Comparison

PackOnce vs Country Days Tracker

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

Head to head
About

PackOnce

Create reusable packing lists for any trip, from business to beach. Organize your essentials, generate trip-specific checklists, and ensure you pack everything needed for your journey and for returning home. Lists save locally and work offline for privacy and convenience.

Highlights
  • Reusable packing lists
  • Trip-specific checklists
  • Offline functionality
  • Local data saving
  • Packing progress tracking
  • Shareable text copies
  • Packing to go home mode
Features
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Pack once. Ready every time. A little less “what am I forgetting?” A lot more looking forward to the trip. PackOnce helps you build reusable packing lists, turn them into fresh trip checklists, and bring everything home again. Start with a personal packing plan Get to know PackOnce through an interactive 12-step setup. Choose your travel style, trip length, and packing party. Try saving a sample list, combining lists, checking off essentials, and packing for home. Name your first adventure, review your plan, then choose a subscription to unlock your personalized list and trip. Your lists. Every adventure. Keep the essentials you trust and reuse them for business trips, beach escapes, family visits, and weekends away. Rename, edit, group, and reorder items your way. Each trip gets its own checklist, so changing a trip does not change your original saved list. Bring lists together Work trip with a beach day? Import a saved list into your trip and keep everything in one clear checklist. Your original lists stay ready for next time. A checklist that stays put Check off items without moving them around. See your packing progress, hide checked items to focus on what is left, quick-add something you forgot, undo deletions, and share a clean text copy. Suggested quantities can scale by days or travelers, and you can change any suggestion. Every trip, its own look Pick a style for each trip, such as beach, city, business, outdoors or family, and watch it appear on your trip cards and checklist. Check the last item for a small celebration, and finish a trip to add a stamp to your PackOnce passport. Add a departure date for a countdown and an optional reminder the evening before, keep your next trip on your Home Screen or Lock Screen with widgets, share any list as a designed image, and choose an app icon you like. Bring it all home The trip may be ending. Your checklist still has a job. Switch to “Packing to go home” to clear the checkmarks and make sure the charger, jacket, and other essentials get a return ticket too. Calm by design. Private by default. Choose a warm light theme or a deep dark theme. Packing lists save locally and work offline. When available, your private iCloud account keeps them up to date across your devices. No PackOnce account, ads, analytics, or tracking. Subscription access PackOnce requires an active subscription after onboarding. Choose Monthly or Yearly; both plans include unlimited trips and reusable saved lists. The App Store displays your localized price and full billing period before purchase. There is no free trial or free-trip access. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in App Store settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period. If access expires, your saved packing data is retained and an active subscription is required to open the workspace again. Already purchased lifetime access? Your verified lifetime purchase continues to unlock PackOnce without a subscription. Use Restore on the subscription screen if needed. Privacy Policy: https://packonce.cerebraenterprises.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://packonce.cerebraenterprises.com/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Country Days Tracker

Features
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Know exactly where you've been, how many days you've spent in each country, and how many you have left — for Schengen 90/180, visas and tax residency. Borderly is a country days tracker built for frequent travelers, digital nomads, expats and anyone who can't afford to miscount a day. It rebuilds your travel history from your photos, tracks new trips automatically, and shows you the rules that matter before you break them. REBUILD YEARS OF TRAVEL IN MINUTES • Scan your photo library on your iPhone to detect the countries you visited and when • Watch your timeline come together, trip by trip, with flags and dates • Add or correct any trip by hand — your manual edits always win SCHENGEN 90/180 CALCULATOR • Rolling 180-day window, calculated every single day • See days used, days left and the exact date your limit resets • Upcoming returns: know when days come back to you VISA & TAX RESIDENCY COUNTERS • 183-day tax residency counter by calendar year • Custom counters: rolling windows, calendar years or consecutive stays • Alerts before you get close to a limit EVERY DAY EXPLAINED • Each counted day is marked Confirmed, Likely or Needs Review • Tap any day to see the evidence and why it was counted • No black-box numbers — you can check every result PLAN AHEAD • Simulate multi-stop trips before you book • See instantly whether a plan is Safe or puts you over a limit • Get suggestions to adjust dates and stay compliant YOUR JOURNEY, BEAUTIFULLY MAPPED • Travel map with routes between every country you've been to • Animated journey replay you can export as a video and share • Year in Travel: countries, border crossings, travel days and distance ADVISOR • Ask questions like "How long can I stay in France next month?" • Answers are grounded in your own counters — the numbers always come from Borderly's rule engine MORE • Automatic day tracking going forward • Home screen widget with your most important counter • Export your history as CSV or PDF for your accountant or visa application • Optional backup to your own iCloud PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your travel history is stored on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up. Photos are analyzed on device and never uploaded. BORDERLY PREMIUM Automatic tracking, full photo history import, the Advisor, widgets, iCloud backup and more are part of Borderly Premium, available as auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscriptions or a one-time lifetime purchase. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase • Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings Borderly helps you keep track of your days, but it is not legal, immigration or tax advice. Always confirm official rules with the relevant authorities or a qualified advisor. Privacy Policy: https://emirarikaan.github.io/borderly-privacy.html Terms of Use: https://emirarikaan.github.io/borderly-terms.html

Screenshots

PackOnce4 screens
Country Days Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Country Days Tracker at every 2 days against PackOnce's every 8 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. PackOnce sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Country Days Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PackOnce ships an update every 8 days, Country Days Tracker every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PackOnce versus Country Days Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPackOnceCountry Days Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCerebra Enterprises, LLCEmir ARIKAN

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PackOnce

Subscriptions2
  • PackOnce Monthly$2.991 Month
  • PackOnce Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • PackOnce Lifetime Access$9.99
2 purchases

Country Days Tracker

Subscriptions1
  • Borderly Premium3 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Borderly Premium Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is PackOnce free?
PackOnce is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Country Days Tracker free?
Country Days Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PackOnce or Country Days Tracker have ads?
Neither PackOnce nor Country Days Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PackOnce or Country Days Tracker?
PackOnce ships an update every 8 days, and Country Days Tracker every 2 days. Most recently, PackOnce was updated on October 31, 2026 and Country Days Tracker on October 31, 2026.

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