GlobeTips vs Gloap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GlobeTips
This app provides tipping advice for over 200 countries, offering precise guidance for various situations. Features include bill scanning for automatic calculation, check splitting, and tax exclusion, making it easy to tip appropriately worldwide.
- Tipping guide for 240+ countries
- Bill scanning for automatic calculation
- Check splitting
- Tax exclusion
- Automatic country detection
- Service-based tipping
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"...and you don't have to be a math genius, which we love..." - NBC's Today Show "...this app’s tipping advice for more than 200 countries, from Afghanistan to Zambia, which make it the most comprehensive of the global tip calculators..." - Travel+Leisure Magazine It's always best to tip appropriately in each and every situation. GlobeTips will give you precise advice on how to tip adequately in a specific situation in 240+ countries. GlobeTips includes a lot of features such as bill scanning that simply calculates everything for you and automatically applies geo-location based advice, handy check-splitting, results up rounding, tax excluding, full tipping guide for all countries, etc. •••••• SUMMARY LIST OF FEATURES: • Bill/Check recognition for automatic tip calculation • Tip guide for 240+ countries and regions • Automatic country detection • Possibility to divide tips among number of people • Service-based tipping • Tip calculation excluding sales tax • Automatic currency detection • Possibility to observe split bill and tip amount per person • Tip rounding to whole number • You can also remind, copy and share a bill. Give it try!
Gloap
This app creates personalized travel itineraries based on your preferences, including dates, travelers, pace, and style. Explore destinations with an interactive map and globe view, and track your planned, wishlisted, and visited trips.
- Personalized daily itineraries
- Interactive trip mapping
- Surprise destination suggestions
- Multiple itinerary generation
- Trip tracking (planned, wishlist, visited)
- Global destination coverage
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How well do you really know the world? Gloap turns any destination into a complete, personalised travel itinerary, day by day, activity by activity, built around how you actually travel. Tell Gloap where you're headed and it handles the rest. Dates, travellers, pace, style, meals. Answer a few questions and your trip takes shape instantly. Not sure where to go? Let Gloap surprise you. FEATURES: Daily Inspiration: A new destination highlight every day Surprise Me Mode: Let Gloap pick somewhere that fits how you want to feel Interactive Map: See every stop on your trip plotted in real time Globe View: Zoom out and explore the world before you go Multiple Itineraries: Generate different versions until one feels right Track Your Trips: Planned, wishlist, and visited all in one place 200+ Destinations: Every corner of the world covered Simple to start. Impossible to stop planning.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gloap at none against GlobeTips's 1. Gloap also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). GlobeTips's advantage is ratings volume (663 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. GlobeTips sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gloap asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gloap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GlobeTips has 663 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GlobeTips ships an update every 4 months, Gloap every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GlobeTips | Gloap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (663 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 663 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ievgenii Lebid | Louis du Pont |
Customer experience
GlobeTips
Gloap
Bugs and requests
GlobeTips
Reported bugs
4 issues- Video ad trial unlock not functioning
- Full version purchase not unlocking content
- Missing hotel staff tipping information across countries
- Inconsistent data availability for some countries
Requested features
8 requests- Update US tipping recommendations to reflect current standards (18-20%)
- Allow flexible tipping percentages (16%, 17%, 18%, 19%, 21%, etc.)
- Subtract state tax from bill before calculating tip
- Add rounding feature for tip and total amounts
- Include hotel staff tipping recommendations
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- Rename favorite countries feature
- Reduce pricing for country-specific unlocks
- Fix video ad trial unlock system
Gloap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GlobeTips
- Unlock Tips Content$14.99
Gloap
No in-app purchases
