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Make it look the way you want

Four skins, a full dark mode, and a bottom bar you can cut down to the icons you actually use. None of it changes what the app does — it changes how quickly you can read your shift schedule at four in the morning.

The BlueShifts calendar shown twice side by side, once in light mode and once in dark mode
The same month, light and dark. One switch in Settings.

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.

Dark mode is properly dark

It turns the whole calendar dark rather than inverting the text and leaving a white grid behind. If you check your schedule in a dark bedroom, or in a car at three in the morning, that is the difference between glancing at your phone and being blinded by it.

Every skin works in it, and your color coding survives the switch: blue is still a scheduled shift, green is still leave.

Four skins

Two of them decide whether the day cells are squared off or rounded. The other pair decides what sits on top of each cell — the date, or the number of events that day. Pick whichever you read faster.

Skin
Sapphire ClassicSquared · dates on top
Sapphire Classic RoundedRounded · dates on top
Sapphire ModernSquared · event counts on top
Sapphire Modern RoundedRounded · event counts on top

The Modern skins are worth trying if you use the calendar mainly to see how busy a day is rather than to find a date. The count sits where your eye lands first.

The rest of the Appearance settings

Twenty-four hour time is a switch, which is worth knowing about if your roster is posted that way and you would rather not translate it twice a day.

And the bottom bar is a set of checkboxes. Almost every icon can be switched off, so the bar ends up holding what you use and nothing else. The calendar and the settings icons are the two that stay — those cannot be turned off.

Settings

Appearance

ThemeSapphire Classic ›
Dark Mode
24-Hour Time

Bottom Bar Icons

The shield and the document icons are the police-facing ones. Turning those off is part of how the app works for anyone on a rotation, not just officers.

Set it up once and stop thinking about it

Save your rotation, pick a skin, and the calendar looks after itself from there.

Scan to install — or hold it up for the officer next to you.

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