ShiftNight vs LifeBuff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShiftNight
This app creates personalized sleep plans for individuals with irregular schedules. It provides recommendations for sleep, caffeine intake, and naps based on your unique daily routine, helping you optimize rest and recovery.
- Personalized sleep plans
- Schedule-aware recommendations
- Caffeine timing guidance
- Nap planning
- Sleep tracking
- Recovery day transitions
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Fall asleep faster, sleep longer and track your sleep sounds. ShiftNight designs the best sleep possible for your busy schedule. Optionally pairs with Apple Watch, Oura Ring, and any Apple Health enabled wearable. Keep notes about your nights, dreams, and medications in your sleep journal. Personalize by adding your schedule: shifts, life events, school. See when to sleep, when to stop caffeine, and when a quick rest fits. No generic bedtime reminders. No advice built for someone who sleeps at 10pm. What ShiftNight does: - Sleep tracking: See sleep quality and stages improve over time! Log and record your sleep with one tap. - Schedule-aware: Personalize your schedule! Recommendations shift when your schedule shifts - Visual timeline: See your shift, sleep zones, caffeine cutoff, and rest windows on one screen - Caffeine timing: Know exactly when to stop so it does not wreck your post-shift sleep Who it is for: Inconsistent sleep schedules. Night shift workers on 12-hour rotations (7pm to 7am, 6pm to 6am, and similar patterns). Nurses in ICU, ER, Med-Surg, and telemetry. Security, warehouse, factory, and EMS workers. Travel nurses and new grads adjusting to nights for the first time. Multiple full time or part time jobs Entrepreneurs Subscription pricing & terms: A Paid Subscription is required to access the content of the app. Subscriptions automatically renew at the chosen plan price unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://shiftnight.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://shiftnight.com/terms
LifeBuff
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Life Buff is your daily food, sleep, water, and mood companion — helping you build better habits without pressure. Small habits can change how your whole day feels. Life Buff makes healthy living easier by helping you understand what you eat, how much you drink, how well you sleep, and how your mood changes over time. Just snap a meal, check your daily score, log your mood, track your sleep, and get simple, friendly suggestions from your personal habit sidekick. Whether you want to eat better, sleep earlier, drink more water, or simply feel more balanced, Life Buff helps you improve one small step at a time. Try Life Buff now and start building better days with simple insights, playful feedback, and personalized daily guidance. What Life Buff Can Do 1. Snap a Meal, Understand Your Food Take a photo of your meal and Life Buff helps estimate calories, macros, and nutrition highlights. See what is high in protein, balanced, light, high in calories, or energy-rich. Life Buff helps you understand your food without making tracking feel complicated. 2. Track Calories and Macros Get a clearer view of your daily intake, including calories, carbs, fats, and protein. Life Buff gives easy-to-read summaries so you can quickly understand whether your meal is balanced, heavy, light, or needs a small adjustment. No strict dieting. No confusing numbers. Just simple food awareness. 3. Build Better Hydration Habits Life Buff helps you track your daily water intake and reminds you when it may be time to drink more. Small hydration habits can support better energy, focus, and daily routine. Stay refreshed, one cup at a time. 4. Understand Your Sleep Log your sleep time and wake-up time to see your total sleep duration. Life Buff helps you understand whether you are well-rested, slightly tired, or running low on energy. Build a better bedtime rhythm with gentle reminders and simple feedback. 5. Check In With Your Mood Choose how you feel each day with expressive mood stickers. Track moods like happy, calm, excited, sad, anxious, stressed, tired, neutral, or no mood. Life Buff helps you notice emotional patterns and connect them with your food, sleep, and daily habits. 6. Get Your Daily Life Score Life Buff brings your food, water, sleep, and mood together into one simple daily score. See what went well, what could be improved, and what one small change you can try tomorrow. Your day does not need to be perfect. It just needs one better habit. 7. Meet Your Habit Sidekick Life Buff uses a fun, expressive character to make habit tracking feel lighter and more human. Your sidekick reacts to your daily status — tired, strong, happy, sleepy, bored, or low-energy — so your progress feels more playful and motivating. Who Is Life Buff For? [About LifeBuff Premium] • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription • Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off, by going to iTunes Subscriptions after purchase Terms of Use: https://app-service.lifebuffai.com/static/user_agreement.html Privacy Policy: https://app-service.lifebuffai.com/static/privacy_policy.html
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Verdict
ShiftNight and LifeBuff are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. ShiftNight sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days and LifeBuff sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | ShiftNight | LifeBuff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (54 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 196 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HAVEN VU | PIXELCELL.LIMITED |
In-app purchases
ShiftNight
- Weekly$8.997 Days
- Weekly$9.997 Days
- Monthly$14.991 Month
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- Annual$29.991 Year
- Annual$39.991 Year
- Annual$49.991 Year
- Annual$59.991 Year
- Annual3 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Annual$69.991 Year
- Lifetime$69.99
LifeBuff
- LifeBuff Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year







