Shift Box vs Tiny Owl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shift Box
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Tired of writing your rotating shifts on paper calendars? Shift Box is the simplest shift calendar app designed for nurses, firefighters, police officers, and anyone with a changing schedule. Organize your work-life balance effortlessly. [Key Features] 1. One-Tap Shift Entry Create your own shift patterns and fill up your monthly calendar in seconds. No more tedious typing. 2. Fully Customizable Shifts Define your own shift types like "Day", "Night", "Off", or "Swing". Choose your favorite colors and names. 3. Group Sharing Create groups with friends, family, or colleagues. Check each other's rosters in one place and plan hangouts easily. 4. Monthly Statistics Visualize your work history. See how many night shifts or holidays you worked this month with clear charts. 5. Secure Cloud Backup Never lose your data. Log in with Apple or Google to safely backup and restore your schedule anytime, anywhere.
Tiny Owl
Instantly send and receive team push notifications for seamless coordination. Manage team members, broadcast messages, and customize alerts. Stay connected with reliable delivery tracking and notification history.
- Instant push notifications
- Team management and membership
- Broadcast messaging
- Customizable notification sounds
- Notification history
- Per-team notification controls
- Offline support
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Tiny Owl is the fastest way to send and receive push notifications, whether they come from your team or from a public channel you follow. PUBLIC CHANNELS Subscribe to a channel and get its alerts the moment they happen. No account, no email address, no location permission. One tap to join and one tap to leave. • Earthquakes, with data from the USGS • Severe weather alerts, aurora forecasts and air quality • Top tech stories, and free games the day they drop • Rocket launches, and the Space Station passing overhead Every channel tells you where its data comes from and how often it posts, before you subscribe. If you like a channel but it turns noisy, mute it without leaving. IMPORTANT Tiny Owl is not an official emergency service and not an early warning system. Channels report events that have already happened, using public data, with whatever delay those sources carry. They never replace your local authorities or official emergency channels. TEAM NOTIFICATIONS • Real-time alerts from your teams, with delivery tracking • Join by invitation, and see members and roles in one place • Admins reach the whole team in a single tap • Full notification history, with delivery status and timestamps • Mute individual teams or channels without leaving them • Sign in with Apple, Google, or email HOW IT WORKS 1. Open the app and pick a channel, or accept your team's invitation. 2. Turn on notifications. 3. That's it. Alerts arrive on their own. Teams can also send broadcasts from the API, from the app, or from the Tiny Owl web dashboard at tinyowl.io. In Spanish the app is called Buhito, and in Portuguese Corujinha. Privacy Policy: https://www.tinyowl.io/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.tinyowl.io/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tiny Owl at none against Shift Box's shown. On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shift Box ships an update every 5 days, Tiny Owl every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift Box | Tiny Owl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | myungkyu namkung | Joseph Williams |
In-app purchases
Shift Box
No in-app purchases
Tiny Owl
No in-app purchases









