Comparison

TipSlip vs PayJar

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

Head to head
About

TipSlip

Easily log shifts and track tips for service industry professionals. Get a clear overview of your earnings with detailed reports and convenient home screen widgets. Works offline and securely stores your data.

Highlights
  • Log tips and hours worked
  • View earnings dashboard
  • Generate history and reports
  • Home screen widgets for earnings
  • Weekly tip summary notifications
  • Support for multiple jobs
  • Offline functionality
Features
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TipSlip is the easiest way for service industry workers to log shifts and track their tips. Whether you're a server, bartender, or work multiple jobs in hospitality, TipSlip gives you a clear picture of your earnings — shift by shift, week by week. FEATURES - Log Tips Fast — Add a tip entry in seconds: date, hours worked, cash tips, credit card tips, and tip-out. TipSlip handles the math. - Dashboard — See your total tips, average per shift, and shifts worked at a glance. - History & Reports — Browse your full tip history by month. Export to CSV or PDF for taxes or your own records. - Home Screen Widgets — Put your weekly earnings right on your home screen. - Weekly Notifications — Opt in to a weekly tip summary delivered straight to your phone. - Multi-Job Support — Track tips across multiple jobs or venues in one place. - Works Offline — Log tips without a connection. TipSlip syncs when you're back online. - Secure — Your data is protected with industry-standard encryption and stored on your account. TipSlip is free to use. Sign up or sign in with your existing account at tipslip.app.

About

PayJar

Easily track your shifts, tips, and overtime to accurately calculate your earnings. This app helps tipped workers understand their real hourly rate and verify their paychecks against their logged hours. It also handles complex overtime rules and differentials for accurate wage calculation.

Highlights
  • Track cash and card tips
  • Calculate tip-outs
  • Real hourly rate calculation
  • Minimum wage verification
  • Overtime and double time tracking
  • Shift start/end clocking
  • Paycheck verification
Features
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Know what you made tonight. Not on payday. After a double, nobody wants to do math. So the tips end up on a napkin and payday ends up a surprise. PayJar keeps every shift and every tip in one place, does the math, and tells you when your check comes up short. MADE FOR TIPPED WORK • Cash tips, card tips and your share of the tip pool on every shift • Tip-out to the bar, bussers or kitchen, as an amount or a percentage of sales or tips • Your real hourly rate: wages plus tips, minus tip-out • Your state's minimum wage and tipped wage. If a slow week leaves you under the minimum, you see what your employer has to make up • Best days, cash vs. card and a year-end summary IS YOUR CHECK RIGHT? Type in the gross on your paycheck. PayJar compares it with the hours you logged and says it straight: it matches, or "You were underpaid by $38.40." Wage Check is free. OVERTIME, DONE RIGHT • Weekly overtime after 40 hours, on from the start • Daily overtime and double time for states that have them, like California • An hour already paid as daily overtime isn't counted again for the week • On a tipped wage, overtime is figured on the full minimum wage, not on $2.13 • Night, weekend and holiday differentials, if your job pays them • Every shift shows how its pay was worked out CLOCKING IN SHOULDN'T BE MORE WORK • One tap to start or end a shift, with Undo in case you tap by mistake • Forgot to clock in? Start the shift at the time you really walked in • Breaks, manual or automatic (for example, 30 minutes after 6 hours) • Quick shifts for the ones you work every week • A close that runs past midnight counts for the day it started • Weekly, biweekly, every 4 weeks, twice a month or monthly pay periods YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no ads • Your hours, pay, tips and notes stay on your iPhone, with backup to your own iCloud • Excel and CSV export, always free • Anonymous usage stats and crash reports help us fix what breaks. They never include amounts, job names or notes, and you can turn them off in Settings PAYJAR PRO: PAY ONCE One-time purchase, no subscription. Unlimited jobs with their own rates, bonuses and deductions, PDF timesheets, charts by job and every future Pro feature. In English, Spanish and Japanese. PayJar estimates your gross pay (before taxes) for your own records. It isn't legal or tax advice.

Screenshots

TipSlip4 screens
PayJar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TipSlip at none against PayJar's 1. TipSlip also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). PayJar's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PayJar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TipSlip asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PayJar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TipSlip versus PayJar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipSlipPayJar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTristan BarnettMaurizzio Penalba

Customer experience

TipSlip

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PayJar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TipSlip

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PayJar

One-time1
  • PayJar Pro$9.99

Questions

Is TipSlip free?
TipSlip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PayJar free?
PayJar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TipSlip or PayJar?
PayJar is rated higher. TipSlip averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while PayJar averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do TipSlip or PayJar have ads?
Neither TipSlip nor PayJar shows ads.

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