Comparison

Life by Shift vs Planple

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

Head to head
About

Life by Shift

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Life by Shift is a scheduling app built by a shift worker, for shift workers โ€” nurses, firefighters, paramedics, and police officers. - Visual shift calendar โ€” tap to assign Day, Night, OT shifts - Estimated income calculator for every pay period - Holiday & special rates โ€” long-press any shift for 1.5x, 2x, or custom multiplier - Repeat Rotation โ€” set your schedule pattern and auto-fill your calendar - Notes on any day - 100% private โ€” no accounts, no servers, everything stays on your device Built for 8-hour and 12-hour shift workers. Supports custom OT multipliers for workers worldwide.

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Planple

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Goals don't die in three days because you lack willpower. "Get fit" is a goal - not a task for today. Planple brings that goal all the way down to 7:00 this morning. Break it down - year to month to week to today All four levels live on one screen. Send a goal from the row above down to the next level, and it becomes that period's task. "24 books" becomes "2 this month", becomes "200 pages this week", becomes "read for 30 minutes" today. That's where doing actually starts. Put it on the clock The 24-hour timeline sits right below today's tasks. Write what you decided straight onto the hour you want - no app-hopping. The day starts moving the moment "run 30 min" becomes "07:00-07:30 Run". One alarm is never enough A single alarm just gets dismissed, so you can attach as many as you want to one event - an hour before, ten minutes before, right at the start. They fire even with the app fully closed, and the schedule survives a reboot. Travel or daylight saving won't shift them off. When plans slip Plans slip. Push one event back and the rest of the day moves with it, alarms included - 10 minutes, 30, an hour, or type your own. Pushed the wrong one? Undo it right away. You're postponing the day, not throwing it away. Work, life, side projects - one chip apart Tap a project chip and only that context remains. No taxonomy to set up first. Split them when you need to. See whether your plans actually happened (Planple Pro) Making a plan is easy; knowing whether you kept it isn't. The Insights tab shows it in numbers. This week's progress is free for everyone. With Pro you also get the last 12 weeks, the weekdays you're strongest on and the ones that slip, when you tend to finish things, and how often you postpone. It counts back from the day you installed, so it's filled in the moment you buy. So you don't lose your data Save everything to one file and restore from it later - free, because we don't put a wall between you and your own data. With Pro, Planple saves to iCloud once a day, so your data survives a reinstall. Some plans you make with someone (Planple Pro) Invite someone to a project by link and share its events and to-dos. Every item shows its author, and each person edits only their own. There's no sign-up. Having the link isn't enough - the owner has to approve you. Starting a share needs Pro; joining by invite is free. On iPhone and on iPad The layout follows the screen. Today's to-dos sit beside the timeline, and a day's schedule sits beside the month calendar. Today, without opening the app Three Home and Lock Screen widgets: Today, Next event, To-dos. All free. Features - Year, month, week and day goals - broken down, top to bottom - 24-hour timeline - the whole day on one screen - Multiple alarms per event - ring even when the app is closed - Project chips - switch context with one tap - Multi-day events - a line on the calendar, a band on the timeline - Push the rest of the day - alarms included, with undo - Home and Lock Screen widgets - Today, Next event, To-dos - Month, week and year calendar - zoom out, then focus - Repeating events - daily, weekly, monthly, and past midnight - Daily review - reflect and build a streak - Korean and English - switch instantly in settings - Look-back insights - this week free; 12-week trends and patterns (Pro) - Backups - export and restore to a file (free), automatic iCloud backup (Pro) - Shared projects - invite by link, owner approval, author labels (Pro) - iPad - two-pane layouts on wide screens - Dark mode - follows your device Built to trust No account, no ads, no tracking. Your events and alarms live on your device. Unless you turn sharing on yourself, not a single request leaves it. Turn sharing on and only that project's items go up - other projects, your daily reviews and settings are unknown to the server. Alarms are personal, so even on shared items they stay on each device. Plan simply. Do what you planned. That's Planple.

Screenshots

Life by Shift4 screens
Planple4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Life by Shift at none against Planple's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Planple sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Life by Shift asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life by Shift ships an update every 4 days, Planple every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Life by Shift versus Planple: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife by ShiftPlanple
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size12 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSang Woon ShinDAEHAE SHIN

In-app purchases

None

Life by Shift

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Planple

One-time1
  • Planple Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Life by Shift free?
Life by Shift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Planple free?
Planple is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Life by Shift or Planple have ads?
Neither Life by Shift nor Planple shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Life by Shift or Planple?
Life by Shift ships an update every 4 days, and Planple every 2 days. Most recently, Life by Shift was updated on September 15, 2026 and Planple on September 17, 2026.

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