Comparison

Enso Shift vs HomelabGlance

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

Head to head
About

Enso Shift

Features
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Enso is an offline shift-scheduling app for iPhone and iPad. It uses Google OR-Tools to generate balanced rosters from the people, shifts and rules you define, then presents them as calendars, Gantt views and PDF sheets. Key features • Automatic scheduling with CP-SAT constraint solving: fixed shifts, rest-day gaps, conflicting shifts and workload weighting • Shift configuration: demand count, post-shift rest days, eligible staff groups, same-day concurrency and shift priority • Staff management: groups, profile notes, phone numbers, blocked dates and weekdays, preferred days and maximum shifts • Preflight diagnostics: detect coverage gaps before generating a schedule and explain which constraints may not be satisfiable • Partial re-solve: after a manual edit, recompute affected dates with a diff preview before saving • Drafts and saved schedules: keep editing in a working draft, then archive confirmed rosters • Calendar and Gantt views with adjustable per-day shift density • Per-staff workload statistics • PDF export: preview, share or print roster sheets with tappable phone links • Built-in Chinese public-holiday data, with optional weighting in the scheduler • Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English interface; iPhone and iPad; portrait and landscape Privacy and data • No account required, no tracking, no ads and no third-party analytics SDKs • Schedule data stays on your device by default • Optional iCloud sync and sharing are handled by Apple iCloud; the developer cannot access your schedule data • Optional anonymous solver diagnostics are off by default and can be enabled in Settings to help improve scheduling performance. They do not include names, shift titles, schedule contents or identity information. Made for • Hospital wards, clinics, nursing stations and on-call rotations • Small restaurant, retail and customer-service teams • Security, logistics and night-shift teams that need rest-interval rules • Anyone who wants to plan and print a roster offline on iPad Subscription (Enso Pro) • 7-day free trial, then automatic renewal at the price shown on the App Store • Monthly and yearly plans available • Manage or cancel anytime in Settings › Apple ID › Subscriptions • Terms: https://ensoshift.online/terms • Privacy: https://ensoshift.online/privacy Feedback: feedback@ensoshift.online

About

HomelabGlance

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Homelab Glance is a native dashboard for the self-hosted server you already run. It reads from the open-source "glance" aggregator and shows your containers, media, downloads, and storage at a glance — on your Home Screen, in widgets, in a Live Activity, and in a Mac menu-bar app. There's no Homelab Glance account and no cloud. The app talks only to the glance server on your own hardware. Point it at your server once and everything appears. AUTO-DETECTED SERVICES Rich cards for the apps it recognizes — Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, and more — and clean generic cards for everything else, built from what's actually running. WIDGETS & LIVE ACTIVITY A configurable at-a-glance view for Home Screen and Lock Screen, plus a Live Activity that tracks a download or job from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. CONTAINER CONTROLS Start, stop, and restart containers from the app — gated behind a separate control token you set, so read-only and control access stay distinct. ON YOUR MAC The same dashboard in a menu-bar app, one click away. SIRI & SHORTCUTS Actions are App Intents, so your homelab is scriptable and Siri-accessible. TRY IT WITHOUT A SERVER Demo mode is on by default with sample data, so you can explore the whole app before connecting. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Homelab Glance collects nothing. Your server address and tokens stay in your device's Keychain and traffic goes straight to your own machine — over your LAN or securely over Tailscale. The aggregator it talks to is open-source and self-hosted by you.

Screenshots

Enso Shift4 screens
HomelabGlance3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HomelabGlance at none against Enso Shift's 3. HomelabGlance also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Enso Shift sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. HomelabGlance asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Enso Shift ships an update every 2 weeks, HomelabGlance weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Enso Shift versus HomelabGlance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEnso ShiftHomelabGlance
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer学诚 刘Anmol Saxena

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Enso Shift

Subscriptions2
  • Enso Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.491 Month
  • Enso Pro Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Enso Pro · Lifetime$2.99
None

HomelabGlance

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Enso Shift free?
Enso Shift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HomelabGlance free?
HomelabGlance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Enso Shift or HomelabGlance have ads?
Neither Enso Shift nor HomelabGlance shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Enso Shift or HomelabGlance?
Enso Shift ships an update every 2 weeks, and HomelabGlance weekly. Most recently, Enso Shift was updated on October 31, 2026 and HomelabGlance on November 5, 2026.

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