Comparison

StaffPay vs ClearSalary

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

Head to head
About

StaffPay

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StaffPay helps business owners manage staff attendance, salaries, and payments with clarity and control. Stop relying on spreadsheets or manual calculations. StaffPay brings everything together in one simple, reliable app. KEY FEATURES - Attendance Tracking Mark daily attendance with present, half-day, absent, or leave status. - Salary Calculation Automatically calculate salaries based on attendance and pay structure. - Advance Management Record salary advances and deduct them accurately during playouts. - Payment Overview See total payable amounts, paid staff, and pending payments at a glance. - Staff Management Organize staff by departments and track individual salary details. - Monthly Reports View attendance and salary summaries using clean calendar and breakdown views. BUILT FOR ALL TYPES OF BUSINESSES StaffPay is ideal for shops, hotels, hostels, offices, factories, service teams, and any business managing staff regularly. SECURE & RELIABLE Your data is securely stored and used only for essential app functionality. We do not sell or misuse user information. Start managing your staff the smarter way with StaffPay.

About

ClearSalary

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ClearSalary is a simple salary ledger for very small businesses โ€” the kind with 2 to 10 staff, run by an owner who's tired of tracking who's owed what across WhatsApp messages, a notebook, or memory. ClearSalary answers one question clearly: how much do I owe each staff member today? It is not payroll software โ€” there's no tax filing, no statutory compliance, no payslip law to navigate. Just salary, loans, deductions, and payment history, kept simple. WHAT YOU CAN DO โ€ข Staff Ledger โ€” a running record of every entry for each staff member, with a live balance. โ€ข Loan Book โ€” give a staff member a loan, record repayments, and always see what's still outstanding. Kept separate from salary deductions, so the two never get confused. โ€ข Salary Deductions โ€” record a deduction against a month's salary in a tap. โ€ข Salary Slips โ€” ClearSalary works out what's due each month automatically. Mark a slip Paid when you pay, and optionally recover a loan instalment from it. โ€ข Attendance & Leave โ€” mark leaves and see them reflected on the salary slip. โ€ข Staff Overview โ€” see your whole team at a glance, with a clear "Paid" or "Due" status for each person. โ€ข Available in English and Hindi. HOW IT WORKS Sign up with your name, business name, and phone number โ€” no password, just a one-time code sent by SMS. Add your staff, record salaries, loans, and payments as they happen, and ClearSalary keeps the running total for you. Staff can also log in with their own phone number to see their own salary and loan history โ€” read-only, and only their own. WHO IT'S FOR Restaurant, cafรฉ, salon, shop, garage, and workshop owners โ€” any small business owner who currently tracks staff salary and loans by hand and wants something simpler, without switching to full payroll software they don't need. PRICING ClearSalary is free to use while we're building it out. There is nothing to buy inside the app. Questions or feedback? Write to us at support@clearsalary.in.

Screenshots

StaffPay4 screens
ClearSalary4 screens

Verdict

The call

StaffPay and ClearSalary are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
StaffPay versus ClearSalary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStaffPayClearSalary
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size48 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSai ManikantaSagar Apte

In-app purchases

None

StaffPay

No in-app purchases

None

ClearSalary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StaffPay free?
StaffPay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ClearSalary free?
ClearSalary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do StaffPay or ClearSalary have ads?
Neither StaffPay nor ClearSalary shows ads.

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