Frequently Asked Questions

Swing Shift is a dating app built specifically for shift workers — nurses, firefighters, police, pilots, truckers, hospitality workers, plant operators, and anyone else whose schedule doesn't fit a 9-to-5. We match people by shift pattern and days off so you meet partners whose calendars actually work with yours.

Yes. You can sign up, build a profile, and match for free. Premium features are available for power users.

You don't have to be — but the app is designed around shift patterns, so most of our users are in healthcare, emergency services, hospitality, transport, utilities, manufacturing, aviation, and similar fields.

Mainstream apps assume everyone shares the same weekend. Swing Shift asks your shift type and days off at signup and uses that to match you. It's matching on real compatibility, not just geography.

When you sign up you pick your shift pattern and add your days off. Swing Shift looks for compatible profiles in your area, checks mutual dating preferences, and sorts matches by how many days off you share.

We support fixed days, fixed nights, rotating 12s, 4-on/4-off, 48/96, Panama/Pitman, DuPont, irregular, and a custom 'other' option.

Yes — a lot of the best matches are cross-pattern. A 4-on/4-off police officer and a Panama plant operator often have heavy overlap. Our compatibility calculator shows you which patterns work together and why.

Matching is currently driven by location, mutual dating preferences, age range, and days-off overlap. Profession and industry filters are planned, but schedule compatibility is the core signal.

We use account authentication, surface safety guidance, and give you tools to block or report anyone. Photo/selfie verification is planned, and badges will only appear for users who complete that process once it is available.

Only your matches. Your shift type is used for matching, but your detailed days-off calendar is never public.

We use your data to match you and nothing else. We never sell it. See our Privacy Policy for the full breakdown.

Because dating culture is wired for people who are free on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons. Shift workers are on a different calendar, so they miss the window the rest of the world is using to meet people.

Absolutely — often better than mixed-schedule couples. Two people who both work shifts tend to understand the off-days, decompression time, and calendar chaos without needing it explained.

Matching rotations are ideal (two Panama schedulers on the same pattern, or two 48/96 firefighters). After that, anything with lots of weekday off-days in common tends to work well. Our shift compatibility tool computes it for you.

Yes — rotating shifts change what 'available' looks like every week. The upside is that rotating workers often have large blocks of consecutive days off that fixed-day workers never see.

Premium currently removes daily interest and message limits. Advanced filters, date ideas, boost, incognito browsing, and richer chat signals are on the roadmap and will be labelled clearly as they roll out.

Yes. Cancel from your account settings, effective at the end of the billing period.