Comparison

Tips vs TipCalc

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tips

Effortlessly calculate tips and divide bills with this ad-free application. Its intuitive interface makes splitting expenses quick and simple for any group.

Highlights
  • Quick tip calculations
  • Bill splitting
  • Sleek and intuitive UI
  • No advertisements
  • No in-app purchases
Features
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Quickly and easily calculate tips and split bills. Ad free! Features: - Sleek and intuitive UI! - Quick calculations! - No advertisements!

About

TipCalc

Easily calculate tips, split bills among multiple people, and round totals. This app offers a clean, minimalist design and is frequently updated. It supports family sharing for all your devices.

Highlights
  • Calculate tips
  • Split bills
  • Round totals
  • Minimalistic design
  • Family sharing support
  • Frequent updates
Features
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TipCalc is a simple tip calculator app that has the ability to calculate tips, round the total, account for multiple people to split the bill, and share the calculations. The app uses a minimalistic and simple design and supports all the new iOS devices. Unlike most other tip calculating apps, this app is constantly updated—it's not six years old! Also, this app is not as costly as other apps for the version without ads and also supports family sharing, so you can get it on all your family's devices at no extra cost. This is by far the best tip calculating app, so download it today!

Screenshots

Tips2 screens
TipCalc3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tips at 4.9 against TipCalc's 4.5. Tips also leads on ratings volume (208 vs 2). TipCalc's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tips holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tips has 208 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tips versus TipCalc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipsTipCalc
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (208 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings208 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 13 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOwen Davis-BowerXALTING LLC

Customer experience

Tips

All ratings208 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.9%
Negative0.5%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TipCalc

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tips

No in-app purchases

None

TipCalc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tips free?
Tips is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TipCalc free?
TipCalc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tips or TipCalc?
Tips is rated higher. Tips averages 4.9 out of 5 from 208 ratings, while TipCalc averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Tips or TipCalc have ads?
Neither Tips nor TipCalc shows ads.

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