Keeple vs. Breathe

For small and medium-sized businesses, managing employee leave and absences can quickly become an overwhelming challenge for staff, supervisors, and HR teams alike. Keeple offers a cutting-edge solution for leave and absence management that streamlines the process for various types of leave, such as vacations, sick days, special leave, and parental leave. Our clients consistently praise the software's intuitive interface, which fosters a smooth and efficient experience for all employees involved. Submitting an expense report has never been easier—simply snap a photo, and our software will promptly recognize and extract crucial information like the date, amount, VAT (even when multiple rates apply), vendor details, fuel quantities, meal categories, gratuities, and tourist taxes within just 0.8 seconds! If you oversee mileage reimbursements or per diem allocations, our enhanced expense report module seamlessly incorporates all your allowance rates and leverages Google Maps for automated calculations. With our feature for legal compliance archiving, the need for physical document storage is eliminated, simplifying the management of business expenses significantly. This innovation ultimately frees up valuable time for what truly counts—focusing on the expansion and success of your enterprise. Additionally, Keeple's commitment to ongoing updates ensures that your business stays current with the latest regulatory requirements and user needs.

If your employee details are spread across spreadsheets, emails and disconnected apps, Breathe brings them together. It's a UK HR platform launched in 2012 for small and medium-sized businesses. More than 17,000 of them use it, along with over 1,000 UK HR consultancies. Three everyday HR problems Breathe fixes Information everywhere: one central, accurate record for every employee. Endless chasing: staff book leave, sign documents electronically and follow shared workflows. A small HR team: start with the essentials and add more as you grow. The essentials: Core HR Store records and documents securely, manage holiday and leave, track sickness and absence, and let staff update their own details. Collect e-signatures, set goals, run one-to-ones and reviews, and spot trends with built-in reports. Optional extras Rota, Time and Attendance: plan shifts and track hours Expenses: claims, receipts and manager sign-off Recruitment: advertise roles and follow each candidate Health and Safety: risk assessments, incidents and compliance evidence e-Learning: assign UK-specific courses and see who's completed what Breathe is also building an AI Assistant to answer HR and policy questions, and plans to launch payroll in late 2026. Who gets the most from it UK organisations with up to 200 people, particularly charities, schools, healthcare, retail, start-ups and professional services firms with lean HR. If you need multinational payroll, global compliance or enterprise workforce planning, weigh it up first. Pricing, support and security Plans start from £24 a month for your whole organisation, with no long-term contracts or hidden fees. Try it free for 14 days, with UK-based support from setup onwards. Breathe holds ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 accreditation and keeps your data in UK data centres, protected by encryption and access controls.