A Massachusetts nonprofit since 2006
Every trip counts.
Now it adds up.
Walk it, bike it, take the bus. Shift counts the trip for you, and it adds up — money saved, a streak worth keeping, and perks from businesses down the street.
Free · iOS and Android · Built in Somerville, MA · What Shift does →
- Active trips this month
- 4,700+
- Saved by commuters
- $60,408
- Metric tons of CO₂ avoided
- 32.4
Live from the Shift app, as of September 2026.
The better trip, made easy.
Shift shows you what’s moving near you right now, counts the trip without you touching anything, and turns it into money saved and perks worth having.
See what’s moving near you
The next train, the nearest bus, how many Bluebikes are at the dock, and whether you’ll make it.
Nothing to log
Shift records the trip on its own and only asks you when it can’t tell walking from the bus.
Every trip is worth something
Money back in your pocket, a streak worth keeping, and perks from businesses down the street.
Which one are you?
Walkers, bikers, and riders get the app. Employers, schools, towns, and local businesses get a program. Sponsors and donors keep it all going.
- For employersRun a workplace challenge with real participation data.
- For schoolsBring walking and biking programs to your district, K–12 through campus.
- For towns and plannersSee how your community moves, neighborhood by neighborhood.
- For local businessesOffer a perk to the people already walking past your door.
- For partners and sponsorsBack a flagship event or a season of Walk/Ride Days.
- For donorsFund the app, the data, and the next twenty years. Tax-deductible.
Green Streets Initiative
We help people shift trips to healthier, more affordable, more fun ways of getting around — and we measure the impact, trip by trip, community by community.
We started in 2006 with a monthly Walk/Ride Day in Cambridge. Twenty years on, the same idea runs through everything we do: make the better trip the easy one, then show people what it added up to.
Start with one trip.
Pick one trip this week — the school run, the coffee, the commute — and take it on foot, on two wheels, or on the bus.