Rota

Rota is an Android calendar app for shift workers. Set a rotation pattern once — for example day-day-night-night-off-off — and it fills the entire calendar automatically, with the home widget and alarms following the same schedule. It's a native app built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

The question shift workers actually have is a simple one: what am I working this week. A regular calendar app answers it only if you type your shifts in every month by hand. Rota stores your work as a repeating pattern instead of individual events. Once the pattern is the rule, the calendar fills itself, the home widget shows your shift without opening the app, and alarms track the schedule. Enter once, check instantly — that's the design goal.

The name comes from the Latin rota, a wheel. In British English a rota is still the list of who takes which turn on duty. Day, night, and off come round like a wheel and start over, which is what shift work is, so that became the name. The four-part clock on the icon says the same thing.

It is not on Google Play. We give it away free from this site: no ads, no account, and your data stays on your phone. When you open the downloaded file, your phone may ask whether to allow installs from unknown sources; allow it this once. New versions do not install themselves, so check back here now and then. The app itself is in Korean.

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