Shift Days: Work Hour Calendar ٤+

As a travel nurse it can be difficult for me to keep track of different shifts/hospitals. This app has allowed to to plan my WHOLE life. I love using the color blocks for scheduling in different hospitals, shift requests, vacation time, and events happening around my local city. I'm easily able to put down an "off" shift for a day that I'd like to request off for some LA event, and write in the comments section why the event is so I don't end up scheudling myself on days that there's cool things happening. It's also very easy to share my calendar with friends and they're able to see what each block represents. I'll send the schedule and be like "blue days I'm available after 8 pm, Red days I'm not in town, Orange days I'm available after 3 pm, and so on and so forth. One downside is that you can't add more than two things to a day, but you are able to write a comment that can remind you of other things going on. I generally use this app strictly for shifts , vacations, and local events..anything else (birthdays, meet ups) I will use the IOS calendar. It also reminds you the night before that you have to work the next day. I love this app and would recommend it to anyone interested.

This has really helped me get my schedule in check. I’ve worked many jobs at once along with school and frequent doctor’s appointments, and this app can definitely handle fitting all of those things into one place!
Two things I would like to see after using this app (with the paid memebership; it’s only $1.99 a month- which is well worth it on my opinion) are…

1. More color options to label your shifts. There’s already quite a few colors on there but I would like to see something more resembling a palette rather than the two dozen options they give you, many of which are just different shades of a base color (for example red is one color, but there are three other shades going from a dark orange to a burgundy).

2. The ability to pick which shifts display on your calendar instead of it defaulting to alphabetical order. In fact the ability to reorganize shifts in the menu from the pop out tab would be perfect. I hate that if I can only fit two shifts per calendar day, that the app decides that the third is less important because it’s lower in alphabetical order and time.

Other than those two minor things, this app is full of great features and definitely the best scheduling app I have ever used, and definitely the cheapest paid one that also has a free version (albeit with limited shifts). I will continue using this for the far foreseeable future as long as the service still remains available.

I work irregular shifts as a retail worker, and they can change right up until the day I am working. This app not only makes it easy to set shifts and get reminders for them, but it allows you to color-code shifts to quickly tell the difference and set a specific reminder time for each shift. For example, my morning shifts are in yellow and orange and I get notified a couple hours ahead of time for plenty of notice to get up and get ready. My afternoon shifts are in green and blue and I give myself a thirty minute notification for travel time.
With a handy widget, you can see the next three days without even opening the app, and I can always look back and compare my timesheets to my schedule to double-check everything.