The Tip Rounder vs Simple Tip Pool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Tip Rounder
Easily calculate and customize tips for dining out with this intuitive app. It offers flexible tipping options, remembers your preferences, and works offline for stress-free calculations.
- Customizable tip options
- Round percentage, amount, or total
- Easy-to-use interface
- Multiple tip suggestions
- Saves user preferences
- Offline functionality
- Light and dark mode
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Welcome to Tip Rounder, the innovative iOS app designed to transform how you calculate tips at restaurants, cafes, and anywhere tipping is customary. Our user-friendly interface and versatile functionality make tipping not just easy but also enjoyable. Key Features: Customizable Tip Options: Choose between a round percentage, a round tip amount, or a round total bill. Tip Rounder provides flexibility to suit your preference for each dining experience. Easy-to-Use Interface: Simply enter your bill amount, and let Tip Rounder handle the rest. Our intuitive design ensures a hassle-free user experience. Multiple Tip Suggestions: Receive multiple tipping options based on your entered amount. Whether you prefer modest or generous tipping, Tip Rounder caters to all approaches. Saves Your Preferences: Your tipping habits are unique. Tip Rounder remembers your preferred settings, making every future calculation quick and personalized. Light and Dark Mode Compatibility: Enjoy the app in both light and dark modes, ensuring comfort and convenience regardless of the time of day or your personal preference. Offline Functionality: No internet? No problem! Tip Rounder works offline, perfect for those moments when you're dining out in areas with limited connectivity. Why Choose Tip Rounder? Stress-Free Tipping: No more awkward moments trying to calculate the right tip. Enjoy your dining experience to the fullest. Precision and Personalization: Tailor your tipping exactly how you like it. Quick and Efficient: Save time with our instant calculations and easy bill splitting feature. Download Tip Rounder today and elevate your dining experience with the smart, simple, and sophisticated way to tip!
Simple Tip Pool
Effortlessly calculate and split tips among restaurant staff. Supports multiple calculation methods including hourly, points-based, and equal splits, with options to allocate percentages to barbacks. Share detailed breakdowns easily.
- Split tips by hours worked
- Split tips by points system
- Quick equal tip splitting
- Allocate percentages to barbacks
- Share breakdowns via text/email
- Create custom positions
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Tired of doing all the math required to split tips with your hardworking co-workers? This app is designed to make splitting tips in a tip pool environment as easy as possible. - Split Hourly - split tips based on hours and allocate a percentage to barbacks, which can also be split among that position based on hours. - Split by Points - split tips based on points per hour. You are able to create positions and assign point values which are then used to calculate tips per employee based on their position and hours worked. - Quick Split - split tips equally among a specified number of employees. Includes ability to allocate percentage to barbacks and will calculate how much each employee will receive. - Split Hourly and Split by Points options both offer the ability to share the breakdowns via text, email, etc. Disclaimer: This app is simply a tool to help calculate. The creator takes no responsibility for accuracy of tip tracking within your business. While the creator strives to prevent any inaccuracies, there are potentials for them. Use at your own risk.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Tip Pool at every 5 weeks against The Tip Rounder's every 73 months. Simple Tip Pool also leads on device support (3 vs 1). The Tip Rounder's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Tip Rounder against 5.0 for Simple Tip Pool. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of The Tip Rounder's written reviews are positive against 75% of Simple Tip Pool's.
The Tip Rounder ships an update every 73 months, Simple Tip Pool every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Tip Rounder | Simple Tip Pool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 73 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nick Noble | Mark FRANSEN |
Customer experience
The Tip Rounder
Simple Tip Pool
In-app purchases
The Tip Rounder
No in-app purchases
Simple Tip Pool
No in-app purchases
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