Tips vs Calc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tips
Effortlessly calculate tips and divide bills with this ad-free application. Its intuitive interface makes splitting expenses quick and simple for any group.
- Quick tip calculations
- Bill splitting
- Sleek and intuitive UI
- No advertisements
- No in-app purchases
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Quickly and easily calculate tips and split bills. Ad free! Features: - Sleek and intuitive UI! - Quick calculations! - No advertisements!
Calc
Easily calculate and split bills with friends. Quickly adjust tip percentages and see rounded totals. This app offers a fast and powerful way to manage shared expenses.
- Split bills easily
- Quick tip adjustment
- Share receipts via iMessage
- Calculate pre or post-tax tips
- Round totals or tip amounts
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Calc: Tip Calculator is the world's easiest, quickest, most powerful, and best tip calculator. Easily split the bill and share the receipt with your friends over iMessage. Choose your tip preference, but swipe left or right to adjust it quickly depending on the circumstance. See exact percentages, round totals, or round tip amounts. Tip on pre or post tax, your choice! Best of all, it's easy, free, and no ads! Privacy policy: https://theqwizllc.github.io/terms/split-priviacy-policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Calc at fortnightly against Tips's every 13 months. Tips's advantage is ratings volume (153 vs 11). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tips against 4.8 for Calc. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tips has 153 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Tips ships an update every 13 months, Calc fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and August 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tips | Calc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (153 ratings) — better | 4.8 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 153 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Owen Davis-Bower | Hijinx LLC |
Customer experience
Tips
Calc
In-app purchases
Tips
No in-app purchases
Calc
No in-app purchases
