Shift alarm app
ShiftFlowr is a shift alarm app for people whose wake-up time cannot stay on the same weekday setting forever. The alarm is tied to your shift pattern, so it moves with the roster: early starts, back shifts, nights, and the leave-home alarm before every one of them.
Free on Android · Early access · Every feature unlocked
Product proof
For work-alarm intent, the strongest proof is the actual wake alarm and leave-for-work alert staged cleanly and kept large enough to read. Both fire automatically for every shift in your pattern - nothing to re-set when the roster rotates.
Why it matters
A standard phone alarm repeats on weekdays. A shift worker's week does not. When your roster mixes 6 am starts, 2 pm starts, and nights in the same fortnight, a static alarm is either ringing when you do not need it or silent when you do. That is the gap a work alarm app exists to close.
The alarm changes with the roster instead of relying on one fixed weekday wake-up. Each shift type gets its own alarm time automatically.
Change from earlies to lates to nights and the alarms follow. No Sunday-night ritual of editing five alarms for the week ahead.
Because ShiftFlowr is also a shift scheduling app, the alarm stays tied to the actual work pattern, not a guess you maintain by hand.
Silent and Do Not Disturb
On Android, ShiftFlowr's wake-up alarm fires at full volume even if the phone was left on silent or in Do Not Disturb mode, and takes over the screen with the shift name, start time, and what is coming next. If you fell asleep with the phone muted after a night shift, the alarm for your next early still gets through.
This is the feature shift workers ask for most: not a louder alarm, but an alarm that cannot be silently swallowed by a phone setting you forgot about. iPhone support is currently on the waitlist.
Leave-for-work reminders
Waking up is only half the problem. ShiftFlowr also fires a leave-home alarm before every shift: set your commute time once, and the alert goes off that many minutes before each start. A 30-minute drive before a 6 am early and a 45-minute bus before a 2 pm back shift are both handled from the same setting - no home or work address needed, no maps integration to configure.
Set it once in minutes. It applies to every shift in the pattern, with an optional early-arrival buffer on top.
The reminder knows when your shift starts because the roster is already in the app. It never fires on your rest days.
How it compares
Any alarm app can wake you once. The difference shows up in week three of a rotating pattern, when the manual approach starts slipping.
| Phone's built-in alarm | Generic alarm app | ShiftFlowr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Follows a rotating roster automatically | No | No | Yes |
| Different alarm time per shift type | Manual only | Manual only | Built-in |
| Fires on silent / Do Not Disturb (Android) | Varies by phone | Varies | Yes |
| Leave-for-work reminder before each shift | No | No | Yes |
| Knows your rest days (never rings) | No | No | Yes |
| Full-screen alert with shift name and start time | No | No | Yes |
| Free for personal use | Free | Often paid | Free in early access |
Every shift type
The wake-up logic works the same way before every shift type, not only the easy ones. If your week depends on not missing an early shift, surviving a run of night shifts, or catching a back shift after a short changeover, the same alarm system covers all of them.
Connected pages
If you only need a plain one-time alarm, any alarm app can do that. The value here is when the wake-up time depends on early shifts, night shifts, mixed rotating cycles, or a repeating rota plan. The alarm is one half of the product; the schedule underneath it is the other half.
Frequently asked questions
ShiftFlowr keeps the roster and the wake-up logic in one place. Set the pattern once - the alarms set themselves.
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