Comparison

Checkout vs tiptap

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

Head to head
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

About

tiptap

Effortlessly track your server tips and earnings by snapping photos of your checkout slips. The app automatically reads your tips, sales, and hours, calculating your true take-home pay and hourly rate. Manual entry is also available for free.

Highlights
  • Automatic slip scanning
  • Tip and sales extraction
  • Hourly wage calculation
  • Shift earnings history
  • Period-over-period comparisons
  • Manual shift logging
Features
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Snap your checkout slip. tiptap reads it for you. tiptap is the tip tracker built for servers — and the only one that pulls your numbers straight off your slip. Snap a photo of your checkout printout and tiptap reads your tips, sales, hours, and tip-outs for you. No typing. Confirm, save, done. Finally see your real take-home — and your true hourly — for any shift, week, or pay period. SNAP YOUR CHECKOUT SLIP — tiptap PRO Skip the manual entry. Photograph your checkout slip and tiptap extracts your tips and sales directly from the printout. It's the fastest way to log a shift — point, shoot, confirm. Every new account gets a 7-day free trial of slip scanning. No credit card required. AUTO TIP-OUT MATH Set your tip-out groups logic once — bar, bussers, food runners — and tiptap does the math every shift, so the take-home you see is the take-home you keep. SEE WHAT YOU ACTUALLY MAKE Your real $/hour, not just your tip total A searchable calendar of your entire earnings history Period-over-period comparisons so you can spot your best-paying shifts PREFER TO TYPE? THAT'S FREE. Logging shifts by hand is always free — tips, cash, credit, sales, and tip-outs. Slip scanning is the Pro upgrade that does it all for you. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Phone sign-in. Your data is encrypted and never sold. Note: tip pooling isn't supported yet. If your house pools tips, enter your individual share after it's split. Standard tip-outs are fully supported. tiptap PRO Tracking your shifts by hand is always free. Automatic slip scanning — where tiptap reads your tips, sales, hours, and tip-outs straight from a photo — is a tiptap Pro feature. Every new account gets a 7-day free trial, no card required. After the trial, keep unlimited slip scanning with tiptap Pro: Monthly — $4.99 / month Yearly — $29.99 / year Lifetime — $49.99, one-time Prices are in USD and may vary by region. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. The lifetime option is a single purchase, not a subscription. Snap your slip and stop guessing what you made this week. Questions, feedback, or feature requests? Email us at support@tiptap.one — we read every message. Privacy Policy: https://www.tiptap.one/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Checkout4 screens
tiptap4 screens

Verdict

The call

Checkout and tiptap both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of tiptap's written reviews are positive against 87% of Checkout's. Checkout's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Checkout sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and tiptap sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Checkout against 5.0 for tiptap. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checkout has 26 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Checkout's written reviews are positive against 100% of tiptap's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Checkout ships an update weekly, tiptap every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Checkout versus tiptap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheckouttiptap
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (26 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26 — better3
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlowstate Industries LLCP4 Group, LLC

Customer experience

Checkout

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

tiptap

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

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
3 purchases

tiptap

Subscriptions2
  • TipTap Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • TipTap Pro - Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • TipTap Pro - Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Checkout free?
Checkout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is tiptap free?
tiptap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Checkout or tiptap?
Checkout and tiptap are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 26 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Checkout or tiptap have ads?
Neither Checkout nor tiptap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Checkout or tiptap?
Checkout ships an update weekly, and tiptap every 5 days. Most recently, Checkout was updated on October 2, 2026 and tiptap on September 14, 2026.

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