Comparison

Payroo vs PayJar

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

Head to head
About

Payroo

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Payroo offers a simple and easy-to-use payroll experience, letting you conveniently manage all your payroll needs right from your phone – anywhere, anytime. - View and download all your payslips anytime. - Create, view, and edit your timesheets and leave requests. - Update your personal information, including bank and super fund details. - Get a summary of your payslips, timesheets, leaves, and financial year overview. - Get notified about new payslips and status updates to your timesheets and leaves. - Switch between multiple organisations if you work for more than one that uses Payroo. - Easily manage your account settings from the Payroo app. - Safely and securely access your account with FaceID. You can also use the app with full Chinese support!

About

PayJar

Easily track your shifts, tips, and overtime to accurately calculate your earnings. This app helps tipped workers understand their real hourly rate and verify their paychecks against their logged hours. It also handles complex overtime rules and differentials for accurate wage calculation.

Highlights
  • Track cash and card tips
  • Calculate tip-outs
  • Real hourly rate calculation
  • Minimum wage verification
  • Overtime and double time tracking
  • Shift start/end clocking
  • Paycheck verification
Features
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Know what you made tonight. Not on payday. After a double, nobody wants to do math. So the tips end up on a napkin and payday ends up a surprise. PayJar keeps every shift and every tip in one place, does the math, and tells you when your check comes up short. MADE FOR TIPPED WORK • Cash tips, card tips and your share of the tip pool on every shift • Tip-out to the bar, bussers or kitchen, as an amount or a percentage of sales or tips • Your real hourly rate: wages plus tips, minus tip-out • Your state's minimum wage and tipped wage. If a slow week leaves you under the minimum, you see what your employer has to make up • Best days, cash vs. card and a year-end summary IS YOUR CHECK RIGHT? Type in the gross on your paycheck. PayJar compares it with the hours you logged and says it straight: it matches, or "You were underpaid by $38.40." Wage Check is free. OVERTIME, DONE RIGHT • Weekly overtime after 40 hours, on from the start • Daily overtime and double time for states that have them, like California • An hour already paid as daily overtime isn't counted again for the week • On a tipped wage, overtime is figured on the full minimum wage, not on $2.13 • Night, weekend and holiday differentials, if your job pays them • Every shift shows how its pay was worked out CLOCKING IN SHOULDN'T BE MORE WORK • One tap to start or end a shift, with Undo in case you tap by mistake • Forgot to clock in? Start the shift at the time you really walked in • Breaks, manual or automatic (for example, 30 minutes after 6 hours) • Quick shifts for the ones you work every week • A close that runs past midnight counts for the day it started • Weekly, biweekly, every 4 weeks, twice a month or monthly pay periods YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no ads • Your hours, pay, tips and notes stay on your iPhone, with backup to your own iCloud • Excel and CSV export, always free • Anonymous usage stats and crash reports help us fix what breaks. They never include amounts, job names or notes, and you can turn them off in Settings PAYJAR PRO: PAY ONCE One-time purchase, no subscription. Unlimited jobs with their own rates, bonuses and deductions, PDF timesheets, charts by job and every future Pro feature. In English, Spanish and Japanese. PayJar estimates your gross pay (before taxes) for your own records. It isn't legal or tax advice.

Screenshots

Payroo4 screens
PayJar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Payroo at none against PayJar's 1. PayJar's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. PayJar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Payroo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Payroo ships an update every 6 weeks, PayJar weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Payroo versus PayJar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPayrooPayJar
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPayroo Australia PTY LTDMaurizzio Penalba

In-app purchases

None

Payroo

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PayJar

One-time1
  • PayJar Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Payroo free?
Payroo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PayJar free?
PayJar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Payroo or PayJar have ads?
Neither Payroo nor PayJar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Payroo or PayJar?
Payroo ships an update every 6 weeks, and PayJar weekly. Most recently, Payroo was updated on October 27, 2026 and PayJar on October 31, 2026.

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