Tip Calculator vs Fair Tips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tip Calculator
Effortlessly calculate tips and split bills with voice input and real-time updates. Track spending patterns and manage group payments with a clean, distraction-free interface.
- Voice input for hands-free entry
- Smooth percentage slider
- Real-time calculation updates
- Save bill records
- Tag visited places
- Spending insights
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Calculating tips and splitting bills has never felt this effortless. With a smooth percentage slider, real-time updates, and voice input for hands-free entry, every calculation is fast, accurate, and stress-free whether you're at a restaurant, bar, or splitting costs with a group. Save your bill records, tag the places you visit, and uncover spending patterns over time through a beautifully designed Insights screen. Clean financial typography and a distraction-free interface keep your focus exactly where it belongs on the numbers that matter. Built for dining out, group payments, and everyday expenses. Your smarter way to handle every bill.
Fair Tips
This utility app helps you calculate accurate tips by automatically deducting estimated sales tax based on your location. It allows for rounding tips and the total price, ensuring fair contributions.
- Location-based sales tax estimation
- Automatic tax exclusion for tip calculation
- Tip rounding options
- Total price rounding options
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Pay tips based on your actual service price excluding tax! Fair tips can estimate your local sales tax rate based on your location. It automatically deducts it from tip calculation. Check out the Fair Tips features: - Location based sales tax estimation - Automatically exclude tax from total price before calculating tips - Rounding up/down tips - Rounding up/down total price - Record what's saved over time
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Fair Tips at every 3 weeks against Tip Calculator's every 4 months. Fair Tips also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
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 Tip Calculator against 5.0 for Fair Tips. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fair Tips has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Tip Calculator ships an update every 4 months, Fair Tips every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tip Calculator | Fair Tips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Israel Manzo | Aidi Pi |
Customer experience
Tip Calculator
Fair Tips
In-app purchases
Tip Calculator
No in-app purchases
Fair Tips
No in-app purchases
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