The shift calendar that tracks the money too.

Twenty-four hour tours are a shift type of their own, not a day shift wearing a different hat. A 24/48, a 48/96, a Kelly with its own day off inside the cycle — the app holds them the way the roster does, which is why it suits firefighters, medics and anyone else living on twenty-four hour tours as well as it suits a patrol rotation.

Nothing here is typed in day by day. Change the start date and the whole rotation moves with it. Add a court date, a training day or an off-duty job on top, and the rotation underneath stays exactly where it was.

Every pattern, with its cycle length →

A category is just a type of day you want to track. The app starts you with Off Duty, Court, Training, General and Health — but you can rename them, recolor them, reorder them, hide the ones you never use, and add your own.

Court and Training are there because they are the two most likely to be missed — a court date lands in the middle of your rotation, and training is set weeks out. Both can carry alerts before the day.

When you make a category, you turn on only the parts you need. Each one is a switch:

• Employer — who you worked it for
• Address — with a pick list for regular, court, jail or hospital
• Rate — and the total pay works itself out
• Mileage — miles and price per mile, with the reimbursement shown
• Scheduler — name, phone and email of whoever booked you
• Contacts and Notes

Turn a switch off and that field disappears from the form. So a category can be as simple as a name and a color, or as detailed as a paid job with an employer, an address, a rate and mileage attached.

That is why the app fits jobs it was never named after. A firefighter tracks shift trades and station duty. A postal worker tracks routes and the extra shifts they pick up. A nurse tracks units. A parent tracks the weeks the kids are with them and the weeks they are not — same repeating pattern, same calendar, different category.

There are also sun and moon icons in the bottom right corner of the app, which switch between the two without opening Settings at all. The skins, 24-hour time and the bottom bar →

A spouse who can see your rotation stops asking what you are working next weekend. A partner on the same squad can check whether you are both off before proposing a trade. A parent sharing custody can see which weeks belong to whom without a phone call.

How the link works

One person shows a QR code, the other scans it. That is the whole setup — no accounts, no email addresses, no invitations to accept. The two apps are linked from that moment.

What gets shared, and what never does

• Shared: your shifts and your events — court, training, leave, off-duty jobs
• Never shared: financial information. Pay, rates and earnings stay on your phone whatever else you share.

So a spouse can see that you are working a detail on Saturday and where you will be, without seeing what it pays. That split is deliberate, and it is not something you have to remember to switch off.

Sharing with someone who does not have the app

The other person does not need BlueShifts. If they use Google Calendar, your shifts can go straight into it — and their events come back to you, so it works both ways. A spouse, a scheduler, a partner on another squad: they carry on using the calendar they already have, and your rotation simply appears in it. Pay is never part of what travels.

Your own calendars, on the same screen

Your Google Calendar and your Apple Calendar can be connected to BlueShifts as well. Everything already in them shows up alongside your shifts, kept in step by itself, so you are not checking two apps to find out whether a detail lands on your daughter's recital. Those events are shown, not edited — they stay under the calendar they came from.

Send someone your rotation

You can also share your current rotation template on its own. A new officer joining your squad can have your exact pattern in a few seconds instead of setting it up from scratch — and their calendar fills itself in from there.

Nothing is shared until you do it. By default nothing is stored anywhere else and nothing is transmitted. That applies to the Google Calendar sharing too: it happens when you choose it, with the calendar you choose.