Comparison

Tipsy vs Scan Tip

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tipsy

Calculate tips quickly and easily with this app. Features a convenient on-screen keyboard for input and a spinning wheel for adjusting tip percentages. Supports splitting bills and rounding up totals, with Apple Watch integration for on-the-go calculations.

Highlights
  • Fast tip calculation
  • Customizable designs
  • On-screen keyboard input
  • Spinning tip wheel
  • Split bill up to 8 ways
  • Round up tip/total
  • Apple Watch app
Features
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Tipsy is a fast and easy tip calculator for iPhone and Apple Watch with beautiful full color designs that let you customize your look. Tipsy’s iPhone keyboard is always onscreen and ready to type, just start entering the amount of your check. Spin the tip wheel up and down to quickly calculate different tip and total values. Optionally round up the tip or total to the nearest dollar. Split the check up to 8 ways. Use Tipsy to quickly and discreetly calculate a tip on your Apple Watch. Spin the digital crown to see different different tip and total values. Complications are available on many Apple Watch faces for fast access.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Easy tip calculation
  • Intuitive interface
  • Bill splitting
  • Customizable tip percentages
  • Fast results
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Tipsy4 screens
Scan Tip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Scan Tip at 5.0 against Tipsy's 4.5. Scan Tip also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Tipsy's advantage is ratings volume (52 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tipsy sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Scan Tip sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scan Tip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tipsy has 52 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tipsy ships an update every 4 months, Scan Tip fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tipsy versus Scan Tip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipsyScan Tip
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (52 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings52 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRecurring Dream LLCChirag Narendra Kular

Customer experience

Tipsy

All ratings49 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral6.1%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive86.2%
Neutral10.3%
Negative3.4%

Scan Tip

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Tipsy

One-time4
  • Nice Tip$0.99
  • Great Tip$1.99
  • Super Tip$2.99
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  • Tipsy Pro$2.99
2 purchases

Scan Tip

Subscriptions2
  • Scan Tip Pro Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Scan Tip Pro Annual7 Days trial$7.991 Year

Questions

Is Tipsy free?
Tipsy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scan Tip free?
Scan Tip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tipsy or Scan Tip?
Scan Tip is rated higher. Tipsy averages 4.5 out of 5 from 52 ratings, while Scan Tip averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Tipsy or Scan Tip have ads?
Neither Tipsy nor Scan Tip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tipsy or Scan Tip?
Tipsy ships an update every 4 months, and Scan Tip fortnightly. Most recently, Tipsy was updated on October 26, 2026 and Scan Tip on October 2, 2026.

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