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. 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.

Make room for life around your shifts. CrossShift brings schedules, alarms and work records together for shift workers and irregular routines. SCHEDULES & ALARMS Create early, day, evening or night shift templates with work times and alarms. Use repeating rosters, adjust individual dates, assign multiple shifts per day, edit in bulk and apply regional holiday and makeup workday rules. Name each shift alarm separately. STATISTICS & WORK RECORDS View completed shift counts and distribution for free by month, year or custom dates. Set monthly or annual closing dates, or use fixed-day periods. Pro adds planned and counted hours, differences, overtime, notes and pay multipliers, leave types, annual allowances and time off in lieu. Enter overtime duration or calculate it from planned and actual clock-out times, minus breaks. PAY ESTIMATES Set pay rules in Settings → Pay Management. Estimate pay by pay period, record amounts received and compare differences. Requires Pro; estimates are for personal reference and do not replace employer payroll records. FREE SCHEDULE IMPORT Import from system calendars, ICS files or schedule images for free. On-device image recognition has no usage limit. Review shifts in groups, match or create templates, and edit dates, shifts and times day by day before confirming import. Pro offers optional cloud recognition for unclear text and complex rosters. With consent each time, images are sent to CrossShift servers and the recognition service. Visible names, employee IDs and shift details are also processed. Review and confirm the results. PRO EXPORTS Export PDF, CSV or long-image reports to save, share and check records. Exports require Pro and use the same date range as the statistics page. SHARING & LIFE Create or join a group to view each other's schedules; each person manages their own. Add member notes stored only on your device. Track birthdays, anniversaries, exams and other dates with optional reminders. Home Screen widgets show alarms, calendars, shared schedules, hours and anniversaries; some content requires Pro. Pro also lets you create photo themes, adjust wallpaper position and colors, and save and switch designs. Wallpapers stay on your device. MAKE IT YOURS Avatars, alarm sounds, time formats, Dark Mode, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and 18 interface languages. Personal schedules and alarms need no account; sharing requires a CrossShift account. Sign in with Apple during setup and choose whether to sync account data. When signed in with personal sync enabled, templates, schedules, leave allowances and overtime records sync. Personal alarms, pay rules and settlements, anniversaries, wallpapers and member notes are excluded from account sync. Weather location access is optional and does not affect schedules or alarms. Send issues and suggestions through Settings. BACKUP & RESTORE Free automatic iCloud Drive backups: enable the feature and select a folder to save backups, browse history and restore. Manual local JSON backup and restore remain available. EARN UP TO 3 MONTHS OF PRO Complete your first work schedule to earn 1 month. Each successful friend referral earns another month, up to 2 referral months and 3 months total. Friends must complete a work schedule, enter your code in Settings and confirm the referral. Sign in to claim; eligibility and redemption terms are in the app. Redeeming an Apple offer code starts an auto-renewing monthly Pro subscription. After the free period, the local App Store price applies. Cancel in Apple subscription settings. Annual subscribers can keep referral extensions to use after their subscription expires; Apple annual renewal terms remain unchanged. See the in-app Pro center for prices and benefits. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://crossshiftalarm.com/privacy/