Are these really free, or does one of them stop halfway?
They are free and none of them stops. There is no trial that runs out, no limit on how often you use one, no watermark on what you print and no upgrade prompt in the middle of a task. They cost us almost nothing to run, because there is no server doing the work: the arithmetic happens in the tab you have open.
Do I have to make an account?
No, and there is nowhere to make one. None of the ten has a sign-up step, an email field or a “save your work” wall. You can open any of them, do the thing, take the result and close the tab without ever telling us who you are.
Where does my work get saved?
In your own browser, on the device you are using, and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded to Picktime and there is no account holding it, so it survives closing the tab and it does not survive clearing your browsing data. What you build on a laptop will not appear on your phone. Two of the ten, the reminder templates and the booking link generator, keep nothing at all between visits, because there is nothing in them worth keeping. If you want a copy that lasts, every tool has a copy or a download.
Can I use these for my own business?
Yes. Print the rota and put it on the wall, send the timetable to your tutors, paste the reminder wording into whatever you send messages with. Nothing you make here is stamped with our name and nothing is licensed back to us.
Do they work on a phone?
All ten work on a phone. The three that draw a week (the schedule maker, the class timetable maker and the employee schedule maker) scroll sideways rather than shrinking, because seven columns at a readable size will not fit across a phone screen. The other seven fit as they are.
What is the catch?
That we would like you to remember where the tool came from. These pages earn their place by being genuinely useful with nothing asked in return, and a small number of the people who use one eventually want the bookings to arrive by themselves rather than be typed in. That is the whole mechanism, and it only works if the tool is not crippled, so it is not.