Salary Recorder (Android)
An Android app for recording your monthly pay slips and summarizing and charting them by item.
By entering the data on your pay slip — such as base salary, income tax, and social insurance — every month, this app lets you see the trends and totals of your payments, deductions, and net pay at a glance. Item names are fully customizable, so you can track not only your salary but also income from side jobs, investments, and more. This guide walks you through everything from the basics to the handy features, in order, so even first-time users won't get lost.
1. Screen basics
You mainly operate the app on the following three screens. Settings and data management are opened from the ☰ Menu (menu button) at the top left of the screen.
2. Getting started (3 steps)
You can record your first salary data in the following three steps.
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Match the item names to your own pay slip
Open the ☰ Menu at the top left → “Item Setting”, and rename the items to match your employer's pay slip. Pay-slip items vary by employer, so it's best to set these up first. (You can still enter data with the default names.)
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Tap a month to enter data
On the Home screen, tap the month you want to record. Tap the Input button at the bottom right of the entry screen to reveal “Payment”, “Deduction”, “Day/Time”, and “Note”, then choose one and enter amounts or times.
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Check trends with summaries and charts
Once you enter data, the yearly totals and per-item charts are displayed. Check the trends of your payments, deductions, and net pay from the toolbar's Graph or the summary at the top of the Home screen.
3. Home screen (Records)
This is the first screen shown when you launch the app. One year's worth of records (January–December) is listed.
How to read the screen
Shows the totals of “Payment”, “Deduction”, and “Net” for that year. Tap each label to jump to the per-item chart.
Each month's payment, deduction, and net pay are listed. Tap a heading (Year / Month / Payment / Deduction / Net) to sort.
Flick left or right to move to the previous or next year.
Tap a month to open the entry screen, where you can enter and review that month's breakdown.
Toolbar buttons
4. Entering data
This screen opens when you tap a month on the Home screen. It is divided into “Payment”, “Deduction”, “Day/Time”, and “Note”.
How to enter
Tap the “Input” button at the bottom right to expand “Payment”, “Deduction”, “Day/Time”, and “Note”. Choose a category and enter a value.
Long-press an item in the list to quickly edit its value.
Flick left or right to move to the previous or next month.
From “Subtotal” in the toolbar, you can select items and calculate their total. Use the Note field to freely record memos.
Default items
Payment, Deduction, and Day/Time come with the following items by default (all names can be changed).
| Category | Item names (default) |
|---|---|
| Payment | Base Salary / Overtime Pay / Commissions / Bonuses / Housing Allowance / Transportation Allowance |
| Deduction | Federal Income Tax / State Income Tax / Social Security Tax / Medicare Tax / Health Ins. Premiums / Life Ins. Premiums / Retirement Plan Contributions |
| Day/Time | Sick Leave / Paid Leave / Regular Hours / Overtime Hours / Holiday Hours |
| Extra | ex1 / ex2 / ex3 |
5. Charts (Analysis)
A screen for reviewing your recorded data with charts and summaries. Open it from the toolbar's Graph, or from Graph by Year in the menu. You can check payments, deductions, day/time, and more per item.
Shows the proportion of each item as a pie chart.
Compare the breakdown with a color-coded bar chart per item.
With records for several years, you can view per-item trends as a line chart.
Check the increase or decrease compared with the previous year, or a total of selected items (Subtotal).
7. Item Setting
In “Item Setting” from the menu, you can rename items for payment, deduction, and day/time, and toggle which items are totaled and charted.
8. Useful features & tips
Backup & Restore
From “Backup & Restore” in the menu, you can save and restore data. There are two save destinations.
Import & Export
With “Export”, you can output data as TSV / JSON files (email is used). With “Import”, you can bring in data from a saved JSON file. Since importing overwrites data, we recommend backing up beforehand.
Notifications (avoid forgetting to enter data)
To avoid forgetting to enter data, you can send a reminder notification at the end of the month. Important announcements are also delivered from time to time. You can change whether notifications are shown at any time from “Notifications” in the menu.
PIN Lock
A setting that asks for a passcode at app launch. Useful if you don't want others to see your salary information.
Language & Currency, and theme
With “Language & Currency”, you can change the display language and the currency format (number of decimal places, etc.). With “Select Theme”, you can switch to your preferred color scheme.
Using multiple data sets
With “Switch Data”, you can use multiple data sets. For example, you can record “Main salary”, “Side job”, and “Investment” separately.
9. About removing ads
From “Remove Ads” in the menu, you can hide ads via a subscription. Once purchased, ads no longer appear, and you can also set the “PIN Lock”.
10. Frequently asked questions
Income tax can be negative in the year-end adjustment. Can I enter negative values?
Can I also record past data, such as the previous year?
Can I change the item names to match my own pay slip?
I'm changing my device. Can I transfer my data?
I want to remove ads / set a PIN Lock.
* The content and screen names in this guide may change with app updates. For the latest changes, please see the Release Notes.