Comparison

TipIsServed vs Checkout

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

TipIsServed

Effortlessly track tips, shifts, and US taxes for service industry professionals. Features include real-time hourly wage calculation, cash vs. card tracking, and IRS-compliant tax reporting. Set goals and monitor progress with smart widgets and calendar sync.

Highlights
  • Tip tracking
  • Shift planning
  • US tax reporting (Form 4070)
  • Real hourly wage calculator
  • Cash vs. card tracking
  • Goal setting and gamification
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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The #1 Tip Tracker app for servers, bartenders & delivery! Get 90% of all features completely for free. Track your tips, shifts, goals, and US taxes effortlessly. **WHY TIPISSERVED?** **The Most Comprehensive Tip Tracker on the App Store** Why settle for basic apps or pay for expensive subscriptions? TipIsServed offers over 20+ powerful features specifically designed for the service industry - and over 80% of them are 100% free! You get unlimited entries, shift planning, cloud backup, and PDF exports entirely for free. **EXCLUSIVE US TAX FEATURES:** - **Form 4070 & IRS Compliance:** Generate and sign your monthly tip report as a professional PDF in seconds. - **Tax Estimator & OBBBA:** Get real-time estimates for FICA, federal, and state taxes based on the No Tax on Tips Act. Stay ahead of your tax obligations with localized state tax data. **ESSENTIAL TRACKING TOOLS:** - **Real Hourly Wage Calculator:** We automatically combine your base salary with your tips across your hours worked to reveal your true hourly earnings. - **Cash vs. Card:** Accurately separate physical cash tips from digital card tips. - **Pending Tips Payout Manager:** Don't lose track of employer-withheld tips! Log pending card tips and match them when they actually hit your paycheck to easily catch discrepancies. - **Interactive Money Counter:** Calculate your exact start and end shift balances effortlessly using our pre-built coin and banknote calculators (supports over 160+ currencies!). - **Goal Tracking & Gamification:** Set weekly or monthly targets and unlock milestone badges as you build your winning streaks. - **Home Screen Widgets & Live Notifications:** Monitor your earnings, goal progress, and real-time shift updates without even opening the app. - **Smart Calendar Sync:** Seamlessly plan your work hours by syncing your shifts directly with your device's calendar. **ADVANCED INSIGHTS:** - **Interactive Shift Planner v2:** Intelligent heatmaps show exactly which days and hours are most profitable. - **Flexible Pay Models:** Supports Classic Hourly Wage, Monthly Fixed Salary, or Commission-based Income. **PERFECT FOR:** - Restaurant Servers and Waitstaff - Bartenders and Bar Staff - Hotel Service Staff - Delivery Drivers and Couriers - Event and Catering Staff **DATA PRIVACY:** Your finances are strictly your business. Sensitive identification data like SSN is stored strictly locally on your device and is excluded from cloud backups. **FAIR PREMIUM UPGRADE (Optional):** Want absolutely no ads, advanced analytics, live-tracking, CSV exports, or multiple job slots? Upgrade to Pro or unlock individual features in the Token Shop just by watching short ads! *(Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)*

About

Checkout

Easily log your shifts, sales, and tips to automatically calculate your real hourly rate and net earnings. Track multiple jobs, set weekly goals, and gain insights into your earning patterns. Export your data for tax purposes.

