Comparison

Annual Leave vs Vacation Tracker ck

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

Vacation Tracker ck

Features
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Resturlaub helps you keep track of your vacation days all year long. Simple, clear, and no sign-up required. YEARLY OVERVIEW AT A GLANCE How many vacation days do you have left? Resturlaub shows your total, used, and remaining days for every year at a glance. Switch between years with a single tap. FIND BRIDGE DAYS Plan your time off strategically: the bridge day calendar automatically highlights workdays that fall between public holidays and weekends – so you get the most out of your vacation allowance. TRACK REMOTE WORK In addition to vacation days, you can log remote work (home office) days separately. Perfect if your employer requires documentation of days worked from home. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR YOUR REGION Resturlaub automatically downloads official public holidays from the internet – tailored to your country and state. Supports Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and many more countries. Holidays and weekends are automatically excluded when calculating your vacation days. FLEXIBLE NON-WORKING DAYS Choose which weekdays are non-working days for you. You can also define individual days like Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve as half or full days off. CARRY OVER REMAINING DAYS Unused vacation days are automatically carried over to the next year if you wish. You can also adjust the vacation allowance individually for each year. CALENDAR INTEGRATION Sync your vacation and remote work entries directly with your iPhone calendar. Everything in one place. iCLOUD BACKUP Back up your data automatically to iCloud. Backups are created after every change and can be restored at any time. SHARE VIA EMAIL Send an overview of your vacation or remote work days by email – handy for HR or your own records. PRIVACY FIRST Your data stays on your device and in your iCloud. There are no user accounts, no external databases, and no ads. Your privacy matters to us. FREE TO START The app is free to use with up to 20 entries. For unlimited use, an affordable subscription or a one-time purchase is available. ------------------------------------------------------------- Privacy Policy: https://resturlaub.ck1969.de/datenschutz.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Annual Leave4 screens
Vacation Tracker ck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Vacation Tracker ck at Free against Annual Leave's $1.99. Vacation Tracker ck also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). Annual Leave's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On 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

Vacation Tracker ck is free to download; Annual Leave costs $1.99 up front. Vacation Tracker ck sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Annual Leave asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Annual Leave ships an update every 6 months, Vacation Tracker ck every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Annual Leave versus Vacation Tracker ck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnnual LeaveVacation Tracker ck
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.526.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTobias ForstChristian Krause

In-app purchases

None

Annual Leave

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Vacation Tracker ck

Subscriptions1
  • Resturlaub Premium 1 Year$1.991 Year
One-time1
  • Full Version One-time$8.99

Questions

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

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