COMPARISONS
Residency tracker alternatives
There are several ways to track your residency days. Here is an honest look at the main ones, who each is built for, and where SpyglassBeacon fits: automatic tracking, an audit-grade report, and a privacy model that keeps your history on your phone.
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Taxbird
The established US state snowbird tracker. See where an automatic, audit-grade, privacy-first alternative differs.
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TaxDay
A US state residency tracker. Compare on automation, reporting, and privacy.
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Monaeo
An enterprise-grade compliance platform. See the consumer, phone-first alternative.
How to choose a residency tracker
Every app in this category does the same core job: it counts the days you spend in each place so you can prove where you were. Where they differ is in the details that matter when the count actually gets tested, and those details are what these comparisons focus on.
Four questions separate them. Does it track your days automatically, or lean on you to remember? Does it produce an audit-grade record you could hand to an accountant, using the "any part of a day counts" standard audits turn on? Does it cover international rules like the Schengen 90/180 limit and the Substantial Presence Test, or only US states? And what happens to your location data, does it sit on a company's servers, or stay on your phone?
SpyglassBeacon is built around those four: automatic background tracking, a defensible day-by-day report, international coverage, and an on-device privacy model with no account. The pages above walk through how it compares to each incumbent, and, just as importantly, who is better off staying with them.
New to the terms? Start with the residency glossary or see who each rule applies to.