ShiftFit vs RotaCell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShiftFit
Easily track your work hours, shifts, and estimated pay for multiple jobs. Record start and end times, include breaks and tips, and get live pay estimates. Export your records in CSV or JSON format.
- Record start and finish times
- Track multiple jobs and currencies
- Live pay estimate before saving
- Export shift and pay records
- Shift reminders
- Optional post-shift tip check
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ShiftFit is a simple shift calendar and estimated pay tracker for part-time, hourly, daily, and casual workers. Record when you worked, keep multiple jobs separate, and see estimated gross pay based on the rates and multipliers you enter. ShiftFit does not apply labor laws, taxes, or minimum wage rules automatically, so your settings stay under your control. KEY FEATURES • Add start and finish times quickly • Repeat a recent shift without entering it again • Keep optional breaks, tips, costs, and premiums out of the way until needed • Check a live pay estimate before saving • Review estimated base pay and enabled premiums • Track hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, annual, or per-task pay • Keep jobs and currencies separated • Export shift and pay records as CSV, with a full JSON backup • Use shift reminders and an optional post-shift tip check • Start without creating an account PAY ESTIMATES, NOT PAYROLL All amounts are estimates based on the information you enter. Actual pay may differ because of contracts, taxes, rounding, employer rules, or local law.
RotaCell
This app helps manage complex work schedules with a visually appealing interface. It offers features like schedule scanning, overtime tracking, and pay calculation, with optional advanced tools for live updates and health integration.
- Schedule scanning from printed documents
- Multiple job support with double-booking warnings
- Overtime and pay tracking
- Live Activity for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
- Sharing schedules with others
- Customizable themes and languages
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Your whole shift life in one calm place. RotaCell is the shift planner that doesn't look like homework: bold colored paper, a calendar you can read at a glance and little helpers that look after you. Free to use. RotaCell Plus adds the extras, and you can try it free for a week. Built for nurses and healthcare staff, factory and warehouse workers, retail and hospitality teams, drivers, emergency services, and anyone whose week doesn't fit nine to five. WORKS WITH YOUR REAL SCHEDULE • Ready-made patterns: 4 on/4 off, Continental, DuPont, 2-2-2, rotating Early/Late/Night, or a plain Monday to Friday • Scan a printed schedule with your camera: it is read on your device and nothing is uploaded • Import a calendar (.ics) and run more than one job in one calendar, with double-booking warnings • Swap a shift, add overtime or mark leave in two taps, and keep your past days when your schedule changes A MONTH YOU CAN READ AT A GLANCE • Today, this week and your whole rotation months ahead • Public holidays for 200+ countries built in • Reminders sit right next to your shifts YOUR SHIFT, LIVE (Plus) • A Live Activity paints the sky of your shift, from sun to stars, on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, on Apple Watch and in CarPlay KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE (Plus) • Time to Leave shows live traffic and a little road with a walker: drive, walk, cycle or transit, with Leave-By alerts A HELPER THAT HAS YOUR BACK • Spots a short rest or a double booking before it hurts • RotaRest (Plus) reads your Apple Health sleep and warns you about tired weeks before they bite SHARE WITH YOUR CIRCLE • Invite a partner, the other parent, a friend or a coworker with a link, a QR code or iCloud • See your schedule next to theirs, the days you are both off and who is free for the school pickup • A live partner link keeps their view up to date by itself (Plus). Invite-only: nobody can find you, and you can stop sharing any time KNOW WHAT YOU'VE EARNED • Hourly or salaried pay, night and weekend premiums, overtime multipliers, and a Break Room with what you have earned so far • Check your pay stub against your schedule, or scan a pay stub (Plus) • An approximate take-home pay after tax for 200+ countries (Plus) • Vacation, PTO, comp time and a mileage log (Plus) MAKE IT YOURS • Six looks: Paper, Slate, Graphite, Pop, Forest and Berry. Your widgets and Apple Watch follow your pick • iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with notifications in RotaCell's own style • English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Polski, 简体中文 and 繁體中文 YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No account, no ads, no tracking • Everything lives on your device; iCloud backup is optional (Plus) • Sharing links are encrypted: only the people you send them to can read them FREE FOREVER: your schedule calendar and patterns, more than one job, reminders, widgets, pay, hours and overtime, scanning a printed schedule, double-booking and rest warnings, and sharing your schedule as a link or QR code. ROTACELL PLUS adds: Live Activity and Apple Watch, Time to Leave and Leave-By alerts, fatigue and sleep warnings, Circle's live partner link, take-home pay after tax, pay stub check, vacation, PTO and comp time, mileage, text and print your schedule, and iCloud backup and sync. New to Plus? Try it free for a week, then choose yearly or a one-time Forever unlock, priced right here in the App Store. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rotacell.com/privacy Support: https://rotacell.com/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShiftFit at none against RotaCell's 2. ShiftFit also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). RotaCell's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. RotaCell sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year. ShiftFit asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ShiftFit against 5.0 for RotaCell. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
ShiftFit ships an update every 5 days, RotaCell every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShiftFit | RotaCell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HANSAE LEE | Rodolfo Antonio Zorrilla Pena |
Customer experience
ShiftFit
RotaCell
In-app purchases
ShiftFit
No in-app purchases
RotaCell
- RotaCell (Yearly)$6.991 Year
- RotaCell (Forever)$29.99









