# Humanity Schedule review (2026): is it worth $2.75 a month, billed yearly?

> Employee scheduling with demand forecasting and compliance rules

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** Shift Scheduling
- **Made by:** TimeClock Plus, LLC (TCP Software)
- **Website:** https://tcpsoftware.com/products/humanity/
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want auto-fill or demand-based scheduling on the cheapest plan, as those need Professional.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## 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.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** Free trial on the Essentials plan, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Essentials | $2.75 per employee / month, billed annually | Up to 250 employees: drag-and-drop scheduling, swaps, availability, time off, geofenced clock in/out, basic reporting. |
| Professional | $3.75 per 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 https://tcpsoftware.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Humanity Schedule before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with annual billing** (Annual discount): TCP's pricing page has a Monthly/Annually switch labeled "Save 20%", and shows the annual per-employee rates. Source: https://tcpsoftware.com/pricing/

## 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.

## Good for

- Larger frontline teams in healthcare, retail or hospitality that need compliance rules
- Organizations that want scheduling and time tracking from one vendor
- Teams planning staffing around forecast demand

## 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: B.** $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.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A card-free trial on Essentials, then paid. There is no free plan.
- **Features: C.** Shift 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.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Rules and schedules have to be set up before it pays off.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus iOS and Android apps, with four integrations listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it stands among shift scheduling apps

- 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.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/shift-scheduling

## Keep it, 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.

- You could make: Time off and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts.
- You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: Hooks into the device itself: an Apple Watch app.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.9 out of 5 from 48,003 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1199006408

## Works with

ADP, Oracle, Workday, BambooHR

**Tags:** Shift scheduling, Time clock, Time off, AI features, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Deputy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deputy): Shift scheduling, time clock and labor-law tools for hourly teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deputy-vs-humanity)
- [Connecteam](https://toolgpa.com/tools/connecteam): Employee app for shifts, time clock, chat and HR, free up to 10 users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/connecteam-vs-humanity)
- [Planday](https://toolgpa.com/tools/planday): Rota planning, punch clock and payroll reports for shift-based teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/humanity-vs-planday)
- [Homebase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/homebase): Small-business scheduling, time clock and payroll, priced per location. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/homebase-vs-humanity)
- [Shiftbase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shiftbase): Dutch shift scheduling, time clock and absence app, free to 15 staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/humanity-vs-shiftbase)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://tcpsoftware.com/pricing/
- https://tcpsoftware.com/products/humanity/

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