Comparison

PLanZO vs ShiftlyWork

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

Head to head
About

PLanZO

Features
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PLanZO — Your Smart Vacation & Shift Planner Plan your leave with ease and intelligence. PLanZO brings together smart calendars, official holidays, and shift management in one beautifully designed app. Why PLanZO? Smart Calendar: Visualize work days, off days, and shifts with clear color coding. Shift Support: Full management for rotating shifts and rosters. Official Holidays: Automatic updates based on your country. "Jernaas" Assistant: Smart voice notes that understand Arabic dialects. Day Calculator: Instantly calculate days between any two dates. Advanced Planning: Full year view or detailed monthly breakdown. Monthly stats (work days vs. leave balance). Optimized for Ramadan and religious holidays. Draft & Compare: Save multiple vacation plans before deciding. Voice Intelligence: Speak naturally in your dialect to schedule leaves. Auto-extraction of dates and tasks from voice notes. 100% Privacy: Speech recognition runs on-device. Privacy & Security: Secure your plans with Face ID. Transparent privacy policy with no data sharing. Subscription Information (PLanZO Pro): Title: PLanZO Pro (Monthly / Yearly). Length of Subscription: 1 Month or 1 Year. Price: 14.99 AED per month / 99.99 AED per year. Payment: Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Auto-Renewal: Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account Charging: Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified. Management: Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Legal Links: Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: [Insert Your Privacy Policy URL Here] Achieve better work-life balance. Download PLanZO today!

About

ShiftlyWork

This app is a specialized calendar designed for shift workers. It tracks fatigue, manages leave, estimates pay, and generates work patterns. It visually distinguishes different shift types and off days for clarity.

Highlights
  • Shift-aware calendar
  • Fatigue tracking
  • Leave management
  • Payroll estimation
  • Shift pattern generation
  • Color-coded shift types
Features
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ShiftlyWork— Every shift, in its place. The shift calendar that finally works the way shift workers do. Built for the work nobody else builds for If you've ever stared at the calendar app on your phone and felt that it was made for someone else's life, you're not imagining it. Most calendars assume a Monday-to-Friday world. They treat every day the same. They can't tell a Day shift from a Night shift. They have no concept of "Off." They don't know that you have thirty-six days of annual leave and have already burned twenty-six of them. They certainly can't help you swap a Thursday night with the colleague who covered for you last month. ShiftlyWork was built specifically for that gap. It is a shift-aware calendar, fatigue tracker, leave manager, payroll estimator, and pattern generator — designed from the ground up for people whose schedule rotates, whose nights become days, and whose weekends can land on a Tuesday. Whether you fly aircraft, monitor air traffic, drive trucks, run a hospital ward, walk a factory floor, secure a checkpoint, marshal an airport stand, staff a hotel front desk, or operate machinery on a rig, ShiftlyWork is the one app on your phone that finally understands what you actually do for a living. The whole product is shaped by a single belief: shift workers deserve the same quality of software that knowledge workers take for granted. No more cramming a twenty-four-hour life into a nine-to-five tool. No more sticky notes on the fridge. No more group-chat scrolling to remember who agreed to swap what. No more spreadsheets that nobody updates after the third week. Just a clean, fast, beautifully designed app that knows what a shift is, knows what fatigue means, and knows that your wallet has a different rhythm than your team lead's. ShiftlyWork is offered today on iPhone built in respective platform's modern frameworks — SwiftUI and the latest Liquid Glass design language on iOS, so the app feels at home on whichever device you carry, with full feature parity across both. A Smart Calendar that thinks in shifts. The home of ShiftlyWork is the calendar — but unlike every calendar you've used before, this one speaks your language. Each day is colour-coded by shift type. Day shifts glow in warm orange. Nights cool to a deep violet. Off days settle into a quiet grey. Comp days, annual leave, and standby duties each get their own visual identity, so a single glance at the month tells you everything: where you're working, where you're resting, where you're on call, and where you're free. You can scroll any month, tap any date, jump to any year. The current week is highlighted softly. Today is marked with a ring. Shifts show their start times right on the cell, so you can see at a glance whether Wednesday is an 06:00 day shift or an 18:00 night, whether Saturday is a comp off or a real day to yourself. The Sunday-to-Saturday week start works for most regions, but you can switch to Saturday-start if your Shift Patterns: set it once, forever scheduled. ShiftlyWork is that tool. Every shift, in its place. Every leave day accounted for. Every swap tracked. Every fatigue signal noticed. Every dirham earned, calculated. All of it on the device already in your pocket, designed by people who understand the work and respect the worker. Download ShiftlyWork today and put your schedule, your sleep, your earnings, and your life back where they belong — in your hands.

Screenshots

PLanZO4 screens
ShiftlyWork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PLanZO at every 4 days against ShiftlyWork's every 3 weeks. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PLanZO sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ShiftlyWork sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PLanZO ships an update every 4 days, ShiftlyWork every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PLanZO versus ShiftlyWork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPLanZOShiftlyWork
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArif HassanMohamad Gashteh

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PLanZO

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • PLanZO Pro$24.991 Year
1 purchases

ShiftlyWork

One-time1
  • Shiftly Pro$3.99

Questions

Is PLanZO free?
PLanZO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShiftlyWork free?
ShiftlyWork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PLanZO or ShiftlyWork have ads?
Neither PLanZO nor ShiftlyWork shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PLanZO or ShiftlyWork?
PLanZO ships an update every 4 days, and ShiftlyWork every 3 weeks. Most recently, PLanZO was updated on September 12, 2026 and ShiftlyWork on September 21, 2026.

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