Shift: The Global Irish App
Community, Culture & Craic
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Shift is the interactive directory for all things Irish, where real people meet, connect, and stay in touch — online and in real life (IRL).
It's global and it's local - from a cosy pub to local bands, or a trad session to the GAA club down the road..
The ultimate Irish calendar - Discover Irish pubs, gigs, festivals, events, and everything in between.
Come for the craic, stay for the connection - meet & socialise the Irish way. For the craic. Or the Shift. Just find the Claddagh, and away ya go ;)).
A platform for Irish festivals, fleadhs, gigs, and much more - One home for Irish orgs, artists, musicians, and creators who want to share Irish arts and culture with the world.
A thousand welcomes for everyone - Like a public house we’re open to all - the Irish, and the Irish-ish. You may be born in the boglands of Mayo, or you’ve just had a taste for the Guinness. Come on in.
Céad míle fáilte, a chairde!
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https://gettheshift.app/terms
more The Irish community has needed something like this forever. Delighted to see it launched and excited to connect with the Irish worldwide.
The Irish community has needed something like this forever. Delighted to see it launched and excited to connect with the Irish worldwide.
Awesome app for everything Irish in America , loads of info about everything going on in the Irish communities across the country of America.
Awesome app for everything Irish in America , loads of info about everything going on in the Irish communities across the country of America.
Great app for learning more about the Irish community and connecting with Irish lads
Great app for learning more about the Irish community and connecting with Irish lads
What’s New
We’ve continued improving the core Shift experience to make it easier to discover what’s happening, create events, and connect with your community.
What’s Improved
• Creating events and places from shared links is now faster and more intuitive with smarter autofill and AI-powered suggestions
• Improved sub-event creation with easier editing, duplication, and multi-date setup flows
• Better deep-link and notification routing for a smoother experience when opening content from notifications and shared links
• Improved event imports with smarter, more context-aware event detection and categorization
• General UI polish, performance improvements, and bug fixes for a smoother experience
1.1.14 2d ago
What’s New
We’ve continued improving the core Shift experience to make it easier to discover what’s happening, create events, and connect with your community.
What’s Improved
• Improved how events are created from images with better AI extraction and cleaner results
• Smarter event titles with improved formatting and defaults
• Improved account stability and sign-in experience so you stay logged in without interruptions
• More reliable location experience with better handling of city selection and fallback behavior
• Fixed issues where sessions could persist incorrectly after logout or account deletion
• Smoother navigation across events and places, especially after updates
• Better visibility for unpublished content with clearer in-review indicators
• Made county selection optional during onboarding for a simpler, cleaner experience
• General UI polish and consistency improvements across the app
• Performance improvements and bug fixes for a smoother experience
1.1.13 May 4
What’s New
We’ve continued improving the core Shift experience to make it easier to discover what’s happening, create events, and connect with your community.
What’s Improved
• Improved how events are created from images with better AI extraction and cleaner results
• Improved account stability and sign-in experience so you stay logged in without interruptions
• More reliable location experience with better handling of city selection and fallback behavior
• Fixed issues where sessions could persist incorrectly after logout or account deletion
• Smoother navigation across events and places, especially after updates
• Better visibility for unpublished content with clearer in-review indicators
• Made county selection optional during onboarding for a simpler, cleaner experience
• General UI polish and consistency improvements across the app
• Performance improvements and bug fixes for a smoother experience
1.1.12 Apr 29
What’s New
We’ve continued improving the core Shift experience to make it easier to discover what’s happening, create events, and connect with your community.
What’s Improved
• Show off your craic - we’re now displaying IRL points and contributions on profiles
• Event naming has been standardized for a clearer, more consistent experience across the app
• You can now easily find and edit your in-review events and places - go give them a second look
• Event creation is smoother and easier to navigate with multiple form fixes - go on, give it a shot!
• Fixed issue where profile data wasn’t loading correctly on the Edit Profile screen
• General UI polish and consistency improvements across the app
• Performance improvements and bug fixes for a smoother experience
1.1.11 Apr 27
What’s New
We’ve continued improving the core Shift experience to make it easier to discover what’s happening, create events, and connect with your community.
