Reminders
Done, from the reminder.
Press a reminder for Mark done or Remind me tomorrow. Mark done asks for Face ID first, then your widgets move on.
Rootstep: Move Planner for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
Your whole move, in the right order.
From the first decision to your first weeks in the new home: Rootstep picks the steps that fit your move, puts them in order and dates each one from your moving day. Then it hands you the next one, wherever you look.
Coming soon to the App Store
See how it works
Free for 9 days, with no payment details. Then one payment, never a subscription.
A to Z of your move, from “Should we go?” to “We’re home.”
- 0accounts, ads or trackers
- 9days free, with no payment details
- 4places to see your plan: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and widgets
- 1payment, never a subscription
Your plan in a minute
Every step a move can need. Only yours, in order.
Tell Rootstep when you move, where to and who comes along. It leaves out what doesn't fit, puts the rest in order and counts every date from your moving day.
- Pick your moving day. Not sure yet? Pick a month and change it later: every date follows.
- Say what applies. Children, pets, a car, a visa. The steps that fit come in; the rest stay out.
- Add your own. Anything else on your mind joins the same plan, in date order. Count it from your moving day, and it moves when the day does.
- Do the next step. Today shows it, and so do your widgets, your Lock Screen and your watch.
A checklist gives everyone the same list. Rootstep gives you yours, with dates.
When do you move?
150 days to go
All 4 official steps on time0 of 10 steps done
- Turn on JavaScript to try the sample plan. In the app, Rootstep builds your full plan from your moving day.
Real steps from the app, counted from your day: every date on this page follows it. Turn on what applies, mark a step done, add a task of your own. In the app, your own tasks come with the Move Pass.
Part 1 of 4:TodaySat, 17 Oct 2026
The next step comes to you.
Most days you won't even open Rootstep. Your next step is on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen and your wrist, and a busy week shows up before it comes.
Widgets
Mark it done from your Home Screen.
Widgets show the days to go and what's next. Tap the circle on a widget and the step is done, without opening the app. On the Lock Screen, the next step and the countdown are a glance away.
- Small: the countdown and the next step, or your official steps in a ring with the count that needs attention.
- Medium and large: the next steps, each with its own Mark done circle. The large one adds your route.
- Lock Screen: the days to go and the next step, and Mark done asks for Face ID first.
- Any move: with more than one move, each widget can follow the one you choose.
Control Centre
Next step, from Control Centre.
Put the Next step control in Control Centre or on the Lock Screen, or give it the Action button. Your next step is one press away.
Apple Watch
Your move, on your wrist.
The days to go, where your official steps stand and what comes next, a glance away. Tap the circle to mark a step done: you have a moment to undo, then it's done on your iPhone and for everyone sharing the move.
- On your watch face. Complications for the countdown and your official steps. Around moving day, and when an official step is overdue, Rootstep comes forward in the Smart Stack.
- Nothing to set up. It comes with Rootstep for iPhone and shows the move you have open there. Marking steps done on the watch needs no Move Pass.
- Made for every wrist. VoiceOver reads each screen in sentences, Undo waits while VoiceOver is on, and the largest text sizes fit.
Needs Apple Watch with watchOS 26 or later, paired with an iPhone that has Rootstep.
Part 2 of 4:Before departureuntil Mon, 15 Mar 2027
Everything in hand before you leave.
The official pages, the papers, the money, the boxes and the people who help: each kept with the steps it belongs to.
Official pages
Rules come from the source. Always.
Rules differ from place to place, and they change. So Rootstep doesn't ship rules of its own. For each step with a local rule, it links the official page.
Rootstep is a planning guide. It is not a government service, it is not connected to any authority, and it is not legal advice. The office concerned always has the last word.
- Open the official page
Each step with a local rule links the page that states it.
- Set your deadline
Read the rule and confirm the deadline with a tap. With Apple Intelligence, Rootstep can read the page on your device and suggest it. Either way, nothing enters your plan without you.
- Paste the sentence, if you like
Rootstep checks that it's on the page, word for word.
- Hear when it's gone
Once a week Rootstep checks the page. If the sentence disappears, you hear about it. Your plan changes only when you confirm.
Documents
Every paper, ready when it's asked for.
Rootstep lists the documents your plan needs, for each person, from the passports to the landlord's confirmation, and keeps track of what you hold.
- Know what's ready. Ready, applied for, needs an apostille or a translation, or still to get. “To get” turns amber only when a step needs it soon.
- Every form, marked as you get it: the original, a certified copy, an apostille or legalisation, a sworn translation, photos or a digital copy.
- Expiry, before it matters. A passport that runs out too soon after you arrive is flagged, with the official page that says how long it must be valid.
- Scans behind Face ID. Scan a paper with the camera into a PDF, and lock Documents with Face ID or Touch ID. Even the app switcher shows nothing.
- The handover list: what travels in hand luggage, person by person, for the day you arrive.
