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Scheduler app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 2752 ratings )
Productivity Lifestyle
Developer: The Buddy System, LLC
7.99 USD
Current version: 6.1.2, last update: 6 months ago
First release : 06 Jun 2009
App size: 9.96 Mb

Visualize Your Shift Schedule

From Jeff: Please dont put questions or suggestions in a review -- theres no way for me to reply directly to you. Instead. use the in-app email buttons (on the Help tab), or send to [email protected].

If your schedule varies from week to week, keeping track of your working days can be a chore, and it’s often difficult to quickly figure out when you’ll be on-duty weeks or months in the future.

Scheduler to the rescue! Designed for public-service employees such as police officers, firefighters and health-care workers — anyone who works an unusual but predictable schedule — Scheduler always shows your schedule for the next six years from “today.” Common shift schedules are built-in, such as the “Berkeley” (a.k.a. “California”), “48-96” and “Dupont,” but you can easily change them or create other repeating schedules covering any number of days. See the screenshots (here and on the web site) for some examples. And there’s even a “Doofus” mode for showing irregular schedules (e.g., health-care workers).

If your spouse/partner works a shift schedule, too, you can have that entirely different rotation appear on the calendar with yours. This will help you organize family activities such as vacations and day-care.

Features:

• Displays your schedule for the next six years, including vacations and holidays.
• Perfect for public-service workers such as police officers and firefighters.
• Records trades (swaps). Tracks hours earned or owed on a person-by-person basis.
• Formats emails for sending out trade offers and approval requests.
• Maintains a record of your OT hours.
• Tracks your vacation time: automatically computes hours earned and shows weekly balances. Also records and totals sick time.
• Logs “events” with date, time and location — you can edit the title, text, and location details when you have time.
• Overlays an entirely separate schedule for your spouse/partner to help you coordinate your lives.
• Adjustable colors for shifts, vacations, Kelly days, holidays, etc.
• Mark special days such as Kellys, paydays, “early” shifts, or training days.
• Countdown to retirement.
• Extensive Help pages for every feature and screen; indexed.
• Includes UK Rota features for London train and bus drivers.

Notes:
1. You *can* enter a custom schedule.
2. You *can* set the text that appears on each day.
3. You *can* enter very long rotations.
4. You *can* superimpose text to mark special days on the calendar.
5. You *can* set bi-weekly repeating events (e.g., for paydays)

6. Scheduler is complicated. Please dont give up and leave a bad review -- I cant help you that way. If you have questions or comments, the best way to contact me is by using the in-app email button on the Help screen (2nd best: [email protected]). I reply to all emails immediately (or within a few hours if Im sleeping or traveling, which isnt often). If you didnt hear from me promptly, it means there was failure in the "Tubes." Please try again to contact me.

Attention FDNY (firemen): youll find my other app, FDNY, more useful for FD New York.

Pros and cons of Scheduler app for iPhone and iPad

Scheduler app good for

Played around, definitely needed to read the instructions, but I got all 5 Toronto police platoons on, paydays, holidays, can use the markers to record court, overtime paid duties, save assigned days off, regular days off attached to leave days. It would be nice to have a roster page to record colleagues need to know info like badge numbers, platoon, company email, cells, to avoid having it all mixed in with the iPhone contacts. Also to be able to save audio/video/foto inside app with ability to email back to mother ship.
After working shift for 25 year this is the first application I have ever seen that can do it all. Regular schedule, vacation, EDOs, paydays, training days and much more. There isnt anything that I have thrown at it it cant do yet. Also will show your schedule for the next two years. Very configurable, able to see co-worker schedules. Keep track of your hours, trades, overtime and kelly days.
Bought it after reading TPS review. We work odd ball shifts and hours. Just played with the features and set up was easy. Only took couple hours to figure out.
The seller for me on this one was the color coding for my days and nights, and the fact that u can plan ahead well in advance. I would however like a feature to sync this with my iCal on my MacBook pro. 4 starts because the price! Not bad but would have liked a 1.99 price tag more. Hope to see some updates and cool features! Great app!!
Great App & Great service (ver 2.3) Had Color code my 10,14&25hrs shift and all others dept 4 team ( platoons ) . I had difficulty figuring it out and i even could put in my wife shift ( odd nurse shift) Contacted service for info and tips and they were there for me, right away, once again great service. I highly recommend! Thanks
Best App out there but there is one important feature missing that is PUSH NOTIFICATIONS we need this to remind and alert us for upcoming events. PLEASE PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE. Thank you.

Some bad moments

I bought this app based on the good reviews, but it seems like its not for me. I found it so complicated, and I need a month course to get the hang on it :(
Worked great until uploaded the new iOS7 now I cant edit the schedule or it kicks me out of the program entirely. Guess Ill be looking for a better adapted Scheduler. Fix the bugs please!!!
I paid a lot of money for this app and use it quite often. Im very disappointed with the updates and support on this app. For the price they charge I had hoped that they would update this thing.
I have an unusual work schedule where I work for 5 days then off 2, then Work 5 off 2, and work 5 off 3. This App has been unbelievably helpful for me. All I had to do was set up an example month of work and it duplicated it for the next two years! I very often do shift swaps with other guys and this app has a "trade" option which helps me keep track of days I owe or days owed to me. My overtime and shift changes are easily tracked on this app as well. I have had this app for almost 3 month and I could not imagine not having it. It completely takes the place of calendar books or logs and is worth every penny I paid for it. I highly recommend this app to all people.
The app is very confusing at first. But after playing around for an hour or so, I figured it out and it is by FAR the best out there! Great
This app is great. Perfect app for a firefighter trying to keep track of everything. There is a bit of a learning curve, but Jeff is extremely helpful. I had a question that wasnt addressed in the help section and emailed Jeff. I got a helpful response within the hour!