A calendar that understands your shifts.
Rest Days is a shift planner for police, fire, ambulance and military rotas, and anyone else on a rotating pattern. Put your pattern in once and see every shift and every day off, months ahead.
Free during the initial design period. Works on your phone and your computer.


Screenshots from the app, with example data. Works on your computer and your phone.
See it in a minute.
How quickly you can set up, then your calendar, family, pay, days off and rest, on a real phone.
Three steps, one minute.
1 · Tell us your job
Your service and role, and it suggests the patterns people like you work. Or build your own.
2 · See the year
Every shift and day off, with bank holidays, months ahead.
3 · Share with family
Link calendars and see the days you are all off together.
See what your shifts are worth.
Put in your hourly rate and Rest Days works out what your pattern pays: by month and tax year, with nights, weekends, bank holidays and overtime counted, and what you take home after tax.
Where it comes from
Basic pay and every extra, split out, with what each shift earns an hour.
What if I work more?
See what extra hours add before and after tax, and how much overtime reaches your monthly goal.
Check your payslip
Compare it with the estimate, or download every shift with its pay.

Plan around it
Swaps, overtime, leave, a second job and bank holidays.Stay rested
A warning when a change leaves too little time between shifts.Know your pay
What you earn, what you take home after tax, and what extra hours would add.Try it now. No account.
Open the real app with example data and have a look around. Nothing is saved.
Your pattern?
A rota is not a week. It is a rhythm of early starts, late finishes, nights and days that are finally yours. Rest Days shows you yours, as far ahead as you like.
Free while we shape it.
- Rest Days costs nothing during its initial design period. If paid plans ever arrive, we will say so clearly before anything changes.
- You can download a copy of your rota at any time, and delete your account and everything in it.
- Want to hear when phone alerts and app-store apps arrive? Email us and we will let you know.
Your rota stays yours.
- Only people you invite, and who accept, can see your shifts.
- Sharing notes is a choice, person by person.
- Your pay estimate stays private to you. It is never shared.
- Delete your account and everything in it, any time.