SimpleTip vs T
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleTip
Easily calculate tips and split bills with this intuitive app. Features one-handed use, customizable tip percentages, and various rounding options. Personalize your experience with different themes and dark mode.
- One-handed operation
- Tip splitting
- Customizable tip percentages
- Multiple rounding modes
- Dark mode and color themes
- Landscape and portrait support
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SimpleTip makes calculating tip's fast, easy, and accurate. With its clean intuitive design, everything is easily entered from a single screen. - The position of controls are especially designed to make it easy to use one-handed. - Tip splitting functionality makes finding per-person tips a breeze. - Different rounding modes let you choose how your tip is calculated. - Customize the preset star rating percentages to match what you think is fair. - Different color themes and a dark mode, allow you to personalize the look and feel. - Works in both landscape and portrait orientations.
T
This app provides advanced call management features to protect you from unwanted scam and robo calls. It uses AI and machine learning to identify and block suspicious numbers, offers full caller ID, and allows you to report fraudulent calls.
- Scam Block
- Scam Reporting
- Caller ID
- Allow list
- Personal Number Blocking
- Category Manager
- Reverse Number Lookup
- Voicemail to Text
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Scam Shield gives you control over T-Mobile’s anti-scam protections like Scam ID, Scam Block, and Caller ID, and is available to all our customers. - What is Scam Shield? - ADVANCED NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Our supercharged network analyzes every call using A.I., machine learning, and patented technologies. Our defenses update every six minutes to stay ahead of scammers. BUILT-IN PROTECTION Americans deal with billions of scam and robo calls every year. Our Scam ID and Scam Block technologies help identify and stop them before they ever reach your phone. KNOW WHO'S CALLING Now you'll see a caller's information, even if they're not in your contact list. With Scam Shield, full Caller ID access is automatically included, enable it. - Included features - • Scam Block – Our network will automatically block calls from likely scammers, when you turn it on, helping to keep them off your phone entirely. • Scam Reporting – Help identify suspicious callers or fraudsters and prevent their calls from being received by you—or others—in the future. • Caller ID – See who’s calling before you answer. • Allow list – Calls from numbers on your Allow list will never be blocked by our network and always ring your phone. - Premium features - • Personal Number Blocking – Block specific numbers from calling you as soon as they hit the T-Mobile network. • Category Manager – Tired of telemarketers? Or survey calls? We’ll identify and block call types you don’t want to see anymore. • Reverse Number Lookup – Not sure who a number belongs to? We’ll do a reverse phone number lookup and show you anything we can about who is calling. • Voicemail to Text - Get text messages containing readouts of blocked calls that were sent to voicemail. --- Qualifying service & capable device required. Turning on Scam Block might block calls you want; disable any time. For help and support, please contact callprotectionops@t-mobile.com.
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Verdict
SimpleTip and T both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of SimpleTip's written reviews are positive against 25% of T's. SimpleTip also leads on chart position (#171 vs unranked). T's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (208K vs 144). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
T is free to download; SimpleTip costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for SimpleTip against 4.7 for T. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: T has 208K ratings behind it against 144, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of SimpleTip's written reviews are positive against 25% of T's.
SimpleTip ships an update every 8 months, T every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleTip | T |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (144 ratings) — better | 4.7 (208K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 25.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 144 | 208K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #171 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Cate | MetroPCS |
Customer experience
SimpleTip
T
Bugs and requests
SimpleTip
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
T
Reported bugs
3 issues- Numbers marked as blocked sometimes still get through
- App settings not retained, requiring frequent reconfiguration
- Reverse lookup feature often fails to identify numbers
Requested features
3 requests- Allow blocking by caller ID instead of just number
- Improve notification system for blocked calls
- Add support for blocking spam text messages
In-app purchases
SimpleTip
No in-app purchases
T
No in-app purchases









