SmartSignal vs Fair Tips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartSignal
Access and control your security system remotely via your smartphone or tablet. View live footage and interact with your system from any location after creating an account and adding your device.
- Remote security system access
- View live footage
- Interact with security system
- Create user account
- Add security system
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Defender SmartSignal enables users to view and interact with their security system using a smartphone or tablet device from anywhere. Create an account, add your system and view or interact with your footage all from the Defender SmartSignal app.
Fair Tips
This utility app helps you calculate accurate tips by automatically deducting estimated sales tax based on your location. It allows for rounding tips and the total price, ensuring fair contributions.
- Location-based sales tax estimation
- Automatic tax exclusion for tip calculation
- Tip rounding options
- Total price rounding options
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Pay tips based on your actual service price excluding tax! Fair tips can estimate your local sales tax rate based on your location. It automatically deducts it from tip calculation. Check out the Fair Tips features: - Location based sales tax estimation - Automatically exclude tax from total price before calculating tips - Rounding up/down tips - Rounding up/down total price - Record what's saved over time
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fair Tips at 100% against SmartSignal's 4%. Fair Tips also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months). SmartSignal's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 7) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fair Tips holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 4% of SmartSignal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fair Tips's.
SmartSignal ships an update every 13 months, Fair Tips every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartSignal | Fair Tips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Empowerment Technologies Inc. | Aidi Pi |
Customer experience
SmartSignal
Fair Tips
In-app purchases
SmartSignal
No in-app purchases
Fair Tips
No in-app purchases
