Comparison

Tip Tracker° vs Balance

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

Head to head
About

Tip Tracker°

This app helps service industry professionals meticulously track their work shifts, hours, tips, and wages. Visualize your earnings with insightful graphs and set financial goals to better manage your income and budget effectively.

Highlights
  • Track all jobs
  • Shift calendar view
  • Wage and tip visualization
  • Add notes to shifts
  • Set income goals
  • Track tip ins and outs
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Never be (unpleasantly) surprised by another paycheck. We understand the importance of budgeting in an increasingly expensive world. And budgeting starts with having an intimate understanding of one’s income. TipTracker is the best way to keep track of your shifts, including hours worked, tips, wages, and other useful insights. TipTracker will save you countless hours when tracking your tips and wages. Features ● Track all your jobs ● Easily see your shifts in the calendar ● Visualize your wages and tips by any interval with graphs ● Add notes to shifts ● Set up goals for hours worked, tips, total income ● Add multiple shifts for a day ● Track tip ins and outs ● iCloud syncing across your devices (auto backup of data) ● Dark Mode If you choose to purchase TipTracker Pro, payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Current TipTracker Pro subscription price starts at $0.99/month, and one-month and 12-month packages are available. Prices are in U.S. dollars, may vary in countries other than the U.S. and are subject to change without notice. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. If you don’t choose to purchase TipTracker Pro, you can simply continue using TipTracker for free. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/tip-tracker/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/tip-tracker/terms

About

Balance

This finance app helps individuals with variable income, like servers and bartenders, track tips, predict paychecks, and manage budgets. It offers tools for logging earnings, forecasting cash flow, and setting financial goals to reduce income-related stress.

Highlights
  • Tip tracking for cash and credit card tips
  • Income and earnings tracker
  • Paycheck and cash flow forecasting
  • Budget planner with expense tracking
  • Savings tracker
  • Work schedule calendar
  • Financial goal setting
Features
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Balance: Tip & Income Tracker is for anyone paid by the shift: servers, bartenders, barbers, stylists, and hourly workers whose tips and hours change every week. Your pay changes every shift. Your bills don't. Balance estimates your next paycheck from the shifts you log, so you're not guessing on payday. KNOW YOUR NEXT PAYCHECK Add your job and when you get paid: weekly, every two weeks, twice a month or monthly. Log each shift and Balance adds up your wages and the tips on your check. Your next paycheck sits at the top of the job's calendar. Tap it to see every shift in it. Estimates are before taxes. LOG TONIGHT'S SHIFT Card tips, cash tips, hours, wage. Done. For each job, choose whether cash tips come on your check or go home with you that night, and Balance counts them where they belong. MORE THAN ONE JOB? Add each one with its own pay schedule and its own calendar. SEE WHAT'S LEFT AFTER BILLS Connect your bank and Balance shows your estimated balance for every day ahead, after bills. It finds your recurring bills for you, and you can hide the ones you don't want counted. Balance budgets by date: put a bill on the day it's due and see what's left. ASK BALANCE Ask about your money in plain words. "How much is my next paycheck?" "What's my best night so far?" "How does this month compare to last?" Answers come from your own numbers. With a bank connected, ask "Can I cover rent on the 1st?" YOUR DATA Connecting a bank is optional. Banks connect through Plaid, and Balance never sees your bank login. Balance doesn't sell your data. Ask Balance runs on Claude by Anthropic through Amazon Web Services, and your conversations aren't used to train AI models. Free to download.

Screenshots

Tip Tracker°4 screens
Balance4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Balance at 100% against Tip Tracker°'s 58%. Balance also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Tip Tracker°'s advantage is ratings volume (165 vs 11) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and update cadence 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. Tip Tracker° sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Balance asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Balance holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tip Tracker° has 165 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Tip Tracker°'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Balance's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tip Tracker° ships an update fortnightly, Balance every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Tip Tracker° versus Balance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTip Tracker°Balance
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (165 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings165 — better11
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB61 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBoldizsar TompeCakeflight

Customer experience

Tip Tracker°

All ratings164 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral3.7%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive58.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative33.3%

Balance

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Tip Tracker°

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Accidental deletion of app causes data loss
  • Shifts disappear upon reinstallation
  • App no longer adds wages after changing hourly rate
  • App automatically thinks over 24 hours worked and won't let change
  • Cannot delete incorrect entries
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  • Shifts randomly erased even with local/iCloud storage
  • Paid subscription data erased upon reinstallation
  • Cannot sync past tips to new phone
  • Hourly wage not added to total pay
  • Not all dates shown on calendar
  • App counts time as hours and minutes instead of decimal hours

Requested features

11 requests
  • Restore deleted data
  • Sync with other Apple devices
  • Remove jobs without deleting entries
  • Auto-fill for specific days
  • Delete day feature
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  • Input tax rate
  • Add hourly wage to total pay
  • Option to name people tipped out
  • Decimal hours input
  • Type in time-in/out
  • Adjust work week

Balance

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tip Tracker°

Subscriptions2
  • Tip Tracker Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Tip Tracker Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
None

Balance

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tip Tracker° free?
Tip Tracker° is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Balance free?
Balance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tip Tracker° or Balance?
Balance is rated higher. Tip Tracker° averages 4.6 out of 5 from 165 ratings, while Balance averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Tip Tracker° or Balance have ads?
Tip Tracker° shows ads; Balance does not.
Which is updated more often, Tip Tracker° or Balance?
Tip Tracker° ships an update fortnightly, and Balance every 10 days. Most recently, Tip Tracker° was updated on November 3, 2026 and Balance on November 4, 2026.

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