Tip Tracker vs LohnTicker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tip Tracker
Effortlessly track your tips as you earn them with a simple, fast interface. Get instant insights into your earnings, hourly averages, and shift performance. Designed for service industry professionals to know their income without manual calculation.
- Live tip tracking
- Shift insights and averages
- One-screen calculator interface
- Dark Mode support
- Long-term earnings history
- Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
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Track your tips in seconds. For servers, bartenders, baristas, hairstylists, hotel staff, couriers and anyone who earns tips. Tap each tip in as it comes, or write the shift down at the end, and see what every shift and month brought in. On your iPhone and Apple Watch, with widgets and a Live Activity on your Lock Screen. Free for one job. TipShark Pro adds more jobs and extra fields. TipShark Pro is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly). It is charged to your Apple Account and renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.tipshark.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.tipshark.app/terms
LohnTicker
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LohnTicker shows you what you are earning right now. Clock in and watch your pay grow live, with the tax-free premiums for Sunday, public holiday and night work already included. Built for shift work in care, production, logistics and hospitality. Everything you use for free today stays free. Anything that belongs to Premium is marked “(Premium)”. CLOCKING IN AND LIVE TICKER • Clock in and out in the app, with the widget, in Control Center, on Apple Watch or with Siri. Siri also tells you your earnings, net pay and next shift. • Live ticker with gross and estimated net pay, also as a Live Activity and in the Dynamic Island. • Record breaks or have them estimated under the German Working Hours Act. • Tips per shift, also on the watch. • A net pay goal and your next payday (Premium). ROSTER • Plan a month from templates, as a fixed week or a rotation, with short codes and colors, share it or transfer it to your calendar. • Vacation, also half days and hours, with carry-over and an entitlement calculator, plus paid public holidays. • Sick leave with continued pay, child sick, unpaid and paid leave, training and time off in lieu. • Roster import from a subscribed calendar and an alarm before every shift (Premium). • Vacation planner with bridge days and school holidays (Premium). • Standby, on-call duty and hours per station (Premium). HONEST NUMBERS • Wage tax per the official 2026 scheme of the Federal Ministry of Finance, social contributions shown separately. • § 3b with the rates or fixed hourly amounts your employer really pays and the night premium from your start time. • Hourly wage or fixed salary, minijob, Midijob, working student, apprenticeship, short-term employment, household minijob and work with a full old-age pension. • Starting or leaving mid-month, a tax allowance from the tax office, trainer and volunteer allowances, the factor method and company pensions. • Time account with payouts and a working time check under the German Working Hours Act, also for night work and Sundays. • Your own fine-tuned rates for the night core and high holidays, TVöD tariff template (Premium). • Allowances with rules for days, times and overtime, a pay rise with effective date in the forecast (Premium). • Additional jobs with combined social contributions, minijob limit, 20-hour rule and 70-day limit at a glance (Premium). HISTORY • Your month with hours per premium type, target and actual hours, for the current and the previous month. • Monthly record as a PDF, every past month, yearly overview, Wrapped and an annual statement for your tax return (Premium). • Tips analysis over the year, bonus and Christmas pay (Premium). • Travel expenses with tax-free allowances, also abroad, business trips and the commuter allowance (Premium). CALCULATORS • Gross to net, cost a single shift, pay rise, overtime, company car, pension payments. • Run the numbers on an extra shift: what it brings in net across the whole month (Premium). ON EVERY DEVICE • iPhone and iPad, on Apple silicon Macs as the iPad app, Apple Watch with complication. • In German, English, Turkish, Polish, Russian and Arabic. Translations are unreviewed; the German text prevails. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. More widgets and a countdown on the watch (Premium). • Five color themes for free. More color themes, app icons, your own Today layout and a color per job (Premium). YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything stays on your device and, with iCloud, encrypted in your private iCloud. No servers of our own, no tracking, no sharing. Backup, also automatic, and export are free. PREMIUM As a monthly or yearly subscription or once as Lifetime. Your purchase funds the yearly maintenance of the official values for everyone. If Premium ends, all your data stays. LohnTicker is an estimation and planning aid and does not replace your payslip or tax advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LohnTicker at none against Tip Tracker's 2. LohnTicker also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Tip Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Tip Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. LohnTicker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tip Tracker ships an update every 2 months, LohnTicker every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tip Tracker | LohnTicker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Istvan Szoke | Marvin Damir Sehic |
In-app purchases
Tip Tracker
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
LohnTicker
No in-app purchases







