Comparison

TipJoy vs Closeout

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

Head to head
About

TipJoy

This app helps individuals who earn tips track their earnings, hours, and hourly rates across multiple jobs. It provides detailed insights into income, expenses, and performance, with features designed to simplify tax reporting.

Highlights
  • Track cash and credit tips
  • Log hours worked and hourly pay
  • Manage multiple jobs separately
  • View daily, weekly, and monthly summaries
  • Calculate true hourly rate after tip outs
  • Export data for tax reporting
  • Offline tip logging
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Know what you really make per hour, after tip out. TipJoy logs a shift in seconds and keeps every one of them for years. Tips, hours, and earnings across all your jobs, backed up automatically to your own iCloud. No ads, and no paying extra for the parts you need. MADE FOR TIPPED WORK Built for servers, bartenders, delivery drivers, casino workers, hairstylists, and anyone whose income changes shift to shift. BUILT TO KEEP YOUR HISTORY Your earnings record should outlast your phone. - Every shift backs up automatically to your own iCloud - Logging works offline and syncs when you reconnect - Past shifts stay accurate even when your pay rate or tip out changes - Export everything to CSV with Pro. It is your data - Your tip data stays on your devices and in your iCloud. We never see your earnings TRACK THE WHOLE SHIFT - Cash and credit tips, kept separate - Tip outs and tip ins, so you see real take home - Hours worked and hourly pay - Guests, sales, deliveries, rides, and miles - Notes and photos on any shift - Reminders so you never forget to log - Pick the fields you track for each kind of job KNOW WHAT EACH SHIFT REALLY PAID - Your true hourly rate after tip outs, not the number on your paycheck - Tips per hour, earnings per shift, tip percentage of sales - Calendar view with daily totals at a glance - Weekly, monthly, and yearly summaries - Best shifts, biggest tips, and personal records - Trends over time, so you learn which shifts are worth taking MORE THAN ONE JOB Track each job separately, with its own pay rate, tip out rules, and fields. See what each one actually pays you. TAX TIME A clean daily tip log to help meet IRS reporting requirements, and CSV export with Pro. No scrambling in April. SIMPLE PRICING, NO ADS Track one job free, with full tip logging, calendar, and weekly stats. TipJoy Pro unlocks unlimited jobs, advanced analytics, and CSV export. One upgrade, everything included. No add-ons, no per-feature charges. No ads, ever, on any plan. Subscriptions: Weekly ($2.99/wk), Monthly ($4.99/mo), Annual ($29.99/yr). All include a free 7-day trial. Lifetime access available as a one-time purchase ($69.99). Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://tipjoy.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://tipjoy.app/terms

About

Closeout

Features
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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

Screenshots

TipJoy4 screens
Closeout4 screens

Verdict

The call

TipJoy and Closeout are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. TipJoy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days 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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TipJoy versus Closeout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipJoyCloseout
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (62 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings62 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGilded Ratio LLCDayForge Studio LLC

In-app purchases

4 purchases

TipJoy

Subscriptions3
  • TipJoy Pro Weekly7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • TipJoy Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • TipJoy Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • TipJoy Pro Lifetime$69.99
2 purchases

Closeout

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is TipJoy free?
TipJoy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Closeout free?
Closeout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TipJoy or Closeout have ads?
Neither TipJoy nor Closeout shows ads.

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