Rootstep plans every move: across town or across the world, alone or with children, pets and a car. Tell it where from, where to and when, and it builds your plan, every step in order and dated from your moving day. Or describe it in one sentence, or look around a sample move first.
What Rootstep does
• Today starts with this week: the next step, what to start now and the week's progress. Mark steps done for each person, pet or vehicle.
• The plan covers leaving, the journey and settling in: visas, documents, work, money, health care, schools, pets, the car and your mail.
• Bring your list: paste any checklist and keep the lines you want as your own tasks.
• Official deadlines one card at a time: read the rule on the step's official page and set the date yourself.
• Appointments with time, place, reference and the documents not ready yet, on the Lock Screen on the day; for offices that release appointments at set times, “Looking for an appointment” reminds you at that moment.
• Reminders with a button that calls, emails or opens the page, a note each morning, a leave-by alarm, quiet hours and your dates in your calendar.
• Documents: expiry dates, copies, apostilles, translations, renewals, and scans locked with Face ID or Touch ID; a passport's or ID card's details read with the camera.
• Boxes: what is inside each one, suggested for its room or read from a photo, item values and QR labels; find anything by what is in it.
• Volume and “Will it fit?”: measure the sofa and the door and plan the van if you move it yourselves.
• The handover: rooms, meters and keys with dated photos and clips, and a report you sign together; then home setup.
• Budget in any currency at the European Central Bank's daily rates, movers' quotes compared, pay-by reminders and the old home's deposit until it is back.
• Your stay: residence days by calendar year and per person, and timelines toward a goal you read on the official page.
• Change of address: one email to everyone, a “We've moved” card, and stickers in Messages.
• The assistant answers from your plan (written answers need Apple Intelligence); the letter helper reads and translates letters; “Say it at the counter” speaks for you at an office.
• Plan together through iCloud: give each step to someone and comment on it; share the plan as a template or the move as a file.
• On iPad, lists and details side by side; widgets, Apple Watch, Control Center and Siri, which marks a step done by its name.
What Rootstep is not
A planning guide: not a government service, not connected to any authority, and not legal advice. For a step with a local rule, Rootstep lists the official page; you read the rule there and set the deadline yourself. Paste the sentence your deadline rests on, and Rootstep checks that page each week and tells you if the sentence is gone. The office concerned always has the last word.
Free, and one payment for the rest
Try everything free for 9 days, without payment details. After the trial your plan stays free to view and mark done, with your move's dates, official deadlines, the reminders already set, the plan as a PDF, the budget, contacts and the moving-day list.
The Move Pass is one payment, not a subscription. It unlocks editing the plan, your own tasks, planning together, calendar sync, the assistant, documents, boxes, the handover, printing, residence days and more moves, shared through Family Sharing.
Share the move with your family: included in the Move Pass, no subscription, no Rootstep account, nothing on our servers.
Private by design
No account, no ads, no analytics and no servers of ours: your plan stays on your devices and in your own iCloud, with document and contract numbers encrypted. Rootstep goes online only for iCloud, the official pages you ask it to read or it checks weekly, and the currency rates.
For everyone
In English, German and Japanese. Made for VoiceOver, Voice Control and every text size, in light and dark; color is never the only signal.
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