Your shifts, your pay, your work journal — living right inside Apple Calendar.
Shiftly is a native macOS app for anyone who works shifts. Set your weekly pattern once — Shiftly writes it into a dedicated Apple Calendar, keeps it in sync both ways, works out your pay, and gives every workday a Markdown journal page. All of it on your Mac, in plain files you own.
Your schedule lands in Apple Calendar — and Apple Calendar talks back. Drag a shift to another day and Shiftly records it as a swap. Delete one and it becomes a day off. Create one and it counts as an extra shift. Every change is listed in a sync report, and any of them can be undone with one click.
Real WidgetKit widgets (small and medium) show your next shifts right on the desktop, with three buttons: Start Work runs your morning routine — open DingTalk, WeChat, websites, a terminal in your work folder — without even showing the app; Meeting jumps to the recorder; QNotes pops a note editor. Configure the routine steps in Settings and start your day in one click.
Record meeting audio into timestamped folders, then let Scripto transcribe and translate it locally — no cloud, no GUI, one button each. Play recordings back inside Shiftly with the transcript highlighted line-by-line as the audio plays; click any line to jump there.
A month view shows regular shifts, swapped days, one-off shifts, leave and public holidays in different colors. Click any day to swap it, take leave, or open that day's journal. Import holidays from any subscribed calendar — no shifts are scheduled on them. Rules keep their history — change your pattern from next month, and past records stay exactly as they were. Already have months of shifts in a calendar? Import them as history with their real hours.
Set your hourly rate (raises keep their effective dates) and Shiftly turns worked shifts into money: a monthly chart of the last 12 months, year-to-date totals, per-shift breakdowns, unpaid-break deduction, and payslip export to CSV or Markdown. Flip the display between AUD / CNY / USD with your own exchange rates — nothing is ever fetched from the internet.
One Markdown file per shift day plus standalone quick notes, stored in folders you choose. Edit and preview them right inside Shiftly (GitHub-style), or jump to VS Code with one click. Notes written on a day off land on your last workday's page, and everything is searchable.
Next shift and countdown at a glance, one-click sync, pre-shift reminders (configurable lead time), auto-sync on a schedule, auto-launch at login or on your workdays at a set time. Close the window — Shiftly keeps working.
Everything Shiftly knows lives in human-readable JSON and Markdown, with a documented contract. A bundled CLI speaks JSON, and an MCP server lets AI assistants like Claude manage your schedule in natural language: "move Wednesday's shift to Friday and sync the calendar."
No account. No server. No analytics. First-run setup lays everything out under one folder you pick — data, logs, notes and meeting recordings — and each location can be moved later (Shiftly migrates the files for you). Back them up, sync them, grep them, take them anywhere; a factory reset wipes exactly what Shiftly created and nothing else.
git clone https://github.com/TN019/shiftly.git && cd shiftly
scripts/build_app.sh && cp -R dist/Shiftly.app /Applications/Then it's three steps:
- Open Shiftly and pick a folder for your data (any empty folder works)
- Set your weekly pattern — which days, what hours
- Press Sync Now and allow calendar access
Your shifts are in Apple Calendar. From here on, editing either side keeps both in sync.
| Setup & technical reference | Install details, scheduled sync, migration |
| Data & interface reference | File schemas, CLI, MCP — the contract for scripts & AI |
| Sync design | How two-way sync works under the hood |
| Project history | The v2 roadmap that built all of this |
PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 — free for personal and other noncommercial use; commercial use requires a separate license from the author.
Required Notice: Copyright (c) 2026 Zishen Liu (https://github.com/TN019/shiftly)