Comparison

RotaFlow vs Workplit

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

Head to head
About

RotaFlow

Features
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Build your rotating shift schedule once. RotaFlow keeps everything else clear. Designed for healthcare workers, emergency responders, manufacturing teams, and anyone living the Day/Night/Off cycle, RotaFlow is a calm, private shift planner for iPhone, Apple Watch, widgets, and Siri. FATIGUE GUARD RotaFlow checks your upcoming schedule for fatigue risk using your real sleep trends, recovery signals, and shift load. Everything runs privately on your device. • See a quiet fatigue status on your Dashboard. • Review risk severity, score, affected days, and plain-language explanations. • Get fatigue alerts only when a meaningful risk begins or escalates. • Start a shift swap from a flagged day and receive smarter alternatives. PLAN YOUR ROTATION • Build repeating Day/Night/Off schedules from presets such as 4-on/4-off, Pitman, Panama, DuPont, and DDNNOO. • Create multiple personal schedules and switch between them easily. • View your rota in a clear calendar and upcoming shift list. • Add shift swaps, holidays, sick days, vacation, training, on-call days, and other special days. • Plan further ahead with flexible Pro planning ranges. SLEEP INSIGHTS • Connect Apple Health sleep data with read-only access. • Compare sleep and recovery with your upcoming shifts. • Spot recovery gaps after night runs and consecutive work blocks. • Pro adds advanced sleep comparisons and deficit warnings. WORK HOURS & PAY • Add Day and Night working times and unpaid breaks. • Automatically calculate paid time, scheduled hours, and estimated gross pay. • Set currency, hourly rates, pay cycles, premiums, weekend and holiday multipliers, and overtime rules. • Support overnight shifts naturally when an earlier end time continues into the next day. PTO, OVERTIME & INSIGHTS • Track PTO allowance, carryover, and planned leave. • Use PTO Planner recommendations to create longer breaks. • Record overtime, hours, rates, and notes. • Review weekly totals, pay forecasts, availability, schedule metrics, and Year Review summaries. SMART TOOLS • Get AI-ranked Smart Swap Suggestions based on sleep, shift continuity, and special days. • Use Siri and Shortcuts to check your next shift, next day off, or mark time away. • Add schedules to Apple Calendar, share rota files, or import supported .ics calendars. • Use Trade Board to post shift trades, counter-offers, and confirmations. WIDGETS, WATCH & PRIVACY • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your next shift at a glance. • Apple Watch app and complications keep your schedule close. • Local-first design keeps schedules and sleep data on your device. • Optional iCloud sync is off by default. FREE VS PRO Free includes rota setup, Dashboard, 7-day sharing, reminders, Fatigue Guard, and core Siri features. Pro adds advanced sleep analytics, extended planning, richer widgets and complications, 15-minute reminder precision, pay forecasts, advanced pay rules, month/year overtime summaries, PTO tools, Trade Board features, and more. RotaFlow Pro is available monthly, yearly, or for a lifetime purchase. Manage or cancel anytime in Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Workplit

Features
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Workplit — Make every hour count. Workplit is a time-tracking app built for freelancers. Track your hours, manage clients and projects, set custom rates and generate clean PDF or Excel reports — all from your iPhone or iPad. EVERYTHING IN ONE APP • Smart timer — start, pause and stop with a single tap. Runs in the background, survives app restarts. Never lose a second. • Desktop access — connect your computer's browser to your iPhone or iPad over local Wi-Fi and work with Workplit on a big screen, with keyboard and mouse. Your data stays on your device; nothing goes to the cloud. • Clients, projects & rates — organise your work by client and project. Each client can have a full rate history with date ranges, so reports always pick the right one automatically. • Tasks per project — urgency, due dates, status (pending / in progress / done), who requested it and how. Track hours per task. • Reports, PDF & Excel — view hours by day, week, month or year. Group by client or project. Export clean PDF or Excel reports — always free. • Period lock — close a month with a single tap so past entries can't be touched by accident. Your invoicing stays consistent. • Backup & restore — manual or automatic backups, with configurable frequency (daily, or specific weekdays) and retention (latest only, 1 week, 2 weeks or 1 month). Restore from a list showing each backup's date and size, or from an external .zip. • Home Screen widget — see today's hours and your running timer straight from the home screen. • Six languages — fully translated to English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and German. 100% PRIVATE All your data stays on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no servers, no tracking. We don't have your data because we don't want it. GDPR-compliant export included on every plan. FREE & PRO Free includes every feature — 2 clients, 2 projects, 10 tasks and 100 time entries per month. Perfect for trying the app with a real client. Pro removes the limits: unlimited clients, projects, tasks and entries, plus custom branding on PDFs (your logo and tax details). • €4.99 / month • €39.99 / year (save 33%) Going Pro just removes the limits. Same app, same features. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your account settings. MADE FOR FREELANCERS Built by a freelancer, for freelancers. No fluff, no nags, no SDKs chasing you. Just clean, fast time tracking that respects your time and your data. — Privacy policy: https://workplit.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Legal notice: https://workplit.app/legal.html Contact: hello@workplit.app

Screenshots

RotaFlow4 screens
Workplit3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Workplit at every 3 days against RotaFlow's every 11 days. Workplit also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. RotaFlow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Workplit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RotaFlow ships an update every 11 days, Workplit every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
RotaFlow versus Workplit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRotaFlowWorkplit
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFikret GogicJOSE MANUEL RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ

In-app purchases

3 purchases

RotaFlow

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$2.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$29.99
2 purchases

Workplit

Subscriptions2
  • Workplit Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Workplit Pro Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is RotaFlow free?
RotaFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Workplit free?
Workplit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do RotaFlow or Workplit have ads?
Neither RotaFlow nor Workplit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RotaFlow or Workplit?
RotaFlow ships an update every 11 days, and Workplit every 3 days. Most recently, RotaFlow was updated on September 19, 2026 and Workplit on July 5, 2026.

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