“FDNY v6” for the iPhone

Features:

• Displays your schedule for the next six years  (continuously), including vacations and holidays.

•  Customized for FD New York City, but can handle arbitrary patterns.

•  Records mutuals (swaps, trades). Tracks hours earned or owed on a person-by-person basis.

• Formats emails for sending out mutual offers and approval requests.

•  Maintains a record of your overtime hours.

• Tracks your vacation time: automatically computes hours earned and shows weekly balances.

•  Logbook for recording personal time, sick time, etc.

•  Integrated Apple iCal events.

•  Overlays an entirely separate schedule for your spouse/partner to help you coordinate your lives.

•  Adjustable colors for shifts, vacations, Kelly days, holidays, etc.

•  Text and color markers for special days such as Kellys, paydays, “early” shifts, or training days.

•  Countdown to retirement.

Platforms:

     iPhone and iPod touch -- OS 13.0 or later.

FDNY version 6 is a totally new update from version 5.  Version 1 appeared in 2010.

Download: iTunes Download

Support: fdny@buddy.com

Visualize Your Shift Schedule

If your schedule varies from week to week, keeping track of your working days can be a chore, and it’s often difficult to quickly figure out when you’ll be on-duty weeks or months in the future.

Scheduler to the rescue!  Designed for public-service employees such as police officers, firefighters, and health-care workers — anyone who works an unusual but predictable schedule — Scheduler always shows your schedule for the next five years from “today.”  Common shift schedules are built-in, such as the “Berkeley” (a.k.a. “California”), “48-96” and “Dupont,” but you can easily change them or create any other repeating pattern covering any number of days.  See the screenshots for some examples.  And there’s a “Doofus” mode for showing irregular, unpredictable schedules.

If your spouse/partner also works a shift schedule, even if entirely different pattern from yours, you can see that rotation appear on calendar, too.  This will help you organize family activities such as vacations and day-care.

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Copyright 2010