Rootstep: Move Planner

Rootstep works for every move, anywhere: across town or across the world, on your own or with children, pets and a car. Tell it where you are leaving from, where you are going and when, and it builds your plan: every step in the right order, each with a date counted from your moving day. For a step with a local rule, such as registering your address after you move in, it lists the official page where it has one: you read the rule there, set the deadline and confirm it with a tap.

What Rootstep does
• Today shows what comes next. Check steps off as you go.
• The plan covers deciding, leaving, the journey and settling in: your home and the new one, visas, documents, work, money, health care, schools, pets, the car and your mail.
• Reminders before each date, with quiet hours you choose, and your deadlines and appointments in your calendar if you like.
• Documents: passports, certificates and permits with their expiry dates, which originals, certified copies, apostilles and translations you hold, and scans locked with Face ID or Touch ID.
• Boxes: number every box, list what goes in it, mark it fragile or open first, take a photo before you seal it, and print labels with a QR code any phone camera can read.
• Budget: plan and track costs in any currency, with your receipts and the European Central Bank's daily rates.
• Contacts: movers, landlords, offices and schools, each linked to the steps they help with, and the emergency numbers for your route.
• Moving day: an hour-by-hour list for the day you leave and the day you arrive, on your Lock Screen as the day goes.
• The assistant answers questions from your own plan (written answers need Apple Intelligence), and the letter helper reads a letter in another language, finds its dates and translates it, all on your iPhone or iPad.
• Plan together: share a move with your family through iCloud, give each step to someone and comment on it.
• On iPad, every section is in the sidebar, and a step, document or box opens beside its list, with keyboard shortcuts.
• Widgets for the Home and Lock Screens, an Apple Watch app, a Control Center control, Siri shortcuts, and as many moves as you plan.

What Rootstep is not
Rootstep is a planning guide. It is not a government service, it is not connected to any authority, and it is not legal advice. Rules differ from place to place and they change. Rootstep lists the official page for a step with a local rule where it has one; you read the rule there and set the deadline yourself. If you paste the sentence your deadline rests on, Rootstep checks that page once a week and tells you if the sentence is gone; nothing in your plan changes until you confirm. Where no page is listed, the step asks you to check locally, and you can add the official page yourself. The office concerned always has the last word.

Free, and one payment for the rest
Try everything free for 9 days, without payment details. After that, this stays free for good:
• your whole plan, to view and check off
• every reminder already set
• the plan as a PDF
• the budget and receipts
• your contacts
• each box's status, the moving-day list and comments

The Move Pass is one payment, not a subscription. It unlocks editing the plan, your own tasks, planning with your family, calendar sync, the assistant with its letter helper, route setup, documents, boxes and labels, printing, and further moves. It is shared with your family through Family Sharing and stays yours for future moves.

Private by design
No account, no ads, no analytics, and no servers of ours: your plan stays on your iPhone or iPad and in your own iCloud. Rootstep goes online only for iCloud, for the official pages you ask it to read or it checks weekly (a switch in Settings), and for the daily currency rates (another switch).

For everyone
Made for VoiceOver, Voice Control and every text size, light and dark. Color is never the only signal; Increase Contrast, Differentiate Without Color and Reduce Motion change the drawing.