Smart Pension vs NetPayDue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Pension
Manage your workplace pension savings with ease. Track your fund's performance in real-time, adjust contributions, and explore investment options. Access exclusive discounts and customer support directly from your phone.
- Real-time pension balance tracking
- Investment fund selection
- Contribution level adjustments
- Enhanced security features (Face ID, Touch ID)
- Access to exclusive discounts
- Live chat customer support
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The Smart Pension Employee App will transform the future of pension saving for a new generation. It allows you to pick and choose the most suitable investment funds, track your pension balance in real time on your phone and increase contribution levels when you can afford it. Engaging you with your pension like never before! Key features: 1. Enhanced security: • Face ID • Touch ID • Password 2. Real-time access to pension fund valuations, to check how much your pension pot is worth. 3. Immediate updating of fund selection, strategy & contributions. But that’s not all... It can also be used to: • Access to Smart Rewards for discounts across thousands of shops & websites • Access live chat with our dedicated customer service team • Read your notifications and letters • Manage your membership, update your personal details & your beneficiary's details • Change your security preferences Note: Currently, you must be a member of a Smart Pension workplace pension scheme to use this App.
NetPayDue
This app helps employers go paperless by securely delivering payslips and other employment documents to employees' mobile devices. It supports batch processing for various organizational needs, including pension contributions, and integrates with existing payroll systems.
- Paperless document delivery
- Secure cloud storage
- Payslip broadcasting
- CIS eStatement delivery
- Pension contribution management
- Integration with payroll systems
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Go paperless and environment friendly with NetPayDue and support your legal obligation as an employer by delivering your documents to Mobile securely over the cloud through https. NetPayDue can broadcast payslip, CIS eStatement on to Mobile and also send reminders. NetPayDue is an independent cloud based data interchange system which will seamlessly work with any Payroll / Accounting / VAT / Other Spreadsheet systems. Our system supports small to big organisations (batch processing) for Workplace Pension Assessments, Comm. letters, Pension calculations or just for eSubmitting your Workplace Pension Contribution data to various popular pension providers via one sign in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Smart Pension at every 5 weeks against NetPayDue's every 35 months. Smart Pension also leads on review sentiment (29% vs 0%). NetPayDue's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smart Pension ships an update every 5 weeks, NetPayDue every 35 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Pension | NetPayDue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 28.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Smart Pension Limited | NETPAYDUE.COM LIMITED |
Customer experience
Smart Pension
NetPayDue
Bugs and requests
Smart Pension
Reported bugs
47 issues- App crashes shortly after launch
- App never lets you update details
- Cannot log into the app after recent update
- App or website will not load
- Stuck on loading screen
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- Transaction or growth details not showing
- Redirected to transaction tab and stuck on loading wheel
- Cannot edit beneficiaries
- App opens website via browser embed and is glitchy
- Unable to access the App, stuck on Smart logo
- Takes forever to log in and stuck on login screen
- App hasn’t been able to pass the 1st screen
- Worked OK for a few months, now won’t open
- Not able to access account through the app for days
- Doesn’t function any longer
- Latest version doesn’t load up
- App is not loading
- App no longer works
- Won’t open beyond the company logo
- Stuck on the opening screen after update
- App literally “blue screens”
- App frequently freezes on a dark blue screen
- App freezes on opening screen
- App closes as soon as I try to open
- App freezes when it first opens or when using features
- App doesn’t fit properly on screen
- Have to close and reopen app to get back to main screen
- Back arrow at the top of screen, cannot press it
- Crashes out on load
- Crash upon first launch after install
- Takes ages to load and sometimes can’t log in
- Dashboard UI is like from 90’s
- Information missing, cannot update fund value
- Cannot find option to message customer service
- App stuck on a message with no back button
- Login with Google account not supported, app stuck on Google Developers website
- Hasn’t worked since getting iPhone 11
- Takes a long time to login
- Keeps logging out
- Error when logging in with normal details
- After updating, have to re-enter biometrics
- Login keeps asking for biometric and then password
- Can’t open app
- Cannot see beyond the front page
- App stops working
- Unable to login after upgrading
- App is slow
Requested features
5 requests- Show profit or loss on investment
- Receive notification for new contribution
- Improve app design and UI
- Implement in-app form for pension transfers
- Add dark mode
NetPayDue
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Smart Pension
No in-app purchases
NetPayDue
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Smart Pension free?
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Do Smart Pension or NetPayDue have ads?
Which is updated more often, Smart Pension or NetPayDue?
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