Built by shift workers. For shift workers.
Shiftlyx started in a staff room at 3am. Two nurses, one paramedic, and a software developer who'd worked nights on a support desk. The question was simple: why is there no tool for us?
The app that shouldn't need to exist
The NHS builds world-class clinical tools. But nobody builds tools for the people doing the work.
We looked for an app that understood shift fatigue — not as a buzzword, but as a daily reality. We wanted something that knew the difference between a night cluster and a run of earlies. Something that saw the cumulative cost of short turnarounds. Something that didn't judge or guilt-trip when you chose the money over the rest.
We found nothing.
So we built it.
Shiftlyx is not an NHS product. It doesn't plug into HealthRoster or Allocate. It doesn't report to your manager. It's a personal tool — a pocket-sized operations room for the most complex scheduling problem most people will ever face: their own working life.
Why “operating system”?
Because shift work isn't a 9-to-5 with overtime. It's a whole different way of living. Your body clock runs on a separate schedule. Your relationships require negotiation. Your health needs active management.
Shiftlyx sits at the centre of all that. It's where fatigue data, planning, recovery, and coordination meet. Not a rota app. Not a calendar. A personal OS.
Our philosophy
Advice, not authority
Shiftlyx has one mantra: advise, never authorise. We will never block you from picking up a shift. We will never prevent you from working. We show you the fatigue cost — clearly, honestly — and trust you to make the right decision for your circumstances.
Privacy by design
NHS workers already have too many people watching. Shiftlyx is the opposite. No employer access. No mandatory sharing. No data mining. Your rota patterns, fatigue scores, and preferences are yours. Full stop. Privacy isn't a feature. It's the foundation.
Simple because tired people are using it
Every interaction in Shiftlyx is tested against one standard: Would a nurse on their 5th consecutive night shift understand this in under 3 seconds? If the answer is no, it doesn't ship. No complex dashboards. No multi-step flows. Two taps max for anything essential.
Science-grounded, not pseudoscience
The fatigue model is deterministic and explainable. Four measurable dimensions. Clear scoring. No black box AI claiming to 'optimise your wellbeing' without showing its working. We cite the research. We show the calculation. We let you judge.
Your rota. Your data. Your rules.
Shiftlyx makes one promise that overrides everything else: your data never leaves your control for any purpose other than making the app work for you.
Read our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Delete Account page for details.
Who's building this
A small team of people who've done the work — and people who've built for it.
Healthcare shift workers
ICU, A&E, community nursing
Software engineers
Healthtech, consumer apps
Product designers
Low-cognitive-load UX specialists
We're not a VC-funded growth machine. We're not a big healthtech company. We're a focused team building one tool, well, for one group of people.