Humanity Schedule review (2026): is it worth $2.75 a month, billed yearly?
Employee scheduling with demand forecasting and compliance rules
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Humanity Schedule report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for shift scheduling by TimeClock Plus
Humanity plans shifts, tracks labour cost and connects to payroll, with a mobile app for staff. Auto-fill, demand scheduling and compliance rules need the Professional plan, and the monthly-billing prices are not shown.
Who Humanity Schedule is for
- Fits if you schedule hourly staff and want labour cost beside the rota
- Works for a small team that can pay yearly
Who Humanity Schedule is not for
- Skip it if you want auto-fill or demand-based scheduling on the cheapest plan, as those need Professional
- Watch out: open API access, Shift Tasks and Labor Optimizer are paid add-ons
- Not for you if you need monthly-billing prices, as only annual rates were readable
- Tight if you are large, as Enterprise is a custom quote and Professional discounts are not published
Why Humanity Schedule gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- BValue for money$2.75 a person a month on yearly billing is the line of the cheapest quarter of the category. Professional is $3.75, still under the $5.65 middle.
- CFree plan and trialA card-free trial on Essentials, then paid. There is no free plan.
- CFeaturesShift planning, demand scheduling, compliance rules, labour budgeting and payroll links. Auto-fill and the compliance and budgeting tools need Professional, and the API is an add-on.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. Rules and schedules have to be set up before it pays off.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb plus iOS and Android apps, with four integrations listed.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Humanity's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Humanity Schedule's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 11 of the 23 other shift scheduling apps we grade, and level with 4.
It stands best on value for money (B, above 18 of 23) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $2.75 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.33 for the category: 4 of the 17 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 24 shift scheduling apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Humanity Schedule’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 18 of 23, level with 5
- CFree plan and trialAbove 5 of 23, level with 12
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 23, level with 14
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 23, level with 16
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 2 of 23, level with 21
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 18 shift scheduling apps. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Humanity Schedule, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Humanity Schedule you could make: time off and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 6 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
It costs $33 a year.
What you could make
- Time off and reports: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts.
- Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- Hooks into the device itself: an Apple Watch app.
What this rests on. Humanity Schedule’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Humanity Schedule?
Humanity Schedule is TCP Software's employee scheduling product. It builds shift schedules, handles swaps, open shifts and time-off requests from a mobile app, and on higher plans adds demand-based scheduling, compliance rules and labor budgeting. It is sold on TCP's combined scheduling and time tracking price list.
Worth knowing
- Auto-fill, demand-based scheduling, compliance and labor budgeting need the Professional plan or higher.
- Open API access, Shift Tasks and Labor Optimizer are listed as add-ons.
- The pricing page shows annual-billing rates only; the monthly-billing rates were not readable.
- Enterprise is a custom quote, and Professional volume discounts are not published.
Key features
- Shift planning
- Drag-and-drop schedule building across multiple locations, with shift swaps, availability and time-off requests handled by employees.
- Demand Scheduler
- AI forecasting predicts busy periods so the schedule can be staffed to expected demand. Demand-based scheduling is a Professional feature.
- Compliance rules
- Scheduling rules can be customized to catch conflicts with labor laws, collective bargaining agreements and shift rules before they become violations.
- Labor cost and budgeting
- Reports show how scheduling affects budgets and labor cost, with adjustments possible in real time.
- Mobile app
- Managers post open shifts and approve requests; employees view schedules, trade shifts and request time off. The app also works on Apple Watch.
- Payroll and HR connections
- Connects to payroll, ERP and HCM systems such as ADP, Oracle, Workday and BambooHR, with an open API available as an add-on.
Humanity Schedule pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Humanity Schedule is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $2.75 per employee / month, billed annually.
- Starts at
- $2.75 per employee / month, billed annually
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- Free trial on the Essentials plan, no credit card required
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $2.75per employee / month, billed annually | Up to 250 employees: drag-and-drop scheduling, swaps, availability, time off, geofenced clock in/out, basic reporting. |
| Professional | $3.75per employee / month, billed annually | Starting price; volume discounts may apply. Adds auto-fill and demand-based scheduling, compliance, labor budgeting and SSO/SAML. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Quote only, for complex operations with IT, security or cross-functional scheduling needs. |
Read from tcpsoftware.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Humanity Schedule before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave 20% with annual billing
TCP's pricing page has a Monthly/Annually switch labeled "Save 20%", and shows the annual per-employee rates.
Stated on tcpsoftware.com
How people rate the Humanity Schedule app
4.9
out of 5 for the iPhone and iPad app
48,003 ratings on the App Store in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. It rates the app, not everything the product does. See the listing
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Common questions
Does Humanity Schedule have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Humanity Schedule is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Humanity Schedule have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Humanity Schedule is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Humanity Schedule open source?
Humanity Schedule is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026. What people say is linked where it appears.