Rota vs 排班时光
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rota
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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. SWAPS AND COVERS • Swap: pick a colleague and a date, then review before and after. Overlapping times are flagged, and a swap that would give someone the same shift twice in one day is blocked. • Cover: choose "Someone covers me" or "I cover a colleague", and Rota records who owes whom one shift. • Undo a swap or cover within 6 seconds of confirming. • Swap history shows swaps and covers separately; settle owed shifts from the Owed page, and log overtime. • 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.
排班时光
This app helps shift workers and those with irregular schedules manage their workdays. It allows for quick recording of shifts, setting up recurring schedules, and provides reminders. Users can also track work hours, view statistics, and manage countdowns and to-do lists.
- Shift and schedule recording
- Recurring schedule planning
- Shift reminders and notifications
- Desktop widgets
- Work hour statistics
- Excel export
- Countdown and to-do lists
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排班时光是一款为轮班、倒班和不规律作息人群设计的个人排班工具,帮助你把每天上什么班、几点上下班、哪天休息整理得更清楚。 【排班日历】 在日历中快速记录班次和备注,支持一天两个班次、多班表切换,并结合节日、节气和法定休假信息查看每月安排。 【班次与周期计划】 创建常用班次,设置上下班时间;通过周期计划预览并批量生成排班,减少重复录入。 【提醒与桌面小组件】 按平台使用系统日历、系统通知或系统提醒能力,在班次开始前提醒;桌面小组件可展示今日班次、月历、双周日历、倒数日和待办摘要。 【统计与导出】 按月查看排班天数、班次分布、工时和排班明细。登录且会员有效时,可生成并分享 Excel 文件。 【倒数日与待办】 记录生日、纪念日、考试等倒数事项,也可以维护日常待办,让排班和生活安排集中查看。 【本机使用与云同步】 不登录也能使用核心排班功能,游客数据默认保存在当前设备。登录后可同步班表、排班、班次、周期计划、倒数日和待办;同步冲突会保留待处理记录,不会把未确认的数据静默覆盖。 排班时光不提供公开社交、广告、金融或医疗服务。系统提醒的通知样式、铃声和后台行为以设备系统设置为准。
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Verdict
Rota and 排班时光 are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Rota sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and 排班时光 sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Rota | 排班时光 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 礼源 杨 | Hangzhou Jiuzhang Era Technology Co., Ltd |
In-app purchases
Rota
- Rota Pro$2.99
排班时光
- 月会员-1$0.99
- 年会员-1$4.99
- 终身会员-1$9.99









