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Swingvy alternative
Swingvy covers HR, payroll, leave and claims across several Asian markets, in the browser and on mobile, billed as a subscription that commonly scales with headcount. Orbit HR takes the opposite path. It is one desktop app, bought once for RM249, unlimited employees, working offline, with the whole employee file sitting on your own machine and the sensitive fields encrypted.
Compare Swingvy with Orbit HR's one-time licence, unlimited employees, offline operation and local-first records for Malaysian SMEs.
What people like about Swingvy
Where Orbit HR differs
| Criteria | Orbit HR | Swingvy |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | RM249 one-time, unlimited staff | Per employee, per month subscription |
| Cost at 20 employees | RM249 once, then nothing | Typically RM2,400 to RM3,600 a year, every year |
| Per-employee fee | No | Yes |
| Where your staff data lives | Your device, NRIC and bank details encrypted | The vendor's cloud servers |
| Works fully offline | Yes | Needs a browser and a connection |
| Runs on macOS | Native macOS and Windows app | Any OS, through a browser |
| EPF / SOCSO / EIS / PCB calculated | From dated rate tables, tested each release | Yes |
| EA form + statutory files | EA, Borang A, Borang 8A, CP39, CP58, bank file | Yes |
| Leave under Employment Act 1955 | Annual tiers, sick, maternity, per-state holidays | Yes |
| Employee self-service | Yes | Yes |
| Bilingual EN / BM | Yes | Varies |
| If you stop paying | App keeps working, forever | Access to payroll history can be locked |
| Best fit | SMEs who want to pay once and hold their own data | Teams that want mobile-first HR across several countries |
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When to stay with Swingvy
Orbit HR is a desktop app for macOS and Windows, with employee self-service reached from the office network and a kiosk PIN clock-in for shift teams. If your priority is every employee carrying HR in their pocket everywhere, a cloud platform like Swingvy fits that better today.
Yes, deliberately. EPF Jadual Ketiga including the 13 percent and 12 percent employer split at the RM5,000 wage threshold, SOCSO categories 1 and 2 with the 2026 SKBBK rates, EIS at 0.2 percent each side with the RM6,000 ceiling, PCB on LHDN's computerised formula and the HRD Corp levy are all built in. If you run payroll outside Malaysia, a multi-country platform is the right tool.
Nothing is taken away. The database is a file on your computer and the licence does not expire, so the app keeps opening and you keep exporting payslips, EA forms and statutory files. With a subscription, access to past payroll can end when billing does.
Free to download for macOS or Windows. Activate when you're ready, no subscription.