The short version
GetCleanFlow is built around the core admin of a cleaning round: the calendar, the client list, the invoice, the timer. Judged on that, it covers the ground and a solo cleaner would not obviously want for anything.
CleanFlo covers the same ground and then keeps going into the things that only start to matter once you have staff and commercial clients: health and safety documentation, an offline multilingual app for the people holding the mop, waste transfer notes, a client portal, and a flat price that does not move when you hire.
If you are one person cleaning houses, the extra is weight you are carrying for nothing, and you should buy on price. If you have three cleaners and a contract that asks for a risk assessment, it is the whole reason to switch. The one-person argument is written out in full on our price page, including where to look instead.
Pricing: the models, not the prices
We do not publish competitors' prices anywhere on this site. They change without notice, and GetCleanFlow's headline rate is explicitly an introductory one for a limited number of sign-ups with a higher standard rate published behind it, so any figure we printed would be wrong before long. Check their pricing page for what it costs today.
The models are worth comparing, and they are genuinely different. GetCleanFlow charges a base fee for the account holder plus a further monthly charge for each additional team member. CleanFlo charges £19.99 a month for the company, with unlimited staff, clients and locations, and no per-seat charge of any kind.
Which is cheaper depends on headcount and on which of their two rates you were given, because they publish two: a founder rate capped at a fixed number of sign-ups and locked for life to whoever claims one, and a standard rate that takes over once those are gone. On the founder rate there is a crossover a few people up, and below it their plan genuinely wins. On the standard rate the base is the same monthly figure as ours before you have added a single person, and each team member after that is a charge on their side and nothing on ours. Rather than assert where the line falls, we built a cost calculator that runs on the rate you have actually been quoted.
The structural point is simple enough: on a per-member plan, hiring a cleaner is also a purchasing decision. On a flat one, it is not. Whether that matters is a question about your next two years rather than your next month.
Health and safety, which is the real dividing line
This is the largest single difference between the two products, and it is the one most likely to decide the question for anyone doing commercial work.
UK cleaning contractors are routinely asked for site-specific risk assessments and method statements during a tender, for COSHH assessments covering the chemicals they use, and for evidence that incidents get logged and audits happen. Facilities managers and letting agents ask for this as a matter of course, and increasingly will not award work without it.
CleanFlo holds all of that against the sites and jobs it relates to: risk assessments scored on a 5×5 hazard matrix, method statements you can attach to a bid, incidents logged by severity, scheduled audits, a live compliance score, and waste transfer notes with the carrier and consignment code retained for the statutory period.
GetCleanFlow publishes no health and safety features on its site: not risk assessments, not RAMS, not COSHH, not incident logging. That is not a criticism of a product aimed at solo domestic cleaners, most of whom are never asked for any of it. It is a straightforward statement of fit: if you are bidding for offices, it is the thing you would have to solve elsewhere.
The cleaner's phone, which nobody buys and everybody uses
Both products give cleaners a mobile view of their jobs. Two differences are worth knowing about because they are invisible until the day they matter.
Signal. Cleaning happens in basements, plant rooms, stairwells and back-of-house corridors, which is exactly where mobile signal fails. CleanFlo's cleaner app works offline by default: checklists, photographs, start and finish times all queue on the phone and sync when the signal returns. GetCleanFlow describes a mobile-friendly web app and does not publish offline capability. A web app with no signal is a blank screen, and the cleaner falls back to ringing you.
Language. A substantial share of the UK cleaning workforce does not have English as a first language. CleanFlo's cleaner app ships in 27 languages and matches the phone's own setting, so nobody has to choose anything. GetCleanFlow does not publish multi-language support.
Neither of these is what an owner is shopping for at 22:00, which is precisely why they are worth pointing at. They are the two things that decide whether the software survives contact with the people actually using it.
Where GetCleanFlow is the better answer
A comparison page that cannot name a single thing the other product does better is one you should not believe, so here is ours, and it is a real one.
If you clean on your own and intend to keep doing so, and you can still claim their founder rate, it will cost you less than £19.99 a month, and everything above about compliance, offline sync and 27 languages is weight you would be carrying for no reason. Buy on price and spend the difference on advertising. Check which rate you are being offered first: the founder one is capped at a stated number of sign-ups, and the standard rate behind it starts level with ours and then charges for each person you add.
GetCleanFlow also sells internationally. CleanFlo is UK-only and deliberately so: VAT at 20% or switched off entirely if you are not registered, BACS with payment references, UK health and safety practice and English-language support in UK hours. If you are cleaning in Dublin, Toronto or Sydney, we are not a candidate and GetCleanFlow is.
Where this lands
These are not really the same product competing on quality; they are two products aimed at different sizes of the same business. The dividing line is the first commercial contract, and a headcount that depends on which of their two rates you were given.
A per-member price looks cheaper on your own and compounds with every hire, which is the direction most cleaning businesses are heading rather than away from. On their standard rate it compounds from the first hire, because the base is already level with ours.
After it, the per-member charge starts compounding, somebody asks for a risk assessment, and a cleaner stands in a basement with no signal. Those three things arrive at roughly the same time in a cleaning business's life, and they are what CleanFlo is built for.
CleanFlo offers a 14-day free trial with no card, and there is a read-only demo you can open now without signing up for anything. Put one real week of your actual schedule in and see how much of your Sunday it gives back.