Residency
Alternatives
Pebbles alternatives
Pebbles asks you to type every trip. People look elsewhere when they have years of travel to enter, or want alerts and planning on top of the log.
Start with Residency
Residency fills in years of travel from your photos and warns you before a limit. Pebbles has you type every trip in by hand.
- You have years of travel and do not want to type it in.
- You want a warning before you cross a limit.
- You want to check a trip before you book it.
Residency vs Pebbles, side by side
6 alternatives to Pebbles
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Residency our pick
Residency is an iPhone app that builds your travel history from your photo library and counts your days against visa, tax residency and citizenship rules. It warns you before you cross a limit and shows what a planned trip would change.
Built for: nomads, expats, dual citizens and anyone counting days for visas, tax or citizenship. How you pay: a subscription.
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Immio
Immio counts your days abroad automatically and keeps you within tax residency, Schengen and visa limits. It logs the country you are in by GPS in the background, imports a spreadsheet of past travel, and draws a map of the countries you have visited.
How you pay: monthly, annual or lifetime.
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TrackingDays
TrackingDays calls itself "the residency travel tracker app". It tracks your travel automatically and counts days and nights in every country, with a combined Schengen count, a rolling 365-day view and reminders for the countries you mark as favourites.
How you pay: location tracking sold by the month or the year, plus a one-time unlock of all features.
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Monaeo
Monaeo's app is a companion to its residency and tax compliance platform, which comes in a Personal Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The platform analyses travel data to manage and prove tax exposure such as statutory residency, domicile change and payroll withholding, and to defend against audits.
How you pay: a platform subscription, Personal or Enterprise, with no in-app purchases listed.
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TaxBird
TaxBird tracks where you spend your time with background location, and shows how many days you have spent in each place and how many remain before a residency limit. It covers countries, US states, Canadian provinces and New York City, and names snowbirds first among its users.
How you pay: a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription.
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Flamingo Compliance
Flamingo Compliance describes itself as "an automatic tax residency and day tracking app for people who live, work or travel across multiple countries and US states". It records physical presence, tracks it against residency, domicile and visa thresholds across 200+ countries and 50 US states, and produces exportable records.
How you pay: three subscription tiers: Resident, Settler and Globetrotter.
At a glance
| App | Built for | Where it runs | How you pay |
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| Residency | nomads, expats, dual citizens and anyone counting days for visas, tax or citizenship | iPhone and iPad in 8 languages, with calculations on the device | a subscription |
| Pebbles | people who want a private, manual log, including US state residency | iPhone and iPad, iOS 18 or later, in English | a monthly or annual subscription |
| Immio | travellers who want days logged by GPS and a map of visited countries | iPhone and iPad, iOS 17.6 or later, in 7 languages | monthly, annual or lifetime |
| TrackingDays | people who want days and nights counted automatically in every country | iPhone and iPad, in English | location tracking sold by the month or the year, plus a one-time unlock of all features |
| Monaeo | Monaeo subscribers: individuals with audit risk, and companies with travelling staff | iPhone and iPad, as a companion to a wider platform | a platform subscription, Personal or Enterprise, with no in-app purchases listed |
| TaxBird | snowbirds, remote workers and anyone splitting time between US states | iPhone and iPad, in English | a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription |
| Flamingo Compliance | expats, global citizens and high-net-worth individuals with complex residency | iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later, in English | three subscription tiers: Resident, Settler and Globetrotter |
What Pebbles is
Pebbles tracks your days in countries and US states for tax residency, visa limits and citizenship planning. Logging is manual by design: its listing says it needs no GPS or background location permission.
How to choose
Start from where your days are spread and how you want them recorded. Residency rebuilds them from photos you already have, covers Schengen, visas, tax thresholds and citizenship, and checks a trip before you book it. The other apps here record by background location or by typing each trip in, and several centre on US states. Every app here counts days and none gives tax or legal advice, so check decisions with an adviser.
Questions
What is the best alternative to Pebbles?
Residency, if you want day counts rebuilt from your photos, and trips checked before you book. Residency fills in years of travel from your photos and warns you before a limit. Pebbles has you type every trip in by hand.
What is better than Pebbles?
If you want day counts rebuilt from your photos, and trips checked before you book, Residency is the better fit. It is built for nomads, expats, dual citizens and anyone counting days for visas, tax or citizenship.
Why do people look for Pebbles alternatives?
Pebbles asks you to type every trip. People look elsewhere when they have years of travel to enter, or want alerts and planning on top of the log.
More comparisons
We make Residency. What we say about the other apps comes from their own pages, read on 11 November 2026: Pebbles on the App Store, Immio on the App Store, TrackingDays on the App Store, Monaeo on the App Store, TaxBird on the App Store, Flamingo Compliance on the App Store. Spotted a mistake? Write to support@residencyrules.com. Each name belongs to its owner, and Residency is not affiliated with any of them.
A day counter for people who move countries
Residency is on the App Store, for iPhone.