# InstaTip: Smart Tip Calculator — Scan bill/check to tip & split

> Smart tip calculator and bill splitter with OCR and advanced rounding. (iPhone/iPad app by Honghao Zhang.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/instatip-smart-tip-calculator/id1475062025 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Honghao Zhang](https://appshunter.io/developer/837207887)
- Category: Utilities, Finance
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.74/5 from 38 App Store ratings · 14 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13.0 · 28 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2019-08-13
- Data updated: 2026-07-05
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/instatip-smart-tip-calculator/id1475062025/reviews.md

## What is InstaTip?

Tipping is hard. 
It's just so annoying to do the math for the tip amount and write down the accurate total. When a check/bill goes to a party of people, splitting the check/bill just makes the math even harder.

InstaTip is a smart tip calculator and check/bill splitter for daily usage. This app is thoughtfully crafted to provide an intuitive UI to calculate the tip, round the total, and split with multiple people.

Core Features:
• Bill/Check text recognition for automatic tip calculation.
• Tip based on the tax-excluded amount (before tax), to avoid the unfair tip suggestions shown on the bill/check.
• An intuitive bill/check view. Just input what you see on the real bill/check and get the tip and total automatically.
• Customize the tax rates.
• Calculate the tip by 3 customizable tip rates or input tip rate directly.
• Tip rounding:
    • Round total or tip up or down.
    • Palindrome round. For example, $76.23 will be rounded to $76.67.
    • Tautonym round. For example, $76.23 will be rounded to $76.76.
• Tip splitting, show tip per person and total per person.
• Display current date time and address to help to recall the payment.

Tips:
By using "Palindrome total" or "Tautonym total", you could easily validate your transaction on the credit card statement later.

More features are coming, stay tuned!

## Key features

- Bill/check text recognition
- Tip calculation based on tax-excluded amount
- Customizable tip rates
- Advanced tip rounding options
- Tip splitting per person
- Payment recall with date/time/address

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remove Ads | $0.99 | one-time |
| Unlimited Bill Recognition | $0.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 14)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/instatip-smart-tip-calculator/id1475062025/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Need Manual Tax Field

*2024-02-19*

Tax field is by far the most cumbersome part of this app. Need ability to fill out Subtotal and Tax manually. OCR doesn’t work well either.

### 1/5 — Scanner doesn’t work

*2023-05-05, version 1.4.1*

Scanner doesn’t work, very disappointed.

### 5/5 — Tip calculator

*2022-11-03*

The best tip calculator ever !
 Keep up the Great Work!
 It’s very simple and I love it.

### 5/5 — Calculates pre-tax tip! Yay!

*2022-03-25*

You can add a custom sales tax % in the app settings.

### 2/5 — Improvements are required

*2022-02-08*

App is neat, but which could be more friendly, such as, manually fill the tax field, then automatically calculate the tax rate; manually fill the amount field, etc. Most of time, auto capture doesn’t work as expected.

### 5/5 — RVT

*2021-05-21*

Please consider making it for the watch too. Wonderful simple app to use!  Many thanks.

### 5/5 — Replaced Tipulator for me

*2020-02-18*

Years ago I bought Tipulator, which did wonderful pre-tax tipping and palindrome calculations. It got abandoned, and I’d been looking for a replacement for years. Nothing was every quite right. This is the one!

Two questions though: for the life of me I cannot find the location of how to purchase “Pro.” I find the ability to point my camera at the bill totally helpful, and want to have it unlocked permanently. 

Secondly: recently I had a bill where most of the items were dessert items that aren’t taxable. Their point of sale system was kind enough to only tax one of our four items. But the receipt came out like this:

Sub total $14.75
Tax: $0.65
Total: $15.40

The problem was that this was a 8.25% tax rate one only a portion of the bill. So setting the tax rate to 8.25% wouldn’t work. Also, it was have been insane guessing to figure out what the tax rate was in this case. I mean, it was 8.25% of *some* of the bill. So like maybe 2.37%? 3.117%? Know what I mean? And the current way to set tax in the app is that you have to go create these tax fields in another secretion then try them out one at a time. It would have been Sooooooo much easier if I could have simple clicked on the tax AMOUNT and entered $0.65 and had it reverse calculate the percentage to the 1.97% or whatever it was. 

I’d love a developer response on those two points! Thanks!

**Developer response:** Hey Cheule,

I’m very happy to hear you love this app! Thanks for your support! Regarding your two feedbacks,

1, I’m going to provide a unlock button for the pro feature, especially for the receipt scan feature.

2, I understand current tax input flow is a little bit cumbersome. I’d like to improve this to let you input the tax amount directly. Despite this, another feature I’m planning right now is about the location based tax, which can adjust the tax rate automatically.

Stay tuned, this is my hobby project so hopefully you will see a new version soon! Thanks for your support!

### 5/5 — 超赞的App

*2019-09-15*

很棒的设计！辛苦了设计师！

### 5/5 — Nice app!

*2019-09-13*

Youxiu!

### 5/5 — Useful tool

*2019-09-13*

Calculating tips always makes me headache. This calculator saves my life!

## Frequently asked questions about InstaTip

### Does InstaTip have ads?

InstaTip does not contain advertisements, providing an uninterrupted user experience.

### How accurate is InstaTip's bill scanning?

The app uses text recognition to automatically calculate tips and totals from bills or checks. This feature aims to simplify input by reading the bill's text.

### What are the advanced rounding options in InstaTip?

InstaTip offers palindrome rounding (e.g., $76.23 to $76.67) and tautonym rounding (e.g., $76.23 to $76.76), in addition to standard rounding up or down. These can help validate transactions on credit card statements.

### Can InstaTip be used offline?

The provided data does not specify offline functionality. However, core calculation features are likely to function without an internet connection once the app is installed.

### What devices is InstaTip compatible with?

InstaTip is available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices, indicated by its support for these platforms.

### How often is InstaTip updated?

The app was last updated on July 6, 2020, with version 1.4.1. Further updates are planned, as indicated by the developer's statement about more features coming.

### What is the age rating for InstaTip?

InstaTip has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a wide range of users.

### What is the price of InstaTip?

InstaTip is available for free, with the option for in-app purchases.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.1 — 2020-07-06

• new typeface
• fixed bugs
• new IAP items:
  • unlock check camera recognition
  • remove ads

### 1.3.1 — 2020-01-02

- Fix: round bug

### 1.3 — 2019-12-30

- Refreshed design
- Support saved tip preferences (includes tip modes, tip selection, and round mode) across the app launches

### 1.2 — 2019-09-16

* Scan the check with camera for automatic tip calculation
* Share the check image with your friends (useful when splitting)

### 1.1 — 2019-09-13

Scan Bill/Check with text recognition for automatic tip calculation.

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