Comparison

TrackingDays vs StayCount Resident

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

Head to head
About

TrackingDays

This app automatically tracks your international travel, counting days and nights spent in every country. It specifically helps with Schengen Area compliance and various residency tests by providing rolling day counts and reminders to prevent overstays. All data is stored locally for privacy.

Highlights
  • Automatic day and night tracking
  • Schengen Area 90/180 day rule tracking
  • Rolling 365 day count for residency
  • Favorite countries with reminders
  • Local iCloud backup for privacy
  • Exportable travel data
Currently charting
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TrackingDays: The Residency Travel Tracker App. - Recently added features: Favourites - add favourite countries, set your days or nights allowed and then set a reminder, so you don’t accidentally overstay. Add as many favourite countries as you need. TrackingDays: - Automatically tracks your travel, counting your days and nights in ALL COUNTRIES of the world. - With Schengen Area automatic travel tracking, count your combined Schengen days (EU), then view your last 180 days with one touch, no manual input required. For the 90 in 180 days rule. - Rolling 365 day count, eg. for New Zealand and Malaysia residence, look back at your past 365 days instantly.  - 100% privacy, we don't collect your travel locations these are backed up locally on your personal iCloud. - Accurate even at country borders. If you are a long term user of the App, please consider leaving us a positive review, positive reviews help us grow and help us to continue to improve the App. IF FOR ANY REASON you haven’t had a 4 or 5 start experience with our Apps, please contact us via our support page, before leaving a review so that we can have a chance to make it right for you. TrackingDays.com – Support – Submit a Request - TrackingDays is for all worldwide residency situations including: - USA Substantial Presence Test - USA Physical Presence Test - UK Statutory Residence Test - Schengen Area ROLLING 180 days (90 in 180) - Canada residence / physical presence - New Zealand non-residence ROLLING 365 day count - Malaysia non-residence ROLLING 365 day count - Cyprus residency the 60 day rule - Puerto Rico Act 60 (act 20/22) day counting - India residence status day counting - South Africa physical presence rule - Israel residency - The 183 day rule, international - Visa time - Flexible for many other tax residence situations. - Travel compliance. Track of your movements for business travel, including Schengen Area time. - Second homeowners. Avoid accidentally becoming a tax resident. Subscriptions: TrackingDays offers a 30 days free trial, cancel at any time before day 30 without charge.   You can manage and cancel your subscription from your account in the App Store. Monthly or yearly subscription options are available. Subscription price - US$3.99 per calendar month, (or equivalent amount in your country), that’s less than a latte from your favorite vendor, per month, for peace of mind. Your TrackingDays subscription gives you access to all features of the app, including: - Continuous automatic day and night tracking. - Clear Country views, quick and clear country summaries for every country as well as detailed travel movements for all countries of the world. - Timeline, a chronological record of your travel, with entry and exit dates and times. - Exportable Data to send to your advisor. - Editable Trips, fully flexible trip editing. - Add Previous Days - starting mid-year? No problem, add back your previously tracked days. - Rolling 180 Days - Schengen (EU) day counting - Rolling 365 Days – Day counting for New Zealand and Malaysia residence - Non USA Days, for the US Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. - Adjustable date ranges, between any two dates. - Location maps Notes: TrackingDays works with regular movement, please move your phone approx 500m daily. If for any reason you will not move this distance every few days, please restart your App from time to time to ensure location tracking has not been disabled by iOS. USA State Tracking? Please search up our sister App - TrackingStates. Terms of use trackingdays.com/terms/ TrackingDays is an actively managed and established App, with regular improvements and updates and responsive customer support. We appreciate all of our loyal customers and love to hear your feedback and suggestions. We are committed to improving our Apps to meet your needs. Contact us Go to trackingdays.com – support – Submit a request.

About

StayCount Resident

Features
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StayCount Resident counts the days you spend in each country for tax-residency and travel-compliance purposes — directly from the boarding passes you already have. Three ways to record a flight: • Scan a paper or digital boarding pass with the camera. The IATA barcode is read on-device and the flight is logged in seconds. • Share a pass from Apple Wallet directly into the app. Tap your boarding pass in Wallet, choose Share Pass → StayCount Resident, and you're done. • Add flights manually for trips where no boarding pass exists. Day counting that matches the real rules: • Each international flight opens a stay in the destination country and closes the previous one. • The departure day is counted in the country you flew out of, so the day totals always add up to your elapsed calendar days — no double-counting, no missing days. • Domestic flights are kept on the timeline as evidence but never inflate your country totals. Multi-year tracking, your way: • Configure your tracking-year start date in Settings — January 1, April 6 (UK), July 1 (Australia), or any custom day. • Browse the current year and every previous tracking period from the home screen, with per-period flight counts and storage size. • Generate a multi-page PDF compliance report for any period, with per-country totals, a chronological timeline, and embedded boarding-pass evidence. • Archive a previous period to PDF before deleting it, in one guided flow. Privacy by design: • Every record stays either on your device or in your private iCloud account — synced through Apple's CloudKit so the developer cannot see, query, or export anything. • No analytics, no tracking SDKs, no advertising, no third-party servers. • The app validates that imported boarding passes belong to you (by matching your name) and rejects passes for other passengers at import. Built for international workers, frequent travellers, digital nomads, and anyone with multi-jurisdiction tax obligations. StayCount Resident does the day arithmetic so you don't have to — but it's a record-keeping tool, not tax advice. Always check the specific rules of your jurisdiction with a qualified advisor.

Screenshots

TrackingDays4 screens
StayCount Resident4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TrackingDays at Free against StayCount Resident's $2.99. TrackingDays also leads on chart position (#185 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.4). StayCount Resident's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). 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

TrackingDays is free to download; StayCount Resident costs $2.99 up front. TrackingDays sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. StayCount Resident asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TrackingDays ships an update every 3 weeks, StayCount Resident weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
TrackingDays versus StayCount Resident: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrackingDaysStayCount Resident
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
Best chart rank#185 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLauco Trading LimitedSanjay Shukla

In-app purchases

3 purchases

TrackingDays

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month Location tracking.1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • 1 Year Location tracking.1 Month trial$41.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlock All FeaturesFree
None

StayCount Resident

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrackingDays free?
TrackingDays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StayCount Resident free?
StayCount Resident costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do TrackingDays or StayCount Resident have ads?
Neither TrackingDays nor StayCount Resident shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TrackingDays or StayCount Resident?
TrackingDays ships an update every 3 weeks, and StayCount Resident weekly. Most recently, TrackingDays was updated on October 29, 2026 and StayCount Resident on October 8, 2026.

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