Tips vs Scan Tip
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!
Scan Tip
Effortlessly calculate tips with this intuitive tool. Quickly determine the correct amount to leave based on your bill and desired percentage. Perfect for diners and service industry professionals.
- Easy tip calculation
- Intuitive interface
- Bill splitting
- Customizable tip percentages
- Fast results
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Scan Tip helps you quickly calculate restaurant tips and totals. Enter a bill amount, choose a preset tip, adjust a custom percentage or dollar amount, and see the final total instantly. The app can save dining history, sync SwiftData history and presets with iCloud, summarize recent totals, and detect possible duplicate visits. Receipt scanning uses the device camera to read receipt totals and warn when service charges or included gratuity may already be present. On supported iOS versions, Apple Intelligence can refine receipt details on device. Scan Tip also supports Scan Tip Pro, an auto-renewable subscription for unlimited saved history, Smart Check insights, custom tip presets, history charts, and history export/share. Private iCloud sync is available independently of Pro when iCloud is available. Users can manage built-in and custom preset visibility, restore purchases, change appearance themes, replay onboarding, delete local data, and use App Shortcuts for common calculator actions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tips at none against Scan Tip's 2. Tips also leads on ratings volume (208 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Scan Tip's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 13 months). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Scan Tip sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Tips asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tips against 5.0 for Scan Tip. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tips has 208 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Tips ships an update every 13 months, Scan Tip fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tips | Scan Tip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (208 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 208 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Owen Davis-Bower | Chirag Narendra Kular |
Customer experience
Tips
Scan Tip
In-app purchases
Tips
No in-app purchases
Scan Tip
- Scan Tip Pro Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Scan Tip Pro Annual7 Days trial$7.991 Year
