Your rotation, crew change and days home in one place. Free, no account needed.
Family calendar is for a partner or parent at home: your own plans and dates, with your worker's rotation counting down on your home screen.
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✨ What's new
📲 Put it on your home screen
iPhone: the home-screen app starts empty, because Safari and home-screen apps keep separate storage. After adding it, get a move code here, then open the home-screen app and tap Move my data here.
👋 Waiting for you
Coming up
Your rotation
Rotation changes
Moving to a different rotation, like 28/28 to 21/21? Life on Rotation keeps your past as it was and switches from the date you set.
Rotation history
Your pattern as it was before each change, in case you need to check pay or days later.
Back on days
Your bedtime, stepped back to normal after nights. Change the times to suit you.
Crew change travel
Flights, chopper, hotel. Add them for your next crew change and family can see when you land.
If you drive to work
No signal
In transit, or somewhere with no internet? Mark the days so family know not to worry.
Packing
Plans
Trips, weddings, school holidays. Add them to your days off and Life on Rotation warns you if one runs into a rotation.
Your days off
Seasons on your days off
Hunting seasons lined up with your days off, so you know which openers you're home for. Pick your home state or province.
Show
Out-of-state draws I apply for
Harvest log & tags
Tags
What you took
Log a harvest
Only on this phone. Check your state's rules for tagging and reporting.
Golf, lake & riding
Add a course
Prices are what you enter. Life on Rotation never uses your location.
Hunting & fishing is hidden.
Activity planner
Who's home, who's in, who owes
Start a groupJoin a group
The group sees your name, your home stretches for the next few months (not your rotation or anything else), your camp days and what you spent.
Games & events
Your teams, the kids' games and shows you want to catch, checked against your rotation.
Follow a team or league calendar
Shows, rodeos and concerts
Add an event
Important dates
Birthdays, anniversaries, school plays. Life on Rotation tells you which ones you'll be home for, and reminds you to sort a gift before you fly out.
From home
Notes
Honey-do list
Tell family
Goes to family phones that turned on alerts from your link.
While I'm away
Where things are and who to call, for the people at home. Say where the folder is, not what's in it: no account numbers or passwords.
Send a note
Honey-do list
Trips & school breaks
Your home stretches for the next year, with the school breaks and holidays they cover.
School breaks
Add a school break
Crew & family
See other people's rotations on your calendar. Ask them for their family link and paste it here.
Connect by handle
They get a request. When they allow it, you see each other on both calendars. Needs a free account on both phones.
Tell your crew
Know someone on rotation? Send them the app. It's free and takes a minute to set up.
Days away
Days out of the country, counted from your calendar. Some people need this for tax or residency. It's a count, not tax advice.
How it works
A quick guide to each tab. Everything stays on your phone unless you share it.
🚀 Getting started
Work rotation? Pick what you work on, your days on and off, and the first day of your current or next rotation. Everything else is optional.
Family at home? Choose family calendar on the first screen. Your home screen then counts down to your worker’s crew change, and you keep your own plans.
Got a link from someone? Open it. It goes straight to their calendar. Type your name and wait for them to allow you.
New phone, or the home-screen app opened empty? On the first screen tap Sign in, Move my data here (a 6-digit code from the old phone’s Your data card), or Restore a backup file.
iPhone: Safari and the home-screen app keep separate storage. After adding it to your home screen, use a move code once to bring your data across.
🏠 Home
The ring counts down to your next crew change: days until home when you’re on rotation, days until work when you’re home.
Under it: your next travel leg, pay so far (tap to show), your next plan, a good time to call, no-signal days, and any plans you chose to count down to.
Share calendar makes a link for one person, or a QR code to scan. Kids’ countdown is a big, simple screen for children. Share countdown makes a picture for social media.
Coming up lists your next rotations, plans, birthdays, games and bills due while you’re away.
Crew change travel: flights, helicopter, hotel and drive. Family see when you land. Add no-signal days here so nobody worries.
Packing has two lists: your bag, and jobs to do the night before you leave. Back on days steps your bedtime back after nights.
📅 Calendar
Twelve months at a glance: red on rotation, green home, blue travel. Switch to Rotations for a list.
Swapped or held over? Tap any day and pick On rotation, Home or Travel. Undo all changes is under More, Your rotation.
Plans: tap Add plan or tap a day. Give it a time if it has one. Several on the same day are fine: tap the day to see them all in time order.
Tick Count down to it on a plan and it gets its own countdown on your home screen.
Pick who’s coming from Crew & family and it shows when you’re all home.
🎉 Holidays: public holidays for your home country and, if you like, where you work. Tick religious days: Islamic, Christian (Western or Orthodox), Jewish, Hindu.
Coloured dots under a day are crew and family on rotation that day. Important dates holds birthdays and anniversaries with reminders.
🏞️ Days off
Shaped by what you picked at setup. Change it any time with Change on the Your days off card.
Hunting & fishing lines up your state’s seasons with your days home. Your harvest log and tags live inside that card.
Golf, lake & riding shows good-weather days at home. Games & events follows your teams and your kids’ games.
Activity planner: a group for the deer lease, golf crew, boat or a trip. See who’s home when, who’s in, who’s driving, and split the costs. Starting one needs a free account; joining doesn’t.
