Fire Shifts vs VerseCloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fire Shifts
This app provides a free, customizable calendar for Fire and EMS personnel to manage their work schedules. Users can select from various shift types and personalize labels and colors for easy visual organization of their personal schedule.
- Customizable shift calendar
- Multiple shift type options
- Personalized labels and colors
- Free updates
- Works indefinitely
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A free customizable Fire and EMS Shift Calendar. Easily select various shift types such as 24/48 (ABC), 48/96 (AABBCC), etc. Customize labels and colors for each of your shifts to easily highlight your personal schedule. Visit www.fireshifts.com to see a full list of scheduling options. Ad supported. Works indefinitely. No purchasing of yearly licenses, free updates, no subscriptions fees. Email kevin@fireshifts.com for support.
VerseCloud
Organize, remember, and review Bible verses with this free study tool. Features include saving verses from various sources, memory games, flashcards, and collaborative study features. Syncs across devices and offers web access.
- Organize and save Bible verses
- Memory games and flashcards
- Verse entry from camera or documents
- Collaborative Verse Pads
- Cross-device and web sync
- Multiple Bible translations
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VerseCloud is a free Bible study companion tool that helps you organize, remember, and review what you read. Features: • Easily save and organize verses from a sermon, Bible study, or document • Read Bible verses from your camera, look up verses in books or from documents • Play built-in memory games to help you remember what you study • Flash cards available for all verses, even in the original languages • Includes NASB, ESV, BSB, LSV, KJV, WEB, BDA, and CNV Bible translations • English, Spanish, and Chinese Bible translations available • Original language bibles in Hebrew and Greek, including parsing information • Add rich notes to your verses • Search for all your bookmarks and Verse Pads • Tags to help you organize your VerseCloud • Fast and easy verse entry, including verse entry by search, external documents, or any other book* VerseCloud community features: • Comment on Verse Pads • Subscribe to Verse Pads, instant updates for them • Sync content across devices and view them on the web • Share your Verse Pads with the public • Collaborate with others to build Verse Pads for Bible studies and study groups This is *not* another Bible reader app, but it does have Bibles included to preview read verses. * Must adjust user settings Follow us on Twitter/X: @VerseCloud Soli Deo Gloria
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VerseCloud at 4.7 against Fire Shifts's 3.8. VerseCloud also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 27 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 37%). Fire Shifts's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
VerseCloud holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 59 and 49 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of Fire Shifts's written reviews are positive against 67% of VerseCloud's.
Fire Shifts ships an update every 27 months, VerseCloud monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fire Shifts | VerseCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (59 ratings) | 4.7 (49 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.8% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 49 |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 125 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin Jordan | Quantum Quinn |
Customer experience
Fire Shifts
VerseCloud
Bugs and requests
Fire Shifts
Reported bugs
5 issues- App shows wrong year (2020 instead of 2018)
- Black screen issue
- App crashes
- App stopped working
- Calendar not highlighting current day
Requested features
13 requests- Ability to change shift colors
- Ability to write notes on days
- Make current day obvious
- Add white and gray colors
- Ability to change labels
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- Add alarms for days
- Add custom shift patterns
- Add notes to dates
- Add Kelly days
- Add payday
- Input notes into calendar
- Change week start to Monday
- Input schedule with numbers/letters and colors
VerseCloud
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fire Shifts
No in-app purchases
VerseCloud
No in-app purchases
