Comparison

Paws Week vs RetirementTracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Paws Week

Display the current week number and month calendar on your iPhone home screen or Apple Watch. Customize widget colors and easily navigate dates.

Highlights
  • Week number display
  • Month calendar view
  • Home screen widgets
  • Apple Watch complication
  • Customizable widget colors
  • Date navigation
Features
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Paws Week present the current week number when you launch the app, accompanied by a month calendar. The main benefit, however, is using Paws Week as a complication on your Apple Watch, or as widgets directly on your home screens together with your apps. Paws Week Widget Three variants of widgets are available for your Home screen: Week, Day, and Month widget. The Week widget focuses on the week number, while the Day widget has the focus on the date. The large sizes of those widget includes, besides the date and week number, a month calendar showing the current month. The Month widget presents a full month calendar in the small and medium widget formats. Add widgets in a size your choose to any of your home screens, or the Today view. This way you can have the date and week information visible at all times directly on your main screen. The colours of the widget can be customised in the app's Settings view. Choose colours for each of the components of the widget. Paws Week Watch Complication Select Paws Week as the complication on your Apple Watch to display the current week number. The format varies somewhat depending on the selected watch face. On the watch the Digital Crown can be used within the app, to scroll through the dates and see the corresponding week number. Paws Week iPhone App In the iPhone app you see the current week number. Use the buttons to move to previous or next month.

About

RetirementTracker

This app tracks the remaining workdays until your retirement, deducting weekends, public holidays, and vacation time. It offers detailed calculations, customizable plans, and motivating milestones to keep your finish line in view.

Highlights
  • Workday countdown to retirement
  • Deducts weekends, holidays, and vacation
  • Career progress percentage
  • Customizable workweek and vacation
  • Milestones and reminders
  • Shareable countdown image
  • Local data storage
Features
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How many workdays are left until you retire? RetirementTracker is your retirement countdown: it counts not just the calendar days until your retirement date, but your real workdays – weekends, your region's public holidays and your vacation are already deducted. Up to date every day, live down to the second. Whether retirement is months or many years away, RetirementTracker keeps your finish line in view. YOUR RETIREMENT COUNTDOWN • Calendar days until your retirement date, live with hours, minutes and seconds • Your actual workdays until retirement – after weekends, public holidays and vacation • Career progress: what percentage of your working life is already behind you? • Weeks and months until retirement at a glance • Motivating messages for your final years at work • Share your countdown as an image with family, friends and coworkers TRANSPARENT CALCULATION No guesswork: the detailed breakdown shows how your workdays add up – weekdays, non-working days, your region's public holidays and your total vacation entitlement until retirement, including the vacation you haven't planned yet. YOUR RETIREMENT PLAN, YOUR RULES • Set your retirement date • Choose your workweek: Monday to Friday, part-time or your own workdays • Enter vacation days per year and the days you have left this year • Optional: your career start date for your career progress • Work phases: plan changes to your workweek, such as fewer workdays before retirement • What-if plans: save different retirement plans and compare them MILESTONES & REMINDERS • Automatic milestones such as 1,000, 500 or 100 days left • Your own milestones for personal stages • Reminders on the milestone day and the day before at 8:00 AM VACATION, HOLIDAYS & LONG WEEKENDS • Vacation calendar with your vacation, public holidays and your own holidays • See the upcoming public holidays at a glance • Public holidays for 13 countries, including every US state, the UK nations, all German states and Swiss cantons, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland and the Nordic countries • A holiday is missing? Add it yourself – it counts in the calculation • Find time off: combine public holidays and vacation into long weekends and longer breaks WIDGETS WITH PREMIUM With RetirementTracker Premium, your countdown lives on your home screen: • Workdays, calendar days, progress and motivation widgets • Each in light and dark • With your own photo • One-time purchase: no ads, no subscription YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU All your details are stored locally on your device. No account, no sign-up. IN 5 LANGUAGES English, German, French, Italian and Spanish – in light and dark mode. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose your retirement date, country and region 2. Enter your workweek and vacation days 3. Start your countdown – RetirementTracker does the math WHO IS RETIREMENTTRACKER FOR? • Anyone planning their retirement who wants to count the workdays left • Full-time and part-time employees who want to keep track of vacation and holidays until retirement • Anyone who wants to approach their final working years with a clear goal in sight • Everyone who looks forward to retirement a little more every day WHY RETIREMENTTRACKER? Real workdays instead of a rough estimate A calculation you can follow, with a detailed breakdown Your region's public holidays included automatically Flexible for full-time, part-time and planned changes Clear, fast and no account needed Premium is a one-time purchase – no subscription Note: RetirementTracker counts the days until the retirement date you choose. It does not calculate pension amounts, is not affiliated with any pension provider or authority, and does not provide financial or retirement advice. Holiday data without guarantee. Start your retirement countdown today and watch retirement get closer every day.

Screenshots

Paws Week4 screens
RetirementTracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: RetirementTracker at Free against Paws Week's $0.99. RetirementTracker also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). Paws Week's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

RetirementTracker is free to download; Paws Week costs $0.99 up front. RetirementTracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Paws Week asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paws Week ships an update monthly, RetirementTracker every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Paws Week versus RetirementTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaws WeekRetirementTracker
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—3.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGrey Paws ABVincent Waelken

Customer experience

Paws Week

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

RetirementTracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Paws Week

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

RetirementTracker

One-time1
  • Premium-Widgets$0.99

Questions

Is Paws Week free?
Paws Week costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is RetirementTracker free?
RetirementTracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Paws Week or RetirementTracker have ads?
Neither Paws Week nor RetirementTracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paws Week or RetirementTracker?
Paws Week ships an update monthly, and RetirementTracker every 3 days. Most recently, Paws Week was updated on October 2, 2026 and RetirementTracker on October 1, 2026.

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