Comparison

Annual Leave vs Resolutions

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

Resolutions

Track your progress on new habits and goals with customizable reminders and motivating achievements. Visualize your consistency with heatmaps and enjoy a private, minimalist interface with dark and light modes.

Highlights
  • Log habit completion
  • Heatmap visualizations
  • Customizable reminders
  • Motivating achievements
  • Minimalist design
  • Dark & light modes
  • Customizable colors
Features
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With Resolutions you get a quick visual overview of how many times you have managed to complete your new goal. You can configure the app how you need: daily, weekly or monthly goals, different colours and icons. Adjustable to your needs, whatever your Resolution. From meditation, exercise to learning an instrument. Resolutions is a perfect companion to your life change journey. Need support remembering? With Resolutions you can set helpful reminders to keep you on track. Resolutions also encourages you on your journey with Achievements for maintaining your streaks. Features
 - Log: add when you have completed your new habit - Display: Heatmaps showing frequency and keeping you accountable
- Customisable Reminders: Set reminders to measure regularly and stay consistent. - Motivating Achievements: Earn milestones to keep you motivated and on track. - Minimalist Design: A sleek, user-friendly interface that keeps things simple and intuitive. - Dark & Light Modes: Choose between light or dark themes to suit your preference. - Customisable Colours: Personalise the app with your favourite colours. - Privacy First: All your data is stored securely on your device, keeping it completely private

Screenshots

Annual Leave4 screens
Resolutions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Resolutions at Free against Annual Leave's $1.99. Resolutions also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). Annual Leave's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads 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

Resolutions is free to download; Annual Leave costs $1.99 up front. Resolutions sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Annual Leave asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Resolutions holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Annual Leave ships an update every 6 months, Resolutions every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Annual Leave versus Resolutions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnnual LeaveResolutions
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.515.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTobias ForstAlexander Everett

Customer experience

Annual Leave

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive91.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative6.8%

Resolutions

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Annual Leave

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Resolutions

Subscriptions2
  • Resolutions Pro$0.991 Month
  • Resolutions Pro$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Resolutions Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Annual Leave free?
Annual Leave costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Resolutions free?
Resolutions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Annual Leave or Resolutions?
Resolutions is rated higher. Annual Leave averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Resolutions averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Annual Leave or Resolutions have ads?
Neither Annual Leave nor Resolutions shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Annual Leave or Resolutions?
Annual Leave ships an update every 6 months, and Resolutions every 2 months. Most recently, Annual Leave was updated on September 26, 2026 and Resolutions on September 7, 2026.

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