Tip Calculator vs Simple Tip Pool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tip Calculator
Easily calculate tips and split bills with friends. This finance app features a clean, modern interface with no intrusive ads. It offers intuitive sliders for tip percentages and allows splitting costs among up to 10 people.
- Calculate tip and total with sliders
- Split bills up to 10 people
- Clean and modern interface
- No pop-up ads
- Input validation for decimals
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Tip Calculator - Clean is a free Tip Calculator App that was designed to be easy to use. The interface is clean (and modern), and there are no annoying pop-up ads. Many of the most popular tip calculator apps don't have built-in checks to limit one decimal per number (e.g., 2.5.2) and let you enter a number with more than two decimal places (e.g., 14.75644). CleanTip just works as you would expect. Features: -Calculate Tip and Total using pre-defined sliders (0-45%) -Split bill amongst friends (up to 10 people) For any recommendations, please visit Facebook (support URL).
Simple Tip Pool
Effortlessly calculate and split tips among restaurant staff. Supports multiple calculation methods including hourly, points-based, and equal splits, with options to allocate percentages to barbacks. Share detailed breakdowns easily.
- Split tips by hours worked
- Split tips by points system
- Quick equal tip splitting
- Allocate percentages to barbacks
- Share breakdowns via text/email
- Create custom positions
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Tired of doing all the math required to split tips with your hardworking co-workers? This app is designed to make splitting tips in a tip pool environment as easy as possible. - Split Hourly - split tips based on hours and allocate a percentage to barbacks, which can also be split among that position based on hours. - Split by Points - split tips based on points per hour. You are able to create positions and assign point values which are then used to calculate tips per employee based on their position and hours worked. - Quick Split - split tips equally among a specified number of employees. Includes ability to allocate percentage to barbacks and will calculate how much each employee will receive. - Split Hourly and Split by Points options both offer the ability to share the breakdowns via text, email, etc. Disclaimer: This app is simply a tool to help calculate. The creator takes no responsibility for accuracy of tip tracking within your business. While the creator strives to prevent any inaccuracies, there are potentials for them. Use at your own risk.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Tip Pool at every 5 weeks against Tip Calculator's every 19 months. Simple Tip Pool also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and device support (3 vs 1). Tip Calculator's advantage is review sentiment (88% vs 75%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Tip Pool holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Tip Calculator's written reviews are positive against 75% of Simple Tip Pool's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tip Calculator ships an update every 19 months, Simple Tip Pool every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tip Calculator | Simple Tip Pool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tayseer Edouni | Mark FRANSEN |
Customer experience
Tip Calculator
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In-app purchases
Tip Calculator
No in-app purchases
Simple Tip Pool
No in-app purchases
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