Comparison

Shift Alarm vs Turnus Shift Rota Planner

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

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Shift Alarm

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Work shifts and lost track of which days you're on or off? Shift Alarm is the alarm clock that turns itself on for your work days and off for your days off, automatically, based on your schedule. Built for anyone working 12x36, 6x2, 6x4, or rotating shifts: nurses, security guards, factory workers, or any job with a schedule that keeps changing. WORKS WITH ANY SCHEDULE Set up your shift cycle once (6x2, 6x4, 12x36, or any other combination of work days and days off) and the app figures out on its own, every single day, whether today's alarm should be on or off. ROTATING SHIFTS (MORNING / AFTERNOON / NIGHT) Work in a factory with shifts that rotate between morning, afternoon, and night? Set each shift with its own alarm time and the app switches the alarm time automatically based on the day's shift. VISUAL CALENDAR See at a glance, on a monthly calendar, which days will have the alarm on and which are your days off, before the day even arrives. WORKS OFFLINE, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED No login, no internet required. Everything stays saved on your own phone. A REAL ALARM Rings for real, with sound and vibration, even with the phone locked, and if you restart the phone, alarms are rescheduled automatically. No more forgetting the alarm on during your day off or off during a work day. Set it up once and let Shift Alarm handle the rest. Free 15 day trial. After that, choose an annual subscription or a one time purchase (lifetime). Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Turnus Shift Rota Planner

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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

Shift Alarm4 screens
Turnus Shift Rota Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shift Alarm at none against Turnus Shift Rota Planner's 2. Turnus Shift Rota Planner's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On price, 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. Turnus Shift Rota Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Shift Alarm asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Shift Alarm versus Turnus Shift Rota Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift AlarmTurnus Shift Rota Planner
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoao Paulo Ferreira da LuzNguyen Dinh Chung

In-app purchases

None

Shift Alarm

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Turnus Shift Rota Planner

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

Questions

Is Shift Alarm free?
Shift Alarm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Turnus Shift Rota Planner free?
Turnus Shift Rota Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shift Alarm or Turnus Shift Rota Planner have ads?
Neither Shift Alarm nor Turnus Shift Rota Planner shows ads.

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