Comparison

Overtime Live vs Nurse Pay

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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Know exactly what every shift is worth. Watch your pay tick up live on your Lock Screen, plan your work schedule in seconds and see your take-home pay before you say yes to overtime. Built by a shift worker, for shift workers. 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. The What-If calculator compares hours, rate and estimated take-home pay before you accept a shift, and the Take Home Pay card estimates what you actually keep after tax. Set your pay period to weekly, biweekly, monthly or a custom date and track every payday. BUILT FOR SHIFT WORK Handle the pay that office apps ignore: overtime multipliers like time and a half and double time, shift differentials, on-call days with separate callback pay, flat-rate sleep-ins, shifts with no set end that count up until you finish, and custom rates for any arrangement. Split a shift across different rates or an unpaid break and track comp time. Add expenses and receipt photos to any shift. PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE IN SECONDS Pick a popular rotation such as DuPont, Pitman or 4 on 4 off, or build your own and fill in weeks or months ahead. Save your usual shifts as templates, set reminders and see everything in month, week, day, agenda or full-screen calendar views. Overlap warnings, schedule export and iPhone calendar sync included. INSIGHTS, STATS & GOALS Explore a 12-month hours and earnings heatmap, track totals and averages, set a yearly goal and unlock achievements as your shifts add up. On compatible iPhones, optional Apple Intelligence creates a short personalized briefing on-device. YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY Your shift, pay and goal data stays on your device. Optional iCloud backup uses your personal iCloud account and keeps earlier copies automatically, so you can restore if you need to. Export your hours and pay history as CSV or a monthly PDF for taxes or bookkeeping. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL ONE-TIME PRO UNLOCK Shift tracking, live earnings, your schedule calendar, stats and iCloud backup are free. Your first 30 days include every Pro feature. After that, a one-time Pro purchase removes ads, adds the Apple Watch app and lifts the limits on What-If calculations, exports, expenses and pay period tracking. No subscription. WHO IT'S FOR Nurses, CNAs and caregivers. Police, EMTs and firefighters. Retail, restaurant and warehouse workers. 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, Spanish and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). Download Overtime Live and make every hour count.

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Nurse Pay

Features
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Know what the night is worth — before you work it. Nurse Pay turns any shift into a number: base pay, differentials, overtime, double time, holiday premium, and your real hourly rate. WHY IT EXISTS You are not paid one rate. You are paid a base rate, plus differentials that only apply to certain hours, plus overtime that depends on where the shift falls in your workweek — and for travel nurses, a low taxable rate wrapped in large untaxed stipends. The result is that most nurses cannot say what a shift will pay before they work it, or which of two contracts is actually worth more. Nurse Pay answers both questions. CALCULATE A SHIFT Enter the shift once and see the money broken out line by line: • Base hourly pay • Night, evening and weekend differentials • Charge, preceptor, float and custom differentials • Daily and weekly overtime • Double time • Holiday pay • Shift bonuses • Unpaid break deductions • Effective hourly rate for the whole shift Set your pay up once, and a shift takes seconds after that. OVERTIME THAT MATCHES YOUR EMPLOYER Generic paycheck calculators assume 40 hours and time and a half. Nurse Pay lets you set what your employer actually does: • Daily overtime after 8, 12 or any threshold — or none at all • Weekly overtime after 40 hours — or none • Your own overtime and double-time multipliers • Holiday multiplier • Whether differentials are blended into your overtime rate (the FLSA-style weighted regular rate) or premiums are paid on base only A shift that starts Saturday night and ends Sunday morning is split at the workweek boundary, so overtime counts in the week it belongs to. COMPARE TWO OFFERS Two contracts can look almost identical and pay very differently. Enter both and compare: • Taxable hourly pay • Guaranteed weekly hours • Housing stipend • Meals and incidentals stipend • Overtime • Sign-on and completion bonuses • Travel reimbursement • Contract length • Expected housing costs You get one answer: which offer pays more, by how much, and which line items decided it. The offer with the higher hourly rate is often not the one that pays more. PAY PERIODS Add the shifts in a pay period and see the total, with overtime carried across the full week instead of shift by shift, plus your effective rate for the period. YOUR NUMBERS STAY ON YOUR PHONE No sign-up. No employer login. No payroll connection. There is no Nurse Pay account and no Nurse Pay server — your rates and shifts live on your device. WHAT IS FREE, WHAT IS PRO Free: the full shift calculator with your own differentials and overtime rules, up to five saved shifts, and entering offers. Nurse Pay Pro adds side-by-side offer comparison, the pay-period calculator, percentage-of-base and time-window differentials, multiple pay profiles for different employers or units, and unlimited saved shifts and offers. Pro is a monthly or annual subscription. WHO IT IS FOR Staff nurses, travel nurses, PRN and per-diem nurses, night-shift and weekend-option nurses, and new grads reading a first contract. If you are paid hourly with differentials, overtime or bonuses, it works — RN, LPN and techs included. Nurse Pay produces estimates from the rates and rules you enter. Actual payroll, overtime, taxes, stipend treatment and employer policy may differ. Nurse Pay is not payroll and does not provide tax advice. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gabrielwpetersen.github.io/nurse-pay/privacy.html

Screenshots

Overtime Live4 screens
Nurse Pay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Nurse Pay at none against Overtime Live's shown. Nurse Pay also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Overtime Live's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. Overtime Live sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Nurse Pay sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Overtime Live ships an update every 3 weeks, Nurse Pay every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Overtime Live versus Nurse Pay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOvertime LiveNurse Pay
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndy MesaGabriel Petersen

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Overtime Live

One-time1
  • Overtime Live Pro$1.99
2 purchases

Nurse Pay

Subscriptions2
  • Nurse Pay Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Nurse Pay Pro - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Overtime Live free?
Overtime Live is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nurse Pay free?
Nurse Pay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Overtime Live or Nurse Pay have ads?
Overtime Live shows ads; Nurse Pay does not.
Which is updated more often, Overtime Live or Nurse Pay?
Overtime Live ships an update every 3 weeks, and Nurse Pay every 9 days. Most recently, Overtime Live was updated on October 30, 2026 and Nurse Pay on October 26, 2026.

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