Owlshift

Circadian coaching for shift workers

Your body clock, rebuilt around your rota.

Owlshift turns the shifts you actually work into a plan your body can follow: when to sleep, when to nap, when to catch light and when to put the coffee down.

21
languages
iOS + Android
both at launch
No wearable
needed to start

For the people who keep the world running at night

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Coming soon

Be first through the door

Owlshift is in the last stretch before launch. Leave your email and we will tell you the day it opens, on iPhone and Android.

One email at launch. No newsletter, no sharing your address.

What it does

Everything a shift worker needs, in one place

From getting your rota in, to what you eat before bed. All of it works with your circadian rhythm instead of against it.

Photograph your rota

Snap the printed schedule on the wall. Owlshift reads the shifts off it, so you never type a month of nights by hand.

Drop in a PDF

Rota arrived as a PDF? It pulls the text layer straight out, and renders scanned pages when there isn't one.

Import from your calendar

If your shifts already live in a work calendar, pick it once and they come across with their real times.

Personal sleep windows

A circadian model turns each shift into the best times to fall asleep and wake, anchored to your chronotype.

Light & caffeine timing

When to seek light, when to avoid it, and the last safe coffee so you can still sleep after a night shift.

Naps that actually help

Pre-shift and recovery naps, timed to blunt the small-hours dip without wrecking your next sleep.

Check a meal before you eat it

Photograph what's on the plate. Owlshift weighs how heavy it is against how close your next sleep is, and tells you straight.

5:00 a.m.

Finish the night.
Wake up on your side.

The shift ends the same. How you feel after it does not have to.

Your year, at a glance

Every night you worked, in one grid

Owlshift keeps the whole history, not just this week. The deeper the amber, the more nights that month took. Hover a month to read it, or a year to see how the load stacked up.

  • Nights, days and rest counted automatically from your rota
  • Years of history so you can see the pattern, not just the week
  • Public holidays folded in for your country
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By the numbers

A plan you can watch working

78%

Alertness held

Modelled alertness kept up through the 4 a.m. trough, instead of falling off a cliff.

63%

Sleep debt cleared

Of the debt a rough rota builds up, paid back over about seven weeks on a plan.

9/10

Nights land on plan

Sleep that starts in its planned window across a rotating week, not left to guesswork.

Illustrative figures, from the circadian model.

Friends

Line up your days off with the people you work with

Share a short code and your rota shows up next to theirs. You choose what they can see, and it works between iPhone and Android.

  • One code no phone numbers, no address book access
  • You pick what's shared and can stop at any time
  • Cross-platform iOS and Android see the same thing
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Free daysOnly which days you are off
ShiftsDay, night and rest, in colour
Sleep hoursSo nobody wakes you mid-sleep

Inside the app

Built to read at 4 a.m.

The Owlshift schedule screen showing a month of night shifts and the countdown to the next one

And the details

The small things that add up

Drive-safety warnings

A heads-up when your alertness is likely too low to drive home safely after a long or overnight shift.

Public holidays built in

Pick your country once and the holidays land in your rota, so a long weekend is planned for, not stumbled into.

Reads your measured sleep

Optional Apple Health and Health Connect sync: works with Apple Watch, Garmin, Xiaomi, Huawei and anything that writes there.

Quiet while you sleep

Reminders land when they matter and stay silent through your sleep window, so the app never wakes you.

Home screen widget

Your next step and the time until it, without unlocking the phone. Rolls over at midnight on its own.

Compare with friends

Share a short code to line up rest days with colleagues, across iPhone and Android.

21 languages

Your plan is written in the language you choose, not machine-translated on the fly.

Getting started

A plan in minutes, no wearable

01

Add your shifts

Type your rota, photograph the printed schedule, or import it from your calendar.

02

Answer the quiz

One short chronotype quiz tells Owlshift whether you lean early or late.

03

Get your plan

Every day opens on your body-clock dial: sleep, nap, light and caffeine timing.

04

Follow the nudges

Quiet reminders land when they matter, and stay silent while you sleep.

05

Feel the difference

Watch your alertness hold up through the shifts that used to flatten you.

From the journal

Worked schedules, not vague advice

All guides

Before you download

The questions shift workers ask us most. Anything else, support is one tap away inside the app.