Comparison

Deputy vs Squeegee®

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Deputy

This app simplifies employee scheduling, time tracking, and workforce management for businesses. It allows for easy creation of balanced schedules, communication with staff, and integration with payroll systems. Employees can view their schedules, manage availability, and clock in/out.

Highlights
  • Create balanced, cost-effective schedules
  • Publish shift information via push notification
  • Fill open shifts with team pick-up
  • Approve leave and shift changes
  • Manage team communications and tasks
  • Track time and attendance
  • Integrate with payroll and POS systems
Features
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Deputy is the ultimate employee scheduling app, shift planner, staff timesheet app, & complete workforce management solution. Get started for free today! Over 250,000 workplaces in 90+ countries trust Deputy for their employee scheduling software, leave management, time & attendance tracking, team task management, staff communication, demand forecasting and performance management. HOW DEPUTY HELPS BUSINESSES ◆ Easily create balanced, cost-effective schedules in minutes from any device. ◆ Publish personalized shift information to your team via push notification, email, and SMS. ◆ Fill open shifts easily by pushing alerts to your team and letting them pick up available shifts. ◆ Approve leave from your mobile easily so you're never caught off guard. ◆ Quickly approve employee shift swaps and shift changes in seconds straight from a mobile device. ◆ Manage team communications easily in one place: broadcast announcements, assign tasks to specific individuals / shifts, and get confirmation that your team has seen it. ◆ Get greater insight and control of your business, and keep yourself compliant with inbuilt fair workweek compliance. ◆ Connect with your existing apps to give you end-to-end visibility. Deputy syncs with over 300+ of the world's most used solutions such as ADP, Square, QuickBooks, Xero, Gusto, NetSuite, Revel, LightSpeed and many more! HOW DEPUTY HELPS EMPLOYEES ◆ Get your work schedule on your device as soon as it’s published. ◆ View all your upcoming shifts in one place and receive alerts on days when you’re due to work. ◆ Manage your availability and time off easily, see what’s approved, and make it simple for your manager to know when you are and aren’t available. ◆ Clock in and out of work quickly from the app. ◆ See important company updates, manage your tasks and communicate with your team from your mobile device. TRY DEPUTY TODAY Setting up your business? Sign up for a free trial today. No setup fee. Pick the plan to suit your business: monthly, annually or flexi. Always know that you have the right people scheduled with our Shift Planner: Deputy makes it easy to create fully costed schedules in minutes, then notify staff when they’re working. Deputy will even automatically remind employees of their shifts on the morning that they are due to work. Manage employees’ leave requests or unavailability from a central location, then integrate with your online schedules so there’s no risk of scheduling someone who is not available. Need to be smart about staffing levels? Deputy integrates with your POS & payroll information to make sure you’re scheduling efficiently, and pulls in real-time weather information so you know if you need extra shifts or not! Clocking in to work is made simple with our time clock software, including GPS validation, to quickly track time and attendance (or optionally from a tablet Kiosk, using our inbuilt facial detection technology). Finalizing your timesheets and exporting to payroll can be done with one click from your mobile device. Joining an existing team? It's free - just log in. CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS “Straightaway, the time and attendance headache disappeared. There’s no need to manually enter data from one system to another. It’s all uploaded effortlessly. And on our tablets or phones, we can sign off timesheets with a swipe." "Everyone gets alerted to their shifts, which they can check on their smartphones. Everyone knows where they should be, when they should be there and what they should be doing." "Deputy has been a revelation for our business. We’re saving approximately $30,000 a year in admin costs alone. But even more importantly, we’re now able to optimize all shifts and staffing levels." ABOUT DEPUTY APP Our staff scheduling app is updated regularly to make sure we’re always providing the best and most flexible features to the businesses we work with. Any feedback? Need help? Email experience+ios@deputy.com Terms of Use: https://www.deputy.com/subscription-agreement

About

Squeegee®

This app is a comprehensive work planning platform designed for mobile service businesses. It helps manage bookings, payments, customer communication, and finances, streamlining operations for increased efficiency and productivity.

