Comparison

Simple Duty Roster vs On

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

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About

Simple Duty Roster

Features
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Simple Duty Roster is an app that lets anyone easily create and manage duty rosters. Whether at home, at work, or for group activities, you can manage duties and shifts simply with your smartphone. Main Features: ・Easily create duty rosters with simple steps ・Set up weekly or monthly repeats ・Quickly edit assigned members and dates ・Share your duty roster with others ・Perfect for replacing paper rosters No complicated settings or account registration required. This is a simple, user-friendly duty roster app that you can start using right away.

About

On

This app automates the creation of fair and efficient duty rosters for teams. It collects requests, generates schedules respecting various constraints, and manages swaps post-finalization. Supports multiple currencies and holiday detection for several countries.

Highlights
  • Collects team member requests
  • Automated schedule generation
  • Ensures fairness in assignments
  • Manages post-finalization swaps
  • Supports multiple currencies
  • Export schedules to PDF
  • Sends duty reminders
Features
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How many hours do you spend on the duty roster every month? Touchoku takes over the whole job — collecting requests, generating a fair schedule, and handling swaps after it's finalized. Built by a practicing physician, born from real hospital pain. WHO IT'S FOR - You're the one stuck making the on-call / duty roster for your department or ward - Requests arrive scattered across chat, paper, and hallway conversations - You want to end the "why do I always get weekends?" and "their pay is higher" complaints - Every swap after finalizing means rebuilding the table by hand KEY FEATURES Collect requests Create a room and share the PIN — that's it. Members enter preferred days, must-avoid days, and other work from their own phones. For people without an account, add them as proxy participants and enter on their behalf. Automatic scheduling Weekly and monthly limits, minimum spacing between duties, and no-pair rules ("these two can't share a slot") are all respected. Optional weekday day shifts, with automatic holiday detection for Japan, the US, China, and Spain. Fairness you can defend Not just balanced counts — the pay gap (max minus min) is optimized too. Set amounts per day type, in yen, dollars, euros, or yuan. Safe swaps after finalizing Simulate a swap first and see exactly how counts and pay change before applying it. Full history is kept. Share, export, remind Full-screen monthly summary, one-tap PDF export, and day-before / same-day duty notifications. THREE STEPS 1. Create a room and share the PIN 2. Everyone enters their requests 3. Generate, review, finalize BEYOND HOSPITALS Clinics, nursing homes, pharmacies, labs, shops — anywhere a team takes turns, Touchoku works. Available in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish. Core features are free. A web version lets you check the roster from any browser with the same account.

Screenshots

Simple Duty Roster4 screens
On4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Duty Roster at every 8 days against On's every 3 weeks. Simple Duty Roster also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Duty Roster ships an update every 8 days, On every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Simple Duty Roster versus On: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Duty RosterOn
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—71.4% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB25 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTatsumi OikawaRYOTA UEMATSU

In-app purchases

None

Simple Duty Roster

No in-app purchases

None

On

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Duty Roster free?
Simple Duty Roster is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is On free?
On is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Duty Roster or On have ads?
Neither Simple Duty Roster nor On shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Duty Roster or On?
Simple Duty Roster ships an update every 8 days, and On every 3 weeks. Most recently, Simple Duty Roster was updated on October 30, 2026 and On on November 2, 2026.

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