Comparison

ShiftBuddy vs Ora

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

Head to head
About

ShiftBuddy

Easily log work shifts, track hours, and estimate pay without spreadsheets. Manage multiple jobs, currencies, pay rates, and overtime rules. Review your history with calendar views and job statistics, then export professional timesheets.

Highlights
  • Log shifts with start/end times and breaks
  • Track multiple jobs, currencies, and pay rates
  • Estimate regular, overtime, and double-time pay
  • Calendar views and job statistics
  • Export timesheets as PDF or CSV
  • Optional iCloud sync and Face ID/Touch ID protection
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ShiftBuddy helps you log shifts, track work hours and see estimated pay without keeping a spreadsheet on the side. Record start and end times, breaks, notes and overnight shifts. Manage multiple jobs, currencies, pay rates, raises, overtime and double-time rules, plus presets for recurring shifts. See this week at a glance, browse calendar views, search your full history and compare job stats from the My Jobs dashboard. Set weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly or monthly pay schedules, follow pay-period goals and keep the payday widget close by. Export professional timesheets as PDF or CSV, share them when needed, or back up and import all app data as JSON. Your data is local-first, with optional iCloud sync across devices. No separate ShiftBuddy account is required, and Face ID or Touch ID can add an extra layer of privacy. Built for real shift work: • Log a shift in seconds, then edit, duplicate, copy, share, or save it as a preset. • Track paid and unpaid breaks, notes, overnight shifts, and manual overtime adjustments when your day does not fit a simple formula. • Manage active and previous jobs with colors, currencies, role details, workplace info, pay history, and job-specific settings. • Add pay raises by effective date and named rates for special roles, departments, weekend work, holiday shifts, or different responsibilities. • Let ShiftBuddy estimate regular, overtime, and double-time earnings from your rules, while keeping hours and pay totals easy to scan. Plan around payday: • Set weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay cycles for each job. • See accrued earnings for the current pay period, progress toward a pay-period goal, and a countdown to your next payday. • Use payday reminders and the payday widget to keep upcoming deposits visible without opening the app. Review, search, and report: • Browse day, week, and month calendar views, plus a full history of past weeks and months. • Search saved shifts by date, weekday, job, note, rate name, or amount earned. • Compare jobs with stats such as total hours, earned pay, average shift, longest shift, days worked, effective rate, overtime hours, and recent shifts. • Export a date range or a single job as a clean PDF or CSV timesheet for managers, payroll, invoices, reimbursement, or your own records. • Back up and import your jobs, rates, shifts, breaks, notes, and reminders as JSON whenever you want a portable copy. Your data stays practical and private. ShiftBuddy is local-first, supports optional iCloud sync across your devices, does not require a separate ShiftBuddy account, and can be protected with Face ID or Touch ID. It is designed for iPhone and iPad, whether you work retail, hospitality, healthcare, delivery, security, freelance jobs, student shifts, seasonal work, or any schedule that changes week to week. Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Ora

Features
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Your hours, your money, your record. Ora is the calm, correct shift tracker made for the people who actually work the shifts. Log any shift in seconds (nights, overtime, tips, two jobs, even two currencies) and always know exactly what you've earned. WHY ORA • Overnight shifts, done right. A 22:00–06:00 shift is 8 hours: through midnight, through daylight saving, every time. • Real pay math. Overtime, night, weekend and holiday multipliers; paid and unpaid breaks; tips, bonuses and deductions; a fair "higher rate wins" rule. • Paid abroad, thinking in your own money? Ora converts your earnings at the real daily ECB rate. • A timesheet your boss can't argue with: a clean PDF, plus CSV for your own spreadsheet. • See it at a glance: home and lock screen widgets, and a Live Activity that watches your shift earn. ONE PRICE, ONCE No subscription. No ads. No account. Ora is free to log every shift, forever. A single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited jobs, all the pay rules, currency conversion, exports, widgets and iCloud sync, and it's shared with your family. YOURS, PRIVATE Your data lives on your device and in your own iCloud. No tracking, no sign-up, nothing to leak. Privacy label: Data Not Collected. And your data is always exportable: a free JSON backup, forever. Ora records what you worked. It doesn't give legal or tax advice. The numbers are yours, to check against your payslip.

Screenshots

ShiftBuddy4 screens
Ora4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Ora at 17.0 against ShiftBuddy's 26.2. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ShiftBuddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Ora sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
ShiftBuddy versus Ora: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShiftBuddyOra
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLife Utility Apps, LLCMihaly Marcell Gyori

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ShiftBuddy

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$19.99
1 purchases

Ora

One-time1
  • Ora Pro$7.99

Questions

Is ShiftBuddy free?
ShiftBuddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ora free?
Ora is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ShiftBuddy or Ora have ads?
Neither ShiftBuddy nor Ora shows ads.

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