week or shift cycle. • Choose a date range and review the shifts before applying it. • Update one occurrence or the matching future shifts in that pattern. UNDERSTAND YOUR HOURS AND PAY • Set hourly rates and configure overtime, night, and weekend premiums. • Keep employer groups and currencies separate. • Review hours and estimated gross pay by workweek, pay period, month, or custom dates. • Use weekly, biweekly, or twice-monthly pay periods and individual shift rate overrides. SHARE AND BACK UP • Share your schedule as text, an image, or a calendar file. • Export a complete backup with shifts, presets, patterns, profile, and preferences. • Preview a backup before restoring it, with a recovery copy of the preceding data. MAKE IT YOURS • Choose your calendar week start, date format, 12- or 24-hour time, and reminder preferences. • Choose a holiday country and available regional calendars independently of the app language. • Keep all 45 app language choices available. • Use the guided setup to review your preferences at any time. • Keep role and workplace details optional. TRY IT, THEN UNLOCK FOR LIFE Enjoy a 30-day trial, then choose a one-time Pro Lifetime purchase. No recurring subscription. Your local purchase price is shown before you confirm. After the trial ends, you can still view and export your saved schedule. Restore eligible purchases from Settings. Pay figures are estimates of gross pay before taxes and deductions, based on the settings you enter. They may differ from your employer's payroll calculations.
Schedule Auto
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Spent your Sunday building next month's roster? Never again. Schedule Auto builds a balanced Day/Evening/Night/Off schedule for your entire team in seconds. You set the rules, members submit their preferences, the app does the rest. Built for shift managers everywhere: nursing teams, factories, call centers, hotels, security, and any team running a 3-shift rotation. The real headache isn't the shifts — it's juggling night fairness, back-to-back coverage, requested days off, and individual preferences all at once. Without dropping coverage on a single day. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a room. Set year, month, team size, and weekday/weekend staffing. 2. Share the 4-digit code. Members join and enter their own shift preferences and off-day requests. 3. Tap Generate. A balanced roster appears in seconds, ready to export as Excel. Under a minute to set up. No account required. CORE FEATURES Roster Generation A full month of Day/Evening/Night/Off shifts, balanced for coverage and fairness. Regenerate anytime the rules change. Preference Collection Members submit their own preferences and off-day requests through the room. No chasing, no spreadsheet forwarding. Excel Export One tap to download. Send it to your team by email, chat, or print — wherever your team lives. PRO FEATURES Upgrade to Pro for deeper control: - Unlimited roster generations per room - Night shift cap per member - Shift separation rules (keep two members off the same shift) - Extra off-day allocation - Weekday/Weekend staffing split PRIVACY FIRST - No account, no login - No personal data beyond what a solve needs - Room data lives on your device and on our scheduling server only for the duration of a solve - No tracking, no ads, no third-party analytics Schedule Auto provides scheduling suggestions based on your inputs and your team's preferences. It is not a substitute for professional labor compliance review or legal guidance. Always review the final roster before publishing. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Schedule Auto at 13.0 against CareShiftER's 15.1. 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
Both are free to download. CareShiftER sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Schedule Auto sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | CareShiftER | Schedule Auto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lucentix Labs LLC | JUHWAN PARK |
In-app purchases
CareShiftER
- Pro Lifetime$5.99
Schedule Auto
- Subscription — Full Access7 Days trial$4.991 Month









