Comparison

TipKeep vs Tipstack

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

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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

About

Tipstack

Features
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Tipstack is for anyone paid by the hour who counts on tips: servers, bartenders, baristas, delivery drivers, salon and hotel staff. Clock in, log what you made, and know what your check should say before payday. Did I clock in? - One big Start/End button, breaks, and "I started at…" for the nights you forgot. - A running timer on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, with an End shift button that works even when the app is closed. - A home screen widget, and an Apple Watch app with the timer on your watch face. - Save the hours you work most and fill a whole month of shifts at once. - An optional reminder to clock in when you get to work, using the time you really arrived. How much did I make tonight? - Cash tips, card tips, tip-out, sales, section and notes on every shift. - Tip-out suggested from your restaurant's own rule: % of sales, % of tips or a fixed amount. - The tip pool split by hours or points, with your share worked out. - A photo of your checkout slip or time clock, kept with the shift. Is my paycheck right? - Overtime by state: the federal 40-hour week, California's daily and 7th-day rules, Alaska, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Kentucky and Puerto Rico, plus the 8/80 rule for hospitals. - Also Canada (Ontario, Québec, B.C., Alberta), the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, South Africa and the UAE. - Tipped minimum wage done right: overtime on the full minimum, and a warning when wages plus tips fall short of it. - Night, weekend and holiday differentials, meal deductions, time-clock rounding and California's split-shift premium. - Weekly, biweekly, semimonthly or monthly pay periods, with your payday. - Type in your real pay stub and see the difference. What if they say I never worked it? - Every shift remembers when it was created and each time it was edited. - CSV and PDF exports, or a claim pack with your employer's details, weekly totals, notes, edit history and your photos. - A monthly tips report for your employer (Form 4070) and your total so far this year. When do I make the most? - Your best days of the week, your real hourly rate with tips, this month against last month, and your goals. Who sees my shifts? Only you. You don't sign up, nothing is tracked and there are no ads. Shifts live on your phone, with an optional copy in your own iCloud so they come back on a new phone. Face ID lock and a backup file are included. What's free and what's Pro? One job is free for good. Tipstack Pro adds the Pay tab, state and country rules, more than one job, tip-out rules, photos and exports. You can try all of Pro free for 7 days before deciding. Ways to get Pro - Tipstack 7-day Trial: free, lasts 7 days and ends on its own; it never renews. - Tipstack Pro (lifetime): $14.99, paid once, not a subscription. Works with Family Sharing. - Tipstack Pro Monthly: $2.99 a month, auto-renewable subscription. The monthly plan is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm. It renews every month unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current month ends; the renewal is charged within those last 24 hours. Turn it off any time under Subscriptions in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://orejita.com/tipstack/privacidad.html Tipstack speaks English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. It is not legal or tax advice: the figures are estimates from the rules you pick, so check them against your pay stub and your local labor office.

Screenshots

TipKeep4 screens
Tipstack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tipstack at none against TipKeep's shown. Tipstack also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). TipKeep's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and chart position (#185 vs unranked). On price 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. TipKeep sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Tipstack sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TipKeep ships an update weekly, Tipstack every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
TipKeep versus Tipstack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipKeepTipstack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (30 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank#185 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDENYS IVASECHKORAFAEL ALBERTO VASQUEZ DIAZ

In-app purchases

3 purchases

TipKeep

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

Tipstack

Subscriptions1
  • Tipstack Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
One-time2
  • 7-day Pro trialFree
  • Tipstack Pro (lifetime)$14.99

Questions

Is TipKeep free?
TipKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tipstack free?
Tipstack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TipKeep or Tipstack have ads?
TipKeep shows ads; Tipstack does not.
Which is updated more often, TipKeep or Tipstack?
TipKeep ships an update weekly, and Tipstack every 2 weeks. Most recently, TipKeep was updated on October 5, 2026 and Tipstack on October 14, 2026.

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