Tipease vs Blackout Mode
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.
Blackout Mode
Instantly dim your screen, silence all audio, and disable your camera flash with a single tap. Perfect for dark environments like concerts or cinemas, ensuring you don't disturb others.
- Screen blackout
- Volume zero
- Flash locked off
- Single-tap activation
- In-app camera with disabled flash
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You know that person. Phone blazing in a dark cinema. Ringtone cutting through a piano concerto. Flash firing at a concert. Don't be that person. Blackout is a single-tap utility that does three things the moment you activate it: Dims down your screen brightness, silences your volume to zero, and locks your camera flash permanently off within the in-app camera. No settings to dig through. No toggles to remember. Just tap, and disappear into the dark. What Blackout does: Screen blackout. No blinding brightness in the dark, no light pollution for the people around you. Volume zero. Drops to silent instantly. No surprise notifications, no accidental sounds, no embarrassing ringtones mid-performance. Flash locked off. Built-in camera keeps flash disabled permanently. Shoot the moment freely without blinding anyone around you. Made for: Concerts, live music, classical performances, theatres, cinemas, comedy shows, sports events, opera, ballet, lectures, religious services, anywhere you need to be invisible. One tap. That's it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tipease at none against Blackout Mode's 1. Tipease also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Blackout Mode's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 71 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Blackout Mode sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tipease asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blackout Mode holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Tipease ships an update every 71 months, Blackout Mode daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tipease | Blackout Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (14 ratings) | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 71 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shawn Brown | Alp Avanoglu |
Customer experience
Tipease
Blackout Mode
In-app purchases
Tipease
No in-app purchases
Blackout Mode
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