Both are built in the UK for UK cleaners, so the usual argument about VAT and BACS does not separate them. What separates them is size. Cleenie is cheaper for a solo cleaner and says so plainly; this page says so too, and then says where the line is.
Checked against their own site on 6 September 2026 No competitor prices quoted. They change
Feature comparison
Cleenie is UK cleaning business software for solo cleaners and small teams: scheduling, customer records with keys and lockbox codes, PDF quotes, team logins, and VAT invoicing as a paid step, all in the browser.
Capability
CleanFlo
Cleenie
Built for UK cleaning
Yes, UK only
Yes, UK only
Scheduling
Day, week and month; one-off and recurring jobs across sites
List and calendar views, repeat bookings, jobs assigned to team members
Keys and access
Every key, fob and card, and who is carrying each one today, plus access codes on the site record
Keys, lockbox codes and access instructions held against each customer
Quotes and invoicing
Quotes and VAT invoices with BACS and a payment reference, in the one price
PDF quotes on every band; invoicing on the bands that include it
Health & safety / RAMS
A scored 5×5 hazard matrix with residual scoring, incidents, audits and a 0-100 compliance score
Not listed in their features
Waste transfer notes
Carrier registration checked against the regulator, retained two years
Not listed in their features
Offline working
Offline by default; checklists, photos and times queue and sync on reconnect
Runs in the browser; offline working not published
Languages in the cleaner app
27, matched to the phone
Not published
Stock, equipment and vehicles
Chemicals, PPE and equipment, and a vehicle register that chases MOT, tax and insurance dates
Not listed in their features
Pricing model
One flat price for the company with everything in it
Bands, split by solo or team and by whether you want invoicing
or Open the demo account, no signup · no account · read-only · straight into a filled-in company
What you might have heard about Cleenie
Cleenie is cheaper, and both of us are UK products.
Both true. On their solo band they cost less than this does and there is no argument to make about VAT or BACS, because they handle those too. The question is not which is cheaper today, it is what you are buying the second cleaner and the first office contract with. Here that costs nothing extra: the price is flat and unlimited, and the compliance side is already in the account doing nothing until it is asked for.
Their invoicing is an optional band, so I only pay for it if I need it.
Which is a fair way to price a product for solo cleaners, and it means the decision arrives twice: once when you start invoicing and again when you take somebody on. CleanFlo has one price with everything in it, so there is nothing to upgrade to and no band to notice at the wrong moment. Whether that is better depends on whether you would rather pay less now or decide less later.
Cleenie runs in the browser, with nothing to install.
So does this. What is worth asking about either product is what happens when the signal goes, because cleaning happens in basements, plant rooms and back-of-house corridors. CleanFlo’s cleaner app works offline by default: checklists, photographs and start and finish times queue on the phone and sync when the signal returns. Cleenie does not publish offline working. A browser tab with no signal is a blank screen, and the cleaner rings you instead.
My cleaners all speak English.
Today. A substantial share of the UK cleaning workforce does not, and the person holding the phone is never the person who chose the software. CleanFlo’s cleaner app ships in 27 languages and follows the phone’s own setting, so nobody has to pick anything. It is not something an owner shops for at ten at night, which is exactly why it is worth pointing at.
Buy Cleenie instead if…
One reason, and it is the strongest one on this page.
You clean on your own and you invoice somewhere else. Their solo band without invoicing is the cheapest product named anywhere on this site, ours included, and it carries the calendar, the customer list, the keys and lockbox codes and PDF quotes. If that is your whole business, buy it and spend the difference on advertising.
You want the smallest possible thing. Everything CleanFlo adds after that, the compliance file, the waste notes, the stock and PPE, the vehicle register, the offline app in 27 languages, is weight if nobody has asked you for any of it, and nobody asks a solo domestic cleaner for a risk assessment until the day somebody does.
Switching
You do not have to retype your book
A spreadsheet, a CSV, an export from whatever you use now: send it over and we put your clients, sites, services and staff into your account during the 14-day trial, at no charge. What we cannot do for you is the half that is actually yours: the keys, the alarm codes and the access notes against each site. Budget an evening for those. Most businesses run CleanFlo alongside their old system for a fortnight rather than switching in one go.
Two UK products, so the usual argument does not apply
Most pages in this file spend their first section on the same thing: VAT at 20% or off entirely, BACS with a payment reference, UK practice rather than a regional setting. Against Cleenie that argument is void. They are a UK company building for UK cleaners, they invoice with VAT, and they say so on their own homepage.
What is left is genuinely about size and about what a cleaning business needs on the day somebody asks it for something. That is a narrower argument than this site usually makes and it is the honest one here.
Where the line actually falls
Three things arrive at roughly the same point in a cleaning business, and they arrive together more often than anyone expects. The first employee you have to tell where to go and give a login to. The first client, usually an office, a letting agent or a block of flats, who asks for a risk assessment and proof of insurance before they will sign. And the first cleaner who stands in a basement with no signal and rings you because the app has gone blank.
Before those, Cleenie is a smaller, cheaper, well-shaped tool and this page will not pretend otherwise. After them, the differences stop being features on a list: a compliance file that produces evidence for a tender, waste transfer notes with the carrier checked against the regulator, stock and PPE, a vehicle register that chases its own MOT dates, and a cleaner app that works with no signal in the language the cleaner reads.
The flat price is what stops the decision having to be made twice. Hiring is not a purchasing decision here, and neither is starting to invoice.
Where this lands
If you are a solo cleaner who invoices elsewhere, buy theirs. It is cheaper, it is UK-built, and the keys and lockbox codes are the part you will actually use every day.
If you have staff, or you are bidding for work that comes with paperwork, or your cleaners work where the signal fails, this is the product built for that, at one flat price with nothing counted. Both trials run 14 days. Put the same awkward week into each and see which one asks you to type the same client name twice.
Frequently asked questions
01Is CleanFlo a good Cleenie alternative?
For a cleaning business with staff or commercial clients, yes: RAMS and risk assessments scored on a 5×5, incidents and audits, waste transfer notes, stock and PPE, vehicles, and an offline cleaner app in 27 languages, all inside one flat price with invoicing included. For a solo domestic cleaner who invoices elsewhere, Cleenie is cheaper and this page says so plainly.
02Which is cheaper, CleanFlo or Cleenie?
Cleenie, on their entry band, and by a clear margin: their solo plan without invoicing is the cheapest product named anywhere on this site. We do not print either of their figures because bands change. What does not change is the shape: theirs splits by whether you are solo or a team and by whether you want invoicing, and CleanFlo is one price with everything in it and no cap on staff, clients or sites.
03Does Cleenie do RAMS and risk assessments?
Not that they publish. Their site lists scheduling, customers, keys and lockbox codes, quotes, invoicing and team management, with no health and safety module described. If you are bidding for commercial, school or facilities-management work where site-specific RAMS and COSHH assessments are asked for at tender, that is the gap to check before committing.
04Do both work offline?
CleanFlo’s cleaner app works offline by default and syncs when the signal returns, which matters because cleaning happens in basements and plant rooms. Cleenie describes a browser-based app with nothing to install and does not publish offline working. Test it on a real site during both free trials rather than taking either description on trust.
05Can I move from Cleenie to CleanFlo without retyping everything?
Yes. A spreadsheet, a CSV, an export from whatever you use now: send it over and we put your clients, sites, services and staff into your account during the 14-day trial, at no charge. What we cannot do for you is the half that is actually yours: the keys, the alarm codes and the access notes against each site. Budget an evening for those. Most businesses run CleanFlo alongside their old system for a fortnight rather than switching in one go.
