Comparison

Shiftlyx vs Turnus Shift Rota Planner

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

Head to head
About

Shiftlyx

This app helps shift workers manage fatigue, track pay, and coordinate schedules with family and colleagues. It analyzes your rota to predict fatigue levels and calculate earnings, and can find days when everyone is free. Voice planning and partner sync features simplify complex scheduling.

Highlights
  • Fatigue scoring across entire rota
  • Detailed pay calculation
  • Crew availability finder
  • Partner sync for dual-shift families
  • Voice-controlled schedule planning
  • Rota import (iCal, file, paste)
  • Night shift recovery windows
Features
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Shiftlyx is a shift planner built by a nurse, for everyone who works shifts. Not a calendar with a night mode bolted on. A planner that understands a run of nights is a different physiological state, that a long day and a night shift on the same date means nobody is home, and that "are you free Thursday" is a harder question than any office worker will ever have to answer. Built first for healthcare nurses, paramedics, doctors, midwives, healthcare assistants because that is the hardest version of the problem. It works the same way for police, fire, hospitality, logistics, manufacturing, security, and anyone else living on a rota. SEE THE BAD WEEK BEFORE YOU'RE IN IT Shiftlyx scores your fatigue across your whole rota, not one shift at a time. Shift type, length, transitions, and the load stacking up behind you. Recovery gaps, night density and consecutive days, all in one score. KNOW WHAT YOU EARNED, BEFORE PAYDAY Every long day, every night, every unsocial hour, added up. Base pay, night premiums and weekend enhancements broken down, with your real effective hourly rate. Works from a band or a straight hourly rate. MY CREW — FIND THE DAY EVERYONE'S ACTUALLY FREE Getting eight people off the same team into one room is impossible by text. Someone's on nights. Someone's just come off them. Import your rotas and Shiftlyx finds the day for you: who's free, who's free-ish and could make it around a shift, and who's working. It even knows who's coming off nights and shouldn't be counted. PARTNER SYNC — FOR TWO SHIFT WORKERS AND ONE FAMILY Put your rota next to your partner's and Shiftlyx reads every day of the month. Both off, that's a shared day off. One of you off, childcare is covered. Both of you working, that's the one you need to know about. It counts them. It flags the uncovered weekends. And it shows you the longest run of days where neither of you is home. PLAN WITH YOUR VOICE Say "nights this month, weekends off, max three in a row." Florence builds it. No forms, no settings screens. ALSO INSIDE Rota import from an iCal link, a file, or paste. Night shift recovery and sleep windows. Commute timing so a bad journey doesn't cost you a shift. Swap preview. Eight shift patterns, so your dashboard matches how you actually work. YOUR EMPLOYER CANNOT SEE ANY OF THIS Shiftlyx is not connected to your employer's rostering system and never will be. Your rota, your fatigue, your pay, your family. Yours. Free to use. One month of Shiftlyx Pro free for everyone, no card needed. Your shift. Your terms. https://www.shiftlyx.com/terms https://www.shiftlyx.com/privacy

About

Turnus Shift Rota Planner

Features
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A shift calendar that knows your week. Tap a day, pick a shift, done. Or set your rotation once and see the whole year. Your next shift is on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you never open the app just to look. THREE TAPS, A WHOLE YEAR Choose a pattern (2-2-2-4, 2-2-2-2, 4 on 4 off, Mon–Fri), pick the first day, apply. Days you set by hand are never overwritten. Two shifts a day, custom hours, a Clear tool with Undo. ONE GLANCE The month grid is the app: every shift in its own colour, today outlined, the hours you actually work in the biggest digits on screen. Week view adds up your hours. With Pro, events from your other calendars show as small dots so you can plan life around work. WIDGETS AND LOCK SCREEN Today and the next shift on the home screen, seven days in the medium widget, the next shift on the lock screen, and a Live Activity that counts down from eight hours before a shift. Optional reminders before each shift. LEAVE, SICK DAYS, MORE THAN ONE JOB Mark leave and sick days; see how many days of leave you have left this year. With Pro, keep a second workplace in the same calendar, with its own colours, payday and pay rules. YOUR HOURS, YOUR PAY (PRO) This month's total is free. Pro adds the breakdown — night, weekend and public-holiday premiums, weekly overtime — every other month and the year, the next payday, and the totals per workplace and combined. Public holidays for 26 countries are built in, down to the state or region. SWAP WITH COLLEAGUES (PRO) Invite your team with a link. See who is on with you on the same grid. Ask to swap a shift, or to have one covered; when they accept, both calendars update — the right days, not just the labels. Family can be invited view-only, and they don't need Pro. EXPORT (PRO) CSV of your shifts, and one-way export of your shifts into the iOS Calendar that updates instead of duplicating. Plus a one-page PDF of any month, however old. NO ADS. NO ACCOUNT. NO TRIAL. Free forever: the calendar, patterns, leave, import, widgets, Live Activity, week hours, this month's pay total, iCloud sync and sharing a week as an image. Pro adds the full pay estimate, team & swaps, a second workplace, your other calendars and exports — a yearly subscription that auto-renews until cancelled, or a single lifetime purchase. The price is on screen before you tap anything. COMING FROM ANOTHER SHIFT APP Export your roster as .ics or .csv and open it here: Turnus shows exactly what it would add before it adds anything. Free. Everything stays on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. No server of ours, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. Thirteen languages. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://primetruthteam.github.io/turnus/privacy/

Screenshots

Shiftlyx4 screens
Turnus Shift Rota Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Shiftlyx at 3 against Turnus Shift Rota Planner's 1. Shiftlyx also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Shiftlyx sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Turnus Shift Rota Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Shiftlyx versus Turnus Shift Rota Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShiftlyxTurnus Shift Rota Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBeemal Innovation LtdNguyen Dinh Chung

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Shiftlyx

Subscriptions2
  • Shiftlyx Pro Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • Shiftlyx Day One Annual1 Month trial$19.991 Year
2 purchases

Turnus Shift Rota Planner

Subscriptions1
  • Turnus Pro$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Turnus Pro (Lifetime)$19.99

Questions

Is Shiftlyx free?
Shiftlyx is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Turnus Shift Rota Planner free?
Turnus Shift Rota Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shiftlyx or Turnus Shift Rota Planner have ads?
Neither Shiftlyx nor Turnus Shift Rota Planner shows ads.

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