Shift It vs MyDuty - Shift Scheduling for Nurses and Shift Workers

MyDuty and Shift It are both shift calendar apps, but they’re built for slightly different needs. MyDuty leans into team coordination (it’s marketed at nurses), while Shift It is built around the individual shift worker’s view of their own pay and schedule — including registered nurses and midwives.

What MyDuty does well

MyDuty’s main strength is team visibility. You can see other team members’ schedules within the app. For nursing teams, group rosters, or any workplace where coordination matters, that’s useful. The app also has a message board for team communication, shift alarms, and iCloud sync across devices.

At $2.99 a month for premium features, it’s cheap. For a nursing team that needs quick coordination and doesn’t care about pay tracking, that’s straightforward.

Where MyDuty breaks down

MyDuty doesn’t calculate pay at all. There’s no earnings tracker, no penalty rate handling, no pay features. If you’re a nurse or healthcare worker in Australia or the UK, your award includes loadings for weekends, nights, public holidays, and sometimes years of service. MyDuty won’t help you track any of that.

There are also practical limits. Shift titles are capped at 5 characters. You can’t add multiple duties to the same day. And in the free version, ads are intrusive enough that users actively recommend paying to remove them.

What Shift It does that MyDuty doesn’t

Shift It assumes you’re managing your own schedule and you need to understand what you’re earning. Pay Check does two things MyDuty doesn’t:

• Calculates your award-based pay. For nurses, that means loading rates for different shifts under the NSW or VIC Nurses Award. For other shift workers, it means penalty rates for weekends, nights, and public holidays.
• Compares to your payslip. You enter your payslip and Shift It shows you the difference between what it calculated and what you were actually paid.

Shift It also handles spreadsheet imports, which MyDuty doesn’t. If your workplace publishes rosters as spreadsheets, you can import them directly instead of entering shifts manually.

Feature comparison

Feature	Shift It (Free)	MyDuty (Premium)
Shift scheduling	Yes	Yes
Team roster viewing	No	Yes
Team messaging	No	Yes
Spreadsheet import	2 per month	No
Pay calculation	Yes (Pro)	No
Payslip comparison	Yes (Pro)	No
Ads (free version)	None	Yes (intrusive)

The real question

If your workplace does roster coordination through the app and teammates need to see each other’s shifts, MyDuty makes sense. If you’re managing your own schedule and you need to understand whether you’re being paid correctly against your award, Shift It is designed for exactly that problem.

For nurses and healthcare workers in Australia, that’s especially important. Nursing awards are complex, and underpayment in healthcare is common. Many individual shift workers will find they need pay tracking far more than team coordination.