Frontline vs Turnabee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Frontline
This app helps first responders manage complex work schedules with ease. It offers features like shift trading, event reminders, and detailed tracking of hours and career milestones. Users can also share their schedules and export data for external use.
- Customizable shift rotations
- Shift trading and tracking
- Event and reminder management
- Schedule sharing
- Home-screen widgets
- Hours and career tracking
- Print and export options
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Frontline is the shift calendar built for first responders - Firefighters, EMS, Police and 911 Dispatch. Set up your rotation in about 30 seconds, then see your whole month at a glance. Frontline knows the schedules crews actually work - 24/48, 48/96, 24/72, 1/3/2/3, Kelly, Pitman, 4-on/4-off, DuPont and more - so you pick yours and you're done. No account. No setup headache. Not on a rotation? Straight days, a 9/80, a regular work week - Fire Marshals, inspectors, detectives, SROs, retirees, spouses and office staff all have a setup, or you can skip work days entirely and just use the calendar. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU WORK - Large month calendar. Your on-duty days, events and reminders at a glance, in a dark design made for night shift. - Shift trades. Log who's covering, track who owes who, and text a clean trade card that makes it obvious to everyone involved. - Events and quick adds. Court, training, overtime, appointments, sick, vacation - color-coded, with reminders that fire before your shift. - Share your rotation. Send your schedule to a new hire or your spouse with a code to scan or a link to text - they get your work days on their phone in one tap. - Home-screen widgets. Your month or your week, always on. - Hours tracked. Log OT, sick, vacation and comp by the day, and see the totals. - Career tracking. Career shift count, rank history, milestones, and the day you clear probation. - Print and export. A clean PDF of your month, or send your shifts to your other calendars. - Dark and light. Night-shift ready either way. FRONTLINE PRO - Leave balances. Vacation, sick and comp counted down in shifts as you use them and up on every payday. Set your own accrual rate and cap, and get warned before you hit the ceiling and stop earning. - Vacation bids. Tap every day you picked, across the whole year, and stamp them all in one pass. - Calendar sync. Keep your shifts on your Google or Apple calendar so your family sees them without you texting a screenshot. - More calendar views. Week, day timeline and agenda. - Certifications. CPR, ACLS, HazMat and the rest, counting down in shifts, with reminders before anything lapses. - Incident and exposure log. A fast, private, date-stamped record of the calls that matter - cancer presumption, bloodborne exposure, a court date years out. Export it as a clean PDF. - Partial trades and hours owed. Trade part of a shift instead of the whole thing, and see exactly how many hours you owe each person. - Partner schedule. Your next day off together, and every day you both work, in a color you pick. - Month, week and day widgets, unlimited share cards, and PDF exports by week, day or year. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Your schedule, events, trades and notes are stored on your phone, not on our servers. Your schedule is yours. Free includes the full rotation calendar, events and quick adds, shift trades, rotation sharing, hours tracking, career tracking, the week widget, and month PDF and calendar-file export. Frontline Pro unlocks the rest, as a one-time Lifetime purchase or a yearly subscription. Made by Code 3 Tek. Built by a Fire Captain who got tired of clunky schedules. Privacy Policy: https://frontlinecalendar.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Turnabee
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Share plans with anyone. They don't need the app. Turnabee is a shared calendar for the people in your life: family, your partner, a sitter or carer, your team at work, friends you travel with. What you plan shows up in the calendar they already use on their phone (Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and more). They subscribe once. No app, no account. ■ What makes it different Most shared calendars only work when everyone installs the same app and makes an account. With Turnabee, only you use the app. On their side, plans simply appear in the calendar they already check every day, and they never pay. ■ Who it is for ・Family: the school notice, who does pickup, what is due when ・Your partner: dinners, trips, who handles what ・Caring for parents: check-ups, medicine and bills, shared with siblings and carers ・Work teams: meetings, shoots and deadlines, each in the right person's calendar ・A sitter: what to bring today, when the medicine is due ・Friends travelling together: when to meet, who brings what ■ What you can do ・Easy to use: tabs along the bottom switch in an instant, and pages slide in from the right ・Board: see today, tomorrow and this week at a glance, and tick things off when done ・Repeating tasks: trash night every week, a new filter every three months; the next one is scheduled when you tick it off ・Events: classes, dinners, appointments, with clear dates and times ・Find a time: Turnabee suggests a time when everyone is free ・Stickers: spot plans at a glance; they show up in their calendar too ・Group calendar: month, week and day views; tap a day to add, drag to move. Just right for a shared iPad ・AI reads notices: snap a notice or paste some text, get a list of tasks, and give each one to the right person ・Forward emails automatically: set a rule once in your email, and school or work emails turn into plans on their own ・AI assistant connection: connect your own ChatGPT, Claude or Grok Bot (in its app or on its website) and check, add and change plans just by asking. With Grok Bot you can also set up automatic reports, like a daily rundown of your plans. Turnabee has no built-in chatbot; it works with the assistant you already use ・Notifications: know right away when something is overdue or someone reports it done ・Widgets: today, tomorrow, this week, a week view and the group calendar on your Home Screen (the group calendar can show several groups at once); today's count, the next plan and tomorrow on your Lock Screen. The AI assistant can go on your Lock Screen too, or touch and hold the app icon to jump straight in ・Keep it secret: hide a surprise party from the person it's for, or show them just "Busy" ・Birthdays: a reminder 3 weeks ahead, with a time everyone is free already picked ・Helpers: someone else can manage the same group with you ■ Plans The free plan never expires. It is not a trial. Subscribe in the app when you need more people or more groups. The people you plan for never pay. Subscriptions are charged to your Apple Account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account's Subscriptions settings. ■ Privacy The people you plan for never give us any personal information, and they never see ads. Privacy policy: https://turnabee.com/privacy Terms of use: https://turnabee.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Turnabee at daily against Frontline's every 4 days. 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. Frontline sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and Turnabee sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Frontline ships an update every 4 days, Turnabee daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Frontline | Turnabee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (41 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 96.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Code3Tek | Li Kuei Chen |
In-app purchases
Frontline
- Frontline Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Frontline Pro (Lifetime)$19.99
Turnabee
- Turnabee Basic (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Turnabee Plus (Monthly)$9.991 Month
- Turnabee Basic (Yearly)$54.991 Year
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- Turnabee Plus (Yearly)$99.991 Year









