# ShiftWizard review (2026): is it worth it? > Healthcare staff scheduling with self-scheduling and shift swaps Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. ShiftWizard is a nurse and staff scheduling product from HealthStream, built for healthcare organizations. It supports demand forecasting, self-scheduling and mobile shift swaps, and live dashboards. The vendor says it integrates with HR, payroll, EMR and ERP systems, including a Workday-certified integration. - **Category:** Shift Scheduling - **Made by:** HealthStream - **Website:** https://www.healthstream.com/solution/scheduling/nurse-and-staff-scheduling/shiftwizard - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you're not in healthcare staffing. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing ShiftWizard's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Self-scheduling:** Staff manage their own availability, preferences and shift changes from their phones. - **Mobile shift swaps:** Managers and staff can view, swap and manage shifts from anywhere on mobile. - **Predictive scheduling:** Demand forecasting and real-time staffing insights, which the vendor says help cut overtime and agency spend. - **Live dashboards and reports:** Dashboards and reports across teams and time periods to support staffing decisions. - **System integrations:** Connects to HR, payroll, EMR and ERP systems; the vendor calls it the first healthcare scheduling product with a Workday-certified integration. ## Good for - Hospitals and health systems scheduling nurses and clinical staff - Organizations that already use Workday for HR - Units that want staff to pick up open shifts themselves ## Worth knowing - No pricing is published; the page offers a demo request only. - ShiftWizard is one product in the HealthStream catalog, and its page is hosted on healthstream.com. - Built for healthcare staffing, so it is a narrow fit for retail or restaurant rosters. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. ShiftWizard offers self-scheduling and shift swaps for hospital teams. But no price is published, its page lives inside HealthStream's catalogue, and it is built for healthcare only. - **Value for money: C.** No price on record: the page offers a demo request only. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free is listed: no free plan and no trial on the pages we read. - **Features: C.** Self-scheduling, mobile swaps, predictive scheduling and dashboards. The listing is short, and it names only Workday as an integration. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It's a sales-led rollout inside a larger vendor's products. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web, with mobile swaps mentioned and Workday as the one named integration. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from HealthStream's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among shift scheduling apps - ShiftWizard's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 0 of the 49 other shift scheduling apps we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 4 of 49) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). 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 ShiftWizard you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 46 of the 49 other shift scheduling apps grade higher. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Workday **Tags:** Shift scheduling, Reports, Dashboards ## Alternatives - [Nursegrid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/nursegrid): Shift scheduling for care teams, tied to a mobile app for nurses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/nursegrid-vs-shiftwizard) - [OnShift](https://toolgpa.com/tools/onshift): Staff scheduling and hiring software for senior care providers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/onshift-vs-shiftwizard) - [symplr Workforce](https://toolgpa.com/tools/symplr-workforce): Nurse scheduling and healthcare timekeeping for health systems. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shiftwizard-vs-symplr-workforce) - [SmartLinx](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smartlinx): Census-driven staff scheduling for senior care facilities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shiftwizard-vs-smartlinx) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.healthstream.com/solution/scheduling/nurse-and-staff-scheduling/shiftwizard Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/shiftwizard Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).