Checkout vs Tip and Shift Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Checkout
This app helps service industry workers track their tips, calculate their real hourly earnings, and understand their paychecks. It offers detailed breakdowns of income sources and allows for custom tracking fields. Advanced features for paycheck explanation and schedule management are available via subscription.
- Log tips, hours, and sales
- Calculate real hourly rate
- Handle custom tip out percentages
- Explain paychecks with Pro version
- Build custom tracking fields
- Export shift history as CSV
- No account or cloud sync required
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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
Tip and Shift Tracker
Track hours, tips, and take-home pay across multiple jobs. Visualize your schedule with a color-coded calendar and see earnings broken down per job or combined. All data stays on your device.
- Log multiple jobs with custom rates and locations
- Track tips, tip-outs, and calculate take-home pay
- View earnings by job or combined
- Color-coded calendar for shifts and availability
- Seniority tracking per job
- Data export for tax season
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Built for anyone working more than one job. MULTIPLE JOBS Add as many jobs as you work. Each gets its own color, position, hourly rate, start date and location. Worked two jobs in one day? Log both — they stay separate everywhere in the app, and saving one no longer locks the other. TIPS, TIP-OUTS AND TAKE-HOME Enter your hours, the tips you collected and what you tipped out. The app does the math: hourly pay + tips − tip out = your real take-home. EARNINGS THAT ADD UP See what you made this week, this month and year to date — broken out per job and combined, with tips and tip-outs shown separately. A CALENDAR YOU CAN READ AT A GLANCE Green for worked, blue for pass, orange for refusal, gray for off, purple for FMLA, red for call out. Multi-job days show a bar per job. SENIORITY WHERE IT BELONGS Seniority lists moved into the Contacts tab, under Must Know Contacts, and are tracked per job. NEW HERE? START WITH THE WALKTHROUGH A visual tutorial in the More tab walks you through logging a shift, reading the calendar and tracking earnings. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • Exporting now opens the share sheet, so you can save to Files, email it or send it anywhere • CSV export adds hourly rate, hourly pay, tip out and take-home columns for tax season • Overtime is not calculated — rates vary too much between employers Everything stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Checkout and Tip and Shift Tracker both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Tip and Shift Tracker's written reviews are positive against 87% of Checkout's. Tip and Shift Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18). Checkout's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 5). 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
Both are free to download. Checkout sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Tip and Shift Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Checkout against 5.0 for Tip and Shift Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checkout has 27 ratings behind it against 5, 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 Tip and Shift Tracker's.
Checkout ships an update every 9 days, Tip and Shift Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkout | Tip and Shift Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flowstate Industries LLC | Hospitality is Life LLC |
Customer experience
Checkout
Tip and Shift Tracker
In-app purchases
Checkout
- 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
Tip and Shift Tracker
- Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year









