Fair Tips vs Soildrops
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Soildrops
Automate your garden's watering with smart sensors and a controller. Features an extensive plant database and an AI algorithm that uses weather data for optimal irrigation schedules.
- Soil sensors and controller integration
- 10k+ plant database
- AI-powered watering schedules
- Weather data integration
- Quick and easy water scheduling
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Smart Irrigation system having with Soil Sensors, Controller, 10k plus plant database, Powerful AI algorithm and Weather. Quick & Easy water scheduling system.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fair Tips at 5.0 against Soildrops's 3.4. Fair Tips also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Soildrops sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Fair Tips asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fair Tips holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Fair Tips's written reviews are positive against 78% of Soildrops's.
Fair Tips ships an update every 3 weeks, Soildrops every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fair Tips | Soildrops |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aidi Pi | Soildrops |
Customer experience
Fair Tips
Soildrops
In-app purchases
Fair Tips
No in-app purchases
Soildrops
- 1 Month Subscription$9.991 Month
- 1 Year Subscription1 Month trial$59.991 Year
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