ShifRoll vs Rota

ShifRoll is a shift work calendar with alarms built in. Put your roster on the calendar once, and the right alarms ring on the right days. Made for nurses, security officers, hospitality and retail staff, drivers, and anyone whose week isn't nine to five. Not on shifts? It works for every day too: wake-up alarms that stay quiet when you mark a day off, the rent memo on the 1st of every month, and your family's calendar beside yours. YOUR ROSTER, ON A CALENDAR • Make your shift types once, such as Day, Night and On-call, with their times, codes and alarms. Making a group asks for them all at once, and one tap fills in a common set of shifts. • Tap a day and pick a shift. Rotations such as 4 on, 4 off, and weekly or monthly routines fill whole months for you. • Import the whole month from an Excel, CSV or PDF roster, or a photo (Premium), and check it before anything is added. • Three calendar sizes: the full month with each day's shifts by name, the month with the day's list, or one week. • Mark a Holiday and that day's routines are skipped. Holidays from your phone's calendar can do the same: turn on Treat as holidays, and Calendar holidays skip routines. ALARMS THAT WAKE YOU • Each shift brings its own alarms: before it starts, as it starts, or when it ends. • Alarm sets, like the Clock app: a first alarm and a few more, repeating on the days you choose or ringing once. One switch for the whole set. • Full screen and full volume, through your phone's own alarm system. ◆ On iOS 26 and later it rings on silent and in Focus, with nothing to set up. SEE IT AT A GLANCE • A Home you arrange: next alarm, today, tomorrow, weather and your memo. • Widgets for your Home Screen. ◆ And for your Lock Screen. • Memos and checklists on any day, repeating weekly or monthly if you like. PAY, WORKED OUT FOR YOU • Hourly rates, unpaid breaks, shift bonuses and a monthly pay, counted from the shifts you already keep. FRIENDS AND FAMILY • Add a friend by code, choose what to share, and see each other's calendars side by side: coworkers, a partner, your family. PREMIUM • Sync across your devices, and choose which one rings • Import your roster from a file or a photo • Up to 10 alarms in each alarm set • Voice input (Beta) after the first ten tries • Mix your own colours In English, 繁體中文 and 简体中文. No alarm app is perfectly reliable. Test ShifRoll for a day or two before relying on it for a shift you can't miss. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://shifroll.com/privacy

Rota is a private, offline-first shift scheduling app for people who work shifts. Keep your roster on your own device, whether you work in healthcare, hospitality, security, manufacturing, or another rotating schedule. IMPORT AND VIEW YOUR ROSTER • Import PDF, Excel, CSV, PNG, JPEG, and WebP roster files with a guided mapping flow. Text PDFs are read on device; scanned PDFs and images can use on-device OCR. • See colour-coded shifts in month, week, list, and roster-overview views. • Set your own shift names, colours, and times, then focus the calendar on your own shifts or view the whole team. • Add optional pre-shift reminders and sync shifts to a calendar you choose. • Add Home Screen widgets for Today & Tomorrow, This Week, Two Weeks, Weekly Timeline, or List, with optional event details. FREE MANUAL SCHEDULING • Create any number of blank rosters and edit assignments day by day. • Maintain separate member libraries, reuse members across rosters, and choose when changes are synchronized. • Keep every roster, member, and shift editable on your device. SHIFT ALARMS • On iOS 26 and later, create system alarms from a roster and shift that can alert through Silent Mode and Focus. • Follow the shift start or end time, then choose a before, on-time, or after offset and an optional snooze duration. • The first persistent alarm rule is free; the one-minute test alarm uses no slot. HANDLE REAL-WORLD CHANGES • Record covers, same-day or cross-day swaps, repayments, and overtime locally. • Keep a local swap history and compare suggested swaps. • Review your shift mix and hours trend. ROTA PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE Rota Pro permanently unlocks rotation scheduling, rule-based generation, auto-extension to a chosen date, roster merge and comparison tools, PDF/Excel/CSV export, and unlimited persistent shift-alarm rules. Every generated roster remains editable. PRIVACY No account is required. Rota has no business backend and no ads. Rota does not upload or collect rosters, names, imported files, settings, alarm rules, or local .rota backups. User-directed exports go only to the selected destination, and calendar events follow the provider of the system calendar you select. The core app works offline; the optional one-time Rota Pro purchase needs a network connection to process and restore your purchase.