Ultimate Tip Calculator vs Fair Tips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ultimate Tip Calculator
Effortlessly calculate tips, split bills, and convert currencies with this comprehensive tool. It offers real-time calculations, advanced splitting options, and a worldwide tipping guide, making it ideal for everyday use and international travel.
- Real-time calculations
- Advanced bill splitting
- Worldwide tipping guide
- Currency converter
- Customizable rounding
- Receipt photo archiving
- AI receipt scanning
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Ultimate Tip Calculator is a polished app that has everything you need to Tip and Split well. It is a complete, fast, and handy tool that will once and for all solve the problem of tipping in everyday life, also when traveling abroad. Very useful when you are going out to dinner, have a date or just go out with friends. The complete worldwide tipping guide makes it a must have travel companion and the currency converter always shows the real cost of the tip and service in your national currency. Key features: Real-time Calculations – Calculations are performed instantly, without additional confirmations. Smart Design – The order of the fields guides you step by step through the entire process of tipping in an intuitive way without unnecessaries taps. TAX Exclusion – The tip can be calculated on pre- or post-tax value. The app includes common tax rates for USA and Canada, but you can always put it manually and set it as a default rate. Advanced Split the Bill – The total amount can be divided equally, proportionally or items on the receipt can be assigned individually using drag & drop system. Flexible Tip Rate – Enter your own tip rate and value or choose one of the suggested ones. Customizable Rounding – It's totally up to you if and what you want to round up or down: tip amount, total bill with tip, amount each companion must pay. You can select a suggested value, set it yourself, or simply round up or down with one tap. You can even create your own rounding rules! Change Return – Calculate and control an individual return of the change for each person. Share – Check a summary of all calculations and send it to your friends, along with information about their shares, payments, and debts. Statistics – Archive bills and check weekly and monthly summaries of expenses and tips. Photo Archiving – Take a photo of the receipt and save it with your calculations for future use. Artificial Intelligence – Automatic reading of values from photos of receipts. Fully Customizable – Personalize everything. Set default and predefined tip and tax rates, currencies, rounding rules, color themes, screen layout, and more. Anti-fraud Rounding – Thanks to this smart rounding, you can detect a potential fraud on your bank statement and check if the amount has been correctly charged. Dark Mode – Using a dark interface with a higher contrast makes the app readable even in dark restaurants and pubs. Worldwide Tipping Guide – It covers over 240 countries and territories. Some tipping customs may surprise you entirely! Currency Converter – The app includes an instant currency conversion tool that converts your current currency into your home currency in real time. It includes not only the most popular currencies (e.g. dollar, pound, franc, euro, yen, yuan), but also the most exotic (over 160 currencies). Offline Mode – The app works perfectly without an Internet connection, so you can use it literally anywhere in the world. User-friendly Interface – The digits on the screen are large and legible, the colors have been selected in accordance with the recommended standards. The interface is intuitive, all tasks can be completed with a minimum number of taps. Security – The app does not collect any personal data. We request for the minimum necessary permissions. Accessibility – The app works flawlessly with Larger Text. Visual elements can be scaled to make optimal use of the screen surface. You can even adjust the position of the keypad to make it easier to use with one hand. Free Trial – Download the app, use the basic functions for free indefinitely, and check all the advanced ones in the free, time-limited trial.
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 price: Fair Tips at Free against Ultimate Tip Calculator's $0.99. Fair Tips also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Ultimate Tip Calculator's advantage is ratings volume (72 vs 7) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads 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
Fair Tips is free to download; Ultimate Tip Calculator costs $0.99 up front. Ultimate Tip Calculator sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Fair Tips asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fair Tips holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Tip Calculator has 72 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ultimate Tip Calculator ships an update every 2 weeks, Fair Tips every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ultimate Tip Calculator | Fair Tips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (72 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Radoslaw Kubas | Aidi Pi |
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Ultimate Tip Calculator
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In-app purchases
Ultimate Tip Calculator
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Monthly subscription FAMILY3 Days trial$1.491 Month
- Yearly subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Year
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- Yearly subscription FAMILY7 Days trial$10.991 Year
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- Lifetime$9.99
- Lifetime FAMILY$14.99
Fair Tips
No in-app purchases
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