Comparison

TipMe vs Checkout

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TipMe

This app helps service industry professionals easily track daily tip earnings, including both cash and credit card payments. It simplifies tax reporting by automatically saving data and providing monthly and yearly exports. Say goodbye to manual logs and hello to organized income tracking.

Highlights
  • Easy daily earnings input
  • Automatic data saving
  • Tracks cash and credit card tips
  • Manages crew deductions
  • Monthly and yearly tax exports
  • Built-in user guide
Features
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Do you work as a waiter/waitress, casino dealer, bartender, beauty, or other service industry that has tips? As we all know tips must be accounted for as income each day, and reported to the government each year. Say goodbye to your paper logs, and use this simple and easy app to track daily earnings. Key Features • Easy input • Autosaves even if the app or phone shuts down • Keeps track of credit card and cash tips • Keeps track of deductions for other members of the crew • Exports by month and by year for tax records • User guide built within the app • Supports both landscape and portrait modes

About

Checkout

Easily log your shifts, sales, and tips to automatically calculate your real hourly rate and net earnings. Track multiple jobs, set weekly goals, and gain insights into your earning patterns. Export your data for tax purposes.

Highlights
  • Automatic tip calculation
  • Multi-job and role tracking
  • Shift calendar with earnings visualization
  • Weekly goal setting with widgets
  • Detailed earnings breakdown
  • Tip out calculator
  • CSV export for tax filing
Features
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Stop guessing what you made last night. Checkout tracks your tips, calculates your real hourly rate, and shows which shifts actually pay. Know exactly what you made, every single shift. Checkout is the tip tracker built for servers, bartenders, waiters, waitresses, hosts, and food runners. Log a shift in seconds. See your real hourly rate. No account required, and your data never leaves your phone. SIMPLE TIP TRACKING Enter your hours, sales, and tips and Checkout calculates your tip share, net tips, and real hourly rate automatically. Handles midnight crossovers, custom tip out percentages, and tip in for bartenders. No math. No guessing. Just your numbers. OVERTIME THAT KNOWS TIPPED WORK Tell Checkout how each job pays overtime, whether that is weekly, daily, or double time, with your own thresholds and payroll week start. If you are a tipped employee, your overtime is figured on full minimum wage instead of your cash wage, the way it is supposed to be. Every shift, total, and chart counts it from then on. YOUR SHIFTS AS RECEIPTS Every shift you log opens as a printed receipt, itemized line by line, with your total and hourly rate at the bottom. The only tip tracker that shows your money the way your restaurant does. WHY IS MY CHECK SO SMALL? (CHECKOUT PRO) Enter your paycheck and Checkout explains it in plain English: how much was wages, how much was tips you already took home, what got taxed, and what actually hit your account. See it as a plain language breakdown or a line by line receipt, your choice with a tap. If the numbers do not line up against the shifts you logged, you will know, and you will have the record to prove it. BUILD YOUR OWN TRACKER Choose exactly which fields appear on your shift form: tip out, tip in, total sales, covers, or anything custom. Create your own fields that add to, subtract from, or simply track alongside your earnings. Your tracker, set up for your restaurant. EARNINGS BREAKDOWN See exactly where your money comes from: cash tips, credit tips, tip share paid out, net tips, base wage, and total take-home pay, all calculated in real time as you type. YOUR SCHEDULE, ALREADY IN THE APP (CHECKOUT PRO) Log shifts before you work them. If you work the same days most weeks, save that schedule as a template and drop it onto any week in a couple of taps. Your calendar fills itself in and all you do after the shift is add the numbers. FULL HISTORY, ALWAYS FREE Every shift you have ever logged, available forever. No limits and no locks on your own data. SWITCHING FROM ANOTHER APP? Import your shift history from any CSV file in seconds. Positions, hours, and earnings map automatically. No starting over. EXPORT ANYTIME Export your complete tip history as a CSV for your own records or your accountant. Works with Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets. PRIVACY FIRST No account required. No cloud sync. Your shift data never leaves your phone, and your earnings are yours alone. EVERYTHING IN CHECKOUT PRO - Explain My Paycheck: see exactly why your check is the size it is - Paycheck reconciliation: match what you were paid against what you worked - Scheduled shifts and weekly shift templates - Shift calendar with heat mapped earnings - Weekly goal tracking with home screen widgets - Multiple jobs, and every role you work at each one - Full analytics: projections, records, best days, earnings stability - Shift reminders on your own schedule $19.99 per year or $2.99 per week, both starting with a 7 day free trial. Save 87% with annual. Cancel anytime. PERFECT FOR Servers, bartenders, waitstaff, hosts, bussers, and food runners, anyone whose income changes shift to shift. Download Checkout and stop guessing. Privacy Policy: https://flowstateindustries.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://flowstateindustries.com/terms

Screenshots

TipMe4 screens
Checkout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Checkout at 5.0 against TipMe's 4.5. Checkout also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (87% vs 69%). TipMe's advantage is ratings volume (170 vs 26) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TipMe sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Checkout sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Checkout holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TipMe has 170 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of TipMe's written reviews are positive against 87% of Checkout's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TipMe ships an update every 2 months, Checkout every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TipMe versus Checkout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipMeCheckout
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (170 ratings)5.0 (26 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews86.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings170 — better26
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChuChu Train ProductionsFlowstate Industries LLC

Customer experience

TipMe

All ratings170 ratings
Positive85.9%
Neutral5.3%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative23.1%

Checkout

All ratings26 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

TipMe

One-time3
  • Ad Removal$9.99
  • Unlimited Entries$9.99
  • Unlock All Features$14.99
4 purchases

Checkout

Subscriptions4
  • Checkout Pro Weekly7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Checkout Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Checkout Pro Annual1 Month trial$39.991 Year
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  • Checkout Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is TipMe free?
TipMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Checkout free?
Checkout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TipMe or Checkout?
Checkout is rated higher. TipMe averages 4.5 out of 5 from 170 ratings, while Checkout averages 5.0 from 26 ratings.
Do TipMe or Checkout have ads?
Neither TipMe nor Checkout shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TipMe or Checkout?
TipMe ships an update every 2 months, and Checkout every 8 days. Most recently, TipMe was updated on October 26, 2026 and Checkout on October 28, 2026.

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