What’s Improved
• Show off your craic - we’re now displaying IRL points and contributions on profiles
• Event naming has been standardized for a clearer, more consistent experience across the app
• You can now easily find and edit your in-review events and entities - go give them a second look
• Event creation is smoother and easier to navigate with multiple form fixes - go on, give it a shot!
• Fixed issue where profile data wasn’t loading correctly on the Edit Profile screen
• General UI polish and consistency improvements across the app
• Performance improvements and bug fixes for a smoother experience
1.1.10 Apr 20
What’s New
We’ve continued improving the core Shift experience to make it easier to discover what’s happening, create events, and connect with your community.
What’s Improved
• Show off your craic - we’re now displaying IRL points and contributions on profiles
• Fixed issue where profile data wasn’t loading correctly on the Edit Profile screen
• Event creation is smoother and easier to navigate - go on, give it a shot!
• General UI polish and consistency improvements across the app
• Performance improvements and bug fixes for a smoother experience
1.1.9 Apr 15
What’s New
We’ve continued improving the core Shift experience to make it easier to discover what’s happening, create events, and connect with your community.
What’s Improved
• Event creation is smoother and easier to navigate - go on, give it a shot!
• Improved search experience across the app
• Fixed issues with keyboard overlap and input glitches across key flows
• General UI polish and consistency improvements across the app
• Performance improvements and bug fixes for a smoother experience
1.1.8 Apr 11
So what’s new?
• Well, the good aul craic still deserves its own place. We’ve doubled down on the home experience to bring you more of what matters - the craic nearby, your personal feed, and your local pubs and people. The Irish, and the Irish-Ish, who love the craic, just like you.
• Creating events just got a whole lot easier. We’ve reworked the event creation flow to be more intuitive, streamlined, and actually enjoyable to use.
What’s Improved
• Chat reactions are now working smoothly.
• Resolved crashes during entity creation for a more stable experience.
• Continued improvements to chat UI consistency and overall feel.
1.1.7 Apr 1
So what’s new? Well, the good aul craic still deserves its own place. We’ve doubled down on the home experience to bring you more of what matters - the craic nearby, your personal feed, and your local pubs and people. The Irish, and the Irish-Ish, who love the craic, just like you.
What’s Improved
• Privacy improvements – we now show first name + last initial on social, and first name only on dating.
• Resolved crashes during entity creation for a more stable experience.
• Continued improvements to chat UI consistency and overall experience.
• General bug fixes and performance improvements for a smoother experience.
1.1.6 Mar 28
So what’s new? Well, the good aul craic still deserves its own place. We’ve doubled down on the home experience to bring you more of what matters - the craic nearby, your personal feed, and your local pubs and people. The Irish, and the Irish-Ish, who love the craic, just like you.
What’s Improved
• Privacy improvements – we now show first name + last initial on social, and first name only on dating.
• Check-ins are better than ever with smoother animations and clearer feedback when you check in at places and events.
• A refreshed navigation experience with improved tabs for calendar, chats, dating and more.
• Pub and event pages have been visually refined for a cleaner and easier browsing experience.
• Search and discovery inside IRL has been improved to help you find pubs, people, and events faster.
• Improved responsiveness across the app for a faster, smoother experience.
1.1.5 Mar 23
We're almost there lads! It’s St Paddy's Day and we’re going to need a couple pints after all the work we’ve been doing for you. And you deserve one too - find the best pints, and all the celebrations to be had this week.
So what's new? Well, the good aul craic deserves its own section. So we ditched our old home page to give you just that - the craic nearby, your latest personal feed, and your local pubs and the people. The Irish, and the Irish-Ish, who love the craic, just like you.
What’s Improved
• Check-ins are better than ever with smoother animations and clearer feedback when you check in at places and events.
• A refreshed navigation experience with improved tabs for calendar, chats, dating and more.
• Pub and event pages have been visually refined for a cleaner and easier browsing experience.
• Search and discovery inside IRL has been improved to help you find pubs, people, and events faster.
