CLWRota vs Placement Pilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
CLWRota
Access your department's schedule, manage leave, and process claims on the go. Receive notifications for rota changes and offers for additional work. Integrates with personal calendars for easy sharing.
- View department rota
- Manage leave requests
- Process extra claims
- Respond to work offers
- Create exception reports
- Calendar subscription integration
- Direct messaging with coordinators
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CLWRota allows you to view your department's rota, manage your leave, process extra claims, respond to offers for additional work, create exception reports and more - all from within a convenient app that can be accessed while on the go. The app provides an always-up-to-date view of both your own roster and leave, as well giving you easy access to view colleagueβs rosters and how best to contact them if needed. Other built-in messaging allows you to message rota coordinators directly from within the app, or to receive notifications about changes to your rota, updates on leave, or offers for additional work. An easy-to-use calendar subscription feature also allows you to directly import events from CLWRota onto a personal calendar, or to share with friends, family or colleagues via a simple link. A variety of departmental or organisational processes can be handled from within the app, including managing extra claims for additional work delivered on your rota - from initial assignment through to payment. For resident doctors, you can also create new Exception reports, as well as displaying any reports that you have already created. CLWRota is used across the NHS and beyond as a trusted single source of truth for roster and leave management, and is the only app designed specifically with the needs of anaesthetists in mind. If you have any further queries, would like to provide feedback, or require any additional help then please call us on +44 (0)20 7631 1555 or email us at support@rotamap.net.
Placement Pilot
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Placement Pilot at 14.0.0 against CLWRota's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | CLWRota | Placement Pilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 6.7% of reviews | β |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | β |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rotamap Ltd | Geoff 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 βTodayβ 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
CLWRota
No in-app purchases
Placement Pilot
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is CLWRota free?
Is Placement Pilot free?
Do CLWRota or Placement Pilot have ads?
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