SimpleTip vs Personal 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.
Personal Tip Calculator
Easily calculate and round up tips without manual math. This utility simplifies splitting bills and determining accurate gratuities.
- Effortless tip calculation
- Automatic rounding
- Bill splitting assistance
- Intuitive interface
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Tip Calculator makes tipping easier than ever. No more having to do the math and rounding up is right at your fingertips!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Personal Tip Calculator at Free against SimpleTip's $0.99. Personal Tip Calculator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). SimpleTip's advantage is ratings volume (144 vs 1). On update cadence, 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
Personal 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.
Personal 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SimpleTip ships an update every 8 months, Personal Tip Calculator every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on August 15, 2026 and June 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleTip | Personal Tip Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (144 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Cate | Levi Zitting |
Customer experience
SimpleTip
Personal Tip Calculator
In-app purchases
SimpleTip
No in-app purchases
Personal Tip Calculator
No in-app purchases
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