Comparison

Check Split and Tip Calculator vs surf

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

Head to head
About

Check Split and Tip Calculator

Effortlessly divide bills and calculate tips for group outings. Send payment requests instantly via popular apps. Customize settings for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Fast bill splitting
  • Automatic tax calculation
  • Quick tip buttons
  • Split 2-99 ways
  • Send payment requests
  • Works offline
  • Privacy focused
Features
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Split the check in three taps, right at the table. No math, no account, no awkward silence. HOW IT WORKS 1. Enter the bill 2. Pick a tip 3. Tap how many people Everyone's share appears big enough to read across the table. Tap Request and Venmo opens with the amount and note filled in. WHO HAD WHAT Switch to "By item" and add each dish and drink, or scan the receipt and let the app find them. Tap names to show who had what; tax and tip are split in proportion. No more "I only had a salad." GET PAID BACK • Venmo: opens a request with the amount and note filled in • Text the split: send everyone the breakdown in one message • PayPal, Cash App and Zelle (Pro): friends get a tap-to-pay link, or your Zelle details, with their share filled in SMART DEFAULTS • Set your sales tax once; tip before or after tax • Tip buttons you choose, plus any custom percentage • Split 2–99 ways in 11 currencies • History of every split you send TRY PRO FREE Your first 3 bills include everything in Pro. After that, Pro is a single purchase: • Receipt scanning • Unlimited items per bill (Free includes 5) • PayPal, Cash App and Zelle pay links • Round each share up to an easy number • Full split history and CSV export (Free shows the last 10) • Extra tip profiles like "Date night" or "Work lunch" Pay once, keep it forever. No subscription, no ads. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE Everything is calculated on your phone, and receipts are read on your phone too: the photo is never uploaded. Works in basement bars and dead zones. No sign-up, no tracking. Privacy Policy: https://splitsecondpay.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

surf

Easily track all your streaming subscriptions in one place. See your spending, identify unused services, and pause or cancel them with a single tap. Rediscover what you're watching and manage your entertainment costs effectively.

Highlights
  • Consolidate all streaming subscriptions
  • View subscription plans and prices
  • Identify unused services
  • Pause or cancel subscriptions with one tap
  • Restore paused services easily
  • Get content recommendations
  • Secure sign-in process
Features
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surf brings every streaming subscription you pay for into one place, so you can finally see what you are spending and easily pause or cancel the services nobody is watching. FIX THE PROBLEM TV used to be cheap and relaxing. Now it's neither. Somewhere along the way, watching TV got expensive and exhausting. Five subscriptions. Prices that go up every year. Ads on a plan that you already pay for. The show you were halfway through turns out to be on a service you cancelled, and the one you are paying for right now... nobody has opened it since last Spring. SEE ALL YOUR STREAMING EXPENSES IN ONE VIEW Every service you subscribe to, with the plan and the price, side by side. No spreadsheet, no guessing, no logging into six different websites to piece it together. Most people are genuinely surprised by what their streaming actually costs. FIND WHAT SERVICES AREN'T USED surf shows you the services that nobody in your household has opened in a while. For most people this is the moment they realize they have been wasting money on something since last season. PAUSE OR CANCEL IN ONE TAP When you decide a service can go, one click in surf is all it takes. No retention offers. No four screens of 'Are you sure?' No dark pattern designed to wear you down until you give up and keep paying. You confirm every action. surf never pauses, cancels, or changes a subscription on its own. RESTORE A SERVICE JUST AS FAST Pausing and canceling does not mean 'losing.' Streaming services keep your profiles, your watchlists and your history right where you left them, and surf makes turning something back on as quick as turning it off. Watch a show, then pause again until the next season. Or take advantage of a service's free trial, and then cancel in one tap before you get billed. Pay for only what you are watching, when you are watching it. FIND SOMETHING TO WATCH The other tax on streaming is time. Twenty minutes of scrolling only to give up and rewatch something from the archives. surf gives you recommendations across the services you currently pay for, so you are choosing from what's already available. And surf doesn't recommend content because a company is paying us to, only the content that's right for you. Or just tell surf what you're in the mood for and surf will set you up. HOW LINKING A SERVICE WORKS To read your plan and your price, surf asks you to sign in to a service. You do that on the provider's own sign-in page, loaded inside the app. surf never sees your password, never fills the form for you, and never stores it. Any two-factor authentication is between you and the provider, exactly the same way you log into that provider's own app. YOUR DATA, YOUR CALL You can delete your surf account from inside the app at any time. Doing that removes all stored session material for every service you linked. surf contains no advertising, no tracking identifier, and no third-party analytics. We are on your side. You are the customer here, not the product.

Screenshots

Check Split and Tip Calculator4 screens
surf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: surf at none against Check Split and Tip Calculator's 1. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Check Split and Tip Calculator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. surf asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Check Split and Tip Calculator against 5.0 for surf. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Check Split and Tip Calculator versus surf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheck Split and Tip Calculatorsurf
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaymond RothwellSURF SYSTEMS, INC

Customer experience

Check Split and Tip Calculator

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

surf

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Check Split and Tip Calculator

One-time1
  • SplitSecond Pay Pro$2.99
None

surf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Check Split and Tip Calculator free?
Check Split and Tip Calculator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is surf free?
surf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Check Split and Tip Calculator or surf?
Check Split and Tip Calculator and surf are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Check Split and Tip Calculator or surf have ads?
Neither Check Split and Tip Calculator nor surf shows ads.

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