Lagerland Apps

For nurses · paramedics · firefighters · rotating schedules

The iPhone stack for
shift workers.

Most sleep apps measure you against a 9-to-5. If you rotate shifts, work nights, or sleep in pieces, they count your sleep in the wrong window and hold you to targets that don't fit your week. AfterShift starts from your roster instead, and three more apps fill in around it.

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What's the problem with most "sleep apps" for shift workers?

They assume sleep happens once a day, at night, in one block, and they count it from midnight to midnight. You nap before a night shift, sleep in two pieces after one, and your "day" starts whenever your last shift ended. A tracker built on the 9-to-5 splits that sleep across two dates, so one good sleep can look like two short nights.

AfterShift measures the window between your shifts instead, and the other three apps take care of the things that slip when your hours move: reading your recovery, planning the day you're awake for, and remembering the bills.

The stack

Four private apps that work together

Use them together or on their own. All four come from Lagerland Apps, a one-person, privacy-first studio in Finland. None of them asks you to create an account, and none sends your data to us.

AfterShift Sleep and recovery tracking built around your shift roster. Sleep and recovery measured shift to shift for nurses, paramedics, and night staff. Your roster fills 8 weeks ahead. Free, with Premium. Free · ProiPhone Observa Readiness, sleep, and HRV from Apple Health, explained. A daily Readiness score from your Apple Health sleep, HRV, and heart data, with every score explained and all analysis on your device. Free, with Pro. Free · ProRated 4.1 · 13 ratingsiPhone · iPad · Watch Taskful Day A day planner where unfinished tasks move on without guilt. Day planner for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Unfinished tasks carry forward on their own. 21 widgets, no account. Try Pro free for 7 days. Free · ProRated 5.0 · 4 ratingsiPhone · iPad · Mac · Watch AllPaid Bill and contract reminders for iPhone, with no bank login. Bill reminder app for iPhone with no bank login. Track due dates, subscriptions, and contract renewals. Free for 3 bills; $24.99 lifetime option. Free · ProRated 4.9 · 7 ratingsiPhone

How do these apps work together for shift workers?

1. AfterShift: the schedule layer
Set your rotation once and AfterShift fills your roster 8 weeks ahead. Name as many shift types and rest days as your workplace uses, long days and nights included. Sleep imports from Apple Health with naps tagged as naps, and wind-down, caffeine cut-off, and nap reminders are timed to your next shift. Premium adds Readiness for your next shift, the Sleep Score, and the Shift Recovery Score.
2. Observa: the interpretation layer
Observa reads the sleep, HRV (SDNN), resting heart rate, and workouts your Apple Watch saves to Apple Health and turns them into a daily Readiness score, a Sleep Score, and a stress read, each against your own baseline. Tap "Why this score?" to see what moved it. The daily scores are free.
3. Taskful Day: the planning layer
Taskful Day plans one day at a time and doesn't assume when that day starts. Tasks you didn't get to before a run of nights move to today when you open the app, so the list never turns into a red overdue pile. Add a task by typing a sentence, speaking it, or asking Siri.
4. AllPaid: the bills layer
When your sleep moves every week, due dates are easy to lose. Add rent, utilities, and subscriptions once, and AllPaid reminds you before each due date and moves a bill to its next date when you mark it paid. It never asks for your bank login, and it's free for up to 3 bills.

Questions

FAQ

What is the best sleep app for shift workers on iPhone?
AfterShift is the one we built for it. Most sleep trackers count your day from midnight to midnight, which splits a night worker's sleep in two. AfterShift measures sleep from the end of one shift to the start of the next, counts naps toward that window, and times the caffeine cut-off and nap reminders to your next shift. The roster, sleep import, and reminders are free; Readiness, the Sleep Score, the Shift Recovery Score, and Trends are part of AfterShift Premium.
How do I track my recovery as a night-shift nurse?
Keep your roster in AfterShift and let your sleep import from Apple Health, naps included. Log caffeine and extra naps there too. Then add Observa if you want a daily read on your body: it scores Readiness from sleep, HRV (SDNN), resting heart rate, and training load against your own baseline, and "Why this score?" names what moved it. You need an Apple Watch or a sleep app that saves sleep to Apple Health.
Are these apps free?
All four are free to download, and each has a free tier you can keep using. AfterShift's roster, sleep import, and shift-timed reminders are free, and Premium adds the recovery scores and Trends. Observa's daily Readiness, Sleep Score, and stress read are free, and Pro adds long-term trends, Functional Age, ECG history, and training analysis. Taskful Day is free for your first 50 tasks, and AllPaid is free for up to 3 bills. None of the four needs an account.
Will these apps work if I change shift patterns?
Yes. In AfterShift you pick one of seven rotation presets, such as 4 on / 4 off or Panama (2-2-3), or build your own cycle of up to 28 days, and it fills your roster 8 weeks ahead. You name your own shift types and rest days, so long days, nights, and on-call shifts all fit. Long-press any shift to extend, move, or swap it when the roster changes. Taskful Day plans one day at a time, and tasks you didn't finish move to today when you next open it.
Do these apps sync to Apple Watch?
Observa and AfterShift both read Apple Health, so what your Apple Watch records there reaches them without any extra pairing. AfterShift reads your sleep. Observa reads sleep, heart rate, HRV, and workouts, and it also has its own Apple Watch app with Readiness and the training call. Taskful Day has an Apple Watch app too, which works alongside the iPhone app. AfterShift and AllPaid are iPhone apps.

Ready?

Start with AfterShift

Enter your rotation once and AfterShift fills the next 8 weeks. Add the other apps when you want them.

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