Annual Leave 3.7.5

This app offers a comprehensive solution for planning, tracking, and reviewing annual leave. It incorporates public holidays from the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Australia (see below), thereby facilitating more efficient scheduling and helping users avoid missing extended weekends.

Feedback from users reflects positive experiences:

• "A reliable app for managing leave; it has been the only leave management app that has consistently performed without crashes."
• "Impressive synchronization with my calendar prevents duplication. The numerous customizable settings make it straightforward to tailor the app to individual needs."
• "I've been seeking a similar application for a long time; it significantly simplifies tracking my holidays without the need for constant calendar or Excel sheet updates."
• "Finally, an app that meets my requirements after over a year of searching. The ability to track leave in hours and personalize settings is highly valuable. Integration with the iPhone calendar is seamless and effective."

Key features include:

• The capacity to add leave entries with specific titles and locations for each holiday.
• Options to specify start and end dates or select a start date with a desired duration in days or weeks.
• The app automatically calculates required leave days while accounting for public holidays.
• Manual adjustments are possible for calculated leave days or to transfer days into flex days.
• Automatic creation of iOS calendar events for leave entries is supported, if desired.
• Residual unused leave can be automatically transferred to the following year.
• All data synchronizes across iOS devices via iCloud, ensuring consistency.

Additional capabilities include:

• Filtering the leave list to display public holidays, additional days off, and bridge days, with quick toggles to switch between views or adopt these days as leave.
• The ability to categorize leave entries as planned or approved.
• Sending leave requests via email directly from the app.
• Setting up reminders for upcoming leaves.
• Addition of notes to individual leave entries for further details.
• Undo functionality during editing through device shaking gestures.
• Navigational shortcuts via swipe gestures on the title bar and calendar views for efficient browsing across months and years.
• Customization options for visual appearance, including selectable colors for entries and background images with coordinated color schemes.

Application settings enable detailed configuration:

• Adjusting the number of annual leave days available per year.
• Modifying leave year definitions if they do not align with calendar years.
• Managing residual leave settings—disabling transfer, expiry policies, or indefinite retention.
• Deactivating flex days and categories as needed.
• Selecting country profiles to ensure appropriate public holiday recognition.
• Defining which weekdays constitute non-working days.
• Addition of extra days off recognized as official holidays.
• Specifying whether holidays and additional days off are whole or half days, or have no duration at all.
• Selecting between day-based or hour-based leave tracking.
• Choosing custom colors for various entry types and configuring their appearance within the calendar view.
• Customizing app themes with background images and coordinated color schemes.
• Designation of the target iOS calendar for event creation.
• The option to receive reminders related to upcoming leaves.

The current version includes public holidays for the US, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Australia. Future updates will expand support to additional countries based on user feedback and market data.