• General UI polish and consistency improvements across the app.
• Performance improvements and bug fixes for a smoother experience.
1.1.4 Mar 17
We're almost there lads! It’s St Paddy's Day and we’re going to need a couple pints after all the work we’ve been doing for you. And you deserve one too - find the best pints, and all the celebrations to be had this week.
So what's new? Well, the good aul craic deserves its own section. So we ditched our old home page to give you just that - the craic nearby, your latest personal feed, and your local pubs and the people. The Irish, and the Irish-Ish, who love the craic, just like you.
What’s Improved
• Check-ins are better than ever with smoother animations and clearer feedback when you check in at places and events.
• A refreshed navigation experience with improved tabs for calendar, chats, dating and more.
• Pub and event pages have been visually refined for a cleaner and easier browsing experience.
• Search and discovery inside IRL has been improved to help you find pubs, people, and events faster.
• General UI polish and consistency improvements across the app.
• Performance improvements and bug fixes for a smoother experience.
1.1.3 Mar 13
What’s New
• St. Patrick’s Day is coming up! Find the best parades, events, and celebrations happening around you.
• Say hello to IRL - our brand new section for discovering pubs, orgs, events and everything happening around you in real life. We’ve reimagined the directory to make it easier to find the craic wherever you are.
What’s Improved
• Image uploads are now much more reliable, try it yourself, reply to comments with images - show, don’t just tell.
• Adding events is now smoother and easier than ever, so share what’s happening near you!
• Faster performance throughout the app.
• General polish and bug fixes for a better experience
1.1.2 Mar 9
What’s New
• St. Patrick’s Day is coming up! Find the best parades, events, and celebrations happening around you.
• Say hello to IRL - our brand new section for discovering pubs, orgs, events and everything happening around you in real life. We’ve reimagined the directory to make it easier to find the craic wherever you are.
What’s Improved
• Image uploads are now much more reliable, try it yourself, reply to comments with images - show, don’t just tell.
• Adding events is now smoother and easier than ever, so share what’s happening near you!
• Faster performance throughout the app.
• General polish and bug fixes for a better experience
1.1.1 Mar 6
Got a big update coming your way everyone! We've reimagined the directory and merged pubs, orgs, events and everything else into a new IRL section (that's "in real life" y'know). And for those looking the Shift itself, there's an easier way to get there. Finally, what you think of our new app icon? We're playing with some new ideas and would love your take.
1.1.0 Feb 28
What’s New:
• It’s now easier to move around the app - just swipe between sections.
• Tap profile photos to view them full screen.
• Submitting events and places is now smoother. Try it yourself!
What’s Improved:
• Chats now show clear date breaks to make conversations easier to follow.
• More reliable check-ins.
• Improved typing experience across the app.
• Smoother photo browsing in Dating.
• General polish and stability improvements across the app.
1.0.19 Feb 24
What’s New:
• We have AI import for our directory! Apple Intelligence will do the work for you. Just enter your website, and the app does the rest.
• Shift Social is FREE, and for Valentine’s Week, Shift Dating is free for a month.
What’s Improved:
• You can now share events, places, and profiles seamlessly inside the app.
• More reliable check-ins - tap in when you’re at a place or event and let the community know you’re there.
• Onboarding improvements for a smoother start.
• Chat reliability improvements.
• General polish and stability improvements across the app.
1.0.18 Feb 15
What’s New:
• The Connections tab has been refreshed! Your people are now neatly sorted into Friends and Family.
• Contributors welcome! Build your cred by building the community. Submitters of Everything Irish get credit on the app.
What’s Improved:
• General polish and stability improvements across the app.
1.0.17 Feb 9
What’s New:
• The Connections tab has been refreshed! Your people are now neatly sorted into Friends and Family.
• Contributors welcome! Build your cred by building the community. Submitters of Everything Irish get credit on the app.
What’s Improved:
• General polish and stability improvements across the app.
1.0.16 Feb 1
What’s New:
• Our biggest update yet! In time for our Ireland launch! Yeeeeeooooooo!!!!