- Numbers stay private. A document's number and notes never appear in reminders, widgets or exports.
Budget
Every cost, in any currency.
Plan the move's budget by category and track what you spend in whatever currency you pay. Rootstep converts it into your budget's currency, so you always know where you stand.
- Daily rates from the European Central Bank, or a rate you set yourself.
- Each cost keeps the rate of its day, so past spending never shifts.
- Snap the receipt and keep it with the cost.
- Free for good, even after the trial.
Boxes
Which box has the coffee machine? Any phone can tell you.
Print a sheet, stick them on, and point any phone camera at a box. The QR code holds the same text as the label, so you know what's inside without opening it. In Rootstep, Scan a label opens the box itself.
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14Kitchen to KitchenGlasses, coffee machine, good knives
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22Kids' room to Mia's roomLego, bedtime books, night light
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3Office to Home officeDocuments folder, laptop, chargers
These are real QR codes. Try one with your phone's camera.
- Fragile
- Open first
- Keep with us
- Photos of what's inside
- Rooms, here and there
- To pack, packed, shipped, arrived, unpacked
- Find any item with Search, Spotlight or Siri
- Scan a label to open its box
Family
One move. Everyone's part.
Share a move with your family through iCloud. Everyone sees the same plan, picks up their own steps and talks about them right where the work is.
- Invite your family from Family and iCloud. You choose whether each person can edit or only view.
- Give each step to someone, and "Assigned to me" shows everyone their part.
- Comment on any step. Comments reach only the people you invited.
- Keep the people who help in Contacts: movers, landlords, offices and schools, each linked to the steps they help with, and the emergency numbers along your route.
- No extra purchase. People you invite edit your move under your Move Pass.
iPad
Room to plan, on iPad.
Every section sits in the sidebar, and a step opens beside its list, so you never lose your place in the plan.
Part 3 of 4:Moving dayTue, 16 Mar 2027
The day itself, one line at a time.
Moving day starts early and runs on the clock. Rootstep turns it into a list of what to do and when, and keeps the next line in view.
Moving-day list
Hour by hour, from your answers.
Movers or a courier, pets, children, a car: the day's lines follow what you told Rootstep, for the day you leave and the day you arrive. From departure to arrival, Today shows only this list.
Dynamic Island
Moving day, in the Dynamic Island.
The day's next line, its time and how many lines are done, always in view. Open the Island, tap Done, and the next line takes its place. It's on the Lock Screen too, and in the Smart Stack on Apple Watch.
Part 4 of 4:ArrivalWed, 17 Mar 2027
A new address, a new language, the same plan.
Letters arrive in a language you may not read yet, the official steps after arrival have their dates, and the boxes need opening. Rootstep turns each into something you can do.
Letter helper
A letter you can't read? Scan it.
Rootstep reads the letter on your iPhone or iPad, translates it and finds its dates, shown next to the words as written. One tap turns it into an appointment, with what to bring.
Calendar
Real deadlines, in your calendar.
Turn on Calendar sync and Rootstep keeps a calendar of its own beside yours: an all-day event for each official deadline you set, and every appointment at its time. When a date moves, its event moves; when a step is done, its event goes.
Planning dates stay out, so everything in that calendar is a date that counts. The reminders stay Rootstep's, so nothing tells you twice.
Lock Screen
On the day, it counts down.
A Live Activity on the Lock Screen counts down to when you need to leave for the appointment, with the place, so the morning has one thing to watch.
Siri
Ask Siri which box.
Siri and Shortcuts know your move with nothing to set up: ask what's next or how many days are left, find an item, mark a step done or add a task.
Spotlight
Found from Spotlight.
Your steps and boxes show up in Spotlight, a box by what's packed in it. A result opens straight in Rootstep.
Assistant
Questions? Ask your plan.
Ask in your own words. The assistant answers from your steps, their official pages and the glossary, right on your iPhone or iPad, and shows you the lines it used.
- Only what your plan says. An answer with a number or a quote your plan doesn't hold is dropped, and you see the plan's own lines instead.
- It doesn't guess the rules. Whether a rule applies to you is for the official page to say, so that's where the assistant sends you.
- Every official word, explained. A glossary for your route, each term with its official page. Anmeldung: registering your address with the registration office after moving into a home in Germany.
- Search that knows your move. Steps, documents, boxes by what's inside, contacts and costs. It opens on Go to, two questions to ask and what you opened last.
Written answers need Apple Intelligence. Without it, the assistant answers with the matching lines of your plan, and the official pages, translation, letter scanning and the glossary still work.
Settled in, 28 Apr. When the last step is done, the move goes to Archived, and a copy of it can start the next one.
Made for everyone
Try it your way.
Rootstep follows the settings you already use on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Try a few on this card from Today: it changes the way the app does.
