# Leave Dates review (2026): is it worth £0.75 a month per user, billed yearly? > Annual leave planner and absence tracker for small teams Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Leave Dates - **Website:** https://www.leavedates.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want payroll, performance or hiring, as it is leave only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## 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. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 30-day free trial of every feature, no credit card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | £0.75 per 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 | £1.50 per 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 | £1.88 per 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 https://www.leavedates.com/pricing-plans on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Leave Dates before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **25% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page's Monthly and Yearly toggle states a 25% saving for yearly billing. Source: https://www.leavedates.com/pricing-plans ## 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. ## Good for - Small UK businesses replacing a spreadsheet for holiday booking - Teams that only need leave tracking, not a full HR system - Offices that want leave synced to Outlook or Google Calendar ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: A.** £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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 30-day free trial of every feature with no card needed, and no free plan. - **Features: C.** Wall 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Allowances, leave years and approvers need setting up for each team. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus iOS and Android apps, with Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack and Zapier. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among HR software - Leave Dates's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 96 of the 101 other HR software we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 100 of 101) 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 for the category: 1 of the 40 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, 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 96 of the 101 other HR software we grade. It costs $12.06 a year. - You could make: Time off, calendar and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack, Zapier **Tags:** Time off, Calendar, Reports ## Alternatives - [Vacation Tracker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vacation-tracker): Leave and PTO tracking inside Slack, Teams or Google Workspace. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/leave-dates-vs-vacation-tracker) - [Timetastic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timetastic): Staff leave planner, with an added rota and time clock product. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/leave-dates-vs-timetastic) - [absence.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/absence-io): Time off, time tracking and employee files for small teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/absence-io-vs-leave-dates) - [Calamari](https://toolgpa.com/tools/calamari): Modular HR system for time off, attendance, core HR and reviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/calamari-vs-leave-dates) - [Breathe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/breathe): UK HR software for small firms, priced per business, not per person. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breathe-vs-leave-dates) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.leavedates.com/pricing-plans - https://www.leavedates.com - https://www.leavedates.com/features Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/leave-dates Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).