Comparison

RotaFlow vs Shiftkeep

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

Shiftkeep

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The shift planner that works out your real pay. Shiftkeep is a focused rota and pay tracker for shift workers — nurses, paramedics, first responders, police, offshore, hospitality, retail. Set your shift pattern once and see it for years ahead, then let Shiftkeep work out what each pay period will actually pay you — overtime, night and weekend rates, unpaid breaks, and your tax — so you can check it against your payslip and know you were paid correctly. WHY SHIFTKEEP We read thousands of reviews of the popular shift apps. Two things people beg for that no app does well: an app that gets their real take-home pay right, and one that never loses their data or forces them onto a subscription. Shiftkeep is built to do exactly that. • Your rota is safe — forever. Every shift is saved the instant you tap it, backed up to your own private iCloud, and never wiped by an update. We have seen the reviews: "it deleted years of my data." Never with Shiftkeep. • Your real take-home pay — not just gross. Set your base rate, overtime and night/weekend multipliers, unpaid breaks and tax %, and Shiftkeep shows what each pay period should actually pay. Check it against your payslip in seconds. • A one-time purchase — no subscription trap. Unlock Pro once and it is yours. No "Ā£30 a year for a calendar," no forced sign-in, no locking you out of your own data. • No ads. No trackers. Your rota and your pay stay on your device and your own iCloud. BUILT FOR REAL SHIFT WORK Most shift apps stop at a colour on a calendar. Shiftkeep does the job the calendar can't: • A set-once rotation engine — any cycle length, including long offshore and emergency-service patterns, projected years ahead. • A real pay engine — base rate, overtime and penalty multipliers, unpaid breaks, arbitrary contracted hours (not locked to 40/80), tax and deductions, and weekly / fortnightly / monthly pay periods. • Payslip check — a clean per-period breakdown (gross to penalties to breaks to tax to net) you hold against your real payslip. Export as PDF or CSV. • Reliable shift reminders that actually fire, a widget that survives iOS updates, and a proper dark mode for night shifts. SHIFTKEEP PRO Free forever: the full rotation calendar, unlimited shift types, reliable reminders, and month view. Pro (one-time / lifetime unlock) adds the pay engine — penalty rates, tax and take-home, payday periods, the payslip-check summary, earnings reports, PDF/CSV export, multi-job, and widgets. WHAT SHIFTKEEP IS NOT Not a staff-scheduling tool for managers. Not a payroll or tax-filing product — the pay figures are your own informational estimate to check against your payslip, not payroll or financial advice. Not an account-based or cloud-login app. IMPORTANT Shiftkeep's pay figures are an informational estimate based on the rates you enter, to help you check your own payslip. They are not payroll, tax, or financial advice. Privacy Policy: https://imzapp.com/privacy.html Questions? info@imzapp.com — a real human, within 48 hours.

Screenshots

RotaFlow4 screens
Shiftkeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: RotaFlow at 3 against Shiftkeep's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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 Shiftkeep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
RotaFlow versus Shiftkeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRotaFlowShiftkeep
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFikret Gogicimzapp

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
1 purchases

Shiftkeep

One-time1
  • Shiftkeep Pro — Lifetime$12.99

Questions

Is RotaFlow free?
RotaFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shiftkeep free?
Shiftkeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do RotaFlow or Shiftkeep have ads?
Neither RotaFlow nor Shiftkeep shows ads.

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