Why limit yourself to your small screen on the phone? Run Shift Calendar (Roster), an app by Volodymyr Kondratenko, best experienced on your PC or Mac with BlueStacks, the world’s #1 Android emulator.
Shift Calendar feels like a regular calendar that finally understands shift work. It lets someone drop in a rotating pattern or just set single days, then color things so day, evening, night, on-call, vacation all stand out at a glance. Alarms can sit right on each shift, so it is hard to forget a start time even on a messy week. The layout is clean and quick to read, and running it on BlueStacks gives a nice big grid on a laptop screen, which makes editing long runs of shifts less fiddly. Typing notes or changing times with a keyboard also feels faster than poking around on a phone.
What stands out is the tracking. Hours and overtime add up automatically, and if an hourly rate is added, it estimates earnings and even keeps an eye on payday. There are stats views for days, weeks, months, which helps show where all the energy went. People who juggle teams will like that several rosters can live in one place, so it is easy to see Team A on days while Team B covers nights, or compare a partner’s calendar next to their own. There are ready-made templates for common rotations, Google Calendar sync so everything shows up where it should, and quick PDF exports for a manager or payroll. Widgets exist for phone users, plus cloud backup so swapping devices does not nuke the data. It even teases public holidays and simple team sharing on the way. For nurses, retail, warehouse, anyone with rotating hours, it is plain useful. Not fancy, just the right tools in a tidy calender that does what it promises without drama.
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