SimpleTip vs Tipster
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.
Tipster
Easily calculate tips and split bills with friends. This application offers a straightforward way to determine individual costs, including gratuity, for group outings.
- Calculate tips
- Split bills
- Send cost messages
- Sleek design
- Easy to use
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Tipster is a sleek, simple to use tip calculator to help make calculating tips significantly easier to the user. It will also allow you to send messages to your friends letting them know what their split of the bill is, including tips.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tipster at Free against SimpleTip's $0.99. Tipster also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). SimpleTip's advantage is ratings volume (144 vs 4). On ads, 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
Tipster is free to download; SimpleTip costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tipster 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 4, 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 Tipster's.
SimpleTip ships an update every 8 months, Tipster daily. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleTip | Tipster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (144 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Cate | Mohamed Boutaleb |
Customer experience
SimpleTip
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In-app purchases
SimpleTip
No in-app purchases
Tipster
No in-app purchases
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