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Turnimo help

Updated 13 November 2026 · EFIRITY PTE. LTD.

Turnimo puts a rotating roster on a month you can swipe through: your own shifts years ahead, the schedule of someone you live or work with beside them, and an estimate of what the month pays. This page explains how each part works on iPhone and on Android. The menus are named the same on both.

Getting your rotation in

Which rotations are built in? Thirteen: 2-2, 3-3, 4-on-4-off, 5-2, 6-1, 6-2, 12/36, 24/48, 24/72, Day-Night-2 off, DuPont, Pitman 2-2-3 and the weekly three-shift rotation (mornings one week, evenings the next, nights the third). The ones most used where you live are at the top: a phone set to Russian starts with 2/2 and сутки через трое, one set to Brazilian Portuguese with 12x36 and 6x1.

Mine is not on the list. Choose Build your own and set the cycle length (1 to 56 days), then give each day of the cycle a shift or a day off. A 28-day hospital roster or a 5-week mine schedule fits.

How do I line it up with my real roster? Set First day of the cycle to a date on which you work the first day of the pattern, for example the first of your four day shifts. The next four weeks are previewed underneath, so you can check them against your paper roster before you tap Apply pattern.

My roster changes next month. Will my history be lost? No. A new pattern starts on its Apply from date and every day before that keeps the old one. The pattern panel lists Earlier patterns with their start dates; removing the latest change restores the one before it.

Days that do not follow the pattern

Tap the day. You can give that day another shift, or a day off, without touching the rest of the cycle. You can add overtime in hours and minutes, replace the scheduled hours with the hours you really worked, and write a note of up to 500 characters. The day then shows a dot for a note and a small + for overtime. Back to pattern removes every change on that day.

To fill several days at once, for a week of leave or a run of covered shifts, use Paint shifts: pick a shift at the bottom, tap each day, then Done. Undo reverts the last tap.

Vacation and Sick are shift types of the kind Leave. They are counted separately and never as worked hours.

Partner codes and “Both off”

How do I show my partner my shifts? Open Share and choose Send my schedule to my partner. Turnimo writes one short message containing a code (it starts with SHC1:) and opens the share sheet, so you can send it with any messaging app. The code covers last month and the next twelve. Notes are left out unless you switch on Include notes.

What does my partner do with it? In their Turnimo, open Partners, tap Add a partner's schedule and paste the whole message; the words around the code do not matter. Your shifts appear as a thin second stripe under each of their days, and the days you are both off are marked Both off.

Something changed on my roster. Send a new code. Importing again from the same person replaces the old copy and shows “Updated”. A partner's schedule is read-only on the receiving phone; only the sender can change it.

“This is not a schedule code, or it is incomplete.” The message was cut off or edited on the way. Ask for it again, and copy it whole. You can keep up to five schedules: a partner, a colleague you swap with, a babysitter.

Someone sent me a link that starts with turnimo://partner?code=. On iPhone, tapping it opens Turnimo on Partners with the code already filled in and the preview showing whose schedule it is. Nothing is added until you confirm.

The pay estimate

How is it worked out? For every work day: the shift's hours, minus its unpaid break, times its hourly rate. Overtime hours are added at the rate times your overtime multiplier (1.5 unless you change it). A shift without its own rate uses the default rate from Settings. The result is labelled Estimate before tax and deductions: it is a guide for planning, not a payslip.

Night shifts. A shift that ends the next morning counts entirely on the day it starts. On the night the clocks change, it counts its real length.

Currency. The currency symbol comes from your phone's region. Change it under Settings → Pay. Numbers follow your language, so Hindi shows lakhs (1,50,000).

Can I get the numbers out? The hours-and-pay panel has Month and Year views and Export CSV with date, shift, start, end, hours, overtime, pay and note for each day.

Widget, Siri and Spotlight

Widget (iPhone). Touch and hold the Home Screen, tap +, search for Turnimo and add Next shifts. The small size shows today and tomorrow; the medium size shows up to four days. It refreshes after each edit and at midnight. Android has the same widget, which you can resize.

“Next shift” with Siri and Shortcuts (iPhone). Say “Next shift in Turnimo”, or add the Next shift action in the Shortcuts app, for example to an automation that runs when your alarm stops. It tells you the next shift and when it starts, without opening the app and without a connection.

“What's my shift tomorrow?” (iPhone). Say “What's my shift tomorrow in Turnimo”, or “today”, or “the day after tomorrow”. For any other date, add the Shift on a date action in Shortcuts and pick the day. The answer names that day's shift, says when you changed that day by hand and which shift it replaced, and adds the shift of each partner you show on the calendar, or that they are off.

“Share my month in Turnimo” (iPhone). This opens Turnimo on Send for the current month, so the picture, the partner code and the calendar file are one tap away. “Send my schedule with Turnimo” does the same.

Finding a shift in Spotlight (iPhone). Swipe down on the Home Screen and type a shift name (“Night”), its label, a weekday or a date. Your work and leave days for the next 60 days are listed; days off are not. Tapping a result opens Turnimo on that day. The list is rebuilt after every change, so a swapped shift never shows its old name.

Reminders

Turn on Shift reminders in Settings, then give a shift type a reminder: 15 or 30 minutes, 1, 2 or 12 hours before it starts. The phone asks for notification permission at that moment and at no other time. If you said no, the switch stays off and Turnimo explains where to allow it. Reminders are notifications, not alarms, so keep your alarm clock for waking up.

Backups, and switching between iPhone and Android

Your calendar exists only on your phone. On iPhone it is part of your iCloud device backup. On Android it is part of your Google backup when that backup is end-to-end encrypted.

To move it yourself, choose Settings → Save a backup file on the old phone and keep the file in Files, iCloud Drive, Google Drive or an email to yourself. On the new phone, choose Restore from a backup file. The file is the same on both systems, so a schedule saved on an Android phone restores on an iPhone, and the other way round. A restore replaces everything in the app, so Turnimo asks first, and it refuses a file that is not a Turnimo backup.

To share a month with someone who has no app, use Send this month as a picture. To put your shifts into Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook, use Export to a calendar app (.ics) for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months. Exporting again updates the events instead of duplicating them.

Release notes

Write to us

Email hi@busy.dev. If a shift lands on the wrong day, tell us the rotation, the first day of the cycle you set and one date that is wrong, which is usually enough for us to reproduce it. Include the app version from About and your phone model. Turnimo has no account and sends us nothing by itself; the details are in the privacy policy.