Comparison

Orbis vs Tax Residency Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Orbis

This app helps frequent travelers, digital nomads, and expats manage visa durations, Schengen 90/180 day limits, and tax residency thresholds. It offers offline access to travel history, document storage, and planning tools to ensure compliance and avoid issues.

Highlights
  • Visa countdowns
  • Schengen 90/180 day tracking
  • Tax residency monitoring
  • Offline access
  • Document vault
  • Travel history
  • Trip planning
Features
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Orbis is a privacy-first travel compliance app built for digital nomads, expats, and frequent international travelers. Track visa countdowns, monitor your Schengen 90/180 days, stay on top of tax residency thresholds, and keep your travel history organized in one offline-friendly app. Privacy First No account required. Your travel data and documents stay under your control, with on-device storage by default and optional iCloud sync if you choose to enable it. Orbis is built for privacy-conscious travelers who want access to important travel records without relying on a mandatory cloud account. Works Offline Access your travel records, visa information, and stored documents even without an internet connection. Whether you are at an airport, border crossing, embassy, or traveling with limited connectivity, Orbis keeps your key information available when you need it. Visa Countdown See how many days remain on your active visas and get reminders before important deadlines. Plan renewals, extensions, or exits with more confidence and stay on top of upcoming travel requirements. Schengen 90/180 Tracking Track how many Schengen days you have used and how many remain in your current 180-day window. Orbis helps you understand your balance and plan future trips with less guesswork. Tax Residency Tracking Monitor days spent in each country against common tax residency thresholds, including 183-day style rules, rolling windows, and the US Substantial Presence Test. Orbis helps you stay aware of your travel patterns before they become a problem. Travel History Keep a clear record of entries, exits, and time spent per country. View your travel history in one place and export your records when needed for tax filing, visa applications, or residency documentation. Trip Planning Plan future trips alongside your past and current travel history. Understand how upcoming travel may affect your visa limits, Schengen balance, or residency day count before you book. Passport Reminders Many destinations require several months of passport validity for entry. Orbis helps you track passport expiry so renewal timing does not become a last-minute issue. Home Screen Widgets Check your visa status, travel days, and key counts at a glance without opening the app. Document Vault Store passports, visas, insurance documents, and travel permits in one secure place. Use built-in passport scanning with MRZ recognition for faster data capture, and keep important documents available when you need them. Premium Features Orbis offers auto-renewable subscriptions for Premium features: • Premium Monthly • Premium Annual Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase. Key Features • Privacy-first design with on-device storage by default • No account required • Offline access to travel records and documents • Visa countdowns and expiration reminders • Schengen 90/180 day tracking • Tax residency day tracking • Travel history timeline with entry and exit logging • Trip planning with travel impact visibility • Passport expiry reminders • Home screen widgets • Document vault for passports, visas, and travel records • Passport scanning with MRZ recognition Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://orbistracker.com/privacy

About

Tax Residency Tracker

Features
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Never lose track of a visa or tax-residency day. Octant counts your time in every country, checks Schengen 90/180, and helps you plan future trips. Octant is a tax residency tracker and travel-day companion for people who cross borders. Track every country you’ve visited, follow visa and citizenship day counts, and see the places you’ve been on a year-by-year map. COUNT THE RULES THAT MATTER Follow Schengen 90/180, 183-day tax residency tests, visitor limits, and long-term country and citizenship tracking. Start with a built-in preset or create your own counter. Set any limit—90, 180, 183, 186 days or another number—and choose between rolling periods and calendar years. Every counter stays bounded by the countries, dates and rules you select. PLAN BEFORE YOU BOOK Try future Schengen arrival and departure dates against your real travel history. See your peak 90/180 count, days remaining, and the first date a proposed stay would exceed the limit. REBUILD YOUR TRAVEL HISTORY Your camera roll already contains years of travel clues. Octant can read the location metadata attached to your photos and rebuild past trips in seconds. The scan happens on your device. Photos and precise coordinates are never uploaded, and you can review, correct or fill gaps in the resulting history. TRACK DAYS AUTOMATICALLY With Octant Premium, significant location changes can automatically add the country and date to your history. Prefer to stay in control? Every trip can also be logged and edited manually. Octant highlights unlogged days instead of quietly treating missing information as zero. SEE WHERE YOU’VE BEEN Explore a map of the countries you have visited, organized by year. Each country is shaded according to how much of that year you spent there, turning your travel history into more than a simple checklist of places. GET WARNED BEFORE A LIMIT Counters change from safe to approaching and over the limit as your totals move. Enable notifications to receive a warning before you approach a limit—not after you have already exceeded it. BUILT FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL Use Octant alongside an ETA, ESTA, visitor visa, residency plan or citizenship application to maintain the country-day record behind your decisions. Features include: • Unlimited custom and preset counters • Schengen 90/180 and country-specific presets • Future Schengen trip planning • Rolling and calendar-year calculations • Calendar and trip-list history • Automatic tracking or manual entry • On-device photo history reconstruction • Year-by-year travel map • Limit and overstay notifications • Home Screen widgets • Private iCloud synchronization • CSV exports for your records or adviser Counters, warnings, travel history, the map, widgets and iCloud sync are free. Octant Premium adds automatic location tracking, photo-based history reconstruction and CSV exports. No account is required. Photos and precise locations stay on your device; only country-level history syncs through your private iCloud account. Download Octant and stop reconstructing important day counts from memory. Octant is a tracking tool, not tax, legal or immigration advice. Rules vary by country and individual circumstances. Confirm important decisions with a qualified adviser. Privacy Policy: https://octantdaytracker.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Orbis4 screens
Tax Residency Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Orbis at 17.0 against Tax Residency Tracker's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Orbis sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Tax Residency Tracker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orbis ships an update every 2 weeks, Tax Residency Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Orbis versus Tax Residency Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbisTax Residency Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size143 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSkylake LabsMiklos Pavel

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Orbis

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$39.99
1 purchases

Tax Residency Tracker

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Orbis free?
Orbis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tax Residency Tracker free?
Tax Residency Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Orbis or Tax Residency Tracker have ads?
Neither Orbis nor Tax Residency Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orbis or Tax Residency Tracker?
Orbis ships an update every 2 weeks, and Tax Residency Tracker every 3 weeks. Most recently, Orbis was updated on November 9, 2026 and Tax Residency Tracker on November 6, 2026.

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