Tax residency tracker alternatives
Looking for an alternative to the residency tracker you use now? Each page below puts one app next to Tax Days on price, privacy, and rule coverage. Tax Days is $29.99/year, on-device, and tracks automatically or manually, your choice. That does not make it the right answer for everyone, so every page says plainly where the other app wins.
22comparisons. Pricing and features were checked against each vendor's own site and App Store listing between September and October 2026. Where a vendor does not publish something, we say so rather than guess.
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Consumer apps you can buy yourself
Priced per person, downloadable today, no employer or adviser required. This is the group Tax Days competes in directly.
- TaxBird alternative
Snowbird-tracking app that detects state crossings with background location, available on iOS and Android, covering US states, Canadian provinces, and country-level counts worldwide.
$39.99 / yearView comparison → - TaxDay alternative
US multi-state travel tracker from TaxDay LLC, built for people who work or reside in several states in one year. Runs GPS in the background against the residency rules for all 50 states, stores the record in the cloud, and exports reports for your tax preparer. iOS, Android, and a web portal.
$9.99 / monthView comparison → - Domicile365 alternative
Long-running residency-tracking service used by accountants serving snowbirds and cross-border workers, with continuous background location, apps for iOS, Mac, Android, and Windows, a read-only Advisor Portal, and a dedicated Puerto Rico day-count test.
$19.99 / monthView comparison → - iReside alternative
Newer entrant with a privacy-marketed background GPS tracker covering US states/territories, Canadian provinces, and international locations, plus a free calculator micro-site and risk-scoring/predictive alerts.
$34.99 / yearView comparison → - Days Monitor alternative
Global travel-day and residency tracker for iPhone, with a set of free web calculators alongside it. Covers Schengen 90/180, the US Substantial Presence Test, the UK Statutory Residence Test, Canada's physical presence requirement, editable templates for about 35 US states and for Canadian provinces, and custom country rules, with automatic background logging, on-device storage with your own iCloud, and PDF or CSV export on the paid tier.
$19.99 / yearView comparison → - Flamingo alternative
Flamingo Compliance is an iPhone app that tracks tax residency and immigration status together: Schengen 90/180, UK and its constituent nations, US states and NYC, the Substantial Presence and Physical Presence tests, plus residence permits, visa requirements from a passport index, and document storage. Sold in three tiers.
$29.99 to $119 / yearView comparison → - TrackingDays alternative
Long-running iPhone day counter from Lauco Trading Limited, counting days and nights worldwide with Schengen 90/180, rolling 365-day windows, UK night counting, and the US presence tests. US state residency lives in a separate companion app, TrackingStates. Data is kept locally with iCloud backup.
$41.99 / year subscriptionView comparison → - Southbound alternative
iPhone app built for one job: proving days in Florida against the 183-day rule for people who moved there from a high-tax state. Uses low-power cell tower and Wi-Fi network changes rather than continuous GPS, keeps data on your iPhone and personal iCloud with no servers or accounts, and exports PDF and CSV reports for your advisor.
$249.99 / year for new usersView comparison →
Country day counters and visa trackers
Newer apps that count days per country, often with photo import and visa or citizenship counters. Most are built for travellers first; tax residency rules vary from none to extensive.
- Bounded alternative
Country Days Tracker: Bounded is a 2026 iPhone app that counts days per country with GPS, rebuilds past travel from your photo library, and ships presets for 100+ countries. It is the most-rated app in the category.
$19.99 to $99.99 / yearView comparison → - Country Days Tracker alternative
Country Days Tracker (by Andrey Solovyev) is a long-running iPhone day counter for travellers and expats, with stay-limit manager, Schengen calculator, photo and flight restore, and air and sea days. Free shows a short history; Pro is a subscription.
$39.99 / yearView comparison → - Countly alternative
Countly (Country Days Tracker) is a 2026 iPhone app with ready-made trackers for tax, immigration and citizenship day counts across dozens of countries and several US states, plus Photo Rewind history import with a review step. Countly Pro is required to use the app.
