Comparison

Annual Leave vs Serea Smart Lock

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

Head to head
About

Annual Leave

Easily plan, track, and overview your holidays and leave days. This app helps you avoid missing long weekends by incorporating public holidays and allowing for custom leave durations. It syncs with your calendar and offers extensive customization for personal needs.

Highlights
  • Plan and track leave entries
  • Integrates public holidays
  • Calculates leave days
  • Syncs with iOS calendar
  • Customizable leave years
  • Residual leave rollover
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Annual Leave helps you to plan, track and overview your leave. The app contains the public holidays of the United States and further countries (see below) to make planning even more easy. No longer miss a long weekend! What users think about this app: "A great app for managing leave, it has been the only available leave app not to crash so far." "Love this app! Syncs perfectly with my calendar which avoids so much duplication. Numerous setting options which makes it very easy to set it up to suit your own needs." "Been looking for similar app for ages, saves me keep looking at calendar or excel sheets to keek track of all my holidays :-)" "At last - the app I have been searching for for over a year! So impressed at the ability to track leave in hours and personalise to suit my needs. You can also integrate with existing calendar on iPhone. Brilliant." Features: - add a leave entry with title and location for every holiday - specify a start date and end date, or a start date and the desired duration in days or weeks - the app calculates the needed leave days in consideration of the public holidays for you - you can manually change the calculated leave days, or transfer some of them to flex days - if you like, the app automatically creates iOS calendar events for your leave entries - not taken residual leave can be automatically transferred into the next year - all data will be synchronized with all your iOS devices via iCloud Additional features: - use the filter in the leave list to show all public holidays, additional days off, and bridge days. You can also quickly switch to the calendar of the app or take over these days as leave days - use the two categories planned and approved for your leave entries - send an application for leave by email - use reminders to get notified about your leaves - add notes to your leave entries - use the undo function while editing a leave entry (shake the iPhone) - use a swipe gesture on the titlebar to navigate back to the beginning of the navigation - use a swipe gesture on the overview as well as the month in the calendar to quickly browse between the years and months respectively - customize the appearance of the app with selectable colors for the leave entries as well as selectable background images with adapted color schemata Application settings: - specify the number of leave days available for every year - configure leave years in case your leave is not managed in calendar years - configure residual leave for every year independently: turn it off, let the transferred days expire on a certain date, or don't let them expire - deactivate the usage of flex days and categories if you do not need them - choose your country in order to see the right public holidays - specify the weekdays the app should count as days off - choose additional days off which are handled as usual public holidays - specify for the public holidays and additional days off whether they take a whole day or a half day or have no duration at all - choose whether you want to track your leave in days or hours - choose customized colors for the leave entries, public holidays and additional days off - configure the appearance of the leave entries in the calendar of the app: either display small markers or show them consistently colored - customize the appearance of the app by choosing background images with adapted color schemata - select the iOS calendar in which calendar events should be created - specify whether you want to get reminded of your leave Note: The app currently contains the public holidays of the US, UK and Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Australia. Application translations and public holidays of other countries will be added step by step based on sales statistics and personal feedback.

About

Serea Smart Lock

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Replacing your physical keys, the Serea app is your digital platform to operate, manage and share your Serea lock. Simply register for free and log in into your account to either add a lock, share your lock or receive access to the lock of friend or family member. With Serea, this is all done in one place. Serea relies on the reliability and safety of Near Field Communication (NFC). With this technology, you can unlock your Serea lock without any physical key. Next to that, the app uses the NFC technology to transmit a small pulse of energy to open the lock, meaning that your lock does not require any battery. Features: - Pair and manage your lock - Share your lock with anyone for as long as you want - Offline feature – even if you have no internet connection, you can still open your lock - Track the locations where you have opened the lock (optional) - Your digital key safely secured via a cryptographic technology The Serea App is programmed in the heart of Europe: Austria. By using high security standards, while respecting our user’s privacy, we created a platform with the sole purpose of making it easier to lock your bicycle, scooter or anything you want. This app programmed and tested to work on iOS Version 12 or later. Please make sure your smartphone has an integrated NFC chip.

Screenshots

Annual Leave4 screens
Serea Smart Lock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Serea Smart Lock at Free against Annual Leave's $1.99. Serea Smart Lock also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Serea Smart Lock is free to download; Annual Leave costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Annual Leave ships an update every 6 months, Serea Smart Lock every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Annual Leave versus Serea Smart Lock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnnual LeaveSerea Smart Lock
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTobias ForstPEWAG

In-app purchases

None

Annual Leave

No in-app purchases

None

Serea Smart Lock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Annual Leave free?
Annual Leave costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Serea Smart Lock free?
Serea Smart Lock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Annual Leave or Serea Smart Lock have ads?
Neither Annual Leave nor Serea Smart Lock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Annual Leave or Serea Smart Lock?
Annual Leave ships an update every 6 months, and Serea Smart Lock every 3 months. Most recently, Annual Leave was updated on September 26, 2026 and Serea Smart Lock on September 9, 2026.

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