Your paperwork should not be waiting for you at the kitchen table at midnight, rebuilt from memory. Good Shift is the visit companion that lives on your phone and belongs to you: tap through the visit note in about 60 seconds, before you start the car, and the paperwork part of your day is over.
No more wondering whether the check matches the hours and miles you actually worked. Your agency has their copy of your work. This one is yours.
If your work is mostly company, meals, and a watched house, Good Shift knows that day too. It asks once what kind of care you mostly give, and puts your day first: the meal from the family's plan, how much they ate, what you did together, and one tap that tells the family all is well.
One payment. No subscription. No account. Works with no signal, in the houses where other apps stall. Everything stays on your own phone.
Good Shift was built around the real shape of an aide's day: drive, knock, care, drive again. Every screen answers the question you actually have at that moment.
One card per client: care tasks, likes and dislikes, mobility limits, diet notes, emergency contact, and what to know before you knock. At the top, in a box you cannot miss, sits the last visit's watch line, the one thing to check first.
Arrival and leaving times, 13 care tasks you tap instead of type, how they seemed today in plain fixed words, anything new they mentioned, the medication reminders you gave, and a note you can dictate out loud. Finished before the car starts, while the visit is still fresh.
Every visit you log writes its own line in your ledger at that client's rate. Agency work and private clients sit side by side without mixing: hours, miles, pay expected, pay received, and the running figure for what is still owed to you.
Print a clean packet for any stretch of days: your hours, your miles, what you were owed, what landed, employer by employer. The worked example inside the app ends with $101.80 still owed to the aide, money paper notes would never have caught. Yours will add up the same way.
Fully offline, no account, nothing uploaded anywhere. Good Shift runs in dead signal houses, on older phones, on your break, on your terms. Your records live on your device, and they survive changing agencies, because they were never the agency's to keep.
Documentation is the complaint aides name most, and the unpaid hour at the kitchen table is where it lands. A note finished in the driveway means the day ends when the work ends. That is the whole product, in one sentence.
"Check the bathroom mat first, it slid twice on Wednesday." One line, left by the last visit, read by the next. The complaint families make most is aides arriving without the last visit's notes. Good Shift puts that line at the top of the card, every time, so nothing about the person you care for gets lost between shifts.
Most companion work is calm: a warmed meal, a game of cards, a house kept an eye on. Good Shift gives that day a gentle shape. The family's meal plan for the week sits on your client's card, today's meal sits on your visit screen, and the chores for the house are tap boxes, not memory.
Your note is taps: arrived, the meal, how much they ate, a drink, something you did together, all is well, left at. And because a companion day is calm right up to the minute it is not, the Today page keeps crisis steps, short lessons, the CPR card and its 110 beat pacer, and 85 plain answers one tap away. Nobody trained you for the worst minute. This book stands in that gap.
No training course, no new system to learn on top of the agency's. Good Shift rides along with the day you already work.
Open the client card. Read the watch line, the tasks, the mobility and diet notes. You walk in knowing what today needs.
Times, tasks, how they seemed, reminders given, one line to watch next time. About 60 seconds, while every detail is still true.
The visit lands in your ledger at the right rate. Hours, miles, and pay owed stay current without a single spreadsheet.
When someone you love is cared for at home, the hardest part is not knowing. The visit happened, but what happened in it? Good Shift turns the aide's own note into a clean one page summary you can hold in your hand.
What was done, and what it was like. All is well, in plain words, first. Then the meal they were served and how much they ate, what they did together, the chores done around the home, how they seemed, and what to watch. If the prepared meals are running low, the summary says so, so Sunday's cooking happens before the freezer is empty. Plain words, no clinical shorthand, printed or shared straight from the aide's note of that visit.
Different aides on different days is where things get missed, a reminder skipped, a small change nobody passed along. The watch line carries the one thing that matters most from visit to visit, so the care stays continuous even when the faces change.
The full visit history for your person, visit by visit, in order. Patterns get visible. Questions for the nurse or the agency get specific. And on the hard days, there is a record of good care, kept faithfully.
Documentation is the biggest complaint aides have, by far, and every aide who leaves takes her clients' trust with her. Crew Setup puts Good Shift in your team's hands, configured and ready, so the record of every visit is complete because the tool that keeps it finally works the way aides do.
The same note structure on every visit: times, tasks, how the client seemed, reminders given, and the watch line for whoever comes next. Written at the house, in the driveway, while it is still accurate.
Your schedulers already know the cost of a missed detail between shifts. A watch line pinned to the top of every client card is the simplest fix there is, and it runs on every visit without a meeting about it.
Good Shift belongs to the aide, and aides treat it that way: they actually use it. Set up your first ten client cards done for you, rates, tasks, and watch items included, and hand your crew a book that is already theirs.
No. On the first day it asks what kind of care you mostly give: companion, hands-on care, or both. Companions get the meal plan, the chore list, time together notes, and the all is well tap first. Hands-on aides keep the care tasks and how-they-seemed notes first. Nothing is hidden from either of you.
Your family writes the week's prepared meals once, with how to heat each one and any cautions. The aide sees today's meal on her visit screen and taps how much was eaten. It organizes and records meals. It does not prescribe diets or give nutrition advice.
No. The app teaches aides never to photograph clients or homes. Your proof is the aide's timed, signed summary, not a camera.
The aide opens Crisis or the CPR card in two taps, with a 110 beat pacer and plain steps that work with no signal. In a real emergency, call 911 first. The app's answers say exactly that, first.
No subscription, no monthly bill, no per visit fee. Agency software charges the office every month, forever. Good Shift charges you once. The Aide Edition is $39, less than two and a half hours of pay at the median aide wage of $17.21 an hour, and the built-in worked example ends with $101.80 still owed to the aide, caught only because her hours, miles, and pay sat side by side.
For the aide who wants her evenings and her records back.
For the family who hired help for someone they love, and wants to know the day went the way it should.
For full rosters and small agency owners setting up their team.
Every edition is the whole app. Nothing is locked or held back by tier. The higher editions add the family printouts and the done for you setup, never features you have to rent.
The 30 day promise: if Good Shift is not the right fit for your work, write to us within 30 days of purchase and we will refund you in full. No forms, no fight. Yours, updated: every update to the edition you bought is free, forever; new phases are new products, and this tool is never re-charged. Questions or a stuck install: message us through the marketplace where you bought it, Etsy, Gumroad, or Contra, and we answer within two business days.
Your personal record. Good Shift is the aide's own record book. It is not the agency record, it is not a medical record, and it is not medical advice. It does not replace your employer's charting, and agency systems and agency rules still stand.
Reminders only. The medication line records reminders you gave and what you observed. The app has no dose fields and no advice about medicine. What a client should take belongs to the care plan, the nurse, and the pharmacist.
Private by design. No account, no server, nothing uploaded. There are no fields for insurance numbers, account numbers, or passwords. Your notes live on your device, and the guide makes a regular export backup a habit.
Honest numbers. The ledger is arithmetic on your own entries: visit minutes times the rate on the client's card, miles times your per mile rate. The pay packet is evidence for the payroll conversation, not a ruling in it. In an emergency, call 911 first; the card exists so the facts are ready when help arrives.