Comparison

Checkout vs Tips Coach

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

Tips Coach

Log your tips, sales, and hours quickly to understand your earnings. Track multiple jobs, set weekly goals, and analyze your cash and card mix. Pro features offer deeper insights into your earning patterns.

Highlights
  • Log tips, sales, and hours
  • Track tip-outs and net tips
  • Set weekly net-tips goals
  • Manage multiple workplaces
  • Analyze cash vs. card mix
  • Pro insights and charts
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Track cash and card tips, see what you keep after tip-outs, and find the shifts that pay you best. Tips Coach is a tip tracker and income log built for servers, bartenders and restaurant workers. LOG YOUR SHIFT IN SECONDS Record tips, sales and hours in one clear view. Use saved tip-out rules based on tips or sales, or enter the amount yourself. See your tip percentage and what you keep before you save. SEE YOUR WEEK ADD UP Set a weekly net-tips goal and follow your progress. Keep base wages separate from your tip goal. Add an hourly rate to see estimated wages and understand your combined hourly earnings. KEEP EVERY JOB TOGETHER Track multiple workplaces and roles. Add tags, notes and a quick shift rating. Search your history, review the money breakdown and edit a saved shift whenever you need to. UNDERSTAND YOUR CASH AND CARD MIX See this week's recorded amounts and percentages before tip-out. Check the split against your shift paperwork and open the records behind the numbers. FIND WHAT PAYS WITH TIPS COACH PRO Explore patterns in your own logged history. Compare days, hours and tagged shifts, with clear charts and coach insights that explain the numbers. Pro includes: • Best-time-to-work comparisons and coach insights • An earnings calendar with daily tip amounts • Weekly recaps and detailed earnings comparisons • Cash-versus-card views for more date ranges • PDF and CSV exports of your self-reported earnings • Optional cloud backup with an active paid subscription Patterns appear as you build enough history to make a useful comparison. Past results are a guide, not a promise of what your next shift will pay. START FREE. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED. Unlimited local shift logging, saved history and edits, multiple jobs, tags and weekly goals stay free. Your first 14 days include a complimentary preview of Pro insights and exports. The preview starts when you first open the app, requires no payment details and does not turn into a paid subscription. Cloud backup is not included in the preview. Afterward, subscribe to keep Pro features or continue with the free tools. If you choose to subscribe during the preview, billing starts immediately. Cloud backup is optional and requires sign-in plus an active paid Pro subscription to upload records. Restoring an existing cloud backup remains available after a subscription expires. Developed and supported in the United States. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Subscriptions are available monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm your purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store subscription settings. Net tips are recorded tips after tip-outs, before tax. Wages are estimates. Exported records are self-reported, not official tax forms. Privacy: https://tipscoach.app/privacy Terms: https://tipscoach.app/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Checkout4 screens
Tips Coach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tips Coach at every 2 days against Checkout's every 8 days. Tips Coach also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18). Checkout's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 Tips Coach sells 2 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 Tips Coach. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Checkout ships an update every 8 days, Tips Coach every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Checkout versus Tips Coach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheckoutTips Coach
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (26 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS1816.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB62 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFlowstate Industries LLCXstream Networks, LLC

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

Tips Coach

Subscriptions2
  • Tips Coach Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Tips Coach Pro Annual$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Checkout free?
Checkout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tips Coach free?
Tips Coach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Checkout or Tips Coach?
Tips Coach is rated higher. Checkout averages 5.0 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Tips Coach averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Checkout or Tips Coach have ads?
Neither Checkout nor Tips Coach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Checkout or Tips Coach?
Checkout ships an update every 8 days, and Tips Coach every 2 days. Most recently, Checkout was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tips Coach on October 29, 2026.

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