Comparison

Shift Calendar vs Today's Shift

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Organize work shifts on one screen
  • Add shifts quickly
  • Track hours worked
  • Calculate earned wages
  • Set shift reminders
  • Share work schedule
Features
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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.

About

Today's Shift

Manage your work schedule with this comprehensive shift planner. Customize alarms, track hours and wages, and sync with your Apple Calendar. Easily share and back up your schedule with colleagues and friends.

Highlights
  • Shift scheduling and management
  • Customizable shift alarms
  • Annual leave registration
  • Hourly and overtime wage calculation
  • Apple Calendar integration
  • Schedule sharing and backup
Features
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Looking for a shift management application? You've come to the right place! ▶ The best shift planner is here for you! ▶ Customize alarms for shifts ▶ Register annual leaves ▶ Confirm weekly work period ▶ Calculate hourly/overtime wage ▶ Link up with Apple Calendar ▶ Share and back up schedule [more detailed explanations] ■ Easily manage work calendar Make irregular schedule or a one with repeating patterns such as three teams with two shifts or four teams with three rotations ■ Check colleagues' schedules See coworker's plans and even those of other companies ■ You can be on time! Customize alarms for your shifts. ■ Synchronization with Apple Calendar Using Today Shift, you can see all the timetables and memos registered on other calendars ■ Providing shifts summary Check up on work-related informations such as weekly total work hours, income, vacation usage, etc. ■ Back up shift calendar Using social login, you can make backups and import your shift calendar ■ Share shift calendar You can share via hyperlink, or easily show your captured calendar If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email! contact@hodosoft.io

Screenshots

Shift Calendar4 screens
Today's Shift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Today's Shift at 93% against Shift Calendar's 29%. Today's Shift also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Shift Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Shift Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Today's Shift sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Today's Shift holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Shift Calendar's written reviews are positive against 93% of Today's Shift's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shift Calendar ships an update every 2 months, Today's Shift every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Shift Calendar versus Today's Shift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift CalendarToday's Shift
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (27 ratings)4.9 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews92.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings27 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB118 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOwen SchickHodosoft Co.,Ltd.

Customer experience

Shift Calendar

All ratings27 ratings
Positive59.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative37.0%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative60.3%

Today's Shift

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive92.6%
Neutral5.9%
Negative1.5%

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
Show 13 more
  • 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
Show 12 more
  • 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

Today's Shift

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Shift Calendar

One-time1
  • Calendar$2.99
1 purchases

Today's Shift

Subscriptions1
  • Today Shift Premium1 Month trial$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Shift Calendar free?
Shift Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Today's Shift free?
Today's Shift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shift Calendar or Today's Shift?
Today's Shift is rated higher. Shift Calendar averages 3.3 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while Today's Shift averages 4.9 from 19 ratings.
Do Shift Calendar or Today's Shift have ads?
Neither Shift Calendar nor Today's Shift shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shift Calendar or Today's Shift?
Shift Calendar ships an update every 2 months, and Today's Shift every 3 weeks. Most recently, Shift Calendar was updated on November 1, 2026 and Today's Shift on November 11, 2026.

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