SimpleTip vs Tip Calculator
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.
Tip Calculator
Easily calculate tips and split bills with friends. This straightforward utility helps you determine tip amounts and divide costs quickly, making group dining simpler.
- Calculate tip amounts
- Split bills with friends
- Simple and easy to use
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Splitting the check and figuring out the tip shouldn't be difficult. It should be...Simple! Tip Calculator: Simple is here to help you: - Decide how much to tip on your check - Split the bill with friends - And well, that's it! Simple! Stay tuned for more fun updates!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tip Calculator at Free against SimpleTip's $0.99. Tip Calculator also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). SimpleTip's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (144 vs 17). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Tip Calculator is free to download; SimpleTip costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tip Calculator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleTip has 144 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of SimpleTip's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tip Calculator's.
SimpleTip ships an update every 8 months, Tip Calculator every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on August 15, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleTip | Tip Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (144 ratings) | 5.0 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Patrick Cate | Jason Schneider |
Customer experience
SimpleTip
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In-app purchases
SimpleTip
No in-app purchases
Tip Calculator
No in-app purchases
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