Shift It vs Shift Days (Spoke) - iOS Shift Calendar Comparison

Shift Days (also called Spoke) is a popular shift calendar app, particularly for iOS users. It’s clean, it’s simple, and it gets the basics right. But it has a few constraints that matter depending on what you actually need.

What Shift Days does well

Shift Days has a great reputation for simplicity. You log your shifts, set colours, and the app auto-calculates what you’ve earned based on a simple hourly rate you input. The interface is uncluttered and iCloud sync works smoothly. The app also has widgets, so your upcoming shifts sit on your home screen.

The earnings calculation is useful. You put in your hourly rate and the app tallies your pay. For workers on a simple hourly rate with no loadings or penalty rates, that’s enough.

Where Shift Days limits you

First: no Android. Shift Days only works on iOS and iPad. If you use Android, that’s the end of the conversation.

Second: the pay calculation is simple. It’s hourly rate times hours worked. It doesn’t handle award-based pay. If you work under an award, your pay includes loadings for weekends, nights, and public holidays — see how penalty rates stack. Shift Days doesn’t factor those in.

Third: no family sharing. If you want the app on a second device, you’ll need to set it up separately.

Fourth: no spreadsheet import. If your workplace publishes rosters as spreadsheets, you’ll enter every shift manually.

Feature comparison

Feature	Shift It (Free)	Shift Days
iOS support	Yes	Yes
Android support	Yes	No
Simple earnings calculation	Yes (Pro)	Yes
Rotation patterns	Yes (Roster Wizard)	No
Spreadsheet import	2 per month	No
Award-based pay calculation	Yes (Pro)	No
Payslip comparison	Yes (Pro)	No
Multi-device sync	Yes	Yes (iCloud only)

Who should use which?

If you’re on iPhone, you work a flat hourly rate with no penalty rates, and you want something minimal, Shift Days is a solid choice. It does what it does well.

But if you have an Android phone, Shift Days is unavailable. If you work under an award, you need an app that understands award-based pay. Shift Days’s simple hourly calculation will consistently underestimate what you should be earning on weekends and nights.

If your workplace gives you rosters as spreadsheets and you’re sick of typing shifts in manually, Shift It’s import feature saves you hours. If you need to catch pay errors before they add up, Pay Check’s payslip comparison is the feature that pays for itself.