Highlights
  • Automatic tip calculation
  • Multi-job and role tracking
  • Shift calendar with earnings visualization
  • Weekly goal setting with widgets
  • Detailed earnings breakdown
  • Tip out calculator
  • CSV export for tax filing
Features
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Stop guessing what you made last night. Checkout tracks your tips, calculates your real hourly rate, and shows which shifts actually pay. Know exactly what you made, every single shift. Checkout is the tip tracker built for servers, bartenders, waiters, waitresses, hosts, and food runners. Log a shift in seconds. See your real hourly rate. No account required, and your data never leaves your phone. SIMPLE TIP TRACKING Enter your hours, sales, and tips and Checkout calculates your tip share, net tips, and real hourly rate automatically. Handles midnight crossovers, custom tip out percentages, and tip in for bartenders. No math. No guessing. Just your numbers. OVERTIME THAT KNOWS TIPPED WORK Tell Checkout how each job pays overtime, whether that is weekly, daily, or double time, with your own thresholds and payroll week start. If you are a tipped employee, your overtime is figured on full minimum wage instead of your cash wage, the way it is supposed to be. Every shift, total, and chart counts it from then on. YOUR SHIFTS AS RECEIPTS Every shift you log opens as a printed receipt, itemized line by line, with your total and hourly rate at the bottom. The only tip tracker that shows your money the way your restaurant does. WHY IS MY CHECK SO SMALL? (CHECKOUT PRO) Enter your paycheck and Checkout explains it in plain English: how much was wages, how much was tips you already took home, what got taxed, and what actually hit your account. See it as a plain language breakdown or a line by line receipt, your choice with a tap. If the numbers do not line up against the shifts you logged, you will know, and you will have the record to prove it. BUILD YOUR OWN TRACKER Choose exactly which fields appear on your shift form: tip out, tip in, total sales, covers, or anything custom. Create your own fields that add to, subtract from, or simply track alongside your earnings. Your tracker, set up for your restaurant. EARNINGS BREAKDOWN See exactly where your money comes from: cash tips, credit tips, tip share paid out, net tips, base wage, and total take-home pay, all calculated in real time as you type. YOUR SCHEDULE, ALREADY IN THE APP (CHECKOUT PRO) Log shifts before you work them. If you work the same days most weeks, save that schedule as a template and drop it onto any week in a couple of taps. Your calendar fills itself in and all you do after the shift is add the numbers. FULL HISTORY, ALWAYS FREE Every shift you have ever logged, available forever. No limits and no locks on your own data. SWITCHING FROM ANOTHER APP? Import your shift history from any CSV file in seconds. Positions, hours, and earnings map automatically. No starting over. EXPORT ANYTIME Export your complete tip history as a CSV for your own records or your accountant. Works with Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets. PRIVACY FIRST No account required. No cloud sync. Your shift data never leaves your phone, and your earnings are yours alone. EVERYTHING IN CHECKOUT PRO - Explain My Paycheck: see exactly why your check is the size it is - Paycheck reconciliation: match what you were paid against what you worked - Scheduled shifts and weekly shift templates - Shift calendar with heat mapped earnings - Weekly goal tracking with home screen widgets - Multiple jobs, and every role you work at each one - Full analytics: projections, records, best days, earnings stability - Shift reminders on your own schedule $19.99 per year or $2.99 per week, both starting with a 7 day free trial. Save 87% with annual. Cancel anytime. PERFECT FOR Servers, bartenders, waitstaff, hosts, bussers, and food runners, anyone whose income changes shift to shift. Download Checkout and stop guessing. Privacy Policy: https://flowstateindustries.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://flowstateindustries.com/terms

Screenshots

TipIsServed4 screens
Checkout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Checkout at 5.0 against TipIsServed's 4.5. Checkout also leads on ratings volume (26 vs 2). TipIsServed's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 87%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TipIsServed sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Checkout sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Checkout holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checkout has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of TipIsServed's written reviews are positive against 87% of Checkout's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TipIsServed ships an update every 9 days, Checkout weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TipIsServed versus Checkout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipIsServedCheckout
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (26 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better86.7% of reviews
Number of ratings226 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB16 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSIMON PORTUGALLFlowstate Industries LLC

Customer experience

TipIsServed

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Checkout

All ratings26 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TipIsServed

Subscriptions1
  • Premium subscription$1.991 Month
4 purchases

Checkout

Subscriptions4
  • Checkout Pro Weekly7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Checkout Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Checkout Pro Annual1 Month trial$39.991 Year
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  • Checkout Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is TipIsServed free?
TipIsServed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Checkout free?
Checkout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TipIsServed or Checkout?
Checkout is rated higher. TipIsServed averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Checkout averages 5.0 from 26 ratings.
Do TipIsServed or Checkout have ads?
Neither TipIsServed nor Checkout shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TipIsServed or Checkout?
TipIsServed ships an update every 9 days, and Checkout weekly. Most recently, TipIsServed was updated on September 8, 2026 and Checkout on September 23, 2026.

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