Worker Tools vs ShiftAl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Worker Tools
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Keep your shifts, work hours and pay records together with Worker Tools. See your rota, log a working day and review the income you have recorded each month. PLAN YOUR SHIFT CALENDAR Create custom shifts with times, colours and notes. Build a repeating rotation for day shifts, night shifts and rest days. Use your roster to see upcoming work at a glance. KEEP A TIMESHEET AND WORK LOG Record regular hours, overtime, piecework quantities and pay. Manage hourly, daily and piece-rate jobs, including more than one job. Keep each worklog entry linked to a date, so you can review the records behind your totals. TRACK RECORDED PAY Review monthly earnings, hours and workdays with calendar views and charts. Mark records as settled or unsettled to help check your own wage records. Totals depend on the rates and entries you provide; they are estimates for personal record-keeping, rather than payroll or statutory pay calculations. SET SHIFT REMINDERS Create an alarm for a fixed time, connect a reminder to your schedule, or prompt yourself to log work after a shift. Choose daily, weekday, weekend or custom repeat rules. KEEP RECORDS LOCALLY Core records are stored on your device without an account. Export and import a local backup, or use cloud backup and restore. Cloud backup is a backup-and-restore feature, rather than continuous live synchronisation. The included public holiday, make-up workday, lunar calendar and solar term data applies to mainland China and the years bundled with the app. It is not a UK, US or worldwide public holiday calendar. A lifetime membership is available as an in-app purchase. Rotation scheduling, batch logging and settlement, backup and other advanced features require membership. See the app for current benefits.
ShiftAl
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ShiftAl is the calendar that understands shift work. Built for nurses, factory crews, security, hospitality and anyone whose week does not run nine to five. PLAN YOUR ROTA IN SECONDS - Create presets for your recurring shifts (Day, Late, Night), each with its own colour - Paint whole weeks onto the calendar in a couple of taps, clear many days at once - Overnight shifts that roll past midnight are handled automatically - Annual leave, sick days, parental and study leave and public holidays live on the same calendar - Notes and stickers on any day WAKE UP FOR EVERY SHIFT - A wake-up alarm attaches to each shift, based on your own lead time - Alarms for night shifts land on the evening before, as they should - Rest reminders when your roster crosses published working-hour limits SEE YOUR HOURS AND PAY - Week, fortnight, month and year, with a dial you can tap day by day - Base pay, Sunday, night, holiday and overtime extras shown as separate lines - Take-home estimate with the tax rules of your country, fixed deductions like union dues or a loan - Multiple workplaces with separate rates and currencies YOUR CREW - Add workmates by username, accept requests with a notification, and pick who to compare with - See at a glance which days you are all off or working together - No account? Share by QR code or link instead YOURS, PRIVATELY - Works fully offline; an account is optional and free - Link Apple or Google only if you want friends by username and your data on a new phone - Everything else stays on your phone, with one-tap backup export - Light and dark themes, a Basic theme and custom colours ShiftAl is free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ShiftAl at every 3 days against Worker Tools's every 2 weeks. ShiftAl also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Worker Tools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ShiftAl sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Worker Tools ships an update every 2 weeks, ShiftAl every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Worker Tools | ShiftAl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 秋杰 田 | ONOIR STUDIO LIMITED |
In-app purchases
Worker Tools
- Lifetime Membership$3.99
ShiftAl
- Ad-free forever$2.99