👨👩👧 Family
Crew & family puts other people’s rotations on your calendar and shows when you’re both home. Add them by pasting their link or by Connect by handle.
Connect by handle: both of you sign in and set a handle under More, Account. Type theirs, they tap Allow, and you each see the other. No links to send.
From home: notes family send you (they can choose when each one opens) and the honey-do list. Only your phone can read them.
While I’m away: where things are and who to call, for the people at home. Say where things are, never account numbers or passwords.
Trips & school breaks finds the best stretches for a family trip. Tell your crew sends the app to someone.
🔗 Sharing and who sees what
Each link you copy lets one person in. They open it, type their name, and you tap Allow. A forwarded link says “already used”.
Once allowed, they keep seeing your calendar without a new link, and it updates by itself.
Under More, Share & sync: pause someone, set an end date, limit how far ahead they see, give them their own switches, or remove them at once. See it as they see it shows their exact view.
Each link has switches: plans, travel, shifts and a good time to call, ticket expiries, honey-do and notes, the while-I’m-away sheet.
Live calendar (More) puts your rotations into Google, Apple or Outlook calendar and keeps them up to date.
Your calendar is sealed on your phone before it’s shared. Our server cannot read it.
☰ More
Your rotation: days on and off, travel days, shifts, time zone and good time to call, rotation changes and history. Tick I don’t work rotation to make it a family calendar.
Money: day or hourly rate, pay per rotation, paycheck checker, savings goals, tax deadlines. Set your usual work country once; change a single rotation only if it was different.
Days away: days out of the country for tax or residency. A count, not tax advice.
What if I swap? Pay, days home and crew change before you agree to a swap. Bills before you go, Truck & house, Tickets & licences with renewal reminders.
Reminders are your phone’s notifications. Choose what you see switches sections off, makes text bigger, and sets Australian words.
Every card has ▲ ▼ to move it up or down, ▾ to fold it, and ✕ to switch it off.
❓ Questions
Do I need an account? No. An account is optional: it backs up your data, keeps two phones in step, and gives you a handle. It’s encrypted on your phone, so we can’t read it.
My family can’t see my plans. Check the Plans switch on their link (More, Share & sync), and the Show to choice on the plan itself.
Someone has an old link. Copy a new one for them. Each copied link works for one person.
Reminders don’t arrive on iPhone. They only work from the home-screen app, not Safari.
Wrong word in my language? Tap the link under the language picker and tell us. Languages marked beta are first drafts.
Choose what you see
Switch off the sections you don't use. Nothing is deleted: switch them back on any time.
What if I swap?
Try a swap before you agree to it. Nothing changes until you tap Make this swap.
Bills before you go
Put in what's due and Life on Rotation tells you which ones land while you're away, so you pay them on your last day home.
Add a bill
Truck & house
Add a job
Tickets & certs
Add your tickets (BOSIET, H2S, IWCF, medical) and hunting or fishing licenses, and Life on Rotation tells you when to renew, on your days off. Stays on this phone only.
Reminders
Your phone writes and seals each reminder before it's stored, so Life on Rotation's server can't read them. It only knows when to send them.
Account
Back up Life on Rotation and use it on more than one phone. Your data is encrypted on this phone before it's uploaded, so nobody else can read it, us included.
Your recovery code
If you forget your password, this code is the only way back in. We can't reset it for you. Keep it somewhere safe and off this phone: a password manager, or printed at home.
A handle lets a crewmate or partner connect with you by name, from their Crew & family card. Both of you then see each other, no links to send.
Microsoft 365
Put your rotations in Outlook, set your out-of-office and Teams status for days off by themselves, and back up to your own OneDrive. Works with work and personal Microsoft accounts.
Share & sync
Family link
Anyone with the link sees your rotation, read-only. After a swap, send them the new link.
Share links
Send a link; each person opens it and gives their name. You see who's on it and can allow, pause, set an end date, change their switches or remove anyone, one at a time. Separate links still work for groups.
Who is it for?
Add to your calendar
One file that works with iPhone, Google/Android and Outlook calendars. Covers the next 18 months.
Tip: import it into a new, separate calendar (call it "Rotation"). To remove it later, delete that one calendar and every rotation goes with it.
Downloads work in the installed app and the website. This preview can't save files.
Live calendar
Your data
Everything is stored on this phone. Only what you choose for each share link goes to the sync server, plus your tickets and private plans if you turn on My live calendar.
New phone? Tap Move to another phone for a 6-digit code, then on the new phone tap Move my data here on the first screen and type it. The code works once and for 15 minutes; the data travels sealed. Or export a file and restore it.
Next 12 months
On rotationHomeNight shiftTravelTodayPlanTicket expires🎂 Birthday / dateHoliday
This year
Money
Only on this phone
Add your day rate and Life on Rotation works out each rotation's pay, held-over days from your swaps, per diem and days worked per country for tax.
Hours worked
Leave a day empty for a normal shift.
Days worked per country
Days worked per state
For land work across states. Some states tax wages earned there, even if you live in Texas. Filing rules differ by state: this is a count for your tax preparer, not tax advice.
Rotations
Always the same place? and every rotation uses it. Change a single rotation below if one was different.
Receipts
Check a paycheck
Type in what your paycheck shows for a pay period. Life on Rotation compares it with your calendar and rates. Leave a box empty to skip it.