Shift Calendar vs Shiftify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shift Calendar
Organize your work schedule, track hours, and calculate wages. Easily add shifts, set reminders, and share your availability with others. Upgrade to Pro for advanced features like unlimited job tracking and detailed wage calculations.
- Organize work shifts on one screen
- Add shifts quickly
- Track hours worked
- Calculate earned wages
- Set shift reminders
- Share work schedule
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TRACK YOUR WORK SCHEDULE WITH CALENDAR TODAY. Sick of forgetting when you are working? Tired of searching through emails and loose papers for your work schedule? What if all your shifts could be organized neatly, on one screen, for the whole month? What if you could add a month’s worth of shifts in just a few seconds? What if you never had to spend another minute of your time worrying about when you worked? Meet Calendar, your work shift manager. Calendar keeps your work shifts handy to see at a glance, and tracks your hours and your earned wages as well. Calendar Pro can also remind you when you work, if you want. Managing Calendar is easy. When your work schedule comes out, add your shifts to Calendar in a few seconds. Set alarms to remind you when a shift is coming up. You can even share your work schedule with friends and family, to let them know when you are free. Try Calendar today. The basic version lets you add unlimited shift start times for any one job. If you like it, go professional with Calendar Pro - and track full shift lengths, hours worked, wages earned and full alarm capabilities for an unlimited number of jobs. So what are you waiting for? Make your life a little easier. You deserve it.
Shiftify
This app helps individuals with irregular work schedules accurately track their earnings. It calculates wages, overtime, and unpaid breaks, providing detailed payroll reports. The app offers visual organization of shifts and syncs with other calendars.
- Wage tracking
- Shift scheduling
- Overtime calculation
- Payroll reports
- Color-coded shifts
- Calendar sync
- Multi-device sync
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EARN EVERY DIME YOU'RE OWED Shiftify is an easy-to-use shift planning calendar that accurately tracks your wages by adding up hourly earnings, overtime, and unpaid breaks. It's perfect for anyone with irregular shifts or freelance work. EASILY TRACK YOUR WAGES • Create an unlimited number of jobs, shifts and rotations for free • Visually organize shifts using intuitive color-coding • Add up hours worked and pay earned with nano-accuracy • Calculate overtime wages, extra pays and unpaid breaks • Easily and quickly calculate your net pay REPORTS AND TRACKING • Detailed payroll report • Export your payroll report and shift calendar in printable PDF format • View charts of hours and shifts worked ADDITIONAL FEATURES • View your monthly and weekly schedule with a handy Today widget • Sync with Apple's built-in Calendar • Multi-device sync • Password lock with Face ID & Touch ID • Automatic backup • Alarm Clock
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shiftify at 94% against Shift Calendar's 29%. Shiftify also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). Shift Calendar's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Shift Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Shiftify sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shiftify holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shiftify has 457 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Shift Calendar's written reviews are positive against 94% of Shiftify's.
Shift Calendar ships an update every 2 months, Shiftify every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift Calendar | Shiftify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (27 ratings) | 4.8 (457 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 94.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 457 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Owen Schick | Bohee Sim |
Customer experience
Shift Calendar
Shiftify
User reviews
Shift Calendar
From 27 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 🎨 Color coding for jobs
- 💾 Save and reuse shifts
- ✅ Good for tracking multiple jobs
- ✨ Simple and uncomplicated design
Room to improve
- 💸 Requires purchase for full features
- 🚫 Free version is very limited
- 💰 Paid version not worth the cost for some
- 👎 Difficult to edit mistakes
- ⏳ Trial mode is too restrictive
Shiftify
From 457 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Convenient and organized
- 👍 Helpful for tracking shifts and pay
- 👍 Customizable with color-coding
- 👍 Useful for multiple jobs
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes when adding shifts
- 🐛 Daylight savings time issues
- 🐛 Limited editing options for shifts
- 🔒 Limited free features, need to pay for full access
Bugs and requests
Shift Calendar
Reported bugs
18 issues- App stops working after Apple update
- App freezes, stuck on one month
- App crashes or goes to a blank screen
- Paid version not unlocking features
- Alarm function not working
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- App not opening after purchase
- Calculating pay bug
- Cannot calculate hours after update
- Cannot fix errors, no help available
- Upgrade not applied after purchase
- Incompatible with iPhone 6 screen resolution
- Cannot delete or edit shifts
- Cannot input end time without purchasing
- Cannot add multiple jobs/times in free version
- Cannot add a reminder or end time without buying full version
- Cannot adjust work times after hitting save
- Cannot add another job with times after paying
- Cannot manage more than one job without upgrading
Requested features
17 requests- Add ability to sync across devices
- Include salary calculator
- Allow subtraction of unpaid breaks automatically
- Add option to change the start day of the week
- Add break time insertion option
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- Add 24-hour clock option
- Allow calculation of total monthly hours/pay in one go
- Add ability to send/receive schedules with family members
- Add overtime calculations (weekly/bi-weekly)
- Add special pay for holidays
- Add and calculate vacation, personal, & sick time & pay
- Add Apple Watch integration
- Add weekly view option
- Add ability to color-code individual shifts
- Add ability to set different pay rates for weekends, holidays, and overtime
- Add ability to permanently set pay rate with option to alter
- Add sync to calendar feature
Shiftify
Reported bugs
3 issues- Calendar always defaults to January
- Calendar not fitting properly on screen
- Inability to search for job locations
Requested features
5 requests- Repeat/recurring shift feature
- Ability to edit shift times without creating new shift
- Overtime pay calculations
- Widget support
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
Shift Calendar
- Calendar$2.99
Shiftify
- SHIFTIFY PRO$4.99
- SHIFTIFY PRO$5.99
- SHIFTIFY PRO$8.99
