Leave Dates review (2026): is it worth £0.75 a month per user, billed yearly?
Annual leave planner and absence tracker for small teams
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Good · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for a shared leave calendar for small UK teams
Leave Dates is a leave tracker with a wall chart of who's away, from £0.75 per user a month billed yearly. That is about a dollar. It only does leave and absence, with no payroll, performance or hiring, and calendar sync needs the £1.50 plan while SSO and the API need £1.88.
Who Leave Dates is for
- Fits if you run a small team and only need to track who is off when
- Works for teams that want Outlook or Google Calendar showing leave
Who Leave Dates is not for
- Not for you if you want payroll, performance or hiring, as it is leave only
- Tight if you want calendar sync or time off in lieu, which need the £1.50 Essential plan
- Tight if you need SSO, the API or webhooks, which need Plus at £1.88
- Watch out: prices are in pounds, excluding VAT, and the USD and EUR switch could not be read
Why Leave Dates gets a 2.6
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- AValue for money£0.75 per user a month billed yearly, about $1, under 60% of the category's cheaper quarter. Calendar sync needs Essential at £1.50, still under $2.
- CFree plan and trial30-day free trial of every feature with no card needed, and no free plan.
- CFeaturesWall and year charts, requests and approval, allowances, time off in lieu and reports. It does that one job fully, and it is a small job: no payroll, performance or hiring.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. Allowances, leave years and approvers need setting up for each team.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb plus iOS and Android apps, with Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack and Zapier. No desktop app.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Leave Dates's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/leave-dates#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/leave-dates.svg" alt="Leave Dates: 2.6 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Leave Dates stands among HR software
Leave Dates's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 60 of the 63 other HR software we grade, and level with 3.
It stands best on value for money (A, above 62 of 63) and worst on features (C, above 1).
Its paid plans start at about $1 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.36 for the category: 1 of the 36 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 64 HR software we grade, cut by the letter each got. Leave Dates’s own letter is outlined.
- AValue for moneyAbove 62 of 63, level with 1
- CFree plan and trialAbove 40 of 63, level with 18
- CFeaturesAbove 1 of 63, level with 39
- CEase of useAbove 1 of 63, level with 61
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 22 of 63, level with 41
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 38 HR software. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Leave Dates, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Leave Dates you could make: time off, calendar and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 60 of the 63 other HR software we grade. It costs $12.06 a year.
What you could make
- Time off, calendar and reports: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
What this rests on. Leave Dates’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Leave Dates?
Leave Dates is a leave management tool for small businesses, built with UK teams in mind. Staff request time off on a shared calendar, managers approve it, and a wall chart shows who is away. It tracks allowances in days or hours, handles time off in lieu and imports bank holidays for over 230 countries.
Worth knowing
- The pricing page shows prices in GBP by default, exclusive of VAT, with a currency switch for USD and EUR that could not be read here.
- Calendar sync, time off in lieu and overlap limits need Essential; SSO, API, webhooks and Zapier need Plus.
- The price scales with the number of users, and the page shows the per-user figure billed yearly.
- It covers leave and absence only; there is no payroll, performance or hiring module.
Key features
- Wall chart and year chart
- A shared calendar view of who is away, so managers can plan around absences.
- Leave requests and approval
- Staff drag over dates to request time off, the approver is notified, and the requester is told the outcome.
- Allowances and carry over
- Allowances can be tracked in days or hours, pro-rated for starters and leavers, and carried over between years.
- Calendar sync
- Leave records can be synced to Outlook or Google Calendar, including a shared company calendar, on Essential and above.
- Time off in lieu
- Staff can log overtime and the balance is tracked as time off in lieu, on Essential and above.
- Reports
- Daily or weekly email summaries, downloadable reports, and a daily Slack summary on Essential and above.
Leave Dates pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Leave Dates is a paid product with a free trial, starting at £0.75 per user / month, billed yearly.
- Starts at
- £0.75 per user / month, billed yearly
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 30-day free trial of every feature, no credit card needed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | £0.75per user / month, billed yearly (£9.00 per user a year) | Unlimited employees and leave, allowances in days or hours, bank holidays, wall and year charts, reports and email summaries, web and mobile apps. |
| Essential | £1.50per user / month, billed yearly (£18.00 per user a year) | Starter plus Outlook and Google Calendar sync, overlap and leave limits, multi-person requests, time off in lieu, a Slack daily summary and company-wide policies. |
| Plus | £1.88per user / month, billed yearly (£22.50 per user a year) | Essential plus personal leave-year start dates, unlimited allowances, SSO, API, webhooks and Zapier, and policies by leave type. |
Read from leavedates.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Leave Dates before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discount25% off with yearly billing
The pricing page's Monthly and Yearly toggle states a 25% saving for yearly billing.
Stated on leavedates.com
Works with
Leave Dates alternatives
- Leave Dates vs Vacation Tracker
Free trial · from $2/mo
- Leave Dates vs Timetastic
Free trial · from $1.50/mo
- Leave Dates vs absence.io
Free trial · from €2.69/mo
- Leave Dates vs Calamari
Free trial · from $2/mo
- Leave Dates vs Breathe
Free trial · from £24/mo
Common questions
Does Leave Dates have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Leave Dates is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Leave Dates have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Leave Dates is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Leave Dates open source?
Leave Dates is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.