TaxBird - Residency Tracker 4+

Tracking is fine. Planning is awful

In addressing my negative concerns. The planning interface is really painful to use. Dates are forced - imagine you decide you’ll be somewhere a week earlier than thought. You first have to change the first plan to reduce its length, then you need to add a new plan in the “unplanned” section- you can’t expand your second plan - the dates are locked because you previously had something there. You need to move things around to accommodate. Very cumbersome. Finally it’s getting location wrong in plans (I select Puerto Rico, it adds “st Pierre and Miquelon”). Then it crashed.

Developer Response ,

Hi Mark,

Very sorry for the delayed response here. If you can please reach out to support@taxbird.com, we'd be happy to help with any inputs that are cumbersome. We'll also think about things we can do to improve the process for adding planned days to make this easier in the future.

Thanks!

Try It For Yourself

We travel frequently between Texas and New York and this app automates tracking those travels for tax purposes. I was initially concerned by some of the negative reviews about TaxBird but decided to downloaded the app anyway (there is a free trial period before a subscription is required) and it has worked exactly as described. The typical battery consumption is less than 1% according to my iPhone and the cost of a TaxBird subscription is very reasonable as compared to others which provide similar functionality.

Does The Job

I’ve been a subscriber for almost five years. There was a period about one to two years ago following an iOS update that made the app very glitchy and required daily monitoring to make sure locations were being properly recorded. Since that issue was addressed the app works seamlessly in the background and does exactly what it’s supposed to do. Just set it and forget it. The effortless record keeping is a pleasure.