Comparison

Earned Tip Tracker vs TipKeep

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

Head to head
About

Earned Tip Tracker

This app helps servers and service workers track their earnings per shift. It logs tips, sales, hours, and expenses to provide clear insights into take-home pay, hourly rates, and progress towards goals. Make informed decisions about future shifts with detailed financial summaries.

Highlights
  • Log tips, sales, and hours
  • Calculate net tips after tip-out
  • Track hourly pay rate
  • Compare shifts by day and type
  • Review calendar and export history
  • Set and track financial goals
Features
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Earned is a private tip tracker for servers and service workers who want to know what every shift is really worth. Log tips, sales, hours, tip-out, cash, card, and notes in seconds. Earned turns each shift into clear take-home pay, hourly pace, tip percentage, weekly progress, and goal movement. Use Earned to track net tips after tip-out, see your real hourly rate, compare shifts by day and type, review your calendar, export shift history, and make smarter shift decisions with Earned Plus. Built for the after-shift moment: fast logging, calm numbers, and private records that help you choose better shifts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://earned-05141841.web.app/privacy.html

About

TipKeep

Easily track your tips and income from tipped work. Log shifts in seconds, visualize your earnings with a filling jar, and generate tax-ready reports. All your data stays on your device with no account required.

Highlights
  • Log cash and card tips quickly
  • Visualize earnings with a filling jar
  • Track tip-outs and sales
  • Generate tax-ready reports
  • Offline functionality
  • No account or login required
  • Import data from CSV
Currently charting
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Know what you walked with. TipKeep is the tip tracker built for people who actually work for tips — servers, bartenders, baristas, delivery drivers, nail techs, barbers. Log your shift in about 10 seconds, watch a real glass jar fill with cash as your week builds, and finally know the number nobody's paystub shows: your real hourly, after tip-outs. THE 10-SECOND RITUAL • Cash tips, card tips, hours — done before you've left the parking lot • Tip-outs, sales, and notes when you want the full picture • Double shifts, multiple jobs, editing past days — all supported • A receipt for every shift: "YOU WALKED WITH $243" — made to share YOUR WEEK, VISIBLE • The jar fills toward your weekly goal as you log • Home screen and lock screen widgets — tap to log a shift in one step • See your real $/hour, your best nights, and what you're on pace for this month TAX-READY BY DEFAULT Up to $25,000 of qualified reported tips may be federally deductible for 2025–2028. Your per-shift log is the documentation — TipKeep shows your year-to-date tip total and exports a clean report at tax time. (TipKeep is a record-keeping tool, not tax advice.) YOUR MONEY IS YOUR BUSINESS We read hundreds of reviews of other tip trackers before building this one. The #1 complaint: years of records lost behind logins and servers. So TipKeep is built the other way: • No account. No login. Nothing to lose. • Your shifts and your money stay on your phone — never on our servers • No ads, ever • Works offline, even closing shift in a basement • Switching apps? Import your old shifts from any CSV — free FREE & PRO Logging is free forever, with this week's totals and 30 days of history. TipKeep Pro unlocks your full history, month & year stats with best-nights insights, multiple jobs, and CSV export — $19.99/year with a 7-day free trial, $7.99/month, or $39.99 once for lifetime. No tricks, no per-feature fees. Built for the industry. Drop tonight in the jar. Questions? Visit tipjarapp.app or email us — a human answers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tipjarapp.app/privacy

Screenshots

Earned Tip Tracker3 screens
TipKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Earned Tip Tracker at none against TipKeep's shown. Earned Tip Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). TipKeep's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 1) and chart position (#146 vs unranked). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Earned Tip Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and TipKeep sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 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 Earned Tip Tracker against 4.9 for TipKeep. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TipKeep has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Earned Tip Tracker ships an update every 2 days, TipKeep weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Earned Tip Tracker versus TipKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEarned Tip TrackerTipKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (30 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings130 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
Best chart rank—#146 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMenfi RodriguezDENYS IVASECHKO

Customer experience

Earned Tip Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TipKeep

All ratings30 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Earned Tip Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Earned Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Earned Plus Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Earned Plus Lifetime$59.99
3 purchases

TipKeep

Subscriptions2
  • TipJar Pro$3.991 Month
  • TipJar Pro$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • TipJar Pro - Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Earned Tip Tracker free?
Earned Tip Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TipKeep free?
TipKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Earned Tip Tracker or TipKeep?
Earned Tip Tracker is rated higher. Earned Tip Tracker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while TipKeep averages 4.9 from 30 ratings.
Do Earned Tip Tracker or TipKeep have ads?
TipKeep shows ads; Earned Tip Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Earned Tip Tracker or TipKeep?
Earned Tip Tracker ships an update every 2 days, and TipKeep weekly. Most recently, Earned Tip Tracker was updated on September 17, 2026 and TipKeep on October 5, 2026.

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