Self Guide vs Travel Tip Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Self Guide
This travel assistance app provides instant access to your customized itinerary, including attractions, shopping, and dining. Enhance your trip with augmented reality features and discover new points of interest. The app uses geolocation to offer optimal routes and navigation.
- Customized itinerary details
- Destination information (attractions, shopping, restaurants)
- Augmented reality features
- Discover additional points of interest
- Geolocation-based mapping and routing
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Self Guide is a travel assistance app, pre-loaded with your customized itinerary details. Have destination information right at your fingertips: attractions, shopping, restaurants and much more. Enhance your experience with augmented reality and discover additional points of interest to explore – using geolocation, Self Guide’s map will give you the best route.
Travel Tip Calculator
Easily calculate tips and split bills accurately across over 200 countries. Get country-specific suggestions and local etiquette to ensure you tip appropriately for various services. Works offline for convenient use anywhere.
- Country-specific tipping guidance (200+ countries)
- Bill splitting and group mode
- Local tipping etiquette notes
- Offline functionality
- Home currency display
- Smart rounding
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Travel Tip Calculator helps you know what to tip with confidence wherever you travel. Get country-aware tip suggestions, bill splitting, and local tipping etiquette in one fast calculator. Whether you are at a restaurant, in a taxi, checking into a hotel, ordering delivery, visiting a spa, using valet, visiting a barber, sitting at a bar, or joining a tour, Travel Tip Calculator helps you understand what is customary before the bill arrives. Features: - Country-specific tipping guidance for 200+ countries - Suggested tip ranges by service type - Restaurant, taxi, hotel, delivery, bar, spa, valet, barber, tour guide, and more - Fast bill and tip calculator - Split totals between multiple people - Group mode for itemized shared bills - Smart rounding for cleaner totals - Home-currency display for travel context - Local tipping etiquette notes by country - Works offline with bundled tipping data - Saves your preferred tip choices by country and service - Dark and light themes Travel Tip Calculator is designed for travelers who want to be respectful, prepared, and quick at the moment of payment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Self Guide at none against Travel Tip Calculator's shown. Self Guide also leads on ratings volume (34 vs 3) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Travel Tip Calculator's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, 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
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 — 4.9 for Self Guide against 5.0 for Travel Tip Calculator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Self Guide has 34 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Self Guide ships an update every 3 months, Travel Tip Calculator every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Self Guide | Travel Tip Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Exotissimo | Colibri Code LLC |
Customer experience
Self Guide
Travel Tip Calculator
In-app purchases
Self Guide
No in-app purchases
Travel Tip Calculator
No in-app purchases
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