PTO Tracker vs Use Your Days
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PTO Tracker
Easily monitor your Paid Time Off (PTO) balance, projecting future balances with customizable accrual rates. It automatically accounts for holidays and integrates with your calendar.
- Track PTO balance
- Project future balances
- Customizable accrual rates
- Holiday exclusion
- Calendar integration
Read full descriptionHide full description
Keep track of your vacation or PTO (Paid Time Off) balance. See at a glance your vacation/PTO balance at any date in the future. Accrual rate can be weekly or bi-weekly on any day of the week, or semi-monthly on either the 1st and 16th of the month or the 15th and last day of the month. Automatically excludes holidays from being counted as a vacation day. Integrates with your iOS calendar, or can use its own calendar, or both.
Use Your Days
Easily track your vacation days, personal time, and other earned breaks with beautiful countdowns. Manage accruals, plan ahead with year-end projections, and get reminders to submit requests. Stay organized and ensure you use all your well-deserved time off.
- Track remaining PTO at a glance
- Countdown to next break
- Manage accrual schedules
- Categorize time off entries
- Set banking caps and rollover
- Track PTO submissions
- Home screen widgets
Read full descriptionHide full description
Your PTO is earned. Make sure you use it. Use Your Days helps you track your vacation days, personal time, and all the breaks you deserve, whether your time off is granted upfront or earned gradually, with beautiful countdowns that build excitement for every moment away from work. See exactly where you stand -Track remaining PTO at a glance -Watch the countdown to your next break -Know how many days are left in the year to plan ahead -Track PTO as it accrues each pay period, as a simple annual total, or scheduled lump sum -Support for weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly accrual schedules -Configure accrual rate, lump sum days, rollover amounts, and banking caps -Toggle between days and hours when adding time off -Smart weekday-only counting (skip weekends automatically) -Option to exclude federal holidays from your totals -View a full history of how your available balance was calculated, including accruals, PTO used, rollovers, and lump sums Organize your time off your way -Categorize entries: Vacation, Travel, Mental Health, Family Time, Medical, Personal & more -Add custom emoji icons to personalize each entry -Add notes to remember trip details, reservations, or plans Stay in control of your balance -Set a maximum banking cap for total PTO days -Allow negative balances (borrow against future PTO) with a configurable limit -Automatically roll over unused PTO into the new year -Year-end PTO projections so you know what you’ll have left -See warnings when you try to book more PTO than you have available Track PTO submissions to your employer -Mark each PTO entry as submitted or not submitted -With PTO submission tracking enabled, your available balance reflects only submitted PTO -Perfect for workplaces that require PTO to be submitted as it accrues Never forget to submit PTO -Get reminders when it’s time to submit a PTO request -Choose how far in advance you’re notified -See visual indicators on PTO entries that still need submission -App badge shows how many requests need attention -Tap a notification to jump straight to that PTO entry See your entire year at a glance -Interactive Days Left calendar showing all 12 months -See every PTO day on the exact dates it occurs -Tap any day to preview what’s happening Home screen widgets that inspire -Full dashboard widget showing available PTO based on current accrual -Focused widgets: PTO countdown only, days remaining only, or next event countdown -Small, medium, and large sizes to fit your home screen Sync everywhere with iCloud -Your PTO data and settings sync seamlessly across all your Apple devices -Add time off on your iPhone, see it on your iPad & Mac Designed to delight -Haptic feedback throughout -Beautiful category gradients and modern glass-style UI -Dark mode support Time off is part of your compensation. Use it wisely. Use it fully.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Use Your Days at 100% against PTO Tracker's 56%. Use Your Days also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). PTO Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 3) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Use Your Days holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of PTO Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Use Your Days's.
PTO Tracker ships an update every 2 months, Use Your Days every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PTO Tracker | Use Your Days |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Preston | Paul Hall |
Customer experience
PTO Tracker
Use Your Days
In-app purchases
PTO Tracker
No in-app purchases
Use Your Days
No in-app purchases








