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Shifts – Shift Worker Calendar app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 1472 ratings )
Business Productivity
Developer: Snowman
4.99 USD
Current version: 1.0.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 22 Jan 2015
App size: 26.59 Mb

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Shifts is the fastest and easiest way to enter and view your work shifts on iPhone.

“A Beautiful Mobile Calendar App Designed For Shift Workers”
– TechCrunch

“An ingenious little app”
– Cult of Mac

“It’s great for keeping track of your obligations”
– TIME

“A great way to keep track of your work schedule”
– Lifehacker

“A super clean interface”
– GIZMODO

“I absolutely recommend Shifts to shift workers”
– TUAW

“If youre a shift worker, look no further than Shifts for your scheduling needs”
– iPhone Life

“The app has been polished to perfection”
– Beautiful Pixels

“The app is a breeze to use”
– AppAdvice

Traditional calendar apps aren’t ideal for shift workers. You don’t necessarily work a traditional Monday to Friday 9-5 job. That makes it hard to keep track of when you’re working, especially with early morning and overnight schedules.

Shifts solves this problem with a simple solution. Create your own custom shifts using our attractive icons and color picker, then add them to your calendar with just one tap.

You can add up to 2 shifts per day, or setup a shift rotation and apply it to your Shifts calendar all at once. This makes it easy to enter an entire month – or even year’s worth of shifts in less than a minute! See any of your upcoming shifts right from the lock screen.

After you’ve entered your shifts, you can view them in our beautiful month view calendar, or in a handy list format. You can overlay your personal calendar on top, so you’ll know when you have things going on outside of work.

With just a tap you can share your schedule with friends, family, and co-workers – whether they’re using Shifts or not.

Built exclusively for iOS 8 and Apple’s latest iPhones, Shifts is the modern way to keep track of your work schedule.

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CREATE SHIFTS

Add as many shifts as you’d like, and choose your own icon and headerr for each shift type.

ADD TO CALENDAR WITH ONE TAP

Select one of your shifts, then tap each day on the calendar you’d like to add it to. Up to 2 shifts per day.

SHARE YOUR SCHEDULE

Send friends, family, and co-workers your work schedule whether they’re using Shifts or not.

VIEW UPCOMING SHIFTS RIGHT IN THE WIDGET

See your schedule without even opening up the app, right from the lock screen, or from inside any other app.

SET UP CUSTOM SHIFT ROTATIONS

Set up shift rotations and Shifts will automatically apply your shifts over any date range you choose – great for repeating schedules (e.g. a 3-week schedule that repeats for 4 months).

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ADDITIONAL FEATURES

• View your personal iCloud calendar overlaid on your work schedule
• Add personalized notes to any of your shifts
• Enter your hourly rate and we’ll show you an estimate of your monthly earnings
• Add up to 2 different shifts per day
• Reminders for shifts
• Indicate vacation days with the holiday icon, or sick days with the medical icon
• See your schedule on the Calendar or List view
• Swipe between months, or pick any month (just tap the date at the top)

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GREAT FOR:

• Nurses
• Emergency workers
• Doctors
• Security guards
• Cleaners
• Retail employees
• Laborers
• Servers, bar tenders, kitchen staff
• Grocers
• Police and Firefighters
• Military
• Surgeons
• News and media reporters
• Paramedics
• Students and part time workers
• Taxi or Uber drivers
• Shipping and warehouse staff
• Pest control workers
• Locksmiths
• Hydro workers
• Protective service
• Food preparations
• Truckers and tow-truck drivers
• Construction workers
• Bus drivers and other transportation workers
• Anyone else who has trouble keeping track of their schedule!

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With Shifts, you’ll be able to glance at your calendar and immediately know when you’re working – and when you’re not.

Pros and cons of Shifts – Shift Worker Calendar app for iPhone and iPad

Shifts – Shift Worker Calendar app good for

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

Some bad moments

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.
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.
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.