- VoiceOver, with rotors for overdue and official steps
- Voice Control and Switch Control
- Text up to the largest accessibility sizes
- Increase Contrast and Differentiate Without Colour
- Charts you can hear as Audio Graphs
- Reduce Motion, and no animation that loops
- “Austin to Berlin, 150 days to departure on 16 Mar 2027, arrival on 17 Mar 2027.”
- “6 of 26 official steps need attention, 20 done or on time, 1 overdue by the dates you set. Button. Shows them in the Plan.”
- “Next: Check passport validity for everyone, overdue since 14 Oct. Button.”
Private by design
No account. No servers of ours. Nothing collected.
Your move lives on your iPhone and iPad and in your own iCloud, which we cannot read. Your Apple Watch gets its copy from your iPhone.
- Data Not CollectedRootstep's privacy label on the App Store. No ads, no analytics, no third-party code in the app.
- Online only when it must beFor iCloud, for the official pages you open, for the weekly check of the pages behind your deadlines and for the day's currency rates. You can switch the page check and the rates off.
- Your numbers stay yoursA document's number and notes never appear in reminders, widgets or exports, and Documents can lock behind Face ID.
Pricing
Try everything free. Pay once, if you want more.
Nine days with every feature, and no payment details to start. When they end, nothing is deleted and nothing is charged: your plan stays free to follow, to the last step.
- No subscription
- No account
- No ads
- Shared through Family Sharing
After the trial
Free, for good
Follow your plan to the end.
- Your whole plan every step in order, to view and mark done
- Reminders every reminder you've set keeps coming
- Apple Watch the countdown, the next steps and Mark done
- The plan as a PDF to keep offline or send to anyone
- Budget and receipts in any currency, at the day's rates
- Contacts and the emergency numbers for your route
- Boxes and moving day each box's status, and the hour-by-hour list
Why not all free? Rootstep shows no ads and collects no data, so nothing else pays for it. Following your plan stays free; the Move Pass pays for the rest, once.
One payment, never a subscription
Move Pass
Shape the plan to your move, together. Everything in Free, and:
- Change the plan edit any step; move the day once and every date follows
- Your own tasks anything else on your mind, in the same plan
- Plan together share through iCloud, give steps to people, comment
- Calendar sync your deadlines and appointments in your calendar
- The assistant and the letter helper answers from your plan, letters read and translated
- Route setup the official page for each step with a local rule
- Documents forms held, expiry, and scans behind Face ID
- Boxes and QR labels what's inside, and labels any phone can read
- Printing and exports your lists, beyond the plan's PDF
- Every move after this one start or copy a move at no extra cost
Coming soon to the App Store
Yours for this move and every move after it, on every iPhone and iPad you use, and for your family through Family Sharing. The App Store shows the price in your currency before you buy.
Questions people ask first
Is it only for moving abroad?
No. Rootstep works for every move, across town or across the world. Say what applies, and the steps you don't need, like visas or customs, stay out of your plan. Boxes, moving day, the budget and reminders work the same for every move.
Does Rootstep work for my country?
Yes. Rootstep works for every move, anywhere, because the plan is counted from your moving day. For many countries it links the official page for each step with a local rule, and more are added as people ask. Elsewhere a step asks you to check locally, and you can add the page yourself.
Are the deadlines official?
No. Until you set its deadline from the official page, an official step shows a planning date and says it isn't the official deadline. The office concerned always has the last word.
What happens when the trial ends?
Nothing is deleted and nothing is charged. Everything you made in the 9-day trial stays yours to see: every move, document and box. You can keep marking steps done, and reminders already set keep coming. To change the plan again, or to add documents, boxes or people, there's the Move Pass.
Do I need an account?
No. There's nothing to sign up for. Your move stays on your devices and in your own iCloud, and sharing it with family goes through iCloud too.
Do I need Apple Intelligence?
No. Everything in Rootstep works without it. With Apple Intelligence, the assistant writes its answers on your device and can read an official page to suggest a deadline for you to confirm. Without it, the assistant answers with the matching lines of your plan, and you set each deadline from the official page yourself.
Can my family plan with me?
Yes. Share a move through iCloud with the people you choose, to edit or only to view. Everyone you invite edits under your Move Pass, and the Move Pass itself is shared through Family Sharing.
What if it isn't right for me?
Try every feature for 9 days first, with no payment details. If you buy the Move Pass and it isn't what you expected, you can ask Apple for a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com, as for any purchase on the App Store.
What do I need?
An iPhone with iOS 26 or later, or an iPad with iPadOS 26 or later. The Apple Watch app needs watchOS 26 or later and comes with Rootstep on the iPhone it is paired with. iCloud is needed to sync between devices and to share a move.
The best day to start is the day you decide.
Start early, and the steps wait for you instead of the other way round. Rootstep: Move Planner, for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
Coming soon to the App Store
See how it works
Free for 9 days, with no payment details. Then one payment, never a subscription.
Have a good move.