# Rota - Shift Planner — Private, offline shift planner

> Private, offline shift planner (iPhone/iPad app by 礼源 杨.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rota-shift-planner/id6784875331 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [礼源 杨](https://appshunter.io/developer/6784479183)
- Category: Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 34 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2026-08-18
- Data updated: 2026-10-09
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rota-shift-planner/id6784875331/reviews.md

## What is Rota?

Rota is a private, offline-first shift scheduling app for people who work shifts. Keep your roster on your own device, whether you work in healthcare, hospitality, security, manufacturing, or another rotating schedule.

IMPORT AND VIEW YOUR ROSTER
• Import PDF, Excel, CSV, PNG, JPEG, and WebP roster files with a guided mapping flow. Text PDFs are read on device; scanned PDFs and images can use on-device OCR.
• See colour-coded shifts in month, week, list, and roster-overview views.
• Set your own shift names, colours, and times, then focus the calendar on your own shifts or view the whole team.
• Add optional pre-shift reminders and sync shifts to a calendar you choose.
• Add Home Screen widgets for Today & Tomorrow, This Week, Two Weeks, Weekly Timeline, or List, with optional event details.

FREE MANUAL SCHEDULING
• Create any number of blank rosters and edit assignments day by day.
• Maintain separate member libraries, reuse members across rosters, and choose when changes are synchronized.
• Keep every roster, member, and shift editable on your device.

SHIFT ALARMS
• On iOS 26 and later, create system alarms from a roster and shift that can alert through Silent Mode and Focus.
• Follow the shift start or end time, then choose a before, on-time, or after offset and an optional snooze duration.
• The first persistent alarm rule is free; the one-minute test alarm uses no slot.

HANDLE REAL-WORLD CHANGES
• Record covers, same-day or cross-day swaps, repayments, and overtime locally.
• Keep a local swap history and compare suggested swaps.
• Review your shift mix and hours trend.

ROTA PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE
Rota Pro permanently unlocks rotation scheduling, rule-based generation, auto-extension to a chosen date, roster merge and comparison tools, PDF/Excel/CSV export, and unlimited persistent shift-alarm rules. Every generated roster remains editable.

PRIVACY
No account is required. Rota has no business backend and no ads. Rota does not upload or collect rosters, names, imported files, settings, alarm rules, or local .rota backups. User-directed exports go only to the selected destination, and calendar events follow the provider of the system calendar you select. The core app works offline; the optional one-time Rota Pro purchase needs a network connection to process and restore your purchase.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rota Pro | $2.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-04

• Widgets: new two-week, weekly timeline and list styles, with a compact two-week layout.
• Events: dots and counts by default; enable details for titles and times. Separate time points and durations reduce crowding.
• Shift display: full names and equal-width date columns.
• Theme: a new light pink palette.
• Shift settings: popup editors, clear shared/custom conversion and access to the global shift library.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-20

Fixed a modal conflict when opening the time picker from the event editor.

New: events and multi-day shifts

• Create all-day, timed, ranged, or shift-linked events. Complete each occurrence separately and choose notification or alarm reminders.
• Let shifts and event ranges end on a later day. Hours, calendar sync, reminders, alarms, and widgets now use the same explicit end date.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-20

New: events and multi-day shifts

• Create all-day, timed, ranged, or shift-linked events. Complete each occurrence separately and choose notification or alarm reminders.
• Let shifts and event ranges end on a later day. Hours, calendar sync, reminders, alarms, and widgets now use the same explicit end date.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-27

Added document scanning with the camera and direct selection from Photos for paper or image rosters.

• Improved scanned-roster recognition and review with skew and quality warnings, table and cell correction, color review markers, duplicate-name merging, and preservation of spaces in names.
• Added shift review to rename, merge, or exclude detected shifts, and fixed rest days being imported as shifts.
• Improved member libraries with fast batch creation from either the roster or library, automatic default-library creation, and reuse of existing names while preserving sync links.
• New installs no longer include sample rosters, and cold launch reduces empty-state flashes.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-19

No release notes.

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