RotaCell vs Turnus Shift Rota Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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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RotaCell is the shift planner, shift calendar and work schedule tracker that doesn't feel like homework. Draw one round of your shifts, tap Repeat it, and the months fill in: 4 on / 4 off, DuPont, Continental, or a pattern you paint yourself. Overtime tracker, PTO tracker, hours tracker and pay tracker in one work schedule planner that handles two jobs. Day by Day suits cleaning jobs, caregiver shifts and gig work, with a pay tracker for each day; Simple mode keeps just your shifts. Share days off, see when to leave, and watch your shift count down on the Lock Screen. No account needed. Made for shift workers, caregivers, cleaners and anyone whose week isn't nine to five. 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 TO USE: 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 Plus 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
Turnus Shift Rota Planner
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A shift calendar that knows your week. Tap a day, pick a shift, done. Or set your rotation once and see the whole year. Your next shift is on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you never open the app just to look. THREE TAPS, A WHOLE YEAR Choose a pattern (2-2-2-4, 2-2-2-2, 4 on 4 off, Mon–Fri), pick the first day, apply. Days you set by hand are never overwritten. Two shifts a day, custom hours, a Clear tool with Undo. ONE GLANCE The month grid is the app: every shift in its own colour, today outlined, the hours you actually work in the biggest digits on screen. Week view adds up your hours. With Pro, events from your other calendars show as small dots so you can plan life around work. WIDGETS AND LOCK SCREEN Today and the next shift on the home screen, seven days in the medium widget, the next shift on the lock screen, and a Live Activity that counts down from eight hours before a shift. Optional reminders before each shift. LEAVE, SICK DAYS, MORE THAN ONE JOB Mark leave and sick days; see how many days of leave you have left this year. With Pro, keep a second workplace in the same calendar, with its own colours, payday and pay rules. YOUR HOURS, YOUR PAY (PRO) This month's total is free. Pro adds the breakdown — night, weekend and public-holiday premiums, weekly overtime — every other month and the year, the next payday, and the totals per workplace and combined. Public holidays for 26 countries are built in, down to the state or region. SWAP WITH COLLEAGUES (PRO) Invite your team with a link. See who is on with you on the same grid. Ask to swap a shift, or to have one covered; when they accept, both calendars update — the right days, not just the labels. Family can be invited view-only, and they don't need Pro. EXPORT (PRO) CSV of your shifts, and one-way export of your shifts into the iOS Calendar that updates instead of duplicating. Plus a one-page PDF of any month, however old. NO ADS. NO ACCOUNT. NO TRIAL. Free forever: the calendar, patterns, leave, import, widgets, Live Activity, week hours, this month's pay total, iCloud sync and sharing a week as an image. Pro adds the full pay estimate, team & swaps, a second workplace, your other calendars and exports — a yearly subscription that auto-renews until cancelled, or a single lifetime purchase. The price is on screen before you tap anything. COMING FROM ANOTHER SHIFT APP Export your roster as .ics or .csv and open it here: Turnus shows exactly what it would add before it adds anything. Free. Everything stays on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. No server of ours, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. Thirteen languages. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://primetruthteam.github.io/turnus/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: RotaCell at 3 against Turnus Shift Rota Planner's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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 and Turnus Shift Rota Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | RotaCell | Turnus Shift Rota Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rodolfo Antonio Zorrilla Pena | Nguyen Dinh Chung |
In-app purchases
RotaCell
- RotaCell (Yearly)7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- RotaCell (Forever)$29.99
Turnus Shift Rota Planner
- Turnus Pro$9.991 Year
- Turnus Pro (Lifetime)$19.99
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