Half-baked. Does not suit needs. Regret buying.

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.

m908765432 about Shifts – Shift Worker Calendar, v1.0