Comparison

CLWRota vs Placement Pilot

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CLWRota

Access your department's live schedule and manage your leave directly from your smartphone. View rota information by location or person, and easily contact colleagues. Book and bid for uncovered sessions, and communicate with administrators.

Highlights
  • Live rota access
  • Personal rota and leave diary
  • Book and manage leave
  • View rota by location or person
  • Contact colleagues via call link
  • Integrated rota mapping
  • Bid for uncovered sessions
  • Direct messaging with administrators
Features
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Use CLWRota for iPhone to connect to your anaesthetic department's live rota from anywhere. This secure app provides up to date views of your personal rota and leave diary, as well as allowing you to directly book and manage your leave on your smartphone. You can see rota information both by location or person, filtered to the groups of your choice, and see all of the department's on-call rotas. Getting in touch with your colleagues is easy - simply tap the 'Call' link displayed next to their name. Our newly integrated rota mapping service allows you to connect to other departments using Rotamap services, such as Medirota, within your trust - giving a live view of the other people working with you from those departments in those sessions. Uncovered sessions can be offered out by the rota coordinators, and you can request to work these sessions with the new 'Bids' feature. The built-in messaging service allows you to communicate directly with your department rota administrators. If you have difficulty registering for the service, please speak to your department's administration team for assistance. Contact us directly at support@rotamap.net if you want to talk to us about any suggestions or feedback, as the App Store does not allow us to respond to reviews. Please note that the server URL you need is in the format: example.clwrota.com/app

About

Placement Pilot

Features
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Placement Pilot simplifies the work of coordinating learner placements and preceptor schedules. Set up your program, define scheduling requirements, add preceptor availability, and let Placement Pilot build a schedule based on the information and rules you provide. Schedules can then be reviewed and adjusted before they are finalized. Placement Pilot helps coordinators: β€’ Create learner placement schedules automatically β€’ Match scheduling needs with preceptor availability β€’ Define work patterns, orientation periods, and scheduling requirements β€’ Manage learners, preceptors, and placements in one place β€’ Review and adjust schedules before finalizing them β€’ Reduce the repetitive work involved in building placement schedules manually Placement Pilot uses rule-based scheduling rather than artificial intelligence, giving coordinators a predictable way to create schedules while keeping control over the final result.

Screenshots

CLWRota4 screens
Placement Pilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

CLWRota and Placement Pilot are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
CLWRota versus Placement Pilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCLWRotaPlacement Pilot
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews7.4% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS14.014.0.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size14 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRotamap LtdGeoff Haring

Bugs and requests

CLWRota

Reported bugs

62 issues
  • App is still bugged
  • Not receiving messages
  • Notifications work sometimes, not others
  • Significant notification issue
  • Cannot log in
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  • "Stay logged in" option does not work
  • Only displays first two theatres
  • Does not keep info offline
  • Crashes frequently
  • Cannot handle rapid scrolling
  • Not reliable enough
  • Doesn't load rota
  • New design no longer displays info
  • Colour of rings on rota difficult to discern
  • Cannot go past the first page
  • Fails to get past start splash screen
  • Crashes on opening
  • Broken again, doesn't get past initial screen
  • Useless, has to log in every few minutes
  • Only displays first two theatres, doesn't load others until restarted
  • Does not keep info offline
  • Crashes frequently, cannot handle rapid scrolling
  • Not reliable enough, resorting to web app
  • Broken, doesn't load rota anymore
  • New design no longer displays info like theatre contact numbers
  • Colour of rings on rota difficult to discern
  • Completely broken, cannot go past the first page
  • Failed, no longer gets past start splash screen
  • Avoid update, can't get beyond opening screen
  • Crashes on opening "My Rota" tab
  • Broken Again, renders it useless, doesn't get past initial screen
  • Still crap
  • Please make latest version work, used to be fast and reliable
  • Used to be ok but not now, tells "not found"
  • Still doesn't recognise the server
  • Not able to open this in the iPhone 6 and 6 plus
  • Not updated for ages, basically unusable
  • Have CLW abandoned the app?
  • Freezes almost everytime, has to be removed and restarted
  • Useless, doesn't work at all with ios 8
  • Won't open at all on iPhone 6
  • App currently freezes, can't see notes on lists via app
  • Not working with the new iPhone 6, crashes every time
  • Stopped working with iPhone 6
  • NEEDS UPDATING! KEEPS CRASHING, can't get it to work with ios8
  • Does not work on any platform, just doesn't load, useless
  • Not compatible with up to date iOS updates
  • Out of date & doesn't work on iOS 8
  • Crashes on my iPhone 5 running iOS 8.1
  • Works, just not on iPhone 6, app won't open
  • Not working with iOS 8- frozen, will not load
  • Crashes when you try to open the app on the iPhone 6
  • Not compatible with iPhone 6, app won't even open
  • Still working on my iPad (iOS 8) but won't even open on my iPhone
  • Not working on iOS 8, was ok before but still not optimised for bigger screens
  • Won't open for 3 weeks now since getting the iPhone 6, goes black and self closes
  • Needs bug fix, was working fine before downloading IOS 8, but now it does not even open
  • Not working on my new iPhone6, crashing before opening
  • Keeps freezing and now crashing on iOS 8
  • Not working in IPhone 6. Does not work in iOS 8. Keeps crashing without opening.
  • App stuck in waiting mode, refused to work after a week
  • Useless, keeps saying data providing error despite login being correct

Requested features

18 requests
  • iCal support
  • Sync with personal calendars
  • Seamless integration with Google Calendar or iCal
  • Personal subscribable iCal
  • iOS β€œToday” widget
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  • Show more than one profile/login
  • Offline mode for key information
  • Push notifications for rota changes
  • Optimised for bigger screens
  • iPhone 5 compatibility
  • Update for current iOS versions
  • Fix for iPhone 6/6+ compatibility
  • Update for iOS 8 compatibility
  • Fix for iOS 7 compatibility
  • Fix for iOS 6 compatibility
  • Fix for iOS 8 compatibility
  • Fix for iOS 8.1 compatibility
  • Fix for current iOS updates

Placement Pilot

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CLWRota

No in-app purchases

None

Placement Pilot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CLWRota free?
CLWRota is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Placement Pilot free?
Placement Pilot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CLWRota or Placement Pilot have ads?
Neither CLWRota nor Placement Pilot shows ads.

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