Comparison

Meals & Tips vs TaxTool

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

Head to head
About

Meals & Tips

Calculate restaurant bills, including tax and tip, with customizable rounding options. Easily split the total cost among diners and track your meal history with saved preferences and iCloud storage.

Highlights
  • Bill value entry (with or without tax)
  • Local tax rate specification
  • Tip calculation options
  • Customizable rounding
  • Bill splitting
  • Meal history tracking
  • iCloud storage
Features
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Meals & Tips is a tip calculator that will meet your needs for figuring out how much to pay when going out for a meal. FEATURES: - Enter the bill value including the tax or the meal value excluding the tax. - Specify the local tax rate to be used in the calculations. - Tip can be either on top of the tax or not. - Round the values up (by default) or down. Tip Help will then show you the effective tip percentage you are leaving. - Three rounding options available: Don't Round, Round the Tip amount and Round the Total amount. - Split the total amount among the number of people paying. - Your preferences are saved between sessions so you only have to enter the bill amount. - Shake the phone to reset the bill value to zero. - Keep track of your meal history: date, amount paid, attendees, who paid and location. - iCloud storage of meal history and app settings - Integration with Contacts for meal attendees selection.

About

TaxTool

Features
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A simple and quick tool to lookup the tax due on any taxable amount entered into the calculator for a specific year (from March 2019 to February 2024 ). Specify the age, medical dependants and the pay frequency (weekly, monthly or annual) and tap on the calculate button to produce the resultant tax due. This calculator can be used by anyone wanting to check their payslip or for employers that manually calculate payrolls or want to spot check a computer calculation. Our Software Support Consultants use this tool to check the tax calculated in our various software versions and to do salary structuring or outsourcing tax checks. The calculator adjusts for the relevant tax rebate and tax bracket and computes the correct tax bracket calculations using the tax rates applicable from March 2019 to February 2023. (Please select the tax year for the relevant tax rate) The tax rates tables and additional information can be viewed as a pdf document accessed from the Information button on the top right of the screen. This pdf document is a "Cheat Sheet" of Payroll Legislation and is used daily by Payslip Support Staff for easy reference. If you require payroll software or services, please consider our product offering at shop.payslip.co.za or contact help@payslip.co.za

Screenshots

Meals & Tips4 screens
TaxTool2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TaxTool at Free against Meals & Tips's $1.99. TaxTool also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.4 vs 26.0). On 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

TaxTool is free to download; Meals & Tips costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meals & Tips ships an update every 7 months, TaxTool every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Meals & Tips versus TaxTool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeals & TipsTaxTool
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.014.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuatrian Inc.PAYSLIP SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD

In-app purchases

None

Meals & Tips

No in-app purchases

None

TaxTool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meals & Tips free?
Meals & Tips costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TaxTool free?
TaxTool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meals & Tips or TaxTool have ads?
Neither Meals & Tips nor TaxTool shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meals & Tips or TaxTool?
Meals & Tips ships an update every 7 months, and TaxTool every 10 months. Most recently, Meals & Tips was updated on August 16, 2026 and TaxTool on September 24, 2026.

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