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DutyWire's listing says it was built by an active police officer, and it covers a lot of ground. What follows is both sides of it, taken from each listing.
What DutyWire is
DutyWire is the closest app to BlueShifts on this list. Its listing says it was built by an active police officer for people whose lives do not fit a normal calendar, and it aims to replace several apps at once.
Its listing covers a shift calendar with presets and custom rotations, shared calendars for family, shift logs where police users record stops, calls, arrests and reports, voice logging through Siri, a traffic code lookup, overtime and budgeting, fitness and records.
What DutyWire does well
- The shift activity log. Stops, calls, arrests and reports, with Siri voice entry. BlueShifts does not do this at all.
- Traffic code lookup by keyword, citation or category, with more states being added.
- Personal budgeting — income, expenses and savings goals in the same app.
- It covers a lot of ground for one app.
Where BlueShifts is different
The two apps split on how deep they go into off-duty work rather than on the calendar itself.
- Off-duty jobs by employer. Every job saved under who hired you, with hours, pay, miles and whether you have been paid. DutyWire's listing describes overtime and income tracking. BlueShifts does not track overtime at all, and goes deeper on the off-duty side instead.
- A PDF report of any date range with every job listed and the year totalled.
- Court, jail and hospital addresses, gate codes and tow companies for the road. A document library of reference PDFs is in development.
- Custom holidays and rotations that fill in backward as well as forward.
If you want one app that also logs your shift activity, your overtime and your budget, DutyWire covers more ground. If the off-duty money is the part you keep losing track of, that is what BlueShifts is built around.
Everything below is on your phone in a couple of minutes: the rotation, the off-duty work, and what it earned you.
Side by side
| BlueShifts | vs | DutyWire |
|---|---|---|
| The rotation and calendar | ||
| Yes | Repeating rotation patterns | Yes |
| Yes | Build your own custom rotation | Yes |
| YesSave your own, apply from any day | Ready-made presets | Yes |
| Yes | Work and personal events on one calendar | Yes |
| Yes | Fills the calendar backward over months already worked | Not stated |
| Yes | Holidays | Not stated |
| Yes | Custom holidays you add yourself | Not stated |
| In development | Sync with Apple and Google Calendar | Not stated |
| Yes | Share your calendar with family | Yes |
| Off-duty work and money | ||
| Not stated | Tracks overtime and income | Yes |
| Yes | Off-duty jobs logged against the employer | Not stated |
| Yes | Pay recorded per job | Not stated |
| Yes | Paid and unpaid tracked separately | Not stated |
| Yes | Mileage recorded per job | Not stated |
| Yes | Year totals for shifts, hours, miles and pay | Not stated |
| Yes | PDF report you can hand to someone | Not stated |
| Not stated | Personal budgeting, expenses and savings goals | Yes |
| Yes | Hourly rate or flat pay per job | Not stated |
| Yes | Travel time or travel pay, kept separate | Not stated |
| Yes | Mileage reimbursement when a patrol car is used | Not stated |
| YesCancelled, pending, awaiting payment, paid | Four payment states, not just paid or unpaid | Not stated |
| Yes | Live earnings while you work the job | Not stated |
| On the job | ||
| Not stated | Shift activity log (stops, calls, arrests, reports) | Yes |
| Not stated | Voice logging with Siri Shortcuts | Yes |
| Not stated | Traffic code lookup | Yes |
| Not stated | Fitness tracking | Yes |
| Yes | Court, jail and hospital addresses | Not stated |
| Yes | Gate codes, tow companies, vehicle maintenance | Not stated |
| In development | Reference documents (Miranda, SFST, HAZMAT, VIN, CVE) | Not stated |
| What the year tells you | ||
| Yes | Which scheduler you get the most work through | Not stated |
| Yes | One employer against the average of the rest | Not stated |
| Yes | Your employers ranked by what they brought in | Not stated |
| Yes | The days you normally work for each employer | Not stated |
| On the road | ||
| Yes | Address autocomplete, or drop a pin | Not stated |
| Yes | Navigate to the job from your calendar | Not stated |
| Yes | Send a directory entry or a scheduler by text | Not stated |
| YesA Court category; the subpoena details go in the notes | Court dates and subpoena details | Not stated |
| YesA Training category, with alerts before the day | Training dates, set well ahead | YesTraining records in folders |
| The app itself | ||
| Yes | Works with no internet connection | Not stated |
| Yes | Backup and restore | Not stated |
| YesThirteen intervals from 5 minutes to a week, or your own | Reminders and alerts | Yes |
| Yes | Import and export your schedule | Not stated |
| YesFour skins, dark mode in one tap | Skins and a full dark mode | Not stated |
| Yes | No account needed | Not stated |
| Sharing with someone else | ||
| Yes | Link two phones by scanning a QR code | Not stated |
| Yes | Shifts and events shared, pay never shared | Not stated |
| Yes | Send someone your rotation template | Not stated |
| About the app | ||
| A police officer with 20 years on the job, built with a programmer | Made by | An active police officer |
From each app's own App Store listing, checked 1 August 2026 — the DutyWire listing.
How this comparison was put together
Everything in the table comes from each app's own App Store listing, checked on 1 August 2026. Where a listing does not mention a feature, the table says not stated rather than no — an app may do something its listing never mentions. Nothing here is a test of the apps themselves. Anything marked in development is a BlueShifts feature being built now, not one you can use today.
Listings change. If something below is out of date or wrong, tell us and it gets fixed.
Coming from DutyWire?
DutyWire is broad — fitness, budgeting, traffic codes, records. BlueShifts is narrow on purpose: the rotation, the off-duty work, and what it earned you. If the money is the part that keeps slipping, that is the trade.
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