Comparison

Checkout vs Earnly

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

Earnly

Features
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Keep what you earn. Earnly is a tip tracker built specifically for bartenders — by people who know the work. Track every shift, every tip-out, and your estimated No Tax on Tips deduction. Get CPA-ready tax exports when April rolls around. No ads, ever. WHY EARNLY Most tip trackers are built for "any tipped worker" and end up serving none of them well. Earnly is different. It handles the way bartenders actually work — multiple roles in one shift (bartender + barback), rule-based tip-outs to bussers and barbacks, multiple workplaces with separate hourly rates, and tracking the difference between what you earned and what you actually take home. WHAT YOU GET (FREE) - Track every shift with hourly wage, tips, tip-outs, and take-home - Automatic tip-out rules - Schedule patterns that pre-fill your usual shifts - Goals with pace tracking and "ahead/behind" insights - Audit trail on every edit - Cloud sync across devices when you sign in (free, anonymous-first) EARNLY PRO ($4.99/mo or $29.99/yr) - Tax Export — CPA-ready PDF and CSV reports for every tax year - No Tax on Tips deduction tracker — see an estimate of how much you can deduct under the federal No Tax on Tips Act (up to $25,000/year) - Unlimited workplaces and unlimited roles per workplace - Multi-role shifts — bartender + barback in a single entry, with separate rates and tip-outs - Safe Budget — your forward-looking financial picture PRIVACY & NO ADS Earnly is ad-free. We don't sell your data. We don't show you "personalized offers." Your shifts, tips, and earnings are yours. MADE FOR BARTENDERS Built by an indie developer with a bartender wife who lives this every shift. Earnly will keep getting better — and bartenders will always be the user we design for first. Questions, feedback, or feature requests? Email hello@keslerdigital.com. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://keslerdigital.com/earnly-privacy

Screenshots

Checkout4 screens
Earnly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Earnly at none against Checkout's 4. Earnly also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18). Checkout's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. Earnly asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Checkout ships an update every 8 days, Earnly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Checkout versus Earnly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheckoutEarnly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1815.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlowstate Industries LLCBryan Gomez

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
None

Earnly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Checkout free?
Checkout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Earnly free?
Earnly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Checkout or Earnly have ads?
Neither Checkout nor Earnly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Checkout or Earnly?
Checkout ships an update every 8 days, and Earnly every 3 weeks. Most recently, Checkout was updated on October 23, 2026 and Earnly on October 11, 2026.

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