For restaurant workers

The schedule goes up Thursday. Your family finds out Thursday

Restaurant schedules are posted late, change often and arrive by whatever channel the manager prefers. You might get a week on Thursday for a Monday start, then have Saturday moved on Friday. Everyone at home is working from a message you sent that has already scrolled out of view.

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The schedules this actually has to cope with

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

Weekly, posted a few days ahead

A week at a time with a couple of days of notice, which is enough to plan work and not enough to plan a life.

Doubles and splits

A lunch shift, a gap, then dinner. The gap looks like free time on any normal calendar and is not.

Closes into opens

Closing at one and opening at ten. The sleep is the appointment, and nobody at home can see it.

Cut early, kept late

Slow night, cut at nine. Busy night, out at midnight. The posted end time is a suggestion.

What it sounds like at home

“My schedule comes out on Thursday and I am relaying it all evening.”
“My partner and I both work service and we cannot work out when we are both off.”
“I got cut early and my ride did not know for an hour.”
“My family thinks a split shift means I have the afternoon free.”
“The group chat scrolls and the schedule is gone.”

Where Freeish fits

Photograph the posted schedule — printed, or a screenshot of the app — and Freeish reads the shifts off it.

Split shifts show as two blocks, so the gap between them reads correctly to everyone else.

When you get cut or held, change the one shift; nobody needs a separate message.

If you and your partner both work service, you can see when you are actually both off.

One week, start to finish

Tomás, line cook

The schedule lands in the staff group chat on Thursday afternoon.
Tomás screenshots it and imports it before his shift starts.
His girlfriend, who serves at another restaurant, sees the one evening they are both off.
They book something for that evening the same day rather than a fortnight later.
Friday is slow and he gets cut at nine — one change, and his ride knows.

Questions restaurant workers ask

My schedule is a screenshot in a group chat. Does that work?

Yes — a screenshot imports the same way as a photograph of a printout. Both are just pictures of a schedule.

Can it handle a double or a split?

Yes, as two events on the same day. That matters: the gap in the middle reads as unavailable rather than free.

Can my partner and I see when we are both off?

Yes. If you both use Freeish and follow each other, the app works out the days you are both free rather than making you compare two schedules.

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.