bartender.live vs Tipping 101
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
bartender.live
Discover cocktail recipes based on ingredients you have. Browse over a thousand drinks, star favorites, and share creations. Learn drink histories and find new concoctions.
- Ingredient-based drink discovery
- Browse 1000+ cocktail recipes
- Favorite drinks for quick access
- Share recipes with friends
- Learn drink history
- Discover new cocktails
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bartender.live tells you what you can make with what you already have. Check off the bottles in your bar and the app narrows a library of more than a thousand cocktails down to the ones you can pour tonight - complete, with nothing missing. Free. WHAT'S FREE - The whole drink library, with photos, honest measures, glassware, and the story behind each drink. New recipes almost every day. - My Bar: track as many bottles as you like, synced across your devices with iCloud. - I Can Make: the filter that started it all. One tap and you see only the cocktails your shelf can already pour. - Favorites and sharing: keep the good ones and send the recipe to whoever is thirsty. - Ingredient pages: what each bottle is, how it tastes, and every drink that calls for it. TOP SHELF One purchase, kept forever, no subscription: - The Almost filter: every cocktail you are exactly one bottle away from making, with the bottle named. - Home Screen widgets. - The daily cocktail suggestion. - Suggestions limited to what you can actually make. - Custom icons for your favorites. FOUNDERS Bought the app back when it cost money? You are a Founder: every Top Shelf feature is yours automatically, forever. The first round was on you, and the house does not forget that. Cheers!
Tipping 101
Effortlessly calculate restaurant tips using your camera to scan receipts or by manually entering bill amounts. The app automatically computes common tipping percentages and can split bills for individual payments.
- Scan receipts with camera
- Automatic tip percentage calculation
- Manual bill entry
- Bill splitting
- Recommended tip amounts
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Tipping 101 is the ultimate app for calculating tips at restaurants. You no longer need to manually enter numbers into the app to get percentages. Tipping 101 allows you to use your camera on your device and scan your receipt – which automatically calculates popular tipping percentages: 10%, 15%, and 20% - along with a recommended tip amount. If you have an older device – do not worry! You can still manually enter your bill and have values calculated for you. You will also have the option of splitting a bill to give you your personal amount to pay. Enjoy!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: bartender.live at 4.8 against Tipping 101's 4.0. bartender.live also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 38 months) and ratings volume (388 vs 4). Tipping 101's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. bartender.live sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tipping 101 asks for nothing beyond the download.
bartender.live holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: bartender.live has 388 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of bartender.live's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tipping 101's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
bartender.live ships an update every 8 days, Tipping 101 every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | bartender.live | Tipping 101 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (388 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 388 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jacket Industries, LLC | John Ryles |
Customer experience
bartender.live
Tipping 101
Bugs and requests
bartender.live
Reported bugs
5 issues- Search returns no results for valid queries (e.g., 'Gin Campari')
- 'New' tab in drinks list remains grayed out
- New drink notifications not accessible if alert is missed
- Missing ingredients in some recipe descriptions despite correct images
- Inconsistent notification delivery for daily drink feature
Requested features
15 requests- Search/filter by specific spirit or ingredient (e.g., mint, bourbon)
- Ability to add personal notes and modify recipes
- Quantity tracking for inventory items
- Filter drinks by number of missing ingredients (1-3 missing)
- Ingredient suggestions to unlock more drinks
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- Non-Twitter method to submit new recipes (email preferred)
- Filter 'In My Bar' section by spirit or ingredient
- Seasonal categorization (summer/winter/spring/autumn)
- Back-to-top button or persistent search bar
- Grocery list generation based on inventory
- Expand spirit varieties (spiced rum, different gin brands, etc.)
- Correct recipe errors (e.g., classic vs. modern martini definitions)
- Quality control feedback feature for recipe corrections
- Notification system for new daily drinks
- iOS 10.0 compatibility for older devices
Tipping 101
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
bartender.live
- Top Shelf$4.99
Tipping 101
No in-app purchases
Questions
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