Fair Tips vs PreTip
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
PreTip
Effortlessly calculate tips by scanning receipts. This app automatically detects subtotals, taxes, and totals to ensure accurate tipping based on the pre-tax amount, preventing over-tipping and double tipping.
- Scan receipts to auto-detect amounts
- Calculate tips on pre-tax total
- Detect included gratuity
- Support service fees and surcharges
- Fast and easy-to-use interface
- Lock Screen widget
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PreTip makes tipping simple, fast, and accurate. Just scan your receipt and instantly get the right tip — calculated based on the pre-tax amount. No more over-tipping on tax. No more second-guessing. PreTip is designed for real-world receipts, where things aren’t always clear. Key Features: • Scan receipts and auto-detect subtotal, tax, and total • Calculate tips based on pre-tax amount • Detect when gratuity is already included to help avoid double tipping • Support service fees and surcharges in your calculation • Fast, minimal, and easy-to-use interface • Lock Screen widget for instant access Whether you're dining out or splitting a bill, PreTip helps you tip with confidence and clarity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PreTip at none against Fair Tips's 1. PreTip also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). 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. Fair Tips sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PreTip asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fair Tips against 5.0 for PreTip. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively.
Fair Tips ships an update every 3 weeks, PreTip every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fair Tips | PreTip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aidi Pi | Shu Wang |
Customer experience
Fair Tips
PreTip
In-app purchases
Fair Tips
- Remove Ads$1.99
PreTip
No in-app purchases
