Comparison

Custos vs TipGenie

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

Head to head
About

Custos

Preserve cherished memories by creating digital memorials from prayer cards, obituaries, and photos. Easily share these keepsakes with loved ones and access them conveniently in Apple Wallet. The app also offers gentle reminders for important dates.

Highlights
  • Create digital memorials
  • Scan prayer cards for data extraction
  • Import obituaries and text
  • Share memorials with family and friends
  • Add memorials to Apple Wallet
  • Save full life stories with photos and memories
  • Create pet memorials
  • Receive gentle reminders for important dates
Features
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Custos turns prayer cards, obituaries, funeral programs, photos, and life stories into beautiful digital memorials you can save, share, and carry in Apple Wallet. Create a memorial in the way that feels right. Scan a prayer card, import an obituary, photograph a funeral program, paste text, or build one from scratch with photos, dates, prayers, and memories. Custos helps preserve the details families often lose over time. CREATE MEMORIALS IN SECONDS Scan a prayer card and Custos can extract names, dates, and prayer text for you. Import an obituary from a funeral home website, screenshot, or pasted text. You can also create a memorial manually from scratch. SHARE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS Send a memorial link to anyone. Family and friends can view the memorial without needing the app, or save it in Custos if they want to keep it close. ADD MEMORIALS TO APPLE WALLET Carry a digital memorial card with you in Apple Wallet. A prayer, photo, obituary, or life story can stay just a tap away. SAVE THE FULL LIFE STORY Add photos, prayers, dates, obituaries, resting place information, and memories in one lasting memorial keepsake. PET MEMORIALS TOO Create memorials for beloved pets, because every family member deserves to be remembered. GENTLE REMINDERS Custos can remind you on birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates, so the people and pets you love are never forgotten. FREE FOR FAMILIES Custos is free to create, save, and share memorials. Always.

About

TipGenie

Easily track your tips, sales, and hours to gain insights into your earnings. This app helps servers optimize their schedules and identify high-paying shifts and sections. Features include automatic calendar syncing and goal setting.

Highlights
  • Log shifts in seconds
  • Track tips, sales, and hours
  • Identify high-paying sections/days
  • Auto-sync with work calendars
  • Set and track earning goals
  • Widgets for quick overview
  • Track Google review mentions
Features
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TipGenie is the tip tracker built by a server for servers. Stop fumbling with the Notes app at the end of your shift. TipGenie makes tracking your tips, sales, hours, and sections faster than typing your password — then turns all that data into insights that actually help you make more money. — WHY SERVERS LOVE IT — • Log a full shift in 10 seconds. Tap a preset for your hours, type tips and sales, tap your section, done. • See exactly which days and sections pay the most. The Forecast tab tells you stuff like "Pick up more Saturday PMs, skip Tuesday AMs" based on your real shift data. • Auto-sync with HotSchedules or any work calendar. Your hours fill in automatically when you log. • Home screen and Lock Screen widgets show today's take-home, week total, and your weekly schedule at a glance. • Track your weekly Google review mentions and see who in your crew is winning the contest. — WHAT'S INSIDE — LOG SCREEN One tap to log a shift. Quick-fill hours from your saved presets (AM, PM, Double). See your week-to-date take-home, hours, and per-hour rate up top. Tap any past shift to edit. CALENDAR Month view with color-coded AM, PM, and Double shifts. Scheduled shifts auto-appear from your work calendar. Weekly tip bars track your goal progress. TOTALS Earnings, hours, sales, and tip % broken down by week, month, year, or any custom date range. Interactive charts you can tap. YTD tax estimator with a 15% baseline for tipped workers. GOALS Set daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly take-home goals. Ring charts track your progress. Know if you're falling behind or crushing it. FORECAST Project your month-end earnings from your last 90 days of shifts. Smart insights compare your best days, sections, weather correlation, and shift combinations. Each card tells you something actionable. FLOOR PLAN Digital floor plan of your restaurant. Tap the tables you had during each shift. Over time, learn exactly which sections pay the most. REVIEW LEADERBOARD Track your Google review mentions. See live counts. Compete with your coworkers. SMART REMINDERS Set your work location once. TipGenie reminds you to log tips if you leave without logging. — PRIVACY FIRST — No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No data ever leaves your phone. Your tips, your business. — BUILT BY A SERVER — Made by Brady Cook, a server at The Catch in Gulf Shores, Alabama. If TipGenie helps you make more money, tell another server.

Screenshots

Custos4 screens
TipGenie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: TipGenie at 5.0 against Custos's 4.7. Custos's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TipGenie holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Custos has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Custos ships an update every 5 days, TipGenie every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Custos versus TipGenie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCustosTipGenie
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (24 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScott MysoglandBrady Cook

Customer experience

Custos

All ratings24 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral4.2%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative0.0%

TipGenie

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Custos

No in-app purchases

None

TipGenie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Custos free?
Custos is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TipGenie free?
TipGenie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Custos or TipGenie?
TipGenie is rated higher. Custos averages 4.7 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while TipGenie averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Custos or TipGenie have ads?
Neither Custos nor TipGenie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Custos or TipGenie?
Custos ships an update every 5 days, and TipGenie every 3 days. Most recently, Custos was updated on October 31, 2026 and TipGenie on October 31, 2026.

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