ScheduleAnywhere vs Sutter Focused Recognition
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScheduleAnywhere
This app simplifies employee scheduling and communication, allowing managers to create schedules, manage requests, and instantly notify staff of changes. Employees can view their shifts, submit requests, and stay informed from any mobile device.
- Create work schedules
- Communicate changes instantly
- Manage employee requests
- Access schedules on mobile
- Automate schedule rotation
- Reduce overtime
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ScheduleAnywhere is the easy, affordable and proven way to build work schedules and communicate with your employees. Save time and make your job easier and your employees happier, all while meeting the needs of your business. If you schedule shifts and need to ensure proper staff coverage, ScheduleAnywhere is for you! · Schedule anywhere, any time · Eliminate spreadsheets and paper schedules · Communicate changes instantly · Avoid overstaffing · Ensure proper shift coverage · Rotate schedules automatically · Reduce unnecessary overtime · Save time and money! Mobile Tools for Managers on the Go Don't be tied to your desk. Now you can access and manage staff schedules and employees requests from any mobile device with our free ScheduleAnywhere app or mobile site. See who's scheduled, or not scheduled, and make last-minute changes. Simply repost the schedule to instantly notify affected employees. For managers: · Respond to time-off, cover and swap requests · Find available employees for no-shows · Access daily rosters and staff schedules · Make last-minute changes · Repost schedules to notify employees of shift changes · Fast, easy and convenient! 24/7 Mobile Access for Employees Instantly access your work schedule with our free ScheduleAnywhere app or mobile site. Manage and submit schedule requests from anywhere, anytime. Plus, you'll always know when you're scheduled to work. For employees: · See when you work · View staff schedules · Submit time off, cover and swap requests · Check the status of requests · Never miss a shift!
Sutter Focused Recognition
Recognize Sutter Health team members for embodying cultural beliefs and achieving key results. This app allows employees and physician partners to send virtual recognition to coworkers, reinforcing the organization's mission and vision.
- Virtual recognition cards
- Recognize cultural beliefs
- Reinforce mission and vision
- Employee and physician partner use
- Sutter Health email required
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Virtual Focused Recognition Cards are used to recognize Sutter Health team members who model our Cultural Beliefs, live our values and help achieve our Key Results. Through this mobile app, employees and physician partners can recognize co-workers virtually to help reinforce the mission and vision of Sutter Health. Any Sutter Health employee or Physician that has an associated Sutter Health email address can use this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sutter Focused Recognition at 3.5 against ScheduleAnywhere's 2.2. Sutter Focused Recognition also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). ScheduleAnywhere's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (11% vs 0%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sutter Focused Recognition holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ScheduleAnywhere has 49 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 11% of ScheduleAnywhere's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sutter Focused Recognition's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ScheduleAnywhere ships an update every 2 weeks, Sutter Focused Recognition every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScheduleAnywhere | Sutter Focused Recognition |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (49 ratings) | 3.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Humanity.com, LLC | Sutter Health |
Customer experience
ScheduleAnywhere
Sutter Focused Recognition
Bugs and requests
ScheduleAnywhere
Reported bugs
26 issues- App won't let me edit anything
- System errors requiring app deletion and reinstallation
- Linking to Google Calendar stops working after a month
- Always logs out
- Cannot see full schedule (vacations, days off, notes)
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- Only lists current day's schedule
- Cannot see coworkers' schedules
- Update makes app unusable
- Overtime hours don't stay on the same day when running into the next day
- App has not been updated for years
- App needs update for iPhone Xs
- App needs better viewing and graphics
- App needs to sync with iPhone calendar
- App needs to be updated for multiple things
- App needs features from website, like requests
- Almost impossible to view requests
- Cannot get past the login screen
- App is read-only
- Impossible to navigate large employee schedules (over 150 employees)
- App messes up every other time
- App is in need of a good upgrade
- App stopped loading, shows a blank white screen
- App is a web shortcut to their mobile version
- App can't remember username and password
- App is worthless, can't log into business scheduling system
- No way to select the database to connect to
Requested features
24 requests- Show all future requests and manager response
- Bring back weekly view option
- Make weekly view an option
- Add features that the website has, like requests
- Update to be compatible with iPhone XS and XS Max
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- Add features to request and review time off
- Show schedule as a month view
- Allow users to stay signed in
- Sync with iPhone calendar
- Sync with personal calendars
- Add monthly view
- Import schedule to calendar
- Add a month view like the full website
- Add notifications for messages or changes
- Add interface for managers
- Add integration with iOS's native calendar or Google calendar
- Add ability to edit schedule
- Add ability to add comments/make changes
- Add text message or email notifications for daily assignments
- Add month view like desktop version
- Add ease in scheduling employees and their daily assignments
- Add ability to save schedule
- Add ability to sync to Google calendar
- Add ability to select database to connect to
Sutter Focused Recognition
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ScheduleAnywhere
No in-app purchases
Sutter Focused Recognition
No in-app purchases
Questions
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