$49.99 / yearView comparison → - AtlasDays alternative
AtlasDays: Country Day Tracker is a 2026 iPhone and iPad app with 100+ ready-made rules (Schengen, visas, tax residence, citizenship) plus 21 US states, imports from photos, Flighty or CSV, and optional auto-detect. Pro is quarterly, annual or lifetime.
Free + Pro (quarterly, annual or lifetime)View comparison → - Pebbles alternative
Pebbles: Tax & Visa Tracker is a privacy-first iPhone app for logging days in countries and US states by hand, with no GPS and no location permission, and custom templates for taxes, visas and residency goals.
See App StoreView comparison → - ResiDays alternative
ResiDays: PR & Tax Residency is a new (October 2026) iPhone travel journal that tracks countries, US states and Canadian provinces, follows Canada PR and citizenship progress, and imports I-94 records and photo-suggested travel dates.
Free + Pro (monthly, yearly or lifetime)View comparison → - Relokit alternative
Relokit: Tax Residency Days is an Armenia-focused relocation organiser: enter arrival and departure dates to count presence, follow a first-90-days guide, and keep documents in a protected vault. Free in English; optional one-time Russian and Persian editions.
Free in EnglishView comparison → - Schengen Simple alternative
Schengen Simple is a focused iPhone planner for the Schengen 90/180 rule: it analyses your whole trip calendar to show how long you can stay on any date, with multi-traveller support. One-week free trial, then an annual subscription.
Annual subscription (price varies by country)View comparison → - Ovrnite alternative
Gibraltar-built iPhone app that counts the days and the nights you spend in each jurisdiction, with Schengen allowance planning, targets and thresholds, and exportable reports.
$49.99 / yearView comparison →
Doing it yourself
The option most people start with, and the one auditors are least impressed by.
Pricing at a glance
Tax Days is $29.99/year across the board. Here's what each alternative costs and who it's built for, click through for the full feature breakdown. Days Monitor undercuts us at $19.99/year, and Southbound stays free for anyone who downloaded it before September 15, 2026, so this table is not a list we win top to bottom.
| App | Price | Best for | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tax Days | $29.99/year | International + US travelers who want their location history kept off vendor servers. | Get Tax Days → |
| TaxBird | $39.99 / year | Android users (Tax Days is iPhone-only). | View → |
| TaxDay | $9.99 / month | Android users (Tax Days is iPhone-only). | View → |
| Domicile365 | $19.99 / month | Anyone who wants a cryptographically signed PDF audit log of the location record. | View → |
| iReside | $34.99 / year | Canadian snowbirds who need province-level tracking specifically. | View → |
| Days Monitor | $19.99 / year | Anyone for whom $10 a year is the deciding factor. | View → |
| Flamingo | $29.99 to $119 / year | Anyone tracking visa days and tax days at the same time. | View → |
| TrackingDays | $41.99 / year subscription | UK taxpayers who specifically want nights counted for the Statutory Residence Test. | View → |
| Southbound | $249.99 / year for new users | People whose only question is whether they cleared 183 days in Florida. | View → |
| Bounded | $19.99 to $99.99 / year | Travellers who want to rebuild years of past trips from their photos. | View → |
| Country Days Tracker | $39.99 / year | Air crew, cruise passengers, and seafarers who need air and sea days. | View → |
| Countly | $49.99 / year | Immigrants tracking green card, citizenship or settlement day counts alongside tax. | View → |
| AtlasDays | Free + Pro (quarterly, annual or lifetime) | People tracking citizenship and visa windows with custom multi-year rules. | View → |
| Pebbles | See App Store | Anyone who will not grant any app location permission, ever. | View → |
| ResiDays | Free + Pro (monthly, yearly or lifetime) | Canadian permanent residents tracking PR and citizenship day requirements. | View → |
| Relokit | Free in English | People relocating to Armenia who want a step-by-step guide. | View → |
| Schengen Simple | Annual subscription (price varies by country) | Non-EU travellers whose only constraint is the Schengen 90/180 rule. | View → |
| Ovrnite | $49.99 / year | Residency rules that turn on nights spent rather than days. | View → |
| Monaeo | $999 / year | Ultra-mobile UHNW individuals with multi-jurisdiction tax exposure. | View → |
| Daysium | From £1,200 / year | High-net-worth individuals who want a concierge to review the record with them. | View → |
| Topia | Enterprise pricing | Corporate HR teams managing 100+ international assignees. | View → |
| Equus Software | Enterprise pricing | Corporate mobility and HR teams managing large populations of assignees. | View → |
| a Spreadsheet | Free (your time + audit risk) | One simple jurisdiction with a generous day limit you'll never approach. | View → |
Frequently asked questions
How does Tax Days compare to other tax residency trackers?
