2025 has been a milestone year for the MyShiftPlanner brand.

MyShiftPlanner celebrated its 12th anniversary, MyShiftManager turned two, and both products saw their biggest growth in features, customers, and capability to date.

As we move into a unified brand world – MyShiftPlanner for individuals, MyShiftPlanner-Team for managers and businesses – we’re proud to look back at a year packed with progress and innovation.

MyShiftManager: A Breakthrough Year for Teams

MyShiftManager (soon MyShiftPlanner-Team) has had its most feature-rich year since launch. With more businesses joining the platform than ever, we focused on reliability, performance, and creating genuinely useful scheduling tools for real teams.

Highlights from the year:

A smarter, faster scheduler

  • Major UI refresh and performance boost across the entire app
  • New By Role and By Shift views making coverage planning easier
  • Year View added, giving managers a full 12-month overview at a glance
  • Nudge tools, repeat options, better role-based requirements and new publishing improvements

Timesheets get serious

  • Brand new Timesheet Report, complete with team summaries and deep dives
  • Support for unscheduled timesheets, split shifts, and new “additional activity” fields
  • New rules for accrued leave, weekend overtime, and permission-based submission controls

Better leave, swaps & requests

  • More accurate leave tracking and allowance visibility
  • Improved swap request visibility and approval options
  • New right-click menus for fast decisions
  • Cleaner workflows for open shifts and request management

Dashboard improvements everywhere

  • Widgets refresh faster, load more reliably, and now support click-through deep dives
  • New widgets like Team Work Stats and “Working On Date” with advanced filtering

Quality & reliability upgrades

  • Dozens of fixes and refinements across mobile and desktop
  • Better navigation, improved Firefox compatibility, and improved tutorials
  • Smoother onboarding, with better settings discovery and search capability
  • Excel downloads now available when using the mobile web version

Overall, 2025 saw MyShiftManager grow from a powerful rota system into a complete scheduling, timesheet, and workforce management platform.

MyShiftPlanner: A Big Year for Individuals & Connected Workers

MyShiftPlanner also had a huge year packed with features, stability improvements, and quality-of-life updates—especially for users connected to a MyShiftManager team.

Major improvements this year:

A more powerful, more personal planner

  • New password reset and login flows for smoother account management
  • Better visibility for shift patterns and support for multiple patterns in the free version
  • Improved icons, calendar permission prompts, and cleaner UI elements

Connected features for team workers

  • Open shift requests and approvals available directly in the app
  • New timesheet tools and submission options
  • Better leave warnings and alignment with MyShiftManager settings
  • Enhanced support for additional activity and comments

Timesheets everywhere

  • Support for unscheduled and split shift timesheets
  • New download options and clearer break reporting
  • Improved overtime handling and simplified overtime dialogs

Better widgets, sync & sharing

  • iOS and Android widgets rebuilt for reliability
  • Google Calendar sync fixes for all-day events and recurring schedules
  • Image export upgraded to show exactly what’s on screen
  • Live Sharing now smarter and more stable

Technical and performance upgrades

  • Dozens of fixes across iOS and Android
  • Reduced crashes, faster load times, better exception handling
  • Improved dark mode visuals, calendar names, shift colours and event lists
  • Smarter data handling behind the scenes for smoother day-to-day use

It’s been one of the most stable and feature-rich update cycles we’ve ever delivered—fitting for the app’s 12th birthday.

A Year of Growth and a Unified Future

With more users, more businesses, and more features than ever before, 2025 has been a year of big steps forward. As we move into 2026, we’ll be bringing the products together under one clear brand – MyShiftPlanner for personal use and MyShiftPlanner-Team for managers and businesses.

Our mission remains the same:

Help shift workers and shift managers stay organised, save time, and stay connected – every day.