Overtime Live vs LohnTicker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Overtime Live
Track your earnings in real-time directly on your iPhone Lock Screen. This app visualizes your pay, overtime, and take-home pay after estimated taxes. It helps manage complex pay structures and plan your schedule.
- Live earnings on Lock Screen
- Real-time pay calculation
- Take-home pay estimator
- Overtime and unsocial hours tracking
- Rota planning and calendar sync
- Shift insights and goal tracking
- Data export (CSV)
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Start your shift and watch your pay climb in real time, right on your iPhone Lock Screen. Overtime Live turns every extra hour into live earnings, countdowns and satisfying stats. Free, no subscription, no sign-up. YOUR EARNINGS, LIVE ON THE LOCK SCREEN The moment you start a shift, a Live Activity shows your pay ticking up and the time left, without opening the app. On iPhone 14 Pro and later it appears in the Dynamic Island too. WATCH YOUR PAY TICK UP Enter your hourly rate and Overtime Live counts your earnings up second by second, with overtime tracked separately from regular hours. KNOW YOUR REAL TAKE-HOME PAY See past the gross figure. A built-in tax and take-home estimator and an on-screen Take Home Pay card show what you actually keep, so you know exactly what an overtime shift is worth after tax. Set your pay period to weekly, fortnightly, monthly or a custom date and track every payday. BUILT FOR SHIFT WORKERS Handle the pay that office apps ignore: overtime multipliers (Time and a Third, Time and a Half, Double), unsocial hours enhancements, on-call days with separate call-out pay, and custom rates for any arrangement. Add expenses to any shift and attach photos like receipts to keep your records in one place. PLAN YOUR ROTA Plan with month, week, day and agenda views. Build your shift pattern once and let the app fill in weeks or months ahead, warn about overlaps and export your schedule. Sync shifts to your iPhone calendar and get a notification the moment a shift starts. INSIGHTS, STATS & GOALS See clear patterns across your hours, pay and goals, explore a 12-month activity heatmap and use the What-If calculator to model extra shifts. On compatible iPhones, optional Apple Intelligence creates a short personalised briefing on-device. Standard insights remain available at all times. Track total earnings, hours and averages, set a yearly goal and unlock achievements as your shifts add up. YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY Your shift, pay and goal data stays on your device. Optional iCloud backup uses your personal iCloud account, and Apple Intelligence briefings run on-device. Export your full hours and pay history as CSV or monthly PDF anytime for tax returns or bookkeeping. It is your data. FREE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO ADS IN THE WAY. Core features are free, with a one-time No Ads unlock if you want it. No monthly fee, no paywall on the things that matter. WHO IT'S FOR Nurses, doctors and carers. Police, paramedics and firefighters. Retail, hospitality and warehouse staff. Security, delivery drivers and gig workers. Anyone paid by the hour who wants to see what their time is really worth. Available in English, German and Spanish. Download Overtime Live and make every hour count.
LohnTicker
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LohnTicker shows you what you are earning right now. Clock in and watch your pay grow live, with the tax-free premiums for Sunday, public holiday and night work already included. Built for shift work in care, production, logistics and hospitality. HOW IT WORKS • Clock in and out, also with Siri or a Shortcut; enter breaks by hand or let the app estimate the statutory minimum rest break. • Live ticker with running gross and estimated net pay. • Sunday, holiday and night premiums per § 3b of the German Income Tax Act, calculated tax-free. • Expected monthly net that you put together yourself: show or hide planned shifts, vacation, sick leave, bonus and reimbursements. • Daily and monthly overview of what adds up and what comes off. HONEST NUMBERS LohnTicker uses the official 2026 figures (income tax per the German Federal Ministry of Finance calculation scheme, social contributions, § 3b). The net figure in the ticker is an estimate for the live feel, not a replacement for your payslip. Always check your numbers against your employer's statement. SHIFT ROSTER Plan your shifts ahead. Build the roster for a whole month from your templates, as a fixed week or a rolling rotation (week by week too), or extend your most recently planned rhythm in one step. Turn a planned shift into a logged one with a tap. Export the plan to your Apple Calendar and get reminders. The planned-versus-actual view shows where you worked longer or shorter than planned. TOOLS • Vacation: record vacation days with the continued daily earnings; flows into your monthly result on an hourly wage. You decide how many hours a day of absence counts towards your monthly target. • Sick leave: record sick leave periods with continued pay; the app derives the paid working days, with a note about the six-week limit. No health data; flows into your monthly result on an hourly wage. • Bonus and special payment: record bonuses and Christmas pay, treated as a non-recurring payment (difference method) and charged social contributions under the one-time-payment rule. • Travel expenses and per diems, domestic and abroad. • Commute costs: business trips and the German commuter allowance. • Gross-to-net calculator and pension-payment handling. ON EVERY DEVICE • Apple Watch with live ticker and complication. • Live Activity and Dynamic Island during your shift. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. • iPhone and iPad; on Apple silicon Macs it runs as the iPad app. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything stays on your device and, when you are signed in to iCloud, encrypted in your private iCloud. No servers of our own, no tracking, no sharing. Without iCloud everything stays local. FREE AND PREMIUM Free gives you the live ticker, also on Apple Watch and as a widget, plus the daily and monthly dashboard for the current and previous month, the working time check under the German Working Hours Act, the roster, the vacation and sick-leave tools, the calculators, the export of your own data and the § 3b calculation with your paid premium rates. Premium unlocks the yearly views including the annual statement for your tax return, the § 3b fine-tuned rates (core night and high public holidays), additional jobs, costing an extra shift, and the travel, commute and bonus tools. The subscription keeps your calculations current every year: new tax and social-security values, public holidays and travel allowances. The lifetime purchase receives the same updates permanently with a single payment. LohnTicker is not a substitute for tax advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LohnTicker at none against Overtime Live's 1. LohnTicker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). Overtime Live's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Overtime Live sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LohnTicker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Overtime Live ships an update every 10 days, LohnTicker daily. The most recent releases landed on August 20, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Overtime Live | LohnTicker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andy Mesa | Marvin Damir Sehic |
In-app purchases
Overtime Live
- No Ads$0.99
LohnTicker
No in-app purchases









