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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
Aug 7, 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
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Ratings and reviews

7.64K reviews
Beth Santor
August 6, 2026
like the idea of it but not working well for me. punching for breaks, I have to take font to lowest settings to make room for the them on my screen. even at the lowest settings my time doesn't show quarter hours and I have to keep my own running totals to make sure I get my hours in. I have spoken to them and they say there's nothing they can do. the app isn't compatible with my phone and cuts words and numbers off and I got this phone so I could read my emails and play games
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Red Rover Technologies LLC
July 13, 2026
Beth, I would suggest contacting your Red Rover District Admin to inquire about this as some of these (breaks, quarter hours) are how your district settings are configured. (When logged into Red Rover on a browser -> Click on the ? in the top right corner -> Select District Contact Info)
Paulina Mitchell
March 2, 2026
The Red Rover app is more convenient than other substitute systems because it allows you to select your preferences, such as schools, districts, and teaching versus aide assignments. This flexibility makes it easier to find jobs that fit your experience. However, jobs disappear quickly after notifications are sent. Even if a school requests you, someone else can accept the job first, and there are not always many positions available.
3 people found this review helpful
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Red Rover Technologies LLC
March 2, 2026
Hi Pauline! We utilize notification windows to send out available jobs, which can cause these jobs to be taken quickly once notifications go out. However, Jobs are posted on the app prior to notifications being sent out. We encourage you to actively browse your app for these jobs prior to notifications being released.
Natasha F
March 2, 2026
Not the best. I can't mute certain categories of jobs I'm not interested in. They keep showing in the long list, and I have to manually dismiss each one so I have the clean list I can look through. Some job descriptions are heavily abbreviated. I have to Google them in order to understand what they are (STEM?). Grade levels are only mentioned for elementary schools, but they matter for the middle and high as well. The list doesn't update often. I have close the app and then opened it again.
2 people found this review helpful
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Red Rover Technologies LLC
March 2, 2026
Thank you for this productive feedback, Natasha!

What’s new

School may be out for the summer, but we definitely aren't! We've been busy giving the absence creation screens a fresh new look. So when you do need to log an absence, it's smooth sailing from start to finish.
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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