Wellness built for the people who can't sleep when the world tells them to.
Calm and Headspace were designed for a 9-to-5 office worker. Shiftwell is the first wellness app built around the only schedule that actually matters: yours. Sessions that respect your next shift, your last shift, and the fact that you have to sleep at 2 p.m.
“Five minutes before badging in. Five minutes after.”
Renata · ER nurse, 7 years
01 — The Gap
Wellness apps weren't built for the people who need them most.
If you work shifts, you already know. The 10-minute morning meditation arrives at the end of your night. The breath exercise asks you to find a quiet room — in a hospital. The sleep story plays at 9 p.m. when your shift starts at 11.
22M
shift workers in the US alone, mostly underserved by wellness products
38%
of nurses report symptoms of burnout — and that was before the last five years
3.1x
higher risk of sleep disorders for night-shift workers vs day workers
Sources: BLS labor data, AMA & AHA burnout surveys, NIOSH sleep research.
02 — How it works
The session you need, sized to the time you have.
Tell Shiftwell when your next shift starts. We surface what fits — five minutes before the badge-in, ninety seconds in the bathroom between calls, twenty minutes to come back from a hard day.
Step 1
Tell us your next shift.
A simple form — when does it start, when does it end. We use that single piece of context to do everything else.
Step 2
Pick today's state.
Pre-shift. Mid-shift. Post-shift. Off-duty. We'll surface sessions sized to the minutes you actually have.
Step 3
Press play. Or just read.
Every session has a guided audio version and a one-page text version, because sometimes you can't put in headphones.
Step 4
Log how it landed.
One tap, five moods. Over time you see patterns — what works after nights, what doesn't work mid-rotation.
03 — Why not Calm or Headspace
Same minutes. Wrong assumptions.
We're not trying to be a bigger Calm. We're trying to be the first one that respects an irregular schedule. If you work 9-to-5, the incumbents are great. If you don't, this is for you.
| Need | Calm / Headspace | Shiftwell |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-shift activation in < 5 minutes | Treated as a morning routine | Designed for the locker room |
| Sleep at 2 p.m. | Bedtime stories at night | Daytime sleep protocol with light + noise guidance |
| Mid-shift 90-second reset | Not in the catalog | Memorize-once, do anywhere |
| Burnout reset | Often gated behind premium tier | Included — built with clinical psychologists |
| Schedule awareness | None — you find what fits | Recommendations adapt to your shift log |
04 — Built with, not for
Designed with twenty-seven nurses, eight paramedics, and three ER doctors. So far.
“I tried Calm. The 10-min meditation made me feel worse — I didn't have 10 minutes. Shiftwell's 90-second reset is the only thing I've actually used three days in a row.”
“The daytime sleep protocol is the first thing that's helped after a night shift. The 'set up once' checklist is genuinely useful.”
“I'm not 'into' wellness apps. I just needed something for the days I want to walk out. The burnout reset is the right tone — not bubbly, not preachy.”
05 — Pricing
One plan. Everything. Cancel anytime.
We don't do upsells. We don't lock the burnout content behind a higher tier. If you're a shift worker, you get all of it.
Regional pricing in APAC & LATAM — we believe in access, not arbitrage.
- All pre-shift, post-shift, sleep, recovery, focus and burnout reset sessions
- Shift-aware recommendations based on your logged schedule
- Mood & energy check-ins with simple weekly patterns
- Audio + text versions of every session
- New sessions added monthly, co-designed with healthcare workers
- Cancel from inside the app in two taps
No payment captured during this MVP preview. You can explore the full app today.