Comparison

My Work Shift Planner vs Vessa

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

Head to head
About

My Work Shift Planner

Manage your work schedule, track hours, and estimate pay with this intuitive planner. Supports various shift types, multiple jobs, and syncs with your Apple Calendar. Personalize your experience with color themes and widgets.

Highlights
  • Shift calendar and schedule planner
  • Work hours and pay tracker
  • Multiple work profile management
  • Apple Calendar sync
  • CSV and PDF export
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Private local-first data storage
Features
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My Work Shift Planner is a private schedule planner, shift calendar, and pay tracker built for workers who want a simple way to manage work without a complicated scheduling system. Plan day shifts, evening shifts, night shifts, overtime, on-call, standby, split shifts, double shifts, training days, meetings, vacation or PTO, sick days, unpaid leave, and cancelled shifts in one simple work calendar. Add shifts individually or use quick multi-day planning when you need to fill several dates fast. The app also works as a work hours tracker, work schedule tracker, shift tracker, and pay tracker. Set your hourly rate, night differential, weekend differential, overtime rules, unpaid break, and bonuses to estimate your pay for the month or for each pay period before payday. BUILT FOR REAL WORK SCHEDULES Use My Work Shift Planner as your shift calendar and schedule planner for multiple workplaces, teams, sites, contracts, or part-time jobs. Manage up to 10 work profiles, apply rotation presets, and keep all upcoming shifts in one work schedule tracker. Set your weekly contract hours and see how many you have already worked on Home and in Earnings. Choose from a selection of soft color themes to personalize your planner and make it fit your style. YOUR SHIFTS IN APPLE CALENDAR Turn on calendar sync and your working shifts appear in their own calendar in Apple Calendar. When you edit or delete a shift in the app, the calendar updates automatically. PAY PERIODS AND EARNINGS See your estimated earnings by month or by pay period: weekly, every 2 weeks, twice a month, or monthly. Weekend pay can follow Saturday and Sunday or a Friday 7 PM to Monday 7 AM window. KEY FEATURES Shift calendar and schedule planner for work Day shift, night shift, and rotating shift planning Work hours tracker across all work profiles Pay tracker with monthly and pay period estimates Weekly contract hours progress Shift tracker with overtime, differentials, bonuses, and calculated pay Apple Calendar sync for your working shifts Multiple color themes for a personalized planner Home screen and lock screen widgets Reminders or alarm-style alerts before upcoming shifts Monthly and yearly CSV and PDF exports Private local-first data with optional iCloud sync SEE YOUR SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Home and lock screen widgets help you check your next shift, week ahead, and monthly estimate without opening the app. See what is coming next, when it starts, and where you are working. KEEP YOUR PLANNER PRIVATE Your data is stored locally first. When enabled, iCloud sync keeps your shifts, work profiles, pay settings, and planner data available across your devices. FREE TRIAL & SUBSCRIPTION PLANS My Work Shift Planner offers eligible new users a 1-week free trial. Continued access to the app’s full features requires an auto-renewable subscription. Available plans are 1 Month and 12 Months. Pricing may vary by country and will be shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Privacy Policy: https://paulcrp.com/myworkshiftplanner_privacypolicy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ My Work Shift Planner helps you plan shifts, track work hours, follow your work schedule, estimate pay, and stay ready for every shift.

About

Vessa

This app helps shift workers plan their schedules and optimize sleep. It automatically generates sleep and caffeine plans based on your work shifts, adapting to changes. Features include roster import, calendar integration, and customizable sleep reminders.

Highlights
  • Shift work calendar
  • Automatic sleep and caffeine planning
  • Roster import from photos
  • iPhone Calendar integration
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable sleep reminders
  • Shift change adaptation
Features
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Vessa is a shift work calendar that also plans your sleep. Enter your shifts, or photograph your roster and let Vessa read it, and see your month at a glance. Then Vessa turns the shifts you actually work into a 72-hour sleep and caffeine plan, and re-plans it when a shift moves. Night shifts, rotating blocks, short turnarounds and last-minute swaps: the calendar keeps up, and so does the plan. FREE • A shift calendar: enter shifts by hand, as many as you like, or start from templates for 3×12, fixed nights, 24/48, DuPont and other common rotations • Your first roster import from a photo • Your shifts in the iPhone Calendar: one event per shift in a "Vessa" calendar you can share from the Calendar app, with your planned sleep if you want it • Share your next four weeks as one page, as an image or a PDF • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with today's shift and your next sleep • A note on any day: where you're working, who you're with • A 72-hour sleep plan built from your shifts: main sleep, recovery sleep, pre-shift naps, off-day sleep, wind-down and caffeine cutoff • Every sleep is a switch: turn naps, recovery sleep and days-off sleep on or off, or keep your days off free of reminders • Edit any sleep for one day or for good • The plan re-plans itself when a shift changes, and tells you three days before your schedule runs out PREMIUM • Roster import, every cycle: photograph your roster, tap your name, confirm what Vessa read. Nothing to type • Alarms set by Vessa: wake-ups for every sleep in your plan go on your iPhone as real alarms, and move when your shift moves • Sleep ledger: what you planned next to what you slept, read from Apple Health, day by day and by sleep type. Needs an Apple Watch or a sleep tracker that writes to Apple Health Premium is an optional auto-renewing subscription, monthly or annual; the annual plan starts with a 14-day free trial. Cancel any time in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. PRIVACY Roster photos are read on your device and never uploaded. Apple Health data is read on your device and never leaves it. Your shifts, day notes and plan settings sync to your account so they survive a new phone. If you turn on Calendar, your shifts are written to a calendar on your iPhone, and Vessa reads only that calendar. Vessa is designed for nurses first, and works for EMS, firefighters, factory workers, security, drivers, hospitality and anyone on demanding shifts. Vessa is a planning and self-care tool. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. If you have persistent sleep problems, please consult a qualified healthcare professional. Terms of Use: https://vessa.health/terms-of-use Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vessa.health/privacy-policy

Screenshots

My Work Shift Planner4 screens
Vessa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Vessa at 5.0 against My Work Shift Planner's 4.0. Vessa also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). My Work Shift Planner's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). On price, ratings volume, 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. My Work Shift Planner sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Vessa sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Vessa holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Work Shift Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, Vessa every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
My Work Shift Planner versus Vessa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Work Shift PlannerVessa
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul CrapatureanuMurat Keskin

Customer experience

My Work Shift Planner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Vessa

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

My Work Shift Planner

Subscriptions6
  • Monthly Plan7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Plan$4.991 Month
  • 3 Month Plan7 Days trial$11.993 Months
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  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$17.491 Year
  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Yearly Plan$24.991 Year
2 purchases

Vessa

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Annual14 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is My Work Shift Planner free?
My Work Shift Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vessa free?
Vessa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, My Work Shift Planner or Vessa?
Vessa is rated higher. My Work Shift Planner averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Vessa averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do My Work Shift Planner or Vessa have ads?
Neither My Work Shift Planner nor Vessa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Work Shift Planner or Vessa?
My Work Shift Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, and Vessa every 10 days. Most recently, My Work Shift Planner was updated on October 25, 2026 and Vessa on October 22, 2026.

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