# LeaveBoard review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Leave tracking and employee records for small companies Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. LeaveBoard is a cloud tool for tracking time off, keeping employee records and running leave reports. It has a free plan for up to 9 employees and a per-employee paid plan for larger teams. The paid plan is priced for small and medium businesses and works through a browser on any device. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** LeaveBoard - **Website:** https://leaveboard.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you grow past 9 employees, where the free plan stops. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, LeaveBoard has a free plan, and paid plans start at $1.35 per employee / month, rate basis not stated. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free plan for a maximum of 9 employees, with the HR dashboard, time off tracking, employee directory, HR reports, absence calendar and leave policies. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Up to 9 employees, with time off tracking, employee directory, HR reports, absence calendar and leave policies. | | PRO | $1.35 per employee / month, monthly or yearly rate not stated | Unlimited users, priority support and advanced leave policies. The page does not say whether $1.35 is the monthly or yearly rate (save 17%). | | Enterprise | Custom | Aimed at companies larger than 81 employees, adds an account manager. Priced on request. | Read from https://leaveboard.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LeaveBoard before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 17% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page labels its Yearly switch as saving 17% over monthly billing. Source: https://leaveboard.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Time off tracking:** Employees request leave in a self-service portal and managers approve it, with allowances, accruals and custom leave types. - **Absence calendar:** A shared team calendar shows who is off, with public holidays and custom work schedules. - **Employee directory:** Keeps employee records in one searchable place, arranged by the company's organizational chart. - **HR reports:** Reports on leave balances, sick leave and attendance can be exported, including in Excel format, for payroll or accounting. - **Calendar sync:** Time off, birthdays, work anniversaries and public holidays can be pushed to Google, Outlook and Apple calendars through feeds. - **Single sign-on:** Sign-in through Google, Outlook and Slack accounts using OAuth2 and OpenID. ## Good for - Small companies that mainly need to track vacation and sick leave - Teams of up to 9 people that want a free leave tracker - Managers who want a shared who-is-off calendar ## Worth knowing - The free plan stops at 9 employees. - Cancellation is by contacting the vendor, who suspends the plan at the next renewal. - EU businesses are charged VAT on top of the listed prices. - Covers leave, records and reports; the pages read do not list payroll or hiring tools. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Leaveboard tracks leave and employee records for small companies. It's free for up to 9 employees, then $1.35 an employee, with no stated monthly or yearly basis. There's no payroll or hiring in the pages we read. - **Value for money: B.** $1.35 an employee, in the cheapest quarter of this category, though the listing doesn't say if that's monthly or yearly. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free for up to 9 employees with the dashboard, time off tracking, directory, reports, absence calendar and leave policies, plus a 14-day trial. - **Features: C.** Leave, records and reports, but the pages read list no payroll or hiring tools. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you'd set it up with your own people data first, so it's an ordinary C. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with five listed integrations. No mobile app named. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from LeaveBoard's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - LeaveBoard'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 free plan and trial (B, above 95 of 101) and worst on features (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $1.35 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5 for the category: 2 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 LeaveBoard you could make: time off, employee records and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 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 $16.20 a year. - You could make: Time off, employee records and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Calendar, Microsoft Office 365 and Outlook Calendar among them. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Calendar, Microsoft Office 365, Outlook Calendar, Slack, Apple iCal **Tags:** Time off, Employee records, Reports, Dashboards ## Alternatives - [Timetastic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timetastic): Staff leave planner, with an added rota and time clock product. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/leaveboard-vs-timetastic) - [Vacation Tracker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vacation-tracker): Leave and PTO tracking inside Slack, Teams or Google Workspace. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/leaveboard-vs-vacation-tracker) - [Leave Dates](https://toolgpa.com/tools/leave-dates): Annual leave planner and absence tracker for small teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/leave-dates-vs-leaveboard) - [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-leaveboard) - [Calamari](https://toolgpa.com/tools/calamari): Modular HR system for time off, attendance, core HR and reviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/calamari-vs-leaveboard) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://leaveboard.com/ - https://leaveboard.com/pricing/ - https://leaveboard.com/integrations/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/leaveboard Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).