SimpleTip vs TipBuddy
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.
TipBuddy
Effortlessly calculate and divide bills with this utility. It allows for quick tip calculations and seamless check splitting among multiple people. Enjoy a streamlined experience for managing group expenses.
- Quick tip calculation
- Split bills easily
- No ads
- No in-app purchases
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Quickly calculate tips and split the check in seconds with TipBuddy. There is no ads and in app purchases, you can calculate in seconds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TipBuddy at Free against SimpleTip's $0.99. TipBuddy also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). SimpleTip's advantage is ratings volume (144 vs 6) and chart position (#171 vs unranked). 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
TipBuddy is free to download; SimpleTip costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TipBuddy 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 6, 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 TipBuddy's.
SimpleTip ships an update every 8 months, TipBuddy fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleTip | TipBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (144 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #171 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Cate | Celil Cagatay Gedik |
Customer experience
SimpleTip
TipBuddy
In-app purchases
SimpleTip
No in-app purchases
TipBuddy
No in-app purchases
