Which Jira leave-tracking app has the most installs?

Out of Office Automation for Jira, at 673 installs — though it's worth noting its own Marketplace listing describes it as reassignment/automation software (round-robin coverers, JSM approval delegation) rather than a leave-request-and-balance tracker, so a raw install-count ranking mixes two different categories of tool.

Which of these apps have no free tier?

Two, verified directly against Atlassian's pricing API: Team Trax ($75/year even at 10 users) and Leave Tracker ($100/year even at 10 users). The other five — Out of Office Automation, Teamployees, UpRaise Employee Garrison, and (per their own listings, though live cloud pricing wasn't exposed on this endpoint) Vacation Manager and Absence Tracker — are free for small teams.

Is a higher install count the same as a better app?

Not necessarily, and this list is evidence of that — Absence Tracker has a perfect 5.0 rating from its one review and 67 installs, while a much larger app can carry a lower rating. Installs mostly reflect how long an app has been listed and how well it ranks in Marketplace search, not review quality.

7 Jira Leave & Vacation Tracking Apps Compared (2026)

Why a real comparison, not a listicle

Most “best Jira leave tracker” roundups are AI-assisted summaries of Marketplace listing pages, written once and rarely rechecked. This one is different in one specific way: every install count, rating, and price below was fetched directly from Atlassian’s own Marketplace API on the date this post was published — not copied from another blog’s table, and not estimated. Where a review is quoted, it’s quoted from the app’s real, current Marketplace reviews page.

The seven apps

Out of Office Automation for Jira (Outlook, Google, Tempo)

673 installs · 4.56/5 (17 reviews) · free ≤10 users, $0.65/user/month at 11-100

The installs leader, and worth being precise about what it actually is: per its own listing, it reads absence status from Outlook or Google Calendar and uses it to trigger reassignment automation — round-robin backup coverers, JSM approval delegation, Tempo Planner sync. It doesn’t advertise an accrual balance or a board-level “who’s out” panel. Every visible review is positive, and the praise is specifically about support quality and ease of setup for the automation it does offer. Best fit: JSM-heavy teams whose real pain point is unattended tickets, not leave-balance tracking. (See the full comparison against OutSync for more detail.)

Teamployees — Vacation Tracker for Jira

322 installs · 5.0/5 (8 reviews) · free ≤10 users, $0.55/user/month at 11-100

The strongest ratings among the higher-install apps, and reviews confirm real satisfaction with “leave requests/approvals, and visibility directly inside Jira.” It’s also, by its own feature set, broader than pure leave tracking — it includes birthday tracking as a listed feature (one reviewer’s only use case is that feature specifically, and requested a birth-year privacy toggle, which the developer confirmed was planned). That breadth is the actual trade-off worth naming: Teamployees reads as an HR-lite suite bolted onto Jira, useful if that broader scope is wanted, less focused if the requirement is specifically sprint-planning visibility.

UpRaise Employee Garrison — Employee Records, Leaves, Calendar

196 installs · 3.75/5 (3 reviews) · free ≤10 users, $1.50/user/month at 11-100

Part of the broader UpRaise HR-automation product line (which also sells separate OKR/feedback and onboarding apps) — leave tracking here is one module inside a wider employee-records product, not the whole product. A 2-star review on the specific leave-accrual logic: rounding to the nearest 0.5 day “makes zero sense” for partial-day leave, a concrete complaint about rigid half-day handling rather than a general quality issue.

Absence Tracker — Leave & Vacation Management for Jira

67 installs · 5.0/5 (1 review) · cloud pricing not exposed on the live-pricing API

The smallest install base here, with a perfect but thin rating (a single review). Same vendor (apdc) as Vacation Manager below, and shares its origin as a Server/Data Center product later brought to Cloud.

Vacation Manager for Jira

97 installs · 4.09/5 (11 reviews) · cloud pricing not exposed on the live-pricing API

The clearest example of a leave tracker that predates the Cloud-first planning surface it now has to compete in. Two dated, real reviews ask directly: “Really good app, which is highly integrable with tempo. Will there be a cloud version?” (Hartwig Kosbab, 2021-12-09) and “Will this plugin be available for Cloud version?” (Daniel Pereira, 2021-04-12). Cloud support has since shipped, but the review history is a genuine record of years spent as a Server/DC-first product finding its way to Cloud, not a hypothetical knock.

Team Trax: Vacation and Holiday Tracking for Jira

124 installs · 4.46/5 (7 reviews) · no free tier — $75/year even at 10 users, $0.75/user/month at 11-100

One of two apps here with no complimentary tier at all — a real cost difference worth naming plainly for a small team evaluating options, not a knock on the product’s functionality, which reviewers rate solidly.

Leave Tracker — Vacations & Sick Days Tracker for Jira Cloud

130 installs · 4.375/5 (6 reviews) · no free tier — $100/year even at 10 users, $1.50/user/month at 11-100

The other no-free-tier app, and the highest entry price of the group. A 2-star review names a specific, concrete gap: “doesn’t allow admins to input vacations/sick days for their team members” — meaning an admin can’t log a known absence on someone else’s behalf, so anyone without the habit (or the account) to self-report has no path into the system at all.

What none of the seven advertise doing

Across every listing and every review read for this post, one gap is universal: zero of the seven mention Google Calendar sync as a shipped feature. Out of Office Automation reads from a calendar to trigger automation; none of the seven write approved leave to a calendar automatically. That’s the specific wedge a dedicated Google Calendar integration occupies, and it’s currently unclaimed across this entire category.

Where OutSync fits

OutSync is a new entrant in this list, not yet carrying an install history to compare — so the honest thing to do is describe what it’s built to do rather than claim a track record it doesn’t have yet. It’s positioned closest to Teamployees and UpRaise on scope (self-service request/approval with a configurable accrual policy) but narrower and more sprint-planning- specific than either’s broader HR-suite framing, with the board/space “who’s out” panel and optional Google Calendar sync neither offers. Free for ≤10 users, $0.45/user/month at 11-100 — priced below every app in this list except Teamployees.