Plan any rotating shift schedule in seconds, watch your hours and pay add up, and wake up on time with a real alarm before every shift. For nurses, carers, paramedics, firefighters, warehouse crews, baristas - and everyone else the 9-to-5 forgot.
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Nightjar · Week 40
October 2026
Thu 01 Oct
4 on 4 off, days & nights
Tap a rota. It's live.
In this edition
Designed like a newspaper: clear ink on calm paper, no clutter. Five stories from the front page.
No. 01Alarms
A real full-screen alarm before every shift - not a notification you can miss.
No. 02Hours & pay
An hourly rate, per-shift premiums and overtime rules - with a pay summary that explains itself.
No. 03Changes
Cover a shift, take a day off, change your hours - without touching the rest of your rota.
No. 04Widgets
Three widgets, so you never open the app just to check when you work.
No. 05Sharing
So your partner, your family and the group chat know when you're working.
The rota desk
Rotating shifts, 12-hour shifts, 24-hour tours or permanent nights: pick a template and your calendar fills itself in, month after month. Or build your own rota of any length. Anything marked try loads into the live calendar at the top of the page.
Your codes, your colours
Made for nights
A dark calendar designed for checking your schedule at 2am without burning your eyes. Warm charcoal paper, the same inks read under lamplight - and widgets that follow your system theme.
Private by design
Everything you enter - shifts, notes, alarms, pay - is stored on your device. Nightjar has no accounts and no servers, and never sees your calendar.
Basement ward, warehouse floor, airplane mode: your schedule opens instantly, signal or no signal.
Changing phones? Back up your rota and restore it on the new one in a minute.
Letters to the editor
Something we missed? Write to [email protected].
Yes. Nightjar is free on Google Play and supported by small, unobtrusive ads. Watch one sponsor message in Settings and the app goes completely ad-free for 24 hours.
No. There is no account and no sign-up, and Nightjar works completely offline. Your schedule stays on your phone.
Sixteen ready-made templates: 4 on 4 off (days only, or days and nights), Panama 2-2-3, Panama nights, Pitman 2-3-2, DuPont, Kelly, 24/48, 48/96, 7 on 7 off, Continental, three 12s, 6 on 4 off, 5 on 2 off, 2 on 2 off and permanent nights - or your own custom cycle of any length, with your own shift codes and colours.
Nightjar rings a real full-screen alarm before every shift, not a notification. Phones from Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo and others often put apps to sleep, so the alarm health check finds those settings and fixes them in one tap. You can also have Nightjar keep a spare copy of your next alarm in your phone's Clock app.
Yes. Set an hourly rate, per-shift premiums and overtime rules - per day, week, month or work period, as a percentage uplift or a fixed rate. Nightjar shows your hours and earnings for any period, and can send a CSV timesheet so you can check your payslip.
Export your shifts to Google Calendar, save an .ics file for Outlook or Apple Calendar, or send your week or month as an image to the family group chat.
Use backup and restore to move your whole rota to the new phone.
Nightjar is available for Android phones on Google Play.
Late edition
Free on Google Play. No account, no sign-up - pick your pattern and your calendar fills itself in.
