7shifts alternative
You're not shopping for a scheduling tool. You're trying to run a shift. Gid puts the schedule, tasks, team chat and training in one app.
No credit card. No commitment.
It’s on us to show you what Gid can do and earn its place in your daily operations.
What
7shifts
Gid
Daily tasks
Premium planor $12.99 CAD add-on
Included
Training
Premium planEmployee Training
Included
Team chat
From EssentialsTeam messaging
Included
People included
15, 30 or 60 by plan; unlimited on Premium
Your whole team
Price model
Per location, by size, in CAD
$29 USD per location, whole team
From their public pages, checked September 23, 2026. Prices change. See the full comparison
The schedule
Forecast, labor targets and confirmations in the same view. Publish it, and every teammate has it live in their pocket, never on a printed sheet.
Tasks
Every task gets an owner, a due time and the steps to do it right, with proof where it matters and a reminder before it's late.
Learning map
Each teammate opens My Training on the phone and finds the next recommended step under their learning map.
$29 $89 USD per location per month
Your whole team in. Adding people never raises your bill.
Try Gid for freeNo credit card. No commitment.
First 250 worldwide • rate locked, no contract
Lock the Founders rateIncluded in Gid
Also in every Gid plan
Gid POS and Gid Reservations are separate add-ons.
Gid is $29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD at the public rate, with your whole team included.
On its own pricing page, read September 23, 2026, 7shifts lists a free Comp plan for single locations up to 15 employees, then Essentials at $39.99 CAD, Pro at $79.99 CAD and Premium at $134.99 CAD, each per month per location. Those figures are CAD and ours are USD, so convert before you compare.
Yes. Create a workspace and try every part of Gid on your own. No card, no commitment, cancel anytime. The free workspace brings you plus one helper; the rest of the team rides on a paid location.
Gid already connects with several platforms, and we build custom integrations free of charge for any system that allows it. Ask us about yours by name and we will answer straight.
No. Gid runs on iOS, Android and the web, so the schedule, the tasks and the training live in the pocket of everyone on shift. Nothing depends on the office computer.
Everything on this topic, in detail.
Side by side
Every 7shifts line below was read on 7shifts' own public pages on September 23, 2026. Where we could not confirm something there, the cell says "to verify" instead of guessing.
| What you are buying | Gid | 7shifts |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | $29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD public. | Comp: free. Essentials: $39.99 CAD. Pro: $79.99 CAD. Premium: $134.99 CAD. Each shown as "Per month/location". |
| People included | Your whole team. Adding people never raises your bill. | "Up to 15 employees" on Comp, "Up to 30" on Essentials, "Up to 60" on Pro, "Unlimited employees" on Premium. |
| Scheduling | Forecast, labor targets and confirmations in one view. Publish and it is live in every pocket. | "Basic scheduling" on Comp, "Advanced scheduling" from Essentials, with templates, breaks and the weather forecast. |
| Team chat | Included. Send tasks, shifts and ops detail right inside the conversation. | "Team messaging and communication tools" from Essentials. One-way announcements on the free Comp plan. |
| Tasks | Included. The whole team sees what is done and what is next, live from the floor. | Task Management on Premium, or an add-on at "$12.99 Per month Per location". |
| Training | Included. Continuous micro-training tuned to your menu, your SOPs, your service. | Employee Training on Premium, listed as "Valued at $99.00", with "Build courses from existing documents with AI". |
| AI assistant on your own documents | Included. An AI assistant grounded in the approved documents your operation runs on. | AI is named for course building: "Build courses from existing documents with AI". A general assistant: to verify. |
| Phones | iOS and Android apps, plus the web app. Nothing depends on the office computer. | "Share the latest schedule, hours, time off, wages and more with the free mobile app". |
Verified on September 23, 2026. Source, 7shifts' own public pricing page: 7shifts.com/pricing. Their pricing page rendered in CAD from a Canadian connection and showed no currency switcher, so the 7shifts figures above are CAD while Gid's are USD. Convert before you compare them. 7shifts' prices also vary with team size: on September 23, 2026 the same page sometimes showed a Team Size choice, and for 31+ employees it listed Pro at $89.99 CAD and Premium at $179.99 CAD per month per location with annual billing. 7shifts states on that page: "New customer pricing. Prices are subject to change." Gid's own figures come from gidai.ca/#pricing and gidai.ca/founders. Anything we could not read on those pages is marked "to verify" rather than filled in.
Who this is for
If one of these is your Tuesday, read on.
One location
You build the week, chase confirmations, answer the text thread and walk the new hire through the menu, all in the same shift. Six tools means six places to forget something.
Two to ten locations
One price per location, whatever the headcount. Add a dishwasher in March and your bill does not move.
Already on a scheduling app
Tasks, training and team messaging often sit on a higher plan, behind an add-on or in another app. In Gid they come with the location, whatever the headcount.
Where Gid differs
The schedule is linked to the tasks, tasks can be sent in the chat, the chat knows the shift, and training and onboarding sit in the same app, on iOS, Android and the web.
No employee tier to outgrow at 15, 30 or 60 people. You hire, you train, you schedule, and the bill stays where it was.
Sessions are interactive, last about 5 minutes, and arrive at the right moments. Send us your manuals and Gid learns your culture. No documents, and it ships with ready templates.
250 operations worldwide lock the Founders rate for as long as they run on Gid. When what you need is useful and responsible, our team ships it free of charge. See what shipped this week in the changelog.
A real shift
An example of one service, with the tasks, the briefing and the handoff in the same app as the schedule.
Before the doors
The brunch shift was built with its opening tasks attached, so they go to the person working it.
The briefing
The new special goes out as an announcement that appears right after each person clocks in with Gid, and the manager sees who has read it.
After close
After clocking out, the closing lead leaves a handoff note for the next team. It waits at the top of their schedule until they mark it read.
The stack you have today
Nothing here is a knock on any specific tool. It is what happens when the schedule, the tasks, the training, the chat, the documents and the guest reviews were never built to know about each other.
6 apps 6 logins 6 bills
One app on iOS, Android and the web
1 app 1 login 1 price
$29 USD per location per monthWhole team included
First 250 worldwide • rate locked, no contract
Switching
Nobody should move a live restaurant onto a new tool in one Sunday. Four steps, in this order.
Step 1
No card, no commitment. You are not cancelling anything yet. Set it up on your own and look at it with a manager's eyes.
Step 2
Rebuild next week's schedule in Gid next to the one you already have. Publish it to two or three people who will tell you the truth.
Step 3
Gid learns your culture, procedures and policies from what you already wrote. No documents, and it ships with ready-to-use templates, free.
Step 4
Most businesses run within hours, with zero technical work. If Gid has not earned its place on your floor by then, close the workspace. Cancel anytime.
In the app
About this page
Members of the Gid team owned and operated restaurants before building software. Every 7shifts line on this page comes from 7shifts' own public pages, dated where it appears. If one has changed, tell us at contact@gidai.ca and we will correct it.
One connected operations app for restaurant teams: scheduling, tasks, team chat, continuous training, onboarding, performance evaluations and an AI assistant grounded in your own documents. One price per location, whole team included.
Set up your workspace and try every part of Gid on your own. When you know it earns its place, your team rides in next.
No credit card. No commitment.
It’s on us to show you what Gid can do and earn its place in your daily operations.
Last updated October 25, 2026