ShiftLedger vs Desktop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
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.
- 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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
ShiftLedger ships an update every 2 days, Desktop weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShiftLedger | Desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alan Chang | VRKIVE LLC |
Customer experience
ShiftLedger
Desktop
In-app purchases
ShiftLedger
- Full Access Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Lifetime Access$19.99
Desktop
- Desktop Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month









