Rota vs CrossShift

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.

Room for life, even when shifts change. Rosters, alarms and work records for rotating shifts and irregular routines. SCHEDULES & ALARMS Set shift hours and alarms. Cycles, dated changes, multiple daily shifts, batch edits and regional holiday/make-up days. Customize rest-day names/icons/colors; default: no alarm, work hours or leave deduction. Name alarms; choose personal or one team calendar for alarms, independently of the calendar viewed. WEATHER REMINDERS Home shows weather, shift and alarm. Tap to edit; confirm each change. With consent, ongoing cloud reminders use the last synced area, roster and alarms, including cycles/holidays. Sync changes; forecasts/alerts depend on network, system and permissions. VOICE & TIMING Optional on-device speech reads shifts/available forecasts: Chinese voices, three speeds, preview; off by default. Move automatic alarms 1–180 minutes by weekday/date. Dates take priority; one-time manual edits stay. Guided setup: skip, resume, saved drafts. BUSINESS TEAMS Owners manage people/shifts, review/publish rosters and handle swap, overtime, leave and handover requests. Members view their roster and request free; they set their own alarms, never activated by publication. Plans, hours, leave balances and exports follow permissions, not actual attendance/payroll. Business includes personal Pro for its holder, not all members. Delegation/ownership transfer require rights and Business eligibility. HOURS, LEAVE & PAY Free completed-shift counts by month/year/custom period; custom closing dates or fixed-day cycles. Pro: planned/counted hours, differences, overtime, notes, rates, leave quotas and time off in lieu. Enter overtime or calculate from planned/actual end times and breaks. Date details/editors show saved records: edit/delete/revoke, full-screen overtime, daily/total leave deductions. Pro estimates pay by pay period, records received pay and differences, not employer payroll. LIVE ACTIVITIES Pro: ring, large countdown or today's earnings; progress, estimated pay, anniversaries. Choose content/hide amounts. Push refresh depends on network/system. Pay is timestamped, refreshed on opening, not continuous actual income. IMPORT & EXPORT Free Calendar/ICS/image imports; unlimited on-device recognition. Review/match/create shifts and edit dates/times first. Optional Pro cloud recognition requires consent each use: images, including names, employee IDs and rosters, go to CrossShift/recognition providers. Check results. Pro exports PDF, CSV and long-image reports. THEMES & LIFE Pro photo themes: position, colors, card opacity, saved variants; edit built-in light/dark themes. Local wallpaper on all five tabs or Home only. Original shift colors, saturation, clearer selected dates. Share rosters, each person managing their own; member notes stay local. Birthday/anniversary/exam reminders. Widgets: alarms, calendars, shared rosters, hours, anniversaries; some need Pro. YOUR SETUP iPhone/iPad; avatars, sounds, time formats, dark mode, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, 18 languages. No account for personal rosters/alarms; sharing needs one. Apple sign-in; regional mini-program login. Optional sync: supported shifts, rosters, leave quotas, overtime; excludes alarms, pay, anniversaries, wallpaper, member notes. Location optional for basic rosters/alarms. Update checks, guides, FAQ, feedback. Free iCloud Drive automatic/versioned backups; manual JSON restore. UP TO 3 MONTHS OF PRO First work roster: 1 month; qualifying referrals: 1 each, up to 2. Friends complete a roster and confirm your code in Settings. Sign in to claim; see in-app rules. Apple offer codes start auto-renewing monthly Pro; local App Store prices apply after the free period. Cancel in Apple subscriptions. Annual members can save referral rewards until expiry; annual renewal unchanged. Pro/Business prices and benefits in-app. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://crossshiftalarm.com/privacy/