Comparison

Checkout vs Tip and Shift Tracker

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Checkout4 screens
Tip and Shift Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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 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.

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 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Checkout versus Tip and Shift Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheckoutTip and Shift Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (27 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings27 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS1815.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlowstate Industries LLCHospitality is Life LLC

Customer experience

Checkout

All ratings27 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%

Tip and Shift Tracker

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 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
2 purchases

Tip and Shift Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Checkout free?
Checkout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tip and Shift Tracker free?
Tip and Shift Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Checkout or Tip and Shift Tracker?
Tip and Shift Tracker is rated higher. Checkout averages 5.0 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while Tip and Shift Tracker averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Checkout or Tip and Shift Tracker have ads?
Neither Checkout nor Tip and Shift Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Checkout or Tip and Shift Tracker?
Checkout ships an update every 9 days, and Tip and Shift Tracker weekly. Most recently, Checkout was updated on November 9, 2026 and Tip and Shift Tracker on November 6, 2026.

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