Comparison

Expense Tool vs Tip Bucket Pro

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

Head to head
About

Expense Tool

Track personal and shared expenses with detailed logging, receipt attachments, and location mapping. Generate summaries and balances for group spending, and export your data in various formats.

Highlights
  • Define custom expense sets
  • Attach receipts, photos, and locations
  • Fast data capture with autocompletion
  • Expense summaries and balances
  • Export data (HTML, Text, CSV)
  • Map integration
  • Passcode lock
Features
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Organize your own and shared expenses. Do you and your partner want to log how much you're spending for your household and merge the expenses entered on your individual devices? Are you on holidays with friends and want to know how much you are spending? If you are sharing your expenses, do you need a tool to document your balances and debts to one another? Are you sharing a holiday or a household with others and would you like everyone to log their own expenses into one common list, each on their own device? Do you want to know how much you're spending for your hobby, on your business trip, or any other expenses? Use Expense Tool, create an expense set and start entering your data. Your expenses can be listed, shown on a map, exported (by email or to a file) and printed. Expense Sets can be synced across your own devices via iCloud, shared with other people, or transferred directly from device to device. If more than one person is part of an expense set, you get a summary showing the total of all individual expenses and the balance of the shared expenses. Features: • Define Expense Sets with custom settings • Add expenses and optionally attach receipts, photos and locations • Fast data capture: Select with autocompletion what you've already entered • List your expenses: all, by month, by week or within a custom timeframe • Expense list sections: by person, by expense caption • Summary and Balance of shared expenses • Overview of all expense sets • iCloud Synchronization — enable per Expense Set • iCloud Sharing — share an Expense Set with others • Export your data: email, PDF, or save to a file (CSV with receipts and photos, bundled as a .zip) • Receipts: Document Scanner (iOS only) • Printing • Data Exchange between iPhone, iPad and Mac • Geocoding and map integration • Backup and Import • Passcode Lock (iOS only) • iPhone, iPad, Mac • Languages: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms and Conditions: https://www.jo-tools.ch/expense-tool/terms_and_conditions.html Privacy Policy: https://www.jo-tools.ch/expense-tool/privacy_policy.html Support / FAQ: https://www.jo-tools.ch/expense-tool/

About

Tip Bucket Pro

Easily track your tips, hours, and earnings in the service industry. Log income instantly, monitor clock-in/out times, and view your financial performance with a clear dashboard. Stay organized and understand your true income potential.

Highlights
  • Log tips instantly
  • Track clock-in/out times
  • View daily, weekly, monthly earnings
  • Sync with web app
  • Intuitive dashboard
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Tip Bucket is the easiest way for service industry workers to track their tips, hours, and earnings. • Log tips instantly after every shift • Track clock-in and clock-out times accurately • View daily, weekly, and monthly earnings at a glance • Sync seamlessly with the Tip Bucket web app • Stay on top of your income with a clean, intuitive dashboard Whether you're a server, bartender, delivery driver, or anyone who earns tips — Tip Bucket keeps your earnings organized so you always know where you stand.

Screenshots

Expense Tool4 screens
Tip Bucket Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tip Bucket Pro at 4.6 against Expense Tool's 2.5. Tip Bucket Pro also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). Expense Tool's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 45%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Expense Tool sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 3 months and Tip Bucket Pro sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tip Bucket Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tip Bucket Pro has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Expense Tool's written reviews are positive against 45% of Tip Bucket Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Expense Tool ships an update every 3 weeks, Tip Bucket Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and August 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Expense Tool versus Tip Bucket Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpense ToolTip Bucket Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.6 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better45.2% of reviews
Number of ratings212 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuerg OtterBrand ERP, LLC

Customer experience

Expense Tool

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews93 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral6.5%
Negative26.9%

Tip Bucket Pro

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews93 reviews
Positive45.2%
Neutral11.8%
Negative43.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Expense Tool

Subscriptions4
  • Plus Quarterly$0.993 Months
  • Pro Quarterly14 Days trial$1.993 Months
  • Plus Yearly$2.991 Year
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  • Pro Yearly14 Days trial$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro (Lifetime)$19.99
3 purchases

Tip Bucket Pro

One-time3
  • Buy Me a Coffee$1.99
  • Pizza Slice$4.99
  • Big Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Expense Tool free?
Expense Tool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tip Bucket Pro free?
Tip Bucket Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Expense Tool or Tip Bucket Pro?
Tip Bucket Pro is rated higher. Expense Tool averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Tip Bucket Pro averages 4.6 from 12 ratings.
Do Expense Tool or Tip Bucket Pro have ads?
Neither Expense Tool nor Tip Bucket Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Expense Tool or Tip Bucket Pro?
Expense Tool ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tip Bucket Pro fortnightly. Most recently, Expense Tool was updated on September 29, 2026 and Tip Bucket Pro on August 6, 2026.

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