Comparison

Waiter Pal vs Cashout

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

Head to head
About

Waiter Pal

Easily track cash and credit tips, calculate your average hourly pay, and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly income. This app helps tipped workers manage their earnings accurately and efficiently, even offline.

Highlights
  • Hourly rate calculation
  • Categorize cash and credit tips
  • Offline tip entry
  • Customizable reminders
  • Track multiple jobs
  • Income summaries (daily, weekly, monthly)
  • Data export to CSV
Features
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Are you tired of using pen and paper to track your tips manually? Looking for an accurate way to figure out how much you're really making in tips? With Waiter Pal, tracking your income has never been easier. Easily track your cash and credit tips, figure out your average hourly pay, know how much you made per month, and more with Waiter Pal. Join 28,000+ tipped workers who are now free from the stress of tedious tip tracking by installing Waiter Pal now! App Features: HOURLY RATE Figure out your hourly pay, which the app conveniently calculates for you. CATEGORIZE YOUR TIPS Input your cash and credit tips, tip in, total sales, tip outs and more. You can also create your own custom categories and subcategories. OFFLINE ACCESS No need for an internet connection to use the app. Update your tips wherever you are. REMINDERS The app will notify you to update your tips at the time and day you specify, so that you will never forget to do so. WAGES Input your hourly wage at a certain job, and the app will add it to your total income. DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY INCOME Know how much you're making on average per day, week, or month. TRACK MULTIPLE JOBS Track your income, hourly rate, and hours for your different jobs. BEAUTIFUL UI DESIGN A tip tracking app doesn't need to have a bland design. Input your tips on a beautifully designed app. APP LOCK Lock the app so that others won't have access to your income data. ONLINE SYNC Backup your data online and sync across multiple devices. EXPORT DATA Export your data to CSV and use third party spreadsheet apps to further analyze your data. MEMOS Add text and photo memos to help you remember certain information about the tips you've entered. Terms of use: https://magonapps.wixsite.com/apps/waiter-pal-terms-of-use Privacy policy: https://magonapps.wixsite.com/apps/waiter-pal-privacy-policy

About

Cashout

Features
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Three numbers at the end of the shift: net sales, cash tips, card tips. Cashout applies your house's tip out rules and shows what you walk with. The arithmetic is the easy part. Having it in March is not. The slip goes in an apron pocket, the pocket goes through the wash, and by the time anyone asks what last month looked like, there is nothing left but a guess. YOUR HOUSE'S RULES, ENTERED ONCE Bar 1.5% of net sales, busser 1%, runner 0.5%. Or 8% to the bar off your tips. Or a flat $20 to the host. Six rule types cover percent of net sales, bar or food sales, percent of all tips or card tips, and fixed dollars. Add as many roles as your house has. Set it once and most people never open that screen again. CASH AND CARD KEPT APART Tip out usually comes out of the cash in your pocket while card tips arrive on payday. Cashout tracks both and tells you when the cash on hand will not cover what you owe the bar tonight. A SHIFT LOG YOU CAN HAND TO ANYONE Every saved shift keeps a frozen snapshot of the split: the roles, the percentages and the dollars as they were that night. Changing your rules later never rewrites a shift you already saved. Any shift can be corrected without leaving a duplicate behind. FOR THE NIGHTS THAT GO SIDEWAYS Half a shift behind the bar, no runner at lunch, the manager rounded it off. Type what you actually handed over and the shift records that instead of the calculated figure, marked as entered by hand. ADDED UP THE WAY IT GETS ASKED FOR Cash tips, card tips, tip out paid to others, tips after tip out, service charges kept separate, hours, and a breakdown by job, by week, month and year. Cashout adds up your own numbers and stops there. It does not work out taxes and gives no advice. BACKUPS ARE NOT A PAID FEATURE Automatic backup to your own iCloud Drive, a manual backup file you can move yourself, and restore. All free. Data loss after an update or a new phone is the most common one-star story in this category, and keeping your own records safe is not a product. FREE FOREVER The tip out calculation on any number of shifts. All six rule types and as many roles as you need. Saving shifts with no cap. This week and last week in full, with the chart and the stats. Backup, restore and delete. Manual override, service charges, hourly wage, and receiving a tip out. CASHOUT PRO — $19.99 a year, after a 7-day free trial History past the last two weeks: month, year, and every past year. The tip summary by year, month and job. Export to CSV. A second and third job, each with its own rules. When a subscription lapses nothing is deleted. Your records stay on the phone and stay exportable. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER, NO ADS There is no sign-up and no password. Everything is computed and stored on your iPhone. No banners, no interstitials, in the free version or the paid one. EIGHT LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Hindi, Ukrainian and Russian. Pick yours on the first screen or in Settings, whatever language your phone is set to. Switching relabels the app and nothing else: every number you have logged stays exactly as you entered it. SUBSCRIPTION AND TERMS Cashout Pro is a subscription: $19.99 per year after a 7-day free trial, or $3.99 per month. A one-time Lifetime purchase is $34.99. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and it can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings at any time. Privacy Policy: https://dmapps.app/cashout/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Waiter Pal4 screens
Cashout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cashout at every 3 days against Waiter Pal's every 11 days. Waiter Pal's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). 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. Waiter Pal sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Cashout sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Waiter Pal ships an update every 11 days, Cashout every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Waiter Pal versus Cashout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaiter PalCashout
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (797 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings797 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaervince GonzalesDmitrii Kopytov

Bugs and requests

Waiter Pal

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Incompatibility with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to set custom work week start day
  • Automatic tip-out calculation
  • Option to track shift times, not just hours
  • Annual income reporting

Cashout

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Waiter Pal

Subscriptions6
  • Waiter Pal PRO - Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Waiter Pal PRO - Monthly2 variants$7.991 Month
  • Waiter Pal PRO - Monthly2 variants$9.991 Month
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  • Waiter Pal PRO - Yearly2 variants$19.991 Year
  • Waiter Pal PRO - 6 Months$21.996 Months
  • Waiter Pal PRO - Yearly7 Days trial2 variants$26.991 Year
3 purchases

Cashout

Subscriptions2
  • Cashout Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Cashout Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Cashout Pro Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Waiter Pal free?
Waiter Pal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cashout free?
Cashout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Waiter Pal or Cashout have ads?
Neither Waiter Pal nor Cashout shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Waiter Pal or Cashout?
Waiter Pal ships an update every 11 days, and Cashout every 3 days. Most recently, Waiter Pal was updated on November 7, 2026 and Cashout on October 31, 2026.

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