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Not a police officer? Turn that part off.
BlueShifts is a police shift calendar designed by a working police officer, and the rotation engine underneath it does not care what you do for a living. Switch off the off-duty side and the directories and what is left is a plain shift calendar — with a proper record of any second job paid by the hour.
Three things you can switch off
The categories, the fields inside them, and the icons along the bottom of the app. Between them there is nothing law-enforcement left on the screen.
1. The categories
The default set is Off Duty, Court, Training, General and Health. You can rename them, recolor them, reorder them, hide the ones you do not want and add your own.
Active categories
Hide a category and it disappears from the calendar and from the add-event form. Rename it and it is yours: Agency shifts, Bank, Second job, Overtime, Handover. The color is yours too, and you can add as many of your own as you want.
Two of them stay put. Off Duty and Court cannot be deleted — the app is built around them — but they can be hidden, which comes to the same thing if you never use them. Every other category can be deleted outright.
2. The fields inside them
When you build a category you choose what the form asks for. Turn off the ones that mean nothing to you and they disappear — try it below.
Color
Preview of how this category will appear when you add an event. Toggle a section off to hide it from the form.
Leave Employer and Rate on and you have an hourly record of a second job. Turn Off Duty Scheduler and the address auto-fill off and nothing on the form mentions policing at all.
3. The menu itself
The row of icons along the bottom of the app is a list of checkboxes in Settings. Switch off the ones you have no use for and they leave the bar. The shield and the document icons are the police-facing ones; turn them off and the app is a calendar, a search box and not much else.
Skins, dark mode and 24-hour time live in the same Settings screen, and they apply to everyone — how it looks is covered here.
A rotating shift calendar that fills itself in, whatever you do for a living.
What stays, and why it is worth having
The rotation engine. This is the part general calendar apps get wrong. You save your pattern once, tell it the day your cycle starts, and it fills the calendar in — as far ahead as you want to look, and backward over the months you have already worked. Multiple common patterns are already built, and you can make your own.
The second job. Rename a category and it becomes whatever you do on your days off. Log the shift, the hours, the rate and whether the money arrived, and the totals add themselves up. That is the thing a paper diary and a phone calendar both fail at.
Sharing. Two people running the app can link by scanning a QR code and see each other's shifts. Pay is never part of what gets shared.
Your data stays yours. No account, no sign-in, nothing uploaded unless you choose to share it.
Who is already using it this way
Nurses and care staff
Twelve-hour rotations, nights, and bank shifts on top.
Fire and EMS
24-hour tours, Kelly days and the trades that come with them.
Plant and refinery crews
DuPont, Continental and the long cycles nobody else can draw.
Drivers and transport
Runs, layovers and days that do not fit a working week.
Security
Sites, rates and the second contract on your days off.
Airport and airline crews
Rosters that change and never line up with anyone else's.
Hospitality and retail
Rotas that move, and hours worth checking against your pay.
Anyone with a second job
Hours, rate and whether you have actually been paid.
The second job is the part people underestimate
If you pick up hours somewhere else — agency shifts, a weekend contract, driving, a trade on the side — the money is easy to lose track of. You worked it three weeks ago, the rate was agreed in a text message, and you are not certain the last one was ever paid.
Log it when you finish it: who it was for, the hours, the rate, the miles if they matter, and whether the money has landed. Anything unpaid stays visible until it is settled, and any date range exports as a PDF if you need it on paper.
Shared custody works the same way
Two parents alternating weeks is a repeating pattern like any other. Save it once, and the calendar shows whose week it is for as far ahead as you want to look. Same engine, different category name.
What you will not find
No account to create. No advertising. No data collected about you. And once you have hidden the parts you do not need, no reminder that the app was built with police work in mind.
Written for one trade at a time
The rotations differ, the second job differs, and what you would switch off differs. Each page below covers one of them.
Nurses
Nurses
Twelve-hour rotations, nights, and bank or agency shifts picked up on the days between. The rotation part works the same way it does for a p…
Firefighters
Firefighters
Twenty-four hour tours on a nine-day cycle, or 24/48, or 48/96, with a Kelly day inserted to keep the average honest. These are the patterns…
Paramedics and EMS
Paramedics and ems
EMS runs everything: 24-hour tours in some services, twelve-hour cars in others, and a great deal of extra work picked up on the days betwee…
Dispatchers
Dispatchers
Comms centres run the same round-the-clock rotations as the officers on the other end of the radio, and usually with fewer people to cover t…
Security officers
Security officers
Security work is often several employers at once, at several sites, at several rates. The rotation is the simple part. Knowing what each sit…
Plant and manufacturing
Plant and manufacturing crews
Continuous operations run the longest cycles of any industry — twenty-eight days is common and the pattern rarely lines up with a week…
Your rotation, whatever the job
Save the pattern once and stop counting days. Then keep an honest record of the hours you pick up around it.
Scan to install — or hold it up for the officer next to you.