Tax Days covers US states, the federal Substantial Presence Test, Schengen 90/180, and the UK Statutory Residence Test in one app at $29.99/year, with automatic background tracking or manual trip entry, and the location history stays on your device either way. A few competitors span a similar range of rules, Days Monitor, Flamingo, iReside, and Domicile365 in particular, so this is not a category of one. Most of the rest specialise: US-focused (TaxBird, TaxDay), Florida-only (Southbound), countries-only with US states in a second app (TrackingDays), enterprise-only (Topia, Equus), or premium advised memberships (Monaeo, Daysium). See the individual comparisons for the specifics.
Which tax residency tracker is cheapest?
As of September 2026, Days Monitor is the cheapest paid app we compare, at $19.99/year on its site, and it also offers a free browser calculator. Tax Days is next at $29.99/year with an in-app free tier, level with Flamingo's entry tier. Above that come iReside ($34.99/year), TaxBird ($39.99/year), TrackingDays ($41.99/year, with US states in a separate app), TaxDay ($9.99/month, roughly $120/year), Domicile365 ($19.99/month, about $240/year), and Southbound ($249.99/year for anyone who first downloaded it on or after September 15, 2026; earlier downloads keep it free for life). Monaeo ($999/year), Daysium (from £1,200/year), and the enterprise platforms are priced for a different buyer entirely.
Do I need GPS tracking for tax residency?
No, and you shouldn't have to choose between automation and privacy. Most trackers in this category infer your day count automatically from your phone's location, which is convenient, but several of them sync that location history to a vendor's servers. Tax Days tracks automatically, free, using battery-efficient significant-change monitoring, processed on-device, and it proposes trips for you to confirm. You can also turn location off completely and log trips by hand. Days Monitor, Flamingo, Southbound, and TrackingDays also keep the record on your device and in your own iCloud rather than on their own servers.
Which app should I pick for international travel?
Look for explicit Schengen 90/180 and, if the UK matters, the Statutory Residence Test, because a generic day counter will get the rolling window wrong. Tax Days, Days Monitor, Flamingo, TrackingDays, and iReside all run the Schengen count in the app, Domicile365 offers a separate Schengen tool, and Monaeo covers it at its premium price. TaxBird, TaxDay, and Southbound do not advertise a Schengen calculation, so they are the wrong tool once the rolling window matters.
Which app should I pick for US state residency?
The thing that matters is whether the app encodes each state's own statutory test rather than a generic day threshold, because New York's 184-day rule and the statutory-residence tests in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania do not work the same way. Tax Days, TaxBird, TaxDay, Domicile365, and iReside all cover all 50 states, and Days Monitor ships editable templates for about 35. Remember that a snowbird has two problems, proving enough days in the new state and few enough in the old one, so single-state tools only solve half of it.
Should I just use a spreadsheet instead of an app?
A spreadsheet can work for one simple jurisdiction with a generous threshold you'll never approach. It breaks down with multiple jurisdictions, partial-day rules, or rolling windows like Schengen 90/180, and auditors tend to trust a tested app's contemporaneous log over a hand-maintained file. See the full spreadsheet comparison below.
Are these comparisons kept up to date?
Each comparison states the date its pricing and feature claims were checked, and links you back to the competitor's own site to confirm. Subscription prices and feature sets change, so treat every figure here as a starting point rather than a quote. Where a competitor does not publish something, we say that instead of guessing.
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