Comparison

Schedule Auto vs DoneAt

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

Head to head
About

Schedule Auto

Features
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Spent your Sunday building next month's roster? Never again. Schedule Auto builds a balanced Day/Evening/Night/Off schedule for your entire team in seconds. You set the rules, members submit their preferences, the app does the rest. Built for shift managers everywhere: nursing teams, factories, call centers, hotels, security, and any team running a 3-shift rotation. The real headache isn't the shifts — it's juggling night fairness, back-to-back coverage, requested days off, and individual preferences all at once. Without dropping coverage on a single day. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a room. Set year, month, team size, and weekday/weekend staffing. 2. Share the 4-digit code. Members join and enter their own shift preferences and off-day requests. 3. Tap Generate. A balanced roster appears in seconds, ready to export as Excel. Under a minute to set up. No account required. CORE FEATURES Roster Generation A full month of Day/Evening/Night/Off shifts, balanced for coverage and fairness. Regenerate anytime the rules change. Preference Collection Members submit their own preferences and off-day requests through the room. No chasing, no spreadsheet forwarding. Excel Export One tap to download. Send it to your team by email, chat, or print — wherever your team lives. PRO FEATURES Upgrade to Pro for deeper control: - Unlimited roster generations per room - Night shift cap per member - Shift separation rules (keep two members off the same shift) - Extra off-day allocation - Weekday/Weekend staffing split PRIVACY FIRST - No account, no login - No personal data beyond what a solve needs - Room data lives on your device and on our scheduling server only for the duration of a solve - No tracking, no ads, no third-party analytics Schedule Auto provides scheduling suggestions based on your inputs and your team's preferences. It is not a substitute for professional labor compliance review or legal guidance. Always review the final roster before publishing. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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DoneAt

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How many hours until your shift ends? How much have you made today? DoneAt answers both. Set your start and end times, and the countdown takes out your lunch break, so you see how much work is really left. The basic shift countdown is always free. On your wrist, too The Apple Watch app is free. Add a complication to your watch face and just raise your wrist to see how long until you're done. However you work • 9 to 5, alternating weeks, rotating shifts, night shifts past midnight: you can schedule them all. • Set your own lunch break. When lunch starts, the countdown pauses, and that time doesn't count toward your hours. • Came in early, leaving early, working overtime, or want to time a day you weren't scheduled? Just change that day, not your whole schedule. • Free roster: if your shifts are all over the place, plan each day yourself. The brush makes it quick: pick a shift, then tap or swipe across the calendar. Different summer and winter hours? Shifts can switch times by date automatically. • Want to see your pay? Turn on Money Earned Today, plus weekly and yearly earnings totals. Rather not? Leave it off. • Get reminders to start, stop, take lunch, or get up and move. • Plan time off: enter how much PTO and comp time you have left. DoneAt checks holidays and your shifts, finds the time off that works, and adds the one you pick in one tap. No need to open the app Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Live Activities and Dynamic Island on supported iPhone models. iPhone landscape and iPad get their own layouts. Share your countdown as an image or a link. Available in 19 languages, following your system language. Made for iPhone Duo Unfold it and every page splits into two columns, so you see more at once. Half-fold it and the countdown switches to a split-screen view. Free to use The shift countdown is always free. Browse your last 7 days of records, export or delete your data, and see your total overtime hours, all for free. Time-off planning gives you 3 free plan searches. Browse every plan a search finds, details included, as much as you like; a search that finds nothing doesn't count, and adding a plan to your calendar or undoing it costs nothing. DoneAt Plus includes: • Older records, the Year view, and editing past days. • Life view: add life milestones and the pay for each job, look back, and get a rough idea of your lifetime earnings before tax. • Focus: schedule tasks, focus and break blocks. The timer never eats into lunch or runs past the end of your shift. • iCloud sync. If your subscription ends, sync that's already on keeps working. • As many time-off plan searches as you like. • Shift alarms: wake up at the time you set before every shift. • Weekly, monthly and yearly reports that look back on how much you worked and how much you rested. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or get Lifetime with a single, affordable purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically, and you can cancel anytime. Your data, your call Your data stays on your device by default. Turn on iCloud sync and your records, pay and settings go to your own private Apple database. Notifications only show time and progress, never your pay, and shared images and links only include shift times. No sign-up, no ads. Follow us for the latest DoneAt news: X: @DoneAtApp Website: https://doneat.app/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://doneat.app/en/privacy

Screenshots

Schedule Auto3 screens
DoneAt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Schedule Auto at 13.0 against DoneAt's 26.0. 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. Schedule Auto sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and DoneAt sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Schedule Auto versus DoneAt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchedule AutoDoneAt
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJUHWAN PARK宇轩 郑

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Schedule Auto

Subscriptions1
  • Subscription — Full Access7 Days trial$4.991 Month
4 purchases

DoneAt

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Plus Lifetime$18.99
  • Plus Lifetime$24.99

Questions

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

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