Offdays helps you shape and keep a time-off plan throughout the year. Stretch My Time Off is an optimisation tool: enter your location and available days, then see suggested leave dates that connect public holidays and weekends into longer breaks. Both can help you find useful dates; the difference is whether you want an ongoing personal planner or a calculated starting point.
Offdays vs Stretch My Time Off at a glance
| Planning need | Offdays | Stretch My Time Off |
|---|---|---|
| Best starting point | Map your own leave year and try dates around your plans. | Choose a country, year, and number of days off to get optimised suggestions. |
| Finding breaks | Compare possibilities in a year view and decide which ones fit. | Calculates leave dates around weekends and public holidays to extend breaks. |
| Using it throughout the year | Keep a customisable plan and revise it as your allowance or commitments change. | Adjust inputs and settings to recalculate suggested dates. |
| Public holidays | See public holidays alongside leave where built-in coverage is available, and add dates that matter to you. | Uses country-specific public holidays in its calculation; the calendar lets you edit holiday and weekend settings. |
| Personal dates | Include school holidays, religious observances, and other commitments in your plan. | Focuses its suggested dates on available leave, public holidays, and weekends. |
| Sharing | Share your leave plan with other people. | View the suggested dates in its interactive calendar. |
| Calendar export | Export your plan as an iCal file for Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar. | Review the calculated dates in the web tool. |
Which approach fits you?
Choose Offdays if you want to build and share a plan you can keep adjusting throughout the year, especially when family, school, or religious dates matter as much as public holidays. Start planning in Offdays.
Choose Stretch My Time Off if you want a quick set of date suggestions from your allowance, location, and public holiday calendar. You can use those suggestions as a starting point and recalculate when your inputs change. Try Stretch My Time Off.
Sources and updates
The Stretch My Time Off column is based on its live tool and the creator’s project README. See the Offdays site for its year-view planning approach. Features were reviewed on 20 September 2026 and may change.