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.