Use Your Days

Paul Ralph Hall

About this app

Your PTO is earned. Make sure you use it.

Use Your Days helps you track your vacation days, personal time, and all the breaks you deserve, whether your time off is granted upfront or earned gradually, with beautiful countdowns that build excitement for every moment away from work.

See exactly where you stand
-Track remaining PTO at a glance
-Watch the countdown to your next break
-Know how many days are left in the year to plan ahead
-Track PTO as it accrues each pay period, as a simple annual total, or scheduled lump sum
-Support for weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly accrual schedules
-Configure accrual rate, lump sum days, rollover amounts, and banking caps
-Toggle between days and hours when adding time off
-Smart weekday-only counting (skip weekends automatically)
-Option to exclude federal holidays from your totals
-View a full history of how your available balance was calculated, including accruals, PTO used, rollovers, and lump sums

Organize your time off your way
-Categorize entries: Vacation, Travel, Mental Health, Family Time, Medical, Personal & more
-Add custom emoji icons to personalize each entry
-Add notes to remember trip details, reservations, or plans

Stay in control of your balance
-Set a maximum banking cap for total PTO days
-Allow negative balances (borrow against future PTO) with a configurable limit
-Automatically roll over unused PTO into the new year
-Year-end PTO projections so you know what you’ll have left
-See warnings when you try to book more PTO than you have available

Track PTO submissions to your employer
-Mark each PTO entry as submitted or not submitted
-With PTO submission tracking enabled, your available balance reflects only submitted PTO
-Perfect for workplaces that require PTO to be submitted as it accrues

Never forget to submit PTO
-Get reminders when it’s time to submit a PTO request
-Choose how far in advance you’re notified
-See visual indicators on PTO entries that still need submission
-App badge shows how many requests need attention
-Tap a notification to jump straight to that PTO entry

See your entire year at a glance
-Interactive Days Left calendar showing all 12 months
-See every PTO day on the exact dates it occurs
-Tap any day to preview what’s happening

Home screen widgets that inspire
-Full dashboard widget showing available PTO based on current accrual
-Focused widgets: PTO countdown only, days remaining only, or next event countdown
-Small, medium, and large sizes to fit your home screen

Designed to delight
-Haptic feedback throughout
-Beautiful category gradients and modern glass-style UI
-Dark mode support

Time off is part of your compensation. Use it wisely. Use it fully.

What’s new

Initial public release of Use Your Days on Android. Includes PTO balance tracking, accrual schedules, rollover and cap settings, days/hours entry, submission reminders, annual calendar view, and widgets.