Install CrewShift on your phone

There's no CrewShift app in the App Store or Google Play. You install it from your browser, and after that it sits on your home screen with its own icon. It opens full screen without the browser bar and keeps you signed in. On set, clocking in then takes a couple of taps.

iPhone and iPad

1. Open web.crewshift.app in Safari, or in any other browser on iOS 16.4 or later.
2. Tap the Share button. In some browsers it sits under the ⋯ menu.
3. Choose Add to Home Screen, then Add.

Android

1. Open web.crewshift.app in Chrome.
2. Tap the ⋮ menu.
3. Choose Install app (or Add to Home screen) and confirm.

The install hint

On a phone, the sign-in page can show a short hint about installing. On Android the hint only appears when your browser can install CrewShift. It has an Install app button that does the same as the steps above. On iPhone the hint reminds you of the Share steps and links here through How to install.

Tap the X, or tap Install app, and the hint stays hidden, even if you cancel the install. You won't see it on a computer, or once CrewShift is installed.

Signing in on the installed app

Install first, then sign in.

1. Open CrewShift from the icon on your home screen.
2. Enter your email address and tap Send magic link.
3. Type the 6-digit code from the email and tap Verify code.

Skip the link in the email, because it opens your browser instead of the app. On iPhone the browser and the installed app keep separate sessions, so you'd be signed in to Safari and still signed out in the app. Other ways to sign in are in Signing in.

Updates

There's nothing to download and no store to check. A new version loads when you open the app. If CrewShift is already open, it switches to the new version the next time you go to another screen, within a few minutes of the release.

Connection

After you've opened CrewShift once with a connection, it also opens without one and keeps you signed in. Loading or saving anything still needs signal, because your projects, days and hours come from the server. Anything you tap while offline isn't saved. See Bad signal on set.

Related: Clocking in and out