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About this app

The official Red Rover app puts the power and simplicity of Red Rover right in the palm of your hand. Best of all, its 100% free for all users, including substitutes. Whether you’re on the go or in the zone, Red Rover is the perfect companion to help you quickly book assignments, set your availability, register an absence and so much more.

For substitutes:
- Instant notifications about upcoming sub assignments available in your school districts
- Review and accept available assignments without ever leaving the app
- Automatically sync your assignments to your personal calendar
- Manage your availability and school preferences

For employees:
- Quickly register, change, or cancel an absence
- Search for qualified and available substitutes
- View the status of your past and upcoming absences
- Receive status update notifications about your absences

For administrators:
- Manage, approve, and verify absences, vacancies, and assignments
- View employee and sub profiles and settings
- Receive status update notifications

Access to Red Rover is granted by school districts that use the Red Rover service. Check with your district to see if you have access to the most modern, intuitive substitute placement platform.

More About Red Rover
Red Rover is a the fastest growing HR solution on the market for K12 absence management and substitute placement. Our web and mobile technology is designed by industry experts and based solely on customer feedback.

Why Red Rover
Manually managing absences and filling them with qualified substitutes is very time-consuming and messy. With Red Rover’s intuitive interface, process automation, and text message notifications your district’s absences can be filled automatically without even lifting a finger.

Better In Every Way
There are so many ways that Red Rover has reimagined and improved absence management. Here are just a few:

- A modern interface that’s simple and fun to use
- Transparent, predictable, and affordable
- Free app for substitutes with mobile notifications

To use the full web app version of Red Rover visit app.redroverk12.com
The modern, intuitive app for K12 employees and subs to register & fill absences
Updated on
Oct 16, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Photos and videos and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

8.42K reviews
Lucy B.
September 14, 2026
thx for the quick response, I love this app for subbing in our school district. I figured out the way to add the sub work to my calendar automatically & I'm so happy about that as it helps me keep track. it's cool they have one reminder available as well. I wish our HR Dept would give us a crash course. I don't understand the calendar with the 1 and 2 but I figure it's not relevant to me as no got back me/ The screen is huge and I cannot change it on my Pixel it never did that until last wk...
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Red Rover Technologies LLC
September 14, 2026
Thank you for this feedback. I would check your Android settings for bold text (Go to Android Settings -> Display -> Display size and text -> Bold Text -> Disable/toggle off.)
Kathy Michael
April 15, 2025
Absolutely the worst app for substitutes. It freezes,it sends limited assignments, then tells you the assignment is no longer available even though you click on it immediately. You must keep phone on at all times even in classroom if you want an assignment. Zero ability to plan ahead. Hour by hour notifications again that are limited. Programmers are clueless. Based on the name, thinking it was designed by kindergarteners. Actually, a child could design a more efficient and effective program.
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Lisa Serrano
August 3, 2023
Not the best so far! Jobs come through and you cannot accept the job from the pop up notification like other apps. You have to click and go to the app page then accept, by then the job is gone! This has happened so much! I have never had this much of a time grabbing a job quickly! Can you explain how the jobs get sent out and if there is any particular order of substitute preference in how they are sent out? Frontline has many paid for secondary apps you can use as well, but not Red Rover K12.
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What’s new

First quarter’s in the books, and so are a few bug fixes! 📚 We smoothed out wrinkles in sign-in, fixed a few crashes, and made small tweaks, like an alphabetized job list when you clock in. Straight A’s all around!
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About the developer
Red Rover Technologies LLC
mobiledev@redroverk12.com
559 W Uwchlan Ave Ste 200 Exton, PA 19341 United States
+1 484-872-2413