Comparison

OVpay vs the tipit app

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

Head to head
About

OVpay

Manage your Dutch public transport journeys and costs. Easily confirm check-ins/outs, adjust missed entries, and view all travel history. Create expense reports and add multiple payment cards.

Highlights
  • Confirm check-ins and check-outs
  • Adjust missed check-ins/outs
  • View all journeys and travel costs
  • Create travel expense overviews
  • Add multiple payment cards
  • Add age-based discount
Features
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With OVpay, you can check in and out using your OV-pass, debit card, credit card, mobile phone, or smartwatch. In the OVpay app, you can find everything you need to view and manage your journeys. Are you already travelling with OVpay, or thinking about switching? Download the app and discover how easy it is. Who can use the OVpay app The OVpay app is only for travellers who use OVpay. You cannot use the OVpay app with an OV-chipkaart. What you can do in the app with your OV-pass and payment card • View your journeys. • Correct missed check-ins or check-outs. • View your travel history and travel costs. • Create and download expense claims. • Add cards. • Manage your cards. • Check your card status (checked in or checked out). • View payments. • View subscriptions and travel products. • Apply for age-based discount. • Pay an outstanding amount. • Receive notifications, for example when you miss a check-out. What you can only do with an OV-pass in the app • Apply for an OV-pass. • Temporarily block your OV-pass. • View your balance. • Recharge your balance. • Request a balance refund. • Apply for or change automatic recharge. We will continue to add useful new features to the app. Follow our website, Instagram, or Facebook for the latest news. About OVpay OVpay is a partnership between Dutch public transport operators, banks, and credit card companies. Together, we make travelling by public transport easier for everyone. Privacy With OVpay, you can choose how you check in and out. For some services, we need your personal data. You can read how we handle your data in our privacy statement at ovpay.nl/privacy.

About

the tipit app

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Four giant platforms that used to connect people are now mostly bots, AI slop, ads, and algorithms fighting over the last scraps of your attention. The people still on them are doomscrolling, complaining, and pretending they're having a good time. tipit is a map of places, recommended by people you actually know. WHAT IT ISN'T No infinite scroll of AI faces. No engagement farms. No sponsored pins. No algorithm deciding who gets seen. Nobody paid to be on this map, and nobody can. WHAT IT IS Follow people whose taste you trust. Their tips appear on your map. Walk into a new neighbourhood and see four places worth your time instead of four hundred you'll never visit. Every tip carries a face. You know who sent it, and that's the entire point. A recommendation from the friend who lives around the corner is worth more than two thousand reviews from strangers. WHAT YOU CAN DO — See tips from your network on a live map — Filter by what you're after: food, coffee, drinks, culture, outdoors — Post a place in twenty seconds with a photo and a line about why — Set a tip to expire, if it's only good this week — Save tips into lists you can keep private or share — Choose who sees each tip: everyone, your network, or a group — Mark a place approximately when it deserves discretion QUIETER BY DESIGN tipit is slower than the apps it replaces. There's less to look at. That's the feature, not a gap in the roadmap. Four good places beat four hundred you'll scroll past and forget. BUILT FOR CITIES YOU WALK Starting in Barcelona, growing outward — Catalunya, Cerdagne, Paris, London. Available in English, French, Spanish and Catalan. Free. No ads. No data sold. No promoted places, ever.

Screenshots

OVpay4 screens
the tipit app4 screens

Verdict

The call

OVpay and the tipit app are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
OVpay versus the tipit app: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOVpaythe tipit app
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.1 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews8.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size239 MB53 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTrans Link Systems B.V.Gael Lopez

In-app purchases

None

OVpay

No in-app purchases

None

the tipit app

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OVpay free?
OVpay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is the tipit app free?
the tipit app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OVpay or the tipit app have ads?
Neither OVpay nor the tipit app shows ads.

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