For caregivers

Care shifts are a rota for a family, not just for a job

Care work — professional or family — is coordination first. Somebody has to be there, and the schedule is the plan for who. That plan usually lives in a group chat where it scrolls away, or in one person's head, which is worse.

Download on theApp StoreComing soon toGoogle Play

The schedules this actually has to cope with

Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.

Split visits

Mornings and evenings with a long gap, which reads as free time on a calendar and is not.

Sleep-ins and waking nights

Overnight cover that a normal calendar will not distinguish from being at home.

Rotating cover between family

Siblings taking days in turn — a rota with no manager and no published version.

Short-notice cover

Somebody cannot make their day and the gap has to be filled today.

What it sounds like at home

“The cover rota lives in a group chat and scrolls out of sight.”
“Two of us turned up on the same day and nobody came the next.”
“I do the mornings and the evenings and everyone thinks my afternoon is free.”
“Arranging cover takes more messages than the cover takes hours.”
“The person who holds the whole schedule in their head is exhausted.”

Where Freeish fits

One shared view of who is covering when, instead of a chat everyone reads differently.

Split visits show as two blocks, so the gap does not read as availability.

Overnight cover is visible as unavailable rather than looking like being at home.

When somebody drops a day, the gap is visible to everyone at once instead of being announced.

One week, start to finish

The Okonjo siblings

Three siblings share weekday cover for their father.
Each puts their days in and follows the other two.
The Thursday nobody had taken is visible as a gap rather than discovered on the day.
The eldest picks it up and the other two see it without being asked.
The group chat goes back to being a group chat.

Questions caregivers ask

Can several of us share one schedule?

Everyone keeps their own and follows the others, so each person controls what they share. That works better than a single shared calendar nobody owns.

Can I keep my own appointments private?

Yes. Public and private are per event, so the family rota can be visible while everything else stays yours.

Does everyone need an account?

To add their own days, yes. To only watch, a calendar link into their existing calendar is enough.

Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.

Now on iPhone — Android coming soon. Free to start. Import a photo of your next schedule and see who stops asking.