Calculate your Tip vs Fair Tips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calculate your Tip
Easily calculate restaurant or taxi tips. Input your total bill and desired tip percentage to get the exact amount. Features a user-friendly design with simple controls and rounding options for both tip and total.
- Calculate tip percentage
- Round tip or total amount
- User-friendly design
- Simple controls
- Apple Watch settings access
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Calculate your Tip helps you to calculate the tip you have to give at a restaurant or a taxi. Round the tip or the total amount! Type in the amount you've spent and choose the percentage you want to give. Calculate your Tip does the rest for you! User-friendly design and simple controls! To customise settings on apple watch, "force touch" on the main page and access to settings
Fair Tips
This utility app helps you calculate accurate tips by automatically deducting estimated sales tax based on your location. It allows for rounding tips and the total price, ensuring fair contributions.
- Location-based sales tax estimation
- Automatic tax exclusion for tip calculation
- Tip rounding options
- Total price rounding options
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Pay tips based on your actual service price excluding tax! Fair tips can estimate your local sales tax rate based on your location. It automatically deducts it from tip calculation. Check out the Fair Tips features: - Location based sales tax estimation - Automatically exclude tax from total price before calculating tips - Rounding up/down tips - Rounding up/down total price - Record what's saved over time
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calculate your Tip at none against Fair Tips's 1. Calculate your Tip also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Fair Tips sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Calculate your Tip asks for nothing beyond the download.
Calculate your Tip ships an update every 2 weeks, Fair Tips every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calculate your Tip | Fair Tips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Zanchi | Aidi Pi |
Customer experience
Calculate your Tip
Fair Tips
In-app purchases
Calculate your Tip
No in-app purchases
Fair Tips
- Remove Ads$1.99
Questions
Is Calculate your Tip free?
Is Fair Tips free?
Do Calculate your Tip or Fair Tips have ads?
Which is updated more often, Calculate your Tip or Fair Tips?
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