Comparison

TipKeep vs Tip and Shift Tracker

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

Head to head
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: your week at a glance • See your real $/hour, your best nights, and what you're on pace for this month YOUR RANK, BRONZE TO DIAMOND • See where your real hourly ranks among TipKeep members, and among servers or bartenders • Climb from Bronze to Diamond and share your server card, with your own photo • Best shifts to pick up: which nights actually pay you the most • Your check before payday, from the shifts you logged TAX-READY BY DEFAULT Up to $25,000 of qualified reported tips may be federally deductible for 2025 to 2028. Your per-shift log is the documentation: TipKeep shows your year-to-date tips 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 stay on your phone, never on our servers. Ranks use only an anonymous weekly average, and you can turn them off. • No ads, ever • Works offline, even closing shift in a basement • Switching apps? Import your old shifts from ServerLife or any spreadsheet, free TIPKEEP PRO Start with 7 days free, then $29.99/year. Or $7.99/month, or $49.99 once for lifetime. Cancel anytime in your iPhone's Settings. No ads on any plan. 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

About

Tip and Shift Tracker

Track hours, tips, and take-home pay across multiple jobs. Visualize your schedule with a color-coded calendar and see earnings broken down per job or combined. All data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Log multiple jobs with custom rates and locations
  • Track tips, tip-outs, and calculate take-home pay
  • View earnings by job or combined
  • Color-coded calendar for shifts and availability
  • Seniority tracking per job
  • Data export for tax season
Features
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Built for anyone working more than one job. MULTIPLE JOBS Add as many jobs as you work. Each gets its own color, position, hourly rate, start date and location. Worked two jobs in one day? Log both — they stay separate everywhere in the app, and saving one no longer locks the other. TIPS, TIP-OUTS AND TAKE-HOME Enter your hours, the tips you collected and what you tipped out. The app does the math: hourly pay + tips − tip out = your real take-home. EARNINGS THAT ADD UP See what you made this week, this month and year to date — broken out per job and combined, with tips and tip-outs shown separately. A CALENDAR YOU CAN READ AT A GLANCE Green for worked, blue for pass, orange for refusal, gray for off, purple for FMLA, red for call out. Multi-job days show a bar per job. SENIORITY WHERE IT BELONGS Seniority lists moved into the Contacts tab, under Must Know Contacts, and are tracked per job. NEW HERE? START WITH THE WALKTHROUGH A visual tutorial in the More tab walks you through logging a shift, reading the calendar and tracking earnings. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • Exporting now opens the share sheet, so you can save to Files, email it or send it anywhere • CSV export adds hourly rate, hourly pay, tip out and take-home columns for tax season • Overtime is not calculated — rates vary too much between employers Everything stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TipKeep4 screens
Tip and Shift Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tip and Shift Tracker at none against TipKeep's shown. Tip and Shift Tracker also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). TipKeep's advantage is ratings volume (50 vs 5) and chart position (#167 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. TipKeep sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Tip and Shift Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 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 — 4.9 for TipKeep against 5.0 for Tip and Shift Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TipKeep has 50 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TipKeep ships an update every 9 days, Tip and Shift Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
TipKeep versus Tip and Shift Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipKeepTip and Shift Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (50 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings50 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#167 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDENYS IVASECHKOHospitality is Life LLC

Customer experience

TipKeep

All ratings50 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tip and Shift Tracker

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

TipKeep

Subscriptions3
  • TipKeep Pro$7.991 Month
  • TipKeep Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • TipKeep Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • TipJar Pro - Lifetime$49.99
2 purchases

Tip and Shift Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is TipKeep free?
TipKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tip and Shift Tracker free?
Tip and Shift Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TipKeep or Tip and Shift Tracker?
Tip and Shift Tracker is rated higher. TipKeep averages 4.9 out of 5 from 50 ratings, while Tip and Shift Tracker averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do TipKeep or Tip and Shift Tracker have ads?
TipKeep shows ads; Tip and Shift Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, TipKeep or Tip and Shift Tracker?
TipKeep ships an update every 9 days, and Tip and Shift Tracker weekly. Most recently, TipKeep was updated on November 5, 2026 and Tip and Shift Tracker on November 6, 2026.

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