Comparison

ShiftLedger vs Desktop

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

Head to head
About

ShiftLedger

Easily track your work hours, understand overtime pay, and analyze your earnings. Designed for irregular schedules, it helps you see where your time goes and identify your most valuable shifts.

Highlights
  • Track scheduled vs. actual work times
  • Configure custom pay profiles
  • Estimate overtime earnings
  • Analyze overtime trends
  • Export shift records and summaries
  • Local-first privacy with no ads or tracking
Features
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ShiftLedger makes it easy to track the hours you actually work, understand your overtime, and see where your time is going. Built for healthcare professionals, shift workers, per-diem employees, moonlighters, and anyone with an irregular schedule, ShiftLedger turns your work calendar into a clear record of shifts, hours, and earnings. TRACK YOUR SHIFTS Import your schedule from supported calendar feeds or add shifts manually. Keep scheduled and actual work times together so you can see when you stayed late, left early, or worked beyond your original shift. UNDERSTAND YOUR OVERTIME Create pay profiles that reflect how you work. Configure overtime rules, pay rates, differentials, rounding, and other settings to estimate how additional hours affect your earnings. FIND YOUR MOST VALUABLE SHIFTS ShiftLedger's overtime tools can help identify when additional work may have the greatest estimated value based on your configured pay and overtime rules. SEE THE BIG PICTURE Quickly review: • Total hours worked • Scheduled vs. actual hours • Regular and overtime hours • Estimated earnings • Weekly, biweekly, and monthly totals • Overtime trends • Work across multiple jobs or pay profiles EXPORT YOUR RECORDS Generate clean reports when you need a record of your hours. Export your shift history and summaries for your own records, reconciliation, or review. BUILT FOR PRIVACY Your work history and pay information stay on your device. ShiftLedger is designed as a local-first app without advertising, behavioral tracking, or analytics collecting your shift data. You remain in control of your information and can create backups or exports when you choose. FLEXIBLE ENOUGH FOR REAL SHIFT WORK Schedules rarely fit neatly into a 9-to-5 calendar. ShiftLedger is designed for rotating schedules, overtime, call shifts, moonlighting, multiple employers, and the strange collection of rules employers have invented to calculate what an hour of your life is worth. ShiftLedger provides estimates based on the information and rules you enter. It is not payroll, legal, tax, or employment advice. Always verify pay and hours against your official records and applicable policies. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Desktop

This app allows you to save any content you find online, from social media posts to videos and links. It then organizes your saved items for easy retrieval and allows you to revisit them later.

Highlights
  • Save content from any app via Share Sheet
  • Browse all saved items in one place
  • Automatic organization by source and topic
  • Search your personal library
  • Revisit recent saves
  • Open saved content in original app
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Desktop is a save-for-later app for everything you find online. Save posts, videos, links, photos, and more from your favorite social apps, browsers, and photo library. Desktop organizes what you save so you can actually find it again later. • Save from your favorite apps with the Share Sheet • Browse everything you've saved in one place • Automatically organize saves by source and topic • Search your personal library • Revisit recent saves quickly • Customize your Desktop • Open saved content back in its original app • Sync your library across iPhone, iPad and Mac • Organize saves in folders, and share a folder with anyone as a private link Instead of sending things to yourself, leaving tabs open, or losing posts in different apps, save them to Desktop. Privacy Policy: https://arkive.tech/desktop/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ShiftLedger4 screens
Desktop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: ShiftLedger at free against Desktop's free with in-app purchases. ShiftLedger also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. ShiftLedger sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Desktop sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ShiftLedger against 5.0 for Desktop. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShiftLedger ships an update every 2 days, Desktop weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
ShiftLedger versus Desktop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShiftLedgerDesktop
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlan ChangVRKIVE LLC

Customer experience

ShiftLedger

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

Desktop

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ShiftLedger

Subscriptions1
  • Full Access Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$19.99
1 purchases

Desktop

Subscriptions1
  • Desktop Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month

Questions

Is ShiftLedger free?
ShiftLedger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Desktop free?
Desktop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ShiftLedger or Desktop?
ShiftLedger and Desktop are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do ShiftLedger or Desktop have ads?
Neither ShiftLedger nor Desktop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShiftLedger or Desktop?
ShiftLedger ships an update every 2 days, and Desktop weekly. Most recently, ShiftLedger was updated on October 9, 2026 and Desktop on October 31, 2026.

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