TipMax Tip Tracker vs Closeout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TipMax Tip Tracker
This app helps service industry professionals track their tips, manage shifts, and master menus to increase their income. It offers features like flashcards for menu study and detailed income breakdowns. Your data is kept private and stored locally.
- Log cash and credit tips
- Track hours and sales
- Calculate true hourly rate
- Scan menus for flashcards
- Spaced repetition for learning
- Offline study mode
- Private data storage
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TipMax is the private tip tracker built for servers, bartenders, and baristas. Log every shift in seconds, see your true hourly rate, master your menu with flashcards, and talk shop with people who work the same floors as you. Version 3.0 is the biggest update yet: a redesigned app, a Community, and side income tracked beside your shifts. TRACK EVERY TIP Log a shift as fast as you can type it. TipMax saves as you go. - Cash and credit tips, tip-outs, hours, sales, and steps - Multiple jobs, each with its own fields and tip-out rules - Pay periods for payroll-style totals - Rapid Mode walks you through the shift log one field at a time - Switching apps? Import your history from Waiter Pal, ServerLife, TipTracker, and JustTheTips KNOW YOUR WORTH Your time is money. See the real numbers, in figures big enough to read at a glance. - True hourly rate (wage plus tips) - Weekly, monthly, and pay period breakdowns - Top shifts, best days, and insights on which job actually pays - Income projections and goals you can watch fill up - Side gigs and other income logged alongside your shifts, and counting toward your goals STUDY SMARTER. UPSELL MORE. Scan a menu and TipMax turns it into flashcards. Know the specials, the wine list, and the answer to every guest question. - Scan or upload menus to auto-generate cards - Spaced repetition tracks what you know and what you need to review - Study offline anywhere COMMUNITY A place for servers, bartenders, and baristas to ask questions, share wins, and vent about the double. - Post under a display name you choose - Filter by role and venue type to find your people - Questions, rants, wins, and polls - Share a shift summary straight from your stats, only when you decide to PRIVATE. ALWAYS. Your earnings stay on your device and in your iCloud. Tracking never needs an account. Community is optional and pseudonymous, and your numbers never leave the app unless you share them yourself. You can delete your Community account and every post in one tap. Whether you're living the full server life, bartending on weekends, or hustling barista shifts, TipMax is your secret weapon to work smarter and earn better. Creating and viewing flashcards and logging unlimited shifts require a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://tipmaxapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://tipmaxapp.com/terms
Closeout
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Closeout is a tip tracker for people who actually work for tips. Log a shift in about ten seconds. Type what you made and you are done. If you want the full picture, add your hours, your sales, and what you tipped out, and Closeout works out your real take-home and your actual hourly. WHAT YOU TRACK Tips, split between cash and card Hours worked, in and out Sales, tip-outs paid, and tip-outs received The job you worked and the role you worked it in Tags for a section, a station, or whatever else changes your night WHAT YOU FIND OUT Your effective hourly. Tips and wages together, minus what you tipped out, over the hours you actually worked. Not the number on your paycheck. Which nights of the week pay best, and by how much. How much of your money came in as cash, and roughly what to set aside for taxes. Which job pays more, and which role inside that job pays more. A calendar of every shift you have logged. AT TAX TIME A one page summary of your year. Gross tips, tip-outs paid and received, net tips, hours worked, wages, and a suggested set-aside. Save it as a PDF or export every shift as a CSV. NO ADS, NO DATA COLLECTION Closeout does not run ads and does not collect your personal or shift data. Your shifts live on your phone. Back them up to your own iCloud if you want them safe, or leave them where they are. CLOSEOUT PRO The free version tracks your tips and your hours. Pro unlocks the printable tax summary, every job tracked separately, the full analytics, and accent colors for the whole app. Monthly is $2.99. Yearly is $19.99, which works out to $1.67 a month. Seven days free to start. Renews automatically until cancelled, and you can cancel any time in your App Store settings. Built by a bartender with fifteen years behind the bar and on the floor. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://closeout.dayforgestudios.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Closeout at none against TipMax Tip Tracker's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. TipMax Tip Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Closeout sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | TipMax Tip Tracker | Closeout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (46 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EnterMaurs | DayForge Studio LLC |
In-app purchases
TipMax Tip Tracker
- Unlimited (1 Month)$2.991 Month
- Unlimited (1 Year)$24.991 Year
- Unlimited (1 Year)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Closeout
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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