onWard
Finance
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad
New: a free Retro Pay calculator — estimate your retro before and after tax. Plus on-call/standby pay and colour themes. Estimates only.
onWard works out what your paycheque should actually be — before it lands.
Nursing pay is complicated on purpose. Evening and night differentials, weekend
premiums, in-charge and preceptor pay, short-notice bonuses, statutory holidays,
overtime that changes rules depending on how you got there. Most of us find out
whether it was right by squinting at a stub two weeks later.
onWard does that maths for you, on your phone, using the rules from your own
collective agreement. Written by a working RN, for RNs, RPNs and LPNs.
BUILD YOUR SCHEDULE IN SECONDS
Tap a day, pick the shift. Long-press to fine-tune hours, add overtime, flag
in-charge or preceptor duty, or mark a shift you picked up on short notice.
SEE EVERY DOLLAR BEFORE PAYDAY
A full breakdown — regular hours, each premium, overtime, statutory pay,
deductions, and the net figure you'll actually see. Nothing rounded, nothing
hidden.
CATCH A SHORT-PAID CHEQUE
Type the total from your real stub. onWard compares it to what the agreement
says you're owed, and if the numbers don't match it tells you which line to
check. Nurses have found missing shifts, dropped premiums and unpaid overtime
this way.
YOUR CONTRACT, ALREADY IN THERE
Thirteen provincial and territorial nursing agreements — BC, Alberta,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI,
Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon. Every rate
carries a citation, so you can check the source yourself.
OVERTIME, PROPERLY
Daily and weekly overtime, the rolling 225-hour rule, and banked time tracked
shift by shift — bank it or take the cash, your choice, per shift.
KEEP EVERY PAY PERIOD
Save each cheque and revisit or edit any past period exactly as it was.
WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL
Everything runs on your phone. No basement dead zone, no hospital wifi, no
loading spinner.
ALL ON YOUR PHONE. ALWAYS.
No accounts to create. No tracking. No ads — ever. Your pay data never leaves
your device.
ONWARD PLUS — OPTIONAL, ONE TIME
Everything that calculates your pay is free, and stays free. onWard Plus is a
single $5.99 purchase that adds the rotation calendar, for laying out a repeating
line and seeing months ahead, and team sharing for swapping a schedule with a
colleague. No subscription. Buy it once and it is yours.
Built by a nurse, for nurses and shift workers.
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onWard estimates your pay from the settings and agreement you choose. It is not
payroll software and it is not affiliated with any union or employer. Always
check your official pay stub.
onWard Plus is here.
Everything that works out your pay is free, and stays free. Plus is a one-time
purchase that adds the rotation calendar and team schedule sharing.
Also in this update:
• The payday countdown no longer goes stale between saved pay periods
• Settings you use often now rise to a Most Used list at the top
• Your collective agreement rates are grouped together and easier to find
• Corrected CPP and EI to the 2026 rates, ceilings and basic exemption
The developer, David Eisner, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- David Eisner
- Size
- 3.7 MB
- Category
- Finance
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- onWard Plus $5.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 David Eisner