Tipease vs ShopList simple
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tipease
This straightforward tip calculator simplifies calculating gratuities with intuitive sliders and advanced service rating options. Easily adjust tip ranges, subtract taxes, add discounts, and split bills. It offers smart rounding and convenient access via widgets or app icon shortcuts.
- Intuitive slider for service rating
- Advanced service speed and accuracy rating
- Customizable minimum and maximum tip settings
- Subtract tax/service fee or add discounts
- Split checks up to 10 ways
- Smart rounding options
- Notification Center widget for recent calculations
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Tip calculator: completely free and private. Tipease is a no-frills tip calculator. Launch Tipease and one screen does everything. No ads. No in-app purchases. No sign-in. Choose between a basic slider to rate your service experience or an advanced sliding scale rating of your service speed, accuracy, attention and hospitality. Change your minimum and maximum tip in Settings, and Tipease automatically customizes the app to match your personal tipping habits. Subtract the tax and service fee or add the value of a discount or coupon with no trouble. Effortlessly split the check up to 10 ways. Round your total or your tip. An advanced setting provides the option to round to the nearest ten for totals more than 100 and the nearest 100 for totals more than 1,000.
ShopList simple
Create and manage multiple shopping lists with customizable colors and sorting options. Easily delete purchased items by shaking or tapping, and personalize your experience with different fonts and text sizes. Share your lists with others.
- Create up to 9 colored lists
- Alphabetical or manual list sorting
- Display product count on icon
- Delete items by shaking or tapping
- Choose from 4 fonts
- Adjust text size
- Share lists
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"ShopList simple" is a simple, old school shopping list app simple no subscription, no ads, no tracking and no in-app purchases You can use it to create up to 9 different lists in all possible colors -Sort lists alphabetically or manually -Display product number on the icon -Delete purchased products by shaking or tapping -Choose from 4 different fonts -Adjust text size -Share the lists
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tipease at 100% against ShopList simple's 50%. Tipease also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.3 vs 2.0). ShopList simple's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 71 months). On in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Tipease is free to download; ShopList simple costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tipease holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tipease has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Tipease's written reviews are positive against 50% of ShopList simple's.
Tipease ships an update every 71 months, ShopList simple every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tipease | ShopList simple |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (14 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 71 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shawn Brown | Alexander Rutkowskij |
Customer experience
Tipease
ShopList simple
In-app purchases
Tipease
No in-app purchases
ShopList simple
No in-app purchases
