Comparison

Overtime Live vs PayJar

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.

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

Overtime Live4 screens
PayJar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PayJar at none against Overtime Live's shown. PayJar also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Overtime Live's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Overtime Live sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PayJar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Overtime Live against 5.0 for PayJar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Overtime Live ships an update every 3 weeks, PayJar weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Overtime Live versus PayJar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOvertime LivePayJar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndy MesaMaurizzio Penalba

Customer experience

Overtime Live

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PayJar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Overtime Live

One-time1
  • Overtime Live Pro$1.99
1 purchases

PayJar

One-time1
  • PayJar Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Overtime Live free?
Overtime Live is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PayJar free?
PayJar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Overtime Live or PayJar?
Overtime Live and PayJar are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Overtime Live or PayJar have ads?
Overtime Live shows ads; PayJar does not.
Which is updated more often, Overtime Live or PayJar?
Overtime Live ships an update every 3 weeks, and PayJar weekly. Most recently, Overtime Live was updated on October 8, 2026 and PayJar on October 22, 2026.

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