Features
A lot of features, because shift work has a lot of edges. Most people use maybe half. The ones you need are the ones that matter.
Category · 3 features
Calculate what you should earn. Compare it to what you did. Catch mistakes before they get filed.
See what you should be paid. Compare it to what you were paid.
Pay Check calculates expected pay from the ground up against your award: ordinary hours, penalties, overtime, allowances, on-call and recall. Enter a payslip gross and Shift It tells you whether the numbers add up.
A real-time earnings counter that ticks up every second of your shift.
Live Pay runs on the Coming Up screen, home widgets, and Live Activities. When you cross into overtime, the display knows. When you finish, the shift is already counted.
Pay Check in action
Plug in what you were actually paid and Shift It compares it to what the award says you should have been paid. If there is a gap, share the breakdown with your workplace or delegate.
Pay Check caught this in 3 seconds.
Category · 5 features
A calendar that looks like a roster. Widgets and Live Activities so you never have to open the app to see what’s next.
Colour-coded calendar
Month, week, list, and year views. Each shift type gets a colour so your rotation has a shape at a glance. Bottom-sheet editor for quick changes.
Real-time earnings on Coming Up, widgets, and the lock screen. Overtime transitions automatically.
A customisable home dashboard built around your next shift.
Your next shift, the week ahead, hours banked, pay period progress, Work Tools, daylight, Job Cards. Three Shift Work Personality presets give you a sensible default; drag-to-reorder lets you rebuild from scratch.
Home screen and lock screen widgets for every info density.
Next Shift, Week Strip, Month Calendar, Pay Tracker, On-Call Status, Daylight, Job Cards. Interactive Job Cards widget lets you check items off without opening the app.
Your shift lives on the lock screen and Dynamic Island.
Countdown to the next shift. Earnings mid-shift. On-call status with Critical Alert support so recall notifications punch through silent mode – approved by Apple.
One app. Every employer. Separate awards. Clean separation.
Run multiple employers side-by-side with their own awards, classifications, pay periods, locations and holiday regions. Switch between a single Job or view all at once.
Category · 3 features
Night shifts have a shape. Rotating patterns leave a mark. See it and plan around it.
Seven themes with full dark mode support. All free.
Shift It's glassmorphic cards work in light or dark, across seven themes. Pick one that suits your eyes at 3 a.m. and another for daylight.
Your data lives on your device. That's the default.
Shifts, rosters, pay data, notes – all on-device. Three clearly communicated exceptions: weather (forecasts), push notifications (token only), and AI extraction for unusual roster layouts (image deleted immediately after).
Daylight tracking
Shift It calculates sunrise, sunset and daylight overlap for every shift. A daily sun gradient on the time slider shows light conditions. Evidence-based nudges when rotating patterns or night runs call for them.
Category · 2 features
The part that used to take an evening of copy-paste. Now it takes the time it takes to pick a file.
Your employer's spreadsheet becomes your calendar in seconds.
Drop in the roster your manager sends out. Shift It reads spreadsheets, from tidy tables to the ones held together by merged cells and hope. When a sheet is too weird to parse, ask the AI fallback to take a look (coming soon).
Build rotating shift patterns in seconds – no file needed.
For workers on set rotations: tell the wizard your pattern and it generates months of shifts at once. Perfect for 4-on-4-off, rolling night weeks, or the rotation you could draw in your sleep.
After import
Coming Up shows your next shift, the week ahead, hours banked, and a live countdown. Everything you used to dig through a spreadsheet for.
Category · 5 features
Break timer, Job Cards, Private Dial, Roster Buddies – small utilities that disappear into the edges of a good shift.
Tap to start your break. Tap to end it. Always accurate.
No background timer that iOS can kill. The app saves a timestamp and calculates on return, with a confirmation step to adjust duration. Tracks multiple breaks per shift.
Notes and checklists tied to shifts. Pin across shifts.
Reusable checklists for handover, rounds, prep. Pin a Job Card across shifts with optional per-shift reset (template behaviour). Cleanup prompt when a new shift starts so yesterday's list doesn't bleed into today's.
Quick actions on the Coming Up screen for every shift.
A row of instant-access buttons: Private Dial hides your caller ID (US/UK/AUS), Quick Link fires a URL or app shortcut, Break Timer, Shift Note, Job Cards. One tap, no digging.
Share shifts with the people you work with.
Invite colleagues, see who's working today, and find gaps for a coffee or a shift swap. Shift data is shared peer-to-peer via file sharing – no central database.
Mark shifts as on-call. Log recalls. Update timesheets.
Dedicated on-call Live Activity with Critical Alert support so your phone wakes you up. Log each recall with time started and duration. Timesheet and pay calculations update automatically.
A word on defaults
Three “Shift Work Personality” presets give you a sensible Coming Up screen out of the box. Drag to reorder when you want something else. Most people pick a preset and never touch it again.
Quick Glance
Just the essentials
Dashboard
Full overview
Pay Tracker
Pay focused
In the works · After 3.0
Shift It stays on-device by default – that’s the architecture, not the marketing. The next chapter adds a small set of cloud and AI features you can opt into, one at a time, with the same privacy posture.
Cloud Sync · Opt-in
In developmentPhone, tablet, future macOS. End-to-end encrypted with keys held on your devices – we literally can’t read your roster, even with a warrant.
Send a specific week or upcoming shift to a friend, remotely. They see what you’re working; you see theirs back. Zero-knowledge, per-pair keys.
Your buddy list follows you between your own devices – no Pro required.
AI · On our own infrastructure
In developmentIf a roster file doesn’t parse cleanly, an AI model has a go. Expanded file format support rolls in alongside it.
Snap or upload a payslip. AI extracts the figures and cross-references them against your award via our pay calculator – line-by-line.
How AI works in Shift It
All AI runs on our self-hosted LLM server with end-to-end encryption. No OpenAI, no Anthropic, no Google – your roster and your payslip never leave our infrastructure.
Pro plan
Includes a monthly allowance of AI credits. Enough for the edge-case import and the occasional payslip scan.
Credit packs
Consumable credits, one-off purchase, for anyone – free or Pro. Use them when you need them; they don’t expire.
In development now. Beta access details will land in the blog when we’re ready.