Comparison

Shift Calendar & Work Roster vs ShiftRoster

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

Head to head
About

Shift Calendar & Work Roster

Easily plan rotating work schedules, track your hours, and estimate your pay. This app helps organize complex shift patterns for professions like nursing and firefighting, with customizable reminders and offline access.

Highlights
  • Rotating shift pattern planning
  • Color-coded schedule visualization
  • Work hour and estimated pay tracking
  • Shift reminders
  • Offline schedule access
  • Device calendar sync (Pro)
  • Home screen widgets (Pro)
Features
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Plan rotating shifts, track work hours, and see your estimated earnings with Workshift. A shift calendar for nurses, firefighters, security staff, and anyone whose work schedule changes from week to week. PLAN YOUR ROTATION Set up a repeating pattern of day shifts, night shifts, and days off. Choose a rotation template or create your own, then apply it to your calendar without entering every shift individually. Plan 12-hour shifts and custom working hours around your routine. SEE YOUR SCHEDULE CLEARLY Use color-coded shifts to see when you work and when you're free. Check upcoming shifts, add notes, and keep your work schedule organized in one place. TRACK HOURS AND ESTIMATED PAY Record regular shifts and overtime, enter your pay rates, and review your hours and estimated earnings. Keep a clearer picture of your working month based on the shifts and rates you enter. STAY PREPARED Set reminders before your shifts and use dark mode for comfortable viewing at night. Your saved schedule is available offline, so you can check it even when you have no signal. GO FURTHER WITH WORKSHIFT PRO • Device calendar sync to keep shifts alongside your other events • Home Screen widgets for a quick view of your schedule • Advanced statistics to review your hours and earnings • CSV export for your shift records Calendar sync requires permission to access your device's calendars. Pro features require a purchase. Make your next rotation easier to manage. Download Workshift and plan your shifts ahead. Terms of Use: https://smallorbit.studio/apps/workshift/terms/

About

ShiftRoster

Features
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A shift-rotation calendar that gets 12-hour and DuPont overtime right, because most don't. Pick a rotation pattern — including 12-hour, DuPont, or your own custom cycle — set the day it starts, and ShiftRoster projects every month forward: your shift, your rest days, and public holidays for your German state (Bundesland), computed on your device with no yearly update needed. Why this app exists: shift-roster apps compute overtime by counting shift days, so a 12-hour rotation with 16 rest days a month shows overtime that makes no sense. ShiftRoster computes your target from your actual contract hours, so working a rest day adds real overtime and a rest day never inflates your target. Vacation and sick days are credited correctly. Your running hours balance (Stundenkonto) carries over month to month and is always something you can check against your own contract. FEATURES • Rotation patterns — 8-hour, 12-hour and DuPont templates, plus a custom cycle editor for any pattern not on the list • Month calendar — your shifts, rest days and public holidays at a glance • Hours & overtime — target vs. worked, computed correctly for 12-hour rotations, with vacation, sick and training days credited • Public holidays for all 16 German states (Bundesländer), calculated on your device with a local Easter-based algorithm — no network fetch, no yearly content update • A home-screen and Lock Screen widget showing today's and tomorrow's shift, built to keep working after iOS updates Unlock "Full roster" once, for EUR 5.99 / USD 5.99, to add: • Pay estimate — enter your hourly rate and night/Sunday/holiday supplement percentages for an estimated gross per period (not a payslip, not tax advice) • Calendar export — send your shifts to the iOS Calendar • CSV month sheet — a shareable hours-and-pay spreadsheet for payroll disputes • iCloud sync — your roster on every device you own Everything else — the full rotation calendar for any month, hours and overtime, one Bundesland's holidays, and the widget — is free, no trial, no time limit. This is a one-time purchase. No subscription, no ads. No account. No tracking. Your data stays on your device. ShiftRoster gives no legal, tax or payroll advice — the pay estimate is arithmetic on the rate and percentages you enter, so you can sanity-check your own payslip.

Screenshots

Shift Calendar & Work Roster4 screens
ShiftRoster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Shift Calendar & Work Roster at 3 against ShiftRoster's 1. Shift Calendar & Work Roster also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Shift Calendar & Work Roster sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and ShiftRoster sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Shift Calendar & Work Roster versus ShiftRoster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift Calendar & Work RosterShiftRoster
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYUSUF CAKMAKSoin

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Shift Calendar & Work Roster

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime (IAP)$44.99
1 purchases

ShiftRoster

One-time1
  • Full roster$5.99

Questions

Is Shift Calendar & Work Roster free?
Shift Calendar & Work Roster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShiftRoster free?
ShiftRoster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shift Calendar & Work Roster or ShiftRoster have ads?
Neither Shift Calendar & Work Roster nor ShiftRoster shows ads.

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