ShiftWallet, HoursTracker, Supershift or a spreadsheet: which one fits your shifts

If you want to check your pay against your hours on an iPhone, that's what ShiftWallet does. If you need Android, look at HoursTracker first, and if what you really want is a schedule you can share with your partner, Supershift or MyShiftPlanner do that better. A spreadsheet still works fine until your shifts start crossing midnight and picking up premiums.

The short version

I checked every store listing on 3 and 4 October 2026. Apps change, so the listing is the thing to trust if it says something different.

Who should pick which

On Android, pick HoursTracker. It's been around since 2009 and it's the app that comes up most in Reddit threads about getting paid right, especially from postal workers, UPS drivers and nannies. This one is from r/UPSers:

"HoursTracker app has saved me tens of thousands of dollars at this point. Supervisors don’t even think to try this sh*t with me anymore after weekly grievances. I know to the penny how much I’m supposed to be paid for the week."

r/UPSers, August 2025

Its free edition keeps 21 days of entries and up to 3 jobs. To keep more history you subscribe or delete older entries. Its listing doesn't mention a night window or differentials, so check that before you rely on it for nights.

Sharing a schedule with a partner or family (a rota, in the UK) is what Supershift and MyShiftPlanner are built around. Both are shift calendars first, with rotation patterns like 4 on 4 off and sharing built in. Supershift is the big one in Germany and with Australian nurses, MyShiftPlanner with UK police. ShiftWallet can't share anything.

People who'd rather pay once have more choice than they might think. Overtime Live sells Pro as a one-time purchase, and Supershift and MyShiftPlanner both have a lifetime option next to their monthly and yearly plans. A lot of people won't touch a subscription for an app like this:

"would buy it as a lifetime option, not going to give it a try as a recurring subscription option. subscriber fatigue is real."

r/iosapps, May 2026

ShiftWallet is free to start, and for now Pro is a subscription. The current options are on its App Store page.

Privacy is one more place where ShiftWallet loses. Supershift and Overtime Live both say your data is stored on the device, with backup only if you turn it on, while ShiftWallet copies your shifts to its own cloud backup on Google Firebase, account or no account. That's handy if you lose your phone and not what you want if privacy comes first. Leave is a closer call. MyShiftPlanner tracks annual leave, and ShiftWallet has only let you log time off since version 2.4.

In the UK, Overtime Live is the closest app to ShiftWallet: earnings ticking up on the Lock Screen, overtime multipliers, unsocial hours enhancements and a take-home pay estimate, with a one-time price. It's newer and smaller, with 14 ratings in the UK App Store when I looked.

A US nurse who mostly wants swaps and coworkers' schedules should look at NurseGrid. It's a calendar and social app with shift swaps and messaging, and its listing doesn't mention calculating pay.

If you found Clocked In through TikTok, its listing is mostly about watching your earnings grow and setting part of each shift aside for savings goals, with overtime rules per job, tips and a tax estimate. It doesn't mention night differentials or holiday rates. In the Reddit threads I went through it didn't come up once, so I have no user reports to pass on.

Why a spreadsheet works, and when it stops working

A spreadsheet is free and does exactly what you tell it. In 24 Reddit threads where people asked how to track their hours or pay, spreadsheets came up 51 times, against 23 for HoursTracker, the most mentioned shift app. If you work regular days at one rate, you probably don't need anything else.

It starts to hurt when a shift ends after midnight and the formula goes negative. Night premiums that cover half a shift and overtime that depends on the whole week are where most home-made sheets break. It also can't clock you in, and if you only fill it in on Sunday you're typing times from memory, which is the weakest kind of record.

Notes and photos sit at the other end. They're the fastest way to capture a time when it happens, and they give you evidence, but no totals. When a UK agency started charging workers to look at their past shifts, one reply suggested this:

"Take a photo on your phone every day at clock in and clock out. Its a pain but cheaper than 100 quid a year."

r/UKJobs, July 2026

Your employer's app

It's already on your phone and it's the record payroll pays from, so use it. Just don't make it your only record. It belongs to them, and your access ends when the job does. That agency wanted £7.99 a month to show workers their own past shifts. Keep your own copy alongside it. What to write down is in the guide to keeping your own record.

Where ShiftWallet is different

Under another developer's app on r/iosapps, someone asked:

"Does it handle overtime math? That's where most shift apps fall apart."

r/iosapps, February 2026

ShiftWallet prices every shift with your rules: a night window, overtime after a daily or weekly limit, a holiday rate only for the minutes that fall on the holiday, paid or unpaid breaks. Then, when the paycheck comes, it compares the gross for that period with what your shifts add up to. It starts from pay templates for the US, the UK, Spain and Germany and gives a rough tax estimate for the same four. In Germany the net pay estimate is free, elsewhere the tax estimate is Pro.

The things it can't do, in one place:

• No Android and no web version.
• No schedule sharing.
• No state income tax in the US estimate.

If that list rules it out, one of the apps above will serve you better. The rest of the details are in the FAQ.