Comparison

Shift Box vs Tiny Owl

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

Head to head
About

Shift Box

Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Instant push notifications
  • Team management and membership
  • Broadcast messaging
  • Customizable notification sounds
  • Notification history
  • Per-team notification controls
  • Offline support
Features
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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

Screenshots

Shift Box4 screens
Tiny Owl4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Shift Box versus Tiny Owl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift BoxTiny Owl
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermyungkyu namkungJoseph Williams

In-app purchases

None

Shift Box

No in-app purchases

None

Tiny Owl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shift Box free?
Shift Box is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiny Owl free?
Tiny Owl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shift Box or Tiny Owl have ads?
Shift Box shows ads; Tiny Owl does not.
Which is updated more often, Shift Box or Tiny Owl?
Shift Box ships an update every 5 days, and Tiny Owl every 3 days. Most recently, Shift Box was updated on October 28, 2026 and Tiny Owl on November 5, 2026.

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