Comparison

TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers vs PayJar

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

Head to head
About

TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers

Easily track your hourly earnings by logging tips, wages, and tip-outs. This app calculates your true hourly rate and provides historical data for multiple jobs. Securely back up your data with private iCloud sync and export it anytime.

Highlights
  • Ten-second shift entry
  • True hourly rate calculation
  • Customizable tip-out rules
  • Monthly calendar breakdown
  • Home screen widget
  • CSV export
  • Private iCloud sync
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TipBud is the tip tracker for servers and bartenders: log a shift in ten seconds, see your true hourly rate, and keep a history that syncs between your iPhone and iPad with no account. TipBud logs a shift in about ten seconds and shows your true hourly rate: wages + tips − tip-outs. And your history survives anything — private iCloud backup, CSV export, no account, no ads. Built for servers, bartenders, baristas, and anyone who works for tips. WHY TIPPED WORKERS SWITCH TO TIPBUD • Ten-second shift entry that learns your patterns — it fills in your usual Saturday, you just fix the numbers • True hourly rate on every shift and every week (wage + tips − tip-outs ÷ hours) • Tip-out rules per job — busser 2%, bar 1.5%? Set it once, it's computed every shift • Your month on a calendar, night by night, with a tap-any-day breakdown • Home screen that knows you: last night's take-home, week trend, month pace, and what your best weekday actually pays • Weekly recap on YOUR pay week, not the calendar's • Home-screen widget — last shift and your week, at a glance • Cash vs card split, day-of-week averages, personal bests • Multiple jobs with separate wages — all included, nothing extra to buy • New U.S. federal tip deduction (2025–2028): keep the daily tip log the IRS expects, export it any time • CSV export, always — your tips are your data • Switching apps? Import your history from a CSV in minutes • Private iCloud sync + backup files — no account, no login, nothing to lose • Face ID app lock — your money stays your business • Share a night as a clean card — with a $-hidden mode that shows the shape, never the dollars • Optional reminders computed from your own history, off by default • Light, dark, or system appearance — and built to respect your text-size settings ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER Your first 14 shifts include every feature, nothing held back. After that, a single one-time unlock keeps TipBud yours for good — no subscription, no ads, ever. And your history stays viewable and exportable even if you never buy. No account. No tracking. Just your tips, added up honestly.

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

TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers4 screens
PayJar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PayJar at weekly against TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers's fortnightly. PayJar also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PayJar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers against 5.0 for PayJar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers ships an update fortnightly, PayJar weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers versus PayJar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipBud Tip Tracker for ServersPayJar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShakti ThakranMaurizzio Penalba

Customer experience

TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 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

1 purchases

TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers

One-time1
  • TipBud Lifetime$19.99
1 purchases

PayJar

One-time1
  • PayJar Pro$9.99

Questions

Is TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers free?
TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PayJar free?
PayJar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers or PayJar?
TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers and PayJar are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers or PayJar have ads?
Neither TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers nor PayJar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers or PayJar?
TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers ships an update fortnightly, and PayJar weekly. Most recently, TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers was updated on October 31, 2026 and PayJar on October 31, 2026.

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