SimpleTip vs Tip Calc
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 Calc
Effortlessly calculate tips and split bills with this intuitive tool. It features camera scanning to automatically input bill totals, simplifying group payments.
- Calculate tips
- Split bills
- Camera receipt scanning
- Automatic bill total input
- Simple interface
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Super-Simple way to calculate the tip and split the bill! Use your camera to scan your receipt and fill in the Total Bill automatically!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tip Calc at Free against SimpleTip's $0.99. Tip Calc also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). SimpleTip's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (144 vs 41). On rating, ads 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
Tip Calc is free to download; SimpleTip costs $0.99 up front. Tip Calc sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SimpleTip asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for SimpleTip against 4.9 for Tip Calc. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 144 and 41 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of SimpleTip's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tip Calc's.
SimpleTip ships an update every 8 months, Tip Calc fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleTip | Tip Calc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (144 ratings) | 4.9 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | 41 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Cate | Planet B, Inc. |
Customer experience
SimpleTip
Tip Calc
In-app purchases
SimpleTip
No in-app purchases
Tip Calc
- Remove Ads$0.99
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