My PTO vs RotaCell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My PTO
This app helps you manage your paid time off by tracking accruals and usage. View your current balance and project future PTO availability.
- Track PTO accruals
- Log PTO usage
- View current PTO balance
- Project future PTO
- Simple interface
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Enough PTO for your next trip? Find out before you make plans. My PTO projects your paid-time-off balance using your accrual policy, work schedule, and planned days off. See what you'll have for a long weekend, a week away, or a little more time at home. One purchase. No subscription. No account to create. YOUR PTO, AT A GLANCE Keep your balance on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. The medium Home Screen widget also shows your next trip and its progress. Available in light and dark appearances. TURN DAYS OFF INTO LONGER BREAKS Choose how many shifts of PTO you'd like to spend. Find stretches around your regular days off and the holidays your workplace observes. Preview a suggestion, then book it in your plan or save it as a goal. PLAN BEFORE HOURS EXPIRE Set your benefit-year start, carryover limit, and expiration date. Your forecast accounts for those rules and shows when hours could be lost unless you use them. KEEP VACATION AND SICK TIME SEPARATE Track multiple leave balances with their own accrual policies, bookings, and goals, all using your shared work schedule. Switch balances to see the one you need. GIVE YOUR DAYS OFF SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO Name a trip and choose your dates. See whether your projected PTO covers it, what you'll have left, or how far short you'll be. When a later date works within the forecast, My PTO suggests it. SEE BEYOND TODAY'S BALANCE Look ahead on the calendar and see how earning and taking time off change your balance. Choose a whole stretch of days and preview its cost before saving. Days you don't work are skipped. MADE FOR YOUR WORKWEEK Eight-hour days, twelve-hour shifts, or different hours on different weekdays: set the schedule you actually work. Add your employer's holidays and choose who covers a closure. Adjust individual days when your plans change. YOUR POLICY, IN YOUR WORDS Enter your accrual policy in plain language, then check what My PTO understood. You can also enter the details yourself. Supports accrual per hour worked, per pay period, monthly grants, and yearly grants. Correct your balance from a paystub whenever you need to. PUT YOUR TRIP ON APPLE CALENDAR Add an all-day event from a saved goal. Choose the calendar and review the event before saving. This is a one-time export; later changes in My PTO don't update the Calendar event. YOUR TIME OFF IS YOUR BUSINESS No tracking, no ads, and no account to manage. Your data stays on your iPhone and in your own private iCloud backup. Export a backup file when you want a separate copy. My PTO is your personal planner. Forecasts depend on the policy and schedule you enter. Booking time off in the app does not submit a request to your employer.
RotaCell
This app helps manage complex work schedules with a visually appealing interface. It offers features like schedule scanning, overtime tracking, and pay calculation, with optional advanced tools for live updates and health integration.
- Schedule scanning from printed documents
- Multiple job support with double-booking warnings
- Overtime and pay tracking
- Live Activity for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
- Sharing schedules with others
- Customizable themes and languages
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RotaCell is the shift planner, shift calendar and work schedule tracker that doesn't feel like homework. Draw one round of your shifts, tap Repeat it, and the months fill in: 4 on / 4 off, DuPont, Continental, or a pattern you paint yourself. Overtime tracker, PTO tracker, hours tracker and pay tracker in one work schedule planner that handles two jobs. Day by Day suits cleaning jobs, caregiver shifts and gig work, with a pay tracker for each day; Simple mode keeps just your shifts. Share days off, see when to leave, and watch your shift count down on the Lock Screen. No account needed. Made for shift workers, caregivers, cleaners and anyone whose week isn't nine to five. Built for nurses and healthcare staff, factory and warehouse workers, retail and hospitality teams, drivers, emergency services, and anyone whose week doesn't fit nine to five. WORKS WITH YOUR REAL SCHEDULE • Ready-made patterns: 4 on/4 off, Continental, DuPont, 2-2-2, rotating Early/Late/Night, or a plain Monday to Friday • Scan a printed schedule with your camera: it is read on your device and nothing is uploaded • Import a calendar (.ics) and run more than one job in one calendar, with double-booking warnings • Swap a shift, add overtime or mark leave in two taps, and keep your past days when your schedule changes A MONTH YOU CAN READ AT A GLANCE • Today, this week and your whole rotation months ahead • Public holidays for 200+ countries built in • Reminders sit right next to your shifts YOUR SHIFT, LIVE (Plus) • A Live Activity paints the sky of your shift, from sun to stars, on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, on Apple Watch and in CarPlay KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE (Plus) • Time to Leave shows live traffic and a little road with a walker: drive, walk, cycle or transit, with Leave-By alerts A HELPER THAT HAS YOUR BACK • Spots a short rest or a double booking before it hurts • RotaRest (Plus) reads your Apple Health sleep and warns you about tired weeks before they bite SHARE WITH YOUR CIRCLE • Invite a partner, the other parent, a friend or a coworker with a link, a QR code or iCloud • See your schedule next to theirs, the days you are both off and who is free for the school pickup • A live partner link keeps their view up to date by itself (Plus). Invite-only: nobody can find you, and you can stop sharing any time KNOW WHAT YOU'VE EARNED • Hourly or salaried pay, night and weekend premiums, overtime multipliers, and a Break Room with what you have earned so far • Check your pay stub against your schedule, or scan a pay stub (Plus) • An approximate take-home pay after tax for 200+ countries (Plus) • Vacation, PTO, comp time and a mileage log (Plus) MAKE IT YOURS • Six looks: Paper, Slate, Graphite, Pop, Forest and Berry. Your widgets and Apple Watch follow your pick • iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with notifications in RotaCell's own style • English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Polski, 简体中文 and 繁體中文 YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No account, no ads, no tracking • Everything lives on your device; iCloud backup is optional (Plus) • Sharing links are encrypted: only the people you send them to can read them FREE TO USE: your schedule calendar and patterns, more than one job, reminders, widgets, pay, hours and overtime, scanning a printed schedule, double-booking and rest warnings, and sharing your schedule as a link or QR code. ROTACELL PLUS adds: Live Activity and Apple Watch, Time to Leave and Leave-By alerts, fatigue and sleep warnings, Circle's live partner link, take-home pay after tax, pay stub check, vacation, PTO and comp time, mileage, text and print your schedule, and iCloud backup and sync. New to Plus? Try Plus free for a week, then choose yearly or a one-time Forever unlock, priced right here in the App Store. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rotacell.com/privacy Support: https://rotacell.com/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RotaCell at 100% against My PTO's 40%. RotaCell also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and device support (3 vs 1). My PTO's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (34 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. RotaCell sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year. My PTO asks for nothing beyond the download.
RotaCell holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My PTO has 34 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of My PTO's written reviews are positive against 100% of RotaCell's.
My PTO ships an update every 9 days, RotaCell weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My PTO | RotaCell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Brown | Rodolfo Antonio Zorrilla Pena |
Customer experience
My PTO
RotaCell
In-app purchases
My PTO
No in-app purchases
RotaCell
- RotaCell (Yearly)7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- RotaCell (Forever)$29.99









