RetirementTracker vs Retiro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RetirementTracker
This app tracks the remaining workdays until your retirement, deducting weekends, public holidays, and vacation. It offers customizable plans, milestones, and reminders to keep your retirement goal in sight. View your progress with interactive calendar pages and share your countdown visually.
- Workday countdown
- Deducts weekends, holidays, and vacation
- Customizable retirement plans
- Milestones and reminders
- Interactive calendar page
- Shareable countdown images
- Supports 22 countries' public holidays
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How many workdays are left until you retire? RetirementTracker counts not just the calendar days until your retirement date, but your real workdays – weekends, your region's public holidays and your vacation are already deducted. Up to date every day, live down to the second. Whether retirement is months or many years away, RetirementTracker keeps your finish line in view. THE LIVING CALENDAR PAGE • Your countdown as a tear-off calendar: tap the page to see calendar days, workdays, weeks or percent • On each new day, yesterday's sheet tears off • Quote of the day: save your favorites or share them • Your next milestone, plus the Mondays, weekends, paydays and public holidays still ahead of you • Career progress: what percentage of your working life is already behind you? • Share your countdown as an image – in two designs • A calm design in light and dark, with your own photo if you like TRANSPARENT CALCULATION No guesswork: "How it's calculated" shows how your workdays add up – calendar days minus days off, public holidays and vacation, including the vacation you haven't planned yet. YOUR RETIREMENT PLAN, YOUR RULES • Retirement date, workweek (full-time, part-time or your own workdays), vacation days per year and the days you have left this year • Work phases: fewer workdays, a release from work before retirement, or a last workday before your retirement date • Scenarios: save what-if plans, compare them and adopt the one you like • Optional: your career start date for your career progress MILESTONES & REMINDERS • Automatic milestones such as 1,000, 500 or 100 days left • Your own milestones for personal stages • Reminders on the day and the day before – at the time you choose VACATION, HOLIDAYS & LONG WEEKENDS • Public holidays for 22 countries: the US (federal holidays), Canada with every province and territory, the UK, Ireland, Australia with every state and territory, Germany with all 16 states, Austria, Switzerland with every canton, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Japan, South Korea and Singapore • Vacation calendar with your vacation, public holidays and your own days off • Your employer gives extra days off, or a holiday is missing? Add them yourself – they count in the calculation • Find time off: combine public holidays and a few vacation days into long weekends and longer breaks WIDGETS WITH PREMIUM • 7 Home Screen widgets: workdays, calendar days, progress, motivation, facts, milestone and photo • Lock Screen widgets: round, as a card or as a line above the clock • Tap the number to switch: days, workdays, weeks or percent • Most widgets in light and dark APPLE WATCH WITH PREMIUM • Your countdown on your wrist: the calendar page, your next milestone and the quote of the day • Complications for your watch face • The watch gets its figures from RetirementTracker on your iPhone Premium is a one-time purchase – no subscription. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU All your details stay on your devices. No account, no sign-up. IN 10 LANGUAGES English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Polish. GETTING STARTED Choose your country and region, set your retirement date, enter your vacation days – done. If you like, RetirementTracker reminds you of your milestones. Also inside: book tips on retirement, hand-picked for the US. Note: RetirementTracker counts the days until the retirement date you choose. It does not calculate pension amounts, is not affiliated with any pension provider or authority, and does not provide financial or retirement advice. Holiday data without guarantee. Start your retirement countdown today and watch retirement get closer every day.
Retiro
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Ready to leave the daily grind behind? Retirement Countdown: Retiro is the ultimate tracker to help you calculate the exact time left until your well-deserved retirement! This isn't just a simple date tracker. Retiro takes your unique work schedule into account, deducting your days off so you can see exactly how many actual workdays stand between you and your pension. Watch the time tick down and let the anticipation build! Top Features & Benefits: - Detailed Timer Overview: See your remaining time break down into years, months, days, and even hours. - Personalized Work Schedule: Input your custom factors, including regular days off and your annual vacation allowance. - Custom Target Date: Set your exact retirement entry point (e.g., beginning of the month, your birthday, or end of the month). - Public Holiday Support: Automatically calculates regional public holidays (currently supported for Germany, Austria and Switzerland). - Global Pension Guide: Access a comprehensive overview of legal retirement ages in various countries around the world. - Social Sharing: Share the excitement! Export your customized countdown timer as a beautiful image and send it to friends, family, and coworkers. Download Retirement Countdown: Retiro today and start your worry-free journey toward life after work. Planning your future has never been this rewarding! Note: Old man icons created by Pixel perfect - Flaticon
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: RetirementTracker at none against Retiro's shown. RetirementTracker also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. RetirementTracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Retiro sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RetirementTracker ships an update every 4 days, Retiro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RetirementTracker | Retiro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vincent Waelken | Timo Strehling |
In-app purchases
RetirementTracker
- Premium-Widgets$1.99
Retiro
- Small Coffee$2.99
- Coffee$3.99
- Large Coffee$6.99
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- Coffee Can$11.99
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