Comparison

Shift Mate vs Shift Calendar · Baro

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

Head to head
About

Shift Mate

Manage complex shift schedules and track your income with this intuitive calendar app. It automatically calculates work hours, including overnight shifts, and estimates your monthly wages based on your hourly rate. Visualize your work patterns with insightful statistics and enjoy a clean, customizable interface.

Highlights
  • Smart shift management and creation
  • Automatic work hour calculation
  • Real-time estimated wage tracking
  • Insightful work statistics
  • Customizable shift colors
  • Supports overnight shifts
  • Minimalist UI with Dark Mode
Features
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Still struggling with complex shift schedules? Shift Mate is the smartest and most convenient shift calendar app designed specifically for shift workers. Easily set up your work patterns and see your calendar automatically filled. Not only can you record work hours, but you can also manage your income with an integrated wage calculator based on your hourly rate. Key Features: 1. Smart Shift Management & Creation - Freely set your own shift types like Day, Night, Off, and Duty. - Organize your calendar with customizable colors for each shift type. - Automatically generate schedules for recurring patterns (e.g., Day-Day-Night-Night-Off-Off). 2. Accurate Work Hour Calculator & Logs - Automatically calculates actual work hours, considering start/end times and breaks. - Sophisticated system that perfectly supports overnight shifts. - Provides monthly statistics for total work days and hours. 3. Real-Time Estimated Wage Tracking - Automatically calculates monthly wages based on your hourly rate settings. - Manage your income just by recording your shifts, without worrying about complex calculations. 4. Insightful Work Statistics - Visualize the distribution of your shift types with intuitive charts. - Understand your work patterns at a glance with the monthly summary grid. 5. Clean and Intuitive UI - Minimalist design that anyone can use with ease. - Supports Dark Mode and various customization options. Shift Mate helps anyone working in shifts—nurses, security guards, factory workers, and service staff—manage their time effectively.

About

Shift Calendar · Baro

Features
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■ Know your shift, forever. You do not work a week. You work a cycle — days, nights, off-duty, rest, and around again. A normal calendar cannot say that in one line, so you end up counting on your fingers, or screenshotting the ward roster, or asking someone. Tap out your cycle once. Say which day it started. That is the whole setup, and it takes about twenty seconds. From then on the app knows what you are on for any date — next Tuesday, the wedding in eight months, the same week two years ago. ------------------------------- ● The answer is already on screen ------------------------------- Open the app and today's shift is one huge glyph filling the display. No loading, no splash, no ad, no sign-in, no empty state. Read it from across the room, or half awake at 3am, or through the window of a moving bus. Rest days are drawn in the app's one accent colour. Scan a month and your days off jump out before you have read a single character. ------------------------------- ● Any date. Any year. ------------------------------- • Scroll the month view backwards to any past year and forwards to any future year. It does not stop, in either direction — a cycle is just arithmetic, and the app does the arithmetic. • Tap any day to blow it up to full screen. • A home-screen widget shows the same glyph, worked out on the device itself, so it stays right without a network, a background task or a notification. ------------------------------- ● Reality is messier than a cycle ------------------------------- Swapped a shift? Covering for someone? Tap the big glyph and set that one day to whatever you actually worked. The cycle keeps running underneath, untouched, and the correction stays pinned to that date forever. Tap once more to put it back. ------------------------------- ● Share a cycle in two taps ------------------------------- Your rotation turns into a short code you can send to a coworker in any messaging app. They paste it and their calendar matches yours. No server sees it, no account is created, nothing is uploaded — the code is just your pattern and its start date, written down. ------------------------------- ● Private by design ------------------------------- • Zero network code. Nothing leaves this phone, ever — check it in airplane mode. • Requests no system permissions at all: no notifications, no calendar, no contacts, no camera, no microphone, no location. • No account, no login, no sign-up. Privacy label: Data Not Collected. • Zero analytics. Zero telemetry. Zero third-party SDKs. • No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. Your work schedule says where you are and when you are not home. It should never have left your pocket in the first place. ------------------------------- ● Built to be read, not operated ------------------------------- • Every control is at least 64 × 64 pt. • Single taps only. No double-taps, no long-presses, no swipes, no hidden gestures. • Deleting is never a tap on the thing being deleted. • High-contrast type on a true-black background — a full-screen glyph at 3am uses a fraction of the light a white calendar does. • Six languages: English, Korean, Japanese, German, French, Arabic, with right-to-left layout. ------------------------------- ● Made for ------------------------------- • Nurses, carers and hospital staff on 2-shift and 3-shift rotations • Firefighters, police and paramedics on 24/48, DuPont, Panama and Pitman cycles • Factory, plant and warehouse crews on 4-team 3-shift patterns • Security, transport, hospitality — anyone whose Monday is not everyone's Monday ------------------------------- ● The Baro promise ------------------------------- Shift Calendar is part of Baro — lightweight tools that respect your data, your battery, and your time. "The tools you reach for first."

Screenshots

Shift Mate4 screens
Shift Calendar · Baro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Shift Calendar · Baro at none against Shift Mate's shown. Shift Calendar · Baro also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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 Mate ships an update every 6 months, Shift Calendar · Baro every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Shift Mate versus Shift Calendar · Baro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift MateShift Calendar · Baro
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeulki EomEuiseok Kim

In-app purchases

None

Shift Mate

No in-app purchases

None

Shift Calendar · Baro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shift Mate free?
Shift Mate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shift Calendar · Baro free?
Shift Calendar · Baro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shift Mate or Shift Calendar · Baro have ads?
Shift Mate shows ads; Shift Calendar · Baro does not.
Which is updated more often, Shift Mate or Shift Calendar · Baro?
Shift Mate ships an update every 6 months, and Shift Calendar · Baro every 2 days. Most recently, Shift Mate was updated on September 25, 2026 and Shift Calendar · Baro on September 20, 2026.

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