Shifts – Shift Worker Calendar App Reviews

Perfect app for organizing my restaurant shifts as well as my school schedule. The app itself is simple to use and has a great layout and design.

This is so handy to quickly enter my shifts for the week. Best interface. 5stars

This app is great for a shift rotation that repeats... Ive been able to see when I work right through the next few years now! Only one downside was that I couldnt clear all shifts (when I messed up), so that feature would be ideal. You can only clear one shift at a time, which is cumbersome if youve entered a significant amount of time. That is why the app only gets 4/5 stars. Otherwise? Perfection.

The app has a pleasant UI and seems like it would be a good tool for certain types of shift workers (those with only a few different shift types, one job, and who do not need to share their calendar). I find the app clunky--simple features (like the ability to schedule recurring events) are absent or poorly designed. The app seems half-baked, and is unusable to me for the reasons listed below. I have contacted iTunes for a refund (first time in 5 years) because I feel I completely wasted my money. 1) Theres a bug that means that you cant schedule more than about 6 different shift types. As a part-time employee my shifts are different each day, so I can only use the app to schedule one week at a time. I contacted the dev for support, and was told we were unaware of this bug. Until we can resolve it, just use fewer shift types. 2) While the app description indicates that you can have two different shifts a day, if one of these is a rotation (recurring) shift, it overrides the regular shift. I have a few shifts for a second job that occur weekly at the same time. The way the app is designed, if I make it a rotation/recurring, shifts for my other job that fall on those days are erased. I would have to remember to schedule those recurring shifts each week, which seems more work than it should be. I would like to see the ability to add repeating events as in Apple Calendar. 3) Calendar sharing does not work as I anticipated. Instead of sharing the calendar the way Google or iCloud calendar sharing works, where the shared calendar can be displayed in your calendar app, the calendar is simply shared as an image of the month, with symbols on each day indicating shift(s) that day. The shared calendar cannot be added to a calendar app, nor does the shared calendar display basic information such as when a shift begins or ends. Not very helpful when trying to share information with your partner, or even yourself (my plan was to use Shifts to add my shifts, and then share the calendar with myself so I could see my shifts in Apple Calendar, along with my other calendars for personal/finance/holidays, etc). If none of these three points is concerning to you, youll probably really enjoy the app as some other reviewers have, and as Im sure I would have, had it not been for these issues. Like I said, the UI is pleasant and the app seeks to solve a problem in my life (the pain of adding shifts), it just does so very poorly.

I cant believe I used to enter all my shifts manually, like an ANIMAL!!

Ive been looking forward to this app for some time. It works well and does what it should with one exception. The developers have not integrated with the native calendar on iOS. This means that your shifts to not move to your iOS calendar. They stay "trapped" in the app. "Sharing" your calendar, as they describe, is a screen capture image of Shifts that you can message to people. "Sharing" would be so much easier if it just integrated into the native calendar app, where I already have iCloud sharing already set up.

This app is great if you have a very routine lifestyle. If you work 8-4 you make an icon and boom your set it even calculates how much you make a month. But if you are like me and your work hours change constantly and you want an app to document your schedule so you dont forget something, this is a waste of money. You will have to make a new icon each day. And you can only have 2 icons on each day, meaning you can only put in 2 daily schedules. I was disappointed but thats because it doesnt meet my pilot lifestyle of random hours

I really like the app and find its easy to use. Its so much simpler than adding it all manually. BUT I have a bug ... it crashes and closes out after about one month of shifts. I cant even look ahead too far because it will crash. I want to add my whole year but the app wont stop crashing

I am a RN and this app is great as I can input my rotation and it will plot out my shifts for the year. The only flaw is the the "sharing" function doesnt actually share it just takes a snap of the calendar that you can send to family and friends. The app would be fabulous and had a full five star review if it had Apple or Google Calendar integration so that I can share my schedule to the iOS calendar app with my personal appointments etc. Overall a good App!

I had difficulty accessing my earlier shifts when I try to scroll up, in which i had to delete some saved ones therefore erasing the entire memory. I got a little bit frustrated by that since I get a lot of different timed shifts depending on my availability. Please fix this!

This is exactly what I was looking for. No complaints. Integration with notification window is great too!

Has the potential to be a great app. Reviews said could put two schedules in and you can, but you can only add one rotation. No easy way to delete previous rotation if youve made a mistake. Crashes every few minutes. Dont waste your money. Far too unstable.

I cant even open the app anymore, just crashes. Used to love this app.. Would love to continue to use it. Emailed support but havent heard back..

can only overlay one system calendar on top of your shifts, i have several does not display enough info from the calendar thats overlayed. for example, i have a dentist appointment on apr 22 from 10am to 12pm. i have no shifts on that day. there is no indicator that there is an event for that day. when you click on the indicator-less day you will see the note but no times! there is no way to export your shifts into the main system calendar OR to create a new calendar that the system can use. ios calendar app supports multiple calendars.

Does not save your data to the cloud. Have had to reload all my shifts every time I get a new device/reinstall.

This app was awesome but now it keeps changing the hours I add and adds random inputs after I restart the app. It needs to be fixed!

Great app, but I can not use it. Calendar does NOT have settings for start of the week day. The week begins in Sunday, when I need it to begin in Monday :(

Perfect for shift workers. Would love more integration/sync with native calendars as well as option to change first day of week to Monday.

Not intuitive at all. Cant delete shifts. The entire app doesnt make sense. Ive had to delete it twice now and start completely over in an attempt to click the right buttons.

I work nights, this makes it easier for me and my friends to understand when I work. No bugs so far!