Aplano vs Staffomatic

Aplano

The planner gets real building blocks: shift templates carrying working time and role, drag-and-drop into the weekly plan, a staffing-requirement field in the shift plan, and a generate button with accept, reject or generate-alternative. But I found no public information on qualifications, planning across several locations, or coverage checks before the plan goes live — and nothing on planning against demand figures or a labour-cost budget.

Staffomatic

Templates for shift and week plans, qualifications, prioritised shifts and open-shift applications are shown, and absences or double bookings are visible while planning. But we found no public information on staffing requirements per shift — how many people a shift actually needs — nor on planning across several locations, demand figures from a named source, or automatic roster proposals.

Aplano

Break rules and rest periods are named, managed in settings and listed with the time clock — that is more than a vague compliance promise. Still, I found no public information on a daily hours maximum, a Minijob earnings warning or collective-agreement surcharges, and the pages don't say whether a broken rule blocks the plan or only warns.

Staffomatic

The pages describe time tracking, working-time and overtime accounts and surcharges, but we found no public information on any check of daily maximum hours, the eleven-hour rest period, breaks, Minijob earnings limits or collective-agreement rules. For someone stacking two jobs, nothing here shows the plan would stop a schedule that runs my two employers into each other's rest time.

Aplano

The app delivers my daily basics: availability with start and end times and multi-day spans, vacation requests with automatic account adjustment, shift swaps, applications for open shifts, push on changes, team chat, and clock-in by phone or a shared tablet station — on both app stores. What holds it back for me: every swap waits on a manager's confirmation with nothing about the rules being checked first, and I found no public information on interface languages beyond German or on offline handling.

Staffomatic

The mobile app with shift swaps, open-shift applications, vacation requests with approval and mobile clock-in is genuinely what I need at work. But availability entry sits only in the Professional tier, and we found no public information on push notification of schedule changes, on interface languages beyond the German pages, or on whether a swap needs a manager's nod — so I might still learn about a changed week from a photo in the group chat.

Aplano

There are three permission types, a fourteen-day log retention with a general deletion statement, an external Berlin data-protection officer, and app use is tied to an Article 28 data-processing agreement. But geolocation and fingerprint clock-in are advertised with no public information on switching them off, and I found no public information on hiding absence reasons from colleagues, an audit trail of who viewed whose data, or documentation for works-council approval.

Staffomatic

There are roles and rights in the Professional tier, per-tier activity logs of 30, 60 and 90 days, published retention periods for server logs and application data, and full data-subject rights including deletion. But we found no public information on how finely visibility can be limited — for example who sees absence reasons — on what the log actually records, or on documentation offered for works-council approval of the introduction.

Aplano

Planned hours leave as generic files — exports to CSV, PDF and Excel — and I found no public information on a named payroll system, surcharge or wage-type handling, or any POS, HR or API connection. For someone on hourly pay that reads like my hours being retyped somewhere else before payday.

Staffomatic

A DATEV export, surcharges and a working-time account in the top tier, plus a Personio interface and API access in Professional, give a named payroll path and a named HR system, with mobile time tracking described as preparing the payroll. We found no public information on POS integrations, wage-type mapping per surcharge, or any lock step before transmission.

Aplano

Aplano GmbH in Berlin is the contracting entity, development is stated as being in Germany, and the privacy policy names processors — though several are US companies used for newsletter and tracking. I found no public information on where the schedule app's employee data is hosted or which provider runs it, and for my geolocation stamps that is the question that matters most.

Staffomatic

The pages name a Hamburg company with a German register number and a German partner managing the servers, and the privacy policy lists subprocessors with their countries — including US ones such as Make.com, HubSpot and Microsoft — with EU standard contractual clauses named as the safeguard. But we found no public information on where the employee data is actually hosted or which data-centre provider runs it, so residency rests on a German management partner rather than a stated region, and push or messaging providers for the app itself are not evidenced.

Aplano

Three tiers carry exact per-employee prices — Core 0,50€, Basic 2€ and Pro 4,50€ pro Mitarbeiter & Monat — with monthly billing, a one-month minimum term, and the clear rule that deactivated users are not billed, so the monthly invoice is largely computable. But I found no public information on VAT treatment or the price of the fingerprint/RFID terminal hardware, and no public list of what the top tier includes beyond its price.

Staffomatic

All three tiers are priced per person per month with a ten-person minimum, monthly or annual billing with savings of "bis zu 17%", net prices plus statutory VAT, a 14-day trial without payment data, and stated cancellation and payment methods — I can compute the annual invoice myself. We found no public information on how inactive or seasonal staff are counted or on a minimum contract term.