TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers vs Tip'd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Tip'd
Easily track tips, hours, and paychecks across multiple jobs. Features home screen widgets for quick logging and progress tracking. Set savings goals and manage pay stubs with export options.
- Log cash and card tips, tip-out, and hours
- Track earnings by job and position
- Home screen widgets for quick logging
- Set and track savings goals
- Record and attach pay stubs
- Import historical shift data
- Export yearly summaries as PDF/spreadsheet
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Keeping track of your tips shouldn’t be another shift. Tip’d keeps your tips, hours, paychecks and goals together across every restaurant job you work. CLOCK OUT. LOG IT. DONE. • Add cash tips, card tips, tip-out and hours in a few taps. • Choose the job, position and shift you worked. • Tip’d adds your hourly wages and subtracts tip-out to calculate your total and hourly pay. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Tip’d Widget Pack includes five widgets: • Log a Shift opens a new shift with your job selected. • Goal Jar shows your progress toward a goal. • This Week shows how your week is adding up. • Month at a Glance puts your daily earnings on a calendar. • Year at a Glance shows your earnings across the year. Each widget can have its own theme and light or dark appearance, separate from the app. PICK YOUR COLORS • Choose Fern, Graphite, Ocean, Sandstone, Burgundy or Tangerine. • Use light or dark mode, with coordinating colors for your jobs and goal jars. • Tip’d is available in English and Spanish. SEE WHICH SHIFTS PAY BEST • Check your week and month day by day, with a calendar colored by job. • See your average hourly pay with tips, weekly and monthly averages, and best and slowest days. • Compare positions, shifts and days of the week. Find out how Friday bartending stacks up against Sunday brunch. • Follow your earnings over time with shift charts and weekly totals. KEEP YOUR JOBS STRAIGHT • Give each job its own color and its own positions. • Set the hourly rate for each position. • Filter your numbers by job or look at everything together. SAVE FOR SOMETHING • Create a goal for rent, a trip or whatever you’re putting money aside for. • Add amounts to its jar as you save. Nothing goes in automatically. • See how much you’ve set aside and what’s left from this week’s earnings. KEEP THE PAPERWORK TOGETHER • Record paychecks and attach photos of your pay stubs. • Check your paycheck totals for the year. • Export a yearly summary as a PDF or spreadsheet. ALREADY HAVE A SHIFT HISTORY? • Bring it over from a CSV, TSV or Excel spreadsheet. • Review the details before saving. • Undo an import if you need to. Import files are processed on your phone. YOUR DATA • Your records are saved on your iPhone and sync through your private iCloud when enabled. • There’s no Tip’d account to create. • We don’t collect your shift data, and there are no ads or tracking. Made for servers, bartenders, hosts and food runners by someone who is married to one. Widget Pack is an optional monthly auto-renewing subscription. Shift logging, stats, trends, goals, paychecks and imports stay free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://usetipd.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tip'd at daily against TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers's fortnightly. Tip'd also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tip'd sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers against 5.0 for Tip'd. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tip'd has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers ships an update fortnightly, Tip'd daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers | Tip'd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shakti Thakran | JOSEPH WEST |
Customer experience
TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers
Tip'd
In-app purchases
TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers
- TipBud Lifetime$14.99