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.

Shifts planned. Room for life. Designed for shift work and irregular routines, CrossShift brings schedules, alarm reminders and work records together while leaving time for what matters. SCHEDULES AND REMINDERS Create early, day, evening or night shift templates with start/end times and alarms. Use repeating schedules for regular rotations and adjust individual dates for changes. Arrange multiple shifts on the same day, edit dates in batches, and apply regional holiday and make-up workday rules. SHIFT COUNTS AND WORK RECORDS View counts and distribution of completed shifts for free, with monthly, annual and custom ranges. Pro adds planned and credited hours, differences, overtime duration, notes and multipliers, leave types, annual allowances and compensatory time, plus PDF, CSV and long-image reports. PAY ESTIMATES AND RECONCILIATION In Settings > Salary Management, configure pay rules, review estimates for each pay period, record payments received and compare differences. Requires Pro. Estimates are personal references, not a substitute for employer payroll records. IMPORT EXISTING SCHEDULES FOR FREE Import schedules from system calendars, ICS files or rota images for free. On-device image recognition has no usage limit. Check the dates and shifts, then save. Pro offers optional intelligent cloud recognition to help recognize complex schedules. Consent is requested before each use. Processed recognized text and table information are sent; the original image is not uploaded. PRO EXPORTS Export features require Pro, including PDF, CSV and long-image reports, making work records easy to save, share and check. SHARING AND LIFE Create or join a shared group to view each other's schedules. Everyone maintains their own schedule. Add birthdays, anniversaries, exams and other important dates, with optional reminders. Use alarm, calendar, team schedule, work-hour and anniversary widgets on the Home Screen. Some content requires Pro. With Pro, create custom photo themes, position wallpapers, adjust colors, save multiple designs and switch between them. Wallpapers stay on-device. MAKE IT YOURS Choose avatars, sounds and time formats. Supports Dark Mode, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and 18 app interface languages. Personal schedules and alarms need no account; shared schedules require a CrossShift server account. Location for weather is optional and does not affect schedules or alarms. Free automatic iCloud Drive backups are supported. Enable backups and choose an iCloud Drive folder to save data automatically, view backup history and restore previous versions. Manual local JSON backup and restore remain available. REDEEM UP TO 3 MONTHS OF PRO Complete your first work schedule to redeem 1 month of Pro. Each successful friend referral earns another month, with up to 2 referral months and 3 months in total. Friends must complete a work schedule, enter your referral code in Settings and confirm the referral. Sign in to CrossShift to claim rewards and redeem Apple offer codes. See the in-app campaign details for participation and redemption conditions. Redemption starts an auto-renewing monthly Pro subscription. After the free period, the local price shown in the App Store applies. Cancel in Apple subscription settings. Some features require Pro. See the in-app Pro Benefits Center for pricing and benefits. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://crossshiftalarm.com/privacy/