Comparison

Tip Tracker vs PayJar

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

Head to head
About

Tip Tracker

This app helps service industry workers track their tips and wages to understand and optimize their income. It offers detailed analytics, AI-powered insights, and a visual calendar to monitor earnings patterns. All features are available for free with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Shift clock-in/out
  • Tip tracking with notes
  • Visual calendar view
  • Earnings analytics
  • AI-powered income recommendations
  • Wage tracking
  • Role-specific insights
Features
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Track tips. Hit goals. Know what you really make. TrackMyTips helps servers, bartenders, hosts, baristas, expos, and other tipped workers track shifts, tips, wages, goals, and earnings, with powerful reports and insights built in. BUILT FOR THE HUSTLE Whether you work one role or several, TrackMyTips helps you understand what you actually earn, one shift at a time. SHIFT & TIP TRACKING • Clock in and out with one tap • Add tips while you're working • Add tips quickly from your Lock Screen during an active shift • Track multiple tips per shift with notes • Enter shifts manually when you need to • Edit shifts and tips anytime YOUR ROLES, YOUR WAY • Create custom roles with your own hourly wages and icons • Choose favorite roles for faster clock-ins • Track earnings across different roles • Manage roles and wages from Settings PLAN YOUR WORK & PAYDAYS • Schedule upcoming shifts from your calendar • See upcoming paydays alongside your shifts • Set your pay schedule • See what you're on track to earn by your next payday based on your actual earnings history GOALS THAT KEEP YOU MOTIVATED • Set weekly or monthly goals • Track goals by total earnings or net tips • Follow your progress from Home and Goals • Celebrate when you hit your target YOUR EARNINGS AT A GLANCE • See this week's earnings from your Home Screen • Choose a Small or Medium widget • Keep an eye on your active shift from the Lock Screen • Jump straight into Quick Add while you're working CALENDAR & INCOME HISTORY • Monthly and weekly calendar views with earnings by day • Interactive trend charts to spot patterns over time • Tap any day to jump directly to those shifts • Review your earnings history and income breakdowns POWERFUL REPORTS & ANALYTICS • Total earnings from tips and wages • Net tips, wages, hours, shifts, and hourly earnings • Compare your key numbers with the previous period • Best and worst shifts • Role performance comparisons • Shift patterns across different times of day • Consistency, tip density, and other performance metrics AI-POWERED INSIGHTS • Spot patterns you might otherwise miss • See which roles and times pay best • Learn from your strongest shifts • Save and revisit previous analyses FREE TO DOWNLOAD AND USE TrackMyTips is free to download and use, with no ads. PRIVACY & CONTROL • Sign in with Apple or continue as a guest • Your data is stored securely in the cloud • Delete your account and data anytime • Your information isn't sold to advertisers ENGLISH & SPANISH Use TrackMyTips in English or Spanish. PERFECT FOR Servers • Bartenders • Hosts • Baristas • Expos • Anyone who earns tips Track your shifts. Understand your earnings. Make every shift count.

About

PayJar

Easily track your shifts, tips, and overtime to accurately calculate your earnings. This app helps tipped workers understand their real hourly rate and verify their paychecks against their logged hours. It also handles complex overtime rules and differentials for accurate wage calculation.

Highlights
  • Track cash and card tips
  • Calculate tip-outs
  • Real hourly rate calculation
  • Minimum wage verification
  • Overtime and double time tracking
  • Shift start/end clocking
  • Paycheck verification
Features
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Know what you made tonight. Not on payday. After a double, nobody wants to do math. So the tips end up on a napkin and payday ends up a surprise. PayJar keeps every shift and every tip in one place, does the math, and tells you when your check comes up short. MADE FOR TIPPED WORK • Cash tips, card tips and your share of the tip pool on every shift • Tip-out to the bar, bussers or kitchen, as an amount or a percentage of sales or tips • Your real hourly rate: wages plus tips, minus tip-out • Your state's minimum wage and tipped wage. If a slow week leaves you under the minimum, you see what your employer has to make up • Best days, cash vs. card and a year-end summary IS YOUR CHECK RIGHT? Type in the gross on your paycheck. PayJar compares it with the hours you logged and says it straight: it matches, or "You were underpaid by $38.40." Wage Check is free. OVERTIME, DONE RIGHT • Weekly overtime after 40 hours, on from the start • Daily overtime and double time for states that have them, like California • An hour already paid as daily overtime isn't counted again for the week • On a tipped wage, overtime is figured on the full minimum wage, not on $2.13 • Night, weekend and holiday differentials, if your job pays them • Every shift shows how its pay was worked out CLOCKING IN SHOULDN'T BE MORE WORK • One tap to start or end a shift, with Undo in case you tap by mistake • Forgot to clock in? Start the shift at the time you really walked in • Breaks, manual or automatic (for example, 30 minutes after 6 hours) • Quick shifts for the ones you work every week • A close that runs past midnight counts for the day it started • Weekly, biweekly, every 4 weeks, twice a month or monthly pay periods YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no ads • Your hours, pay, tips and notes stay on your iPhone, with backup to your own iCloud • Excel and CSV export, always free • Anonymous usage stats and crash reports help us fix what breaks. They never include amounts, job names or notes, and you can turn them off in Settings PAYJAR PRO: PAY ONCE One-time purchase, no subscription. Unlimited jobs with their own rates, bonuses and deductions, PDF timesheets, charts by job and every future Pro feature. In English, Spanish and Japanese. PayJar estimates your gross pay (before taxes) for your own records. It isn't legal or tax advice.

Screenshots

Tip Tracker4 screens
PayJar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tip Tracker at none against PayJar's 1. Tip Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). PayJar's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PayJar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tip Tracker 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 Tip Tracker against 5.0 for PayJar. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tip Tracker has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tip Tracker ships an update every 2 days, PayJar every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tip Tracker versus PayJar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTip TrackerPayJar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAitor RecaldeMaurizzio Penalba

Customer experience

Tip Tracker

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PayJar

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

In-app purchases

None

Tip Tracker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PayJar

One-time1
  • PayJar Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Tip Tracker free?
Tip Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PayJar free?
PayJar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tip Tracker or PayJar?
Tip Tracker and PayJar are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Tip Tracker or PayJar have ads?
Neither Tip Tracker nor PayJar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tip Tracker or PayJar?
Tip Tracker ships an update every 2 days, and PayJar every 8 days. Most recently, Tip Tracker was updated on November 5, 2026 and PayJar on November 12, 2026.

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