• We've improved the interfaces everywhere - lovely landing screens for all the tabs, to make things easier to navigate.
• Search is now here! You can search everything, from pubs to podcasts, rock bands to GAA clubs, events to people.
• You can now add events and anything Irish quickly and easily. So get to it!
• Language! Localized for American English and Real English.
What’s Improved:
• We’ve polished the UI across the app to make everything feel smoother, clearer, and easier to use.
• A bunch of pesky bugs have been squashed to keep things running stable.
1.0.15 Jan 28
What’s New:
• Our biggest update yet! In time for our Ireland launch! Yeeeeeooooooo!!!!
• We've improved the interfaces everywhere - lovely landing screens for all the tabs, to make things easier to navigate.
• Search is now here! You can search everything, from pubs to podcasts, rock bands to GAA clubs, events to people.
• You can now add events and anything Irish quickly and easily. So get to it!
• Language! Localized for American English and Real English.
What’s Improved:
• We’ve polished the UI across the app to make everything feel smoother, clearer, and easier to use.
• A bunch of pesky bugs have been squashed to keep things running stable.
1.0.14 Jan 27
What’s New:
• Our biggest update yet! In time for our Ireland launch! Yeeeeeooooooo!!!!
• We've improved the interfaces everywhere - lovely landing screens for all the tabs, to make things easier to navigate.
• Search is now here! You can search everything, from pubs to podcasts, rock bands to GAA clubs, events to people.
• You can now add events and anything Irish quickly and easily. So get to it!
• Language! Localized for American English and Real English.
What’s Improved:
• We’ve polished the UI across the app to make everything feel smoother, clearer, and easier to use.
• A bunch of pesky bugs have been squashed to keep things running stable.
1.0.12 Jan 23
What’s New:
• Our biggest update yet! In time for our Ireland launch! Yeeeeeooooooo!!!!
• We've improved the interfaces everywhere - lovely landing screens for all the tabs, to make things easier to navigate.
• Search is now here! You can search everything, from pubs to podcasts, rock bands to GAA clubs, events to people.
• You can now add events and anything Irish quickly and easily. So get to it!
• Language! Localized for American English and Real English.
What’s Improved:
• Wow, where to start... Everything?
1.0.11 Jan 22
What’s New:
• Our homescreen got a good servicing! We don’t want you to doom scroll like on social media, but we do want to bring you the latest craic, and invite you to join the conversation.
• We’ve introduced a few new emoji reactions. Some of us call them notions, but check them out for yourself. Nothing plastic about these ones, and they’ll hopefully give you a laugh.
• For those of you looking the Shift, Dating Mode just got a whole lot better. There’s more and more people joining the community, and that means perhaps you’ll get the Shift after all.
• We’re also now highlighting your contributions to the community, and a little more about those IRL points you can earn. Thanks for helping us grow Shift. There’s already way more of you than we expected.
What’s Improved:
• Culture section for browsing Everything Irish - we just did another big data import, and there’s more to come next week.
• Calendar is growing. Still got some work to do here, so the more events you submit the better it will be for everyone.
1.0.10 Jan 11
What’s New
We’ve improved this new home screen of ours, so if you haven’t seen it jump on in.
• The Daily Shift is here is where you can share your Irishness (or lack of, sort yourself out will you).
What’s Improved
• Fixed county selector bottom sheet appearing invisible on profile edit.
• Connection status banners (“Accepted your connection”) now dismiss correctly after opening.
• Distance is now hidden when viewing a non-current location.
1.0.9 Jan 7
What’s New
We’ve continued improving the core Shift experience to make it easier to discover what’s happening, create events, and connect with your community.
What’s Improved
• Creating events and places from shared links is now faster and more intuitive with smarter autofill and AI-powered suggestions
• Improved sub-event creation with easier editing, duplication, and multi-date setup flows
• Better deep-link and notification routing for a smoother experience when opening content from notifications and shared links
• Improved event imports with smarter, more context-aware event detection and categorization
• General UI polish, performance improvements, and bug fixes for a smoother experience
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