# Rootstep: Move Planner — Move abroad or across town

> Move abroad or across town (iPhone/iPad app by Alexander Bernikov.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rootstep-move-planner/id6823714213 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alexander Bernikov](https://appshunter.io/developer/6823714215)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 46 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany), Japanese
- Released: 2026-10-19
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Rootstep?

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.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Move Pass | $19.99 | one-time |


## Is Rootstep safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Rootstep.

## Is Rootstep legit?

Rootstep: Move Planner has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Rootstep is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4 — 2026-11-05

Rootstep 1.4 speaks German and Japanese, starts your plan from one sentence and reads a passport with the camera.

• German and Japanese: the whole app, its steps, the widgets, Apple Watch and Siri, in your device's language.
• Describe your move in one sentence, such as “Austin to Berlin in March with two kids and a dog”, and the questions fill themselves; check and change what you like.
• Look around a sample move before you make your own.
• Scan the printed lines of a passport or ID card to fill in its number and expiry date. No picture is kept and nothing leaves your device.
• Bring your list: paste any checklist and keep the lines you want as your own tasks.
• Looking for an appointment: when an office releases appointments at times you know, note them, take turns and get a reminder at that moment.
• On the day, an appointment comes to the Lock Screen three hours before you leave, with its reference and what is not ready yet.
• A reminder's first button does the step: call, email, open the page or get directions.
• Add a task from Control Center, and ask Siri for your next step or to mark one done by its name.
• Deposit back: note the old home's deposit and the day it is due back.
• Boxes suggest what goes in for their room, and large items you sell or give away leave the van's count.
• Plan together from the start: invite the other adults from the ready page.
• New steps for settling in: a language course and parents' groups.
• Many screens clearer on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

### 1.3 — 2026-10-31

Rootstep 1.3 plans the appointments, the handover and your stay after arrival.

• This week: a new plan opens on the next seven days, and Today shows the week's progress and who marked what done.
• Official deadlines one card at a time, with the official page beside the card on iPad.
• Appointments in one list, each with its time, place and reference and the documents not ready yet; paste a confirmation to add one.
• Waiting for a reply: note the week you expect an answer and hear from Rootstep that Monday. Checklists inside any step.
• Volume and “Will it fit?”: box sizes, the large items and the doors, measured with the camera if you like; the van and its trips when you move it yourselves.
• The handover: rooms, meters and keys with dated photos and clips, and a report you sign together. Home setup for electricity, internet and the rest.
• Item values, room by room, to share or print.
• Your stay: renewals, residence days by calendar year and for each person, and timelines toward a goal you read on the official page.
• A note each morning, if you switch it on, with Mark done for the first step.
• Planning dates that pile up spread over the coming weeks in one tap; after arrival, Close the move tidies what is left.
• Rootstep in Messages: send your “We've moved” card or one of five stickers.
• Save a whole move as a file, and open one as a new move.
• Two columns on iPad, and many refinements for VoiceOver and the largest text sizes.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-10-27

Rootstep 1.2.1 makes the plan quicker to start and easier to keep.

• Free after the trial: change your move's dates and set an official step's deadline without the Move Pass.
• Make my plan now: start from the first answers; the questions left wait on Today.
• The Plan opens on the next eight weeks, blocked steps fold into one row, and Today says in words which official deadlines need attention.
• How many boxes? A planning range for each room, blank numbered labels to print ahead, and a new status, In storage.
• Box contents from a photo, read on this device: you check the names to keep.
• Appointments: a leave-by alarm that rings like the clock's alarm, even in silent mode.
• Say it at the counter: sentences for an office, translated on this device, shown large and read aloud.
• The travel days on the Lock Screen, a residence days widget, and Control Center buttons for the next step and the moving day.
• Siri: what's next with Mark done, residence days, expiring documents and adding an expense.
• Apple Watch: your carry-on before departure, Find a box, and residence days on the watch face.
• Family: show a code to join. A weekly summary on Sundays, if you switch it on.
• On iPad, steps, documents, boxes and contacts open in two columns, with keys to edit, print and add a document.
• Help and feedback in Settings, and a page on how Rootstep works.

### 1.2 — 2026-10-25

Rootstep 1.2 tells everyone your new address.

• Change of address, in Contacts: your list of who needs the new address, with the banks, insurers and offices most people have to tell, and people picked from your Contacts, several at once.
• Send to everyone on the list: one email to everyone with an email, each address hidden from the others, with a “We've moved” card and a contact file; a message written for each person with a number alone; banks and offices left to their own forms. Once sent, they move to Sent.
• The “We've moved” card shows your route, the date and your names, and your address only if you switch it on.
• Assistive Access: Rootstep opens on one screen with your next step, Mark done and Undo.
• A step for one person marked done from a widget, the Apple Watch, Siri or a reminder is now marked for that person.
• Apple Watch: the moving day's list with Done, the days since arrival and your residence days, and Double Tap for the next step.
• Settings › Move Pass › Redeem a code.
• A reminder that went off stays on the Reminders list until you mark it done, the budget says where each rate comes from, and smaller fixes.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-23

Rootstep 1.1.1 makes better use of the iPad.

• Budget, Reminders and Settings show two columns side by side on a wide screen.
• The Tools sections open from the sidebar again, and a section chosen while the sidebar is tucked away opens over Today.
• No scroll bar at the edge of the screen, and the iPad mini keeps one pane in portrait.
• Plan, Documents, Boxes and Contacts show an item in their second pane as soon as they open.
• Checked again with VoiceOver, the largest text sizes and Increase Contrast on iPhone and iPad.

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