Relay Shortcut Trigger

Relay turns a spare iPhone or iPad into a hands-free Shortcuts trigger. Run any Shortcut on a repeating interval or at specific times of day, or fire it from another device on your Wi-Fi with a simple, token-protected local web request.

No subscription. No account. No cloud. Everything runs on your device and your local network.

WHY RELAY
Some automations only work when a device actively opens an app or runs a Shortcut — showing a camera dashboard every few minutes, rotating a status display, kicking off a sync, opening a kiosk app on a timer. iOS only allows an app to launch Shortcuts while it is in the foreground, so Relay is built to be exactly that: a reliable foreground scheduler you leave running on a dedicated device.

SCHEDULER
• Unlimited rules, each with its own Shortcut, interval (from 1 minute) or list of exact times
• Optional active window per rule (e.g. only 8:00–17:00), overnight windows supported
• Wall-clock scheduling: if a fire time passes while the schedule was paused, Relay catches up the moment it becomes active again
• Live countdown to the next trigger, per rule and overall

LOCAL NETWORK TRIGGER
• Built-in HTTP endpoint on your Wi-Fi: GET /run?shortcut=Name — from a laptop, home server, Raspberry Pi, or any browser
• Token-protected (query token or Bearer header), with one-tap token generation
• Bonjour advertising (_relay._tcp) so other devices find the phone even when its IP changes
• /health and /next endpoints for monitoring and scripting, plus a built-in status web page
• Foreground-only and LAN-only by design — nothing is ever exposed to the internet

KIOSK ESSENTIALS
• Keep-awake (never lets the screen sleep) while active
• Stall detection: if another app kept focus and the loop stopped, Relay shows a one-tap resume banner and can notify you
• Battery level and charging state on screen, with Guided Access guidance for true kiosk setups
• Live event log of every trigger, request, and state change

EXTRAS
• Home-screen widget with the next trigger and last run
• Live Activity countdown in the Dynamic Island while the schedule runs
• Diagnostics page: foreground state, listener state, address, recent triggers
• Step-by-step onboarding that builds your first automation loop with you

Relay is 100% free — every feature, forever. It runs the Shortcuts you created, and it never collects any data.