Highlights
  • Customer portal for bookings and invoices
  • Automated messaging and email templates
  • Payment processing and invoicing
  • Financial tracking and reporting
  • HMRC compliant VAT return software
  • Job scheduling and task assignment
  • Route optimization
Features
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Manage your mobile service business in one system for greater control and efficiency. The must have, work planning platform to boost productivity and keep admin time to a minimum. Designed for mobile service businesses of all sizes from window cleaners to pest control businesses, Squeegee can be used anywhere to give you real-time data whenever you need it. Deliver on customer expectation with easy communication through the customer portal and automated messaging. • Allow customers to manage bookings and view invoices • Scheduled messaging for reminders • Email templates to promote services Manage your business better with tools for handling finances, managing payments and invoicing as well as insightful reporting. • Track and monitor key metrics live • Process and track payments for smooth cashflow • Create and send bills for clients • Accurate record keeping • File VAT returns with our HMRC compliant software Streamline your workflow with solutions for scheduling, quoting, task assignment and routing of jobs. • Route optimisation for ultimate efficiency • Day pilot to view routes • Permissions and work assignment • Real time updates to keep one step ahead

Screenshots

Deputy4 screens
Squeegee®4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Deputy at 4.8 against Squeegee®'s 4.1. Deputy also leads on ratings volume (5.4K vs 22). Squeegee®'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (77% vs 59%). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Deputy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per month. Squeegee® asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Deputy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deputy has 5.4K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Deputy's written reviews are positive against 77% of Squeegee®'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Deputy versus Squeegee®: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeputySqueegee®
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.4K ratings) — better4.1 (22 ratings)
Positive reviews58.9% of reviews77.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.4K — better22
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size285 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDeputy.comNexdynamic LTD

Customer experience

Deputy

All ratings5,355 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral1.2%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews423 reviews
Positive58.9%
Neutral9.9%
Negative31.2%

Squeegee®

All ratings22 ratings
Positive77.3%
Neutral9.1%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews84 reviews
Positive77.4%
Neutral4.8%
Negative17.9%

User reviews

Deputy

From 5.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Convenient for scheduling and timekeeping
  • 👍 Helpful for managing staff
  • 👍 Reliable and efficient

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🐛 Unreliable location tracking
  • 🐛 Inconsistent performance after updates
  • 🔍 Limited customization options
  • 💰 Expensive for some businesses

Squeegee®

From 22 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive
  • 🚀 Efficient scheduling and route planning
  • 💰 Great value for money
  • 📈 Helps business grow and organize
  • 📧 Professional invoicing and payments

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Too many bugs and issues
  • 💸 Costly subscription
  • 🤔 Not intuitive for some users
  • ⚠️ Route planning is terrible
  • frustrating updates

Bugs and requests

Deputy

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes or freezes frequently
  • Timesheets not accurately recording hours worked
  • Shift scheduling issues after updates
  • Notification system not reliable

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to cancel shifts
  • Improve communication features between employees
  • Provide more detailed reporting and analytics
  • Allow employees to view their leave balances
  • Integrate with more payroll/HR systems

Squeegee®

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Route planning is awful
  • App crashes a lot
  • Map integration bringing up different locations
  • Duplicate future appointments created
  • Cloud sync broken
Show 15 more
  • Cannot invoice completed work
  • Work or customer details not saved to cloud
  • Data gone / disappeared
  • Crashing and map integration not working
  • Occasional glitches
  • Workers: maximum number of workers is 1
  • App crashes when adding new customers
  • Map integration not working
  • Duplicate future appointment bug
  • UI is an absolute mess
  • Payment foolery
  • Cannot use if work is identical each time
  • Entering Tuesday shows Monday
  • Bugs galore, need to close and re-open
  • Cannot find option to go premium

Requested features

12 requests
  • Allow multiple workers
  • Improve route planning
  • More reasonable monthly price
  • Organize customers by due date
  • US payment integration
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  • Different version of 'rounds' selection
  • Reminders for specific cleaning tasks
  • Assign a picture to each customer
  • Patient to accept or decline quotes
  • Ability to cancel a job
  • Motifs rooms/notifications for upcoming jobs
  • Add simple inventory features

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Deputy

Subscriptions2
  • 10 users1 Month trial$59.991 Month
  • 25 users1 Month trial$144.991 Month
None

Squeegee®

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Deputy free?
Deputy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Squeegee® free?
Squeegee® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Deputy or Squeegee®?
Deputy is rated higher. Deputy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.4K ratings, while Squeegee® averages 4.1 from 22 ratings.
Do Deputy or Squeegee® have ads?
Neither Deputy nor Squeegee® shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deputy or Squeegee®?
Deputy ships an update weekly, and Squeegee® weekly. Most recently, Deputy was updated on September 24, 2026 and Squeegee® on August 30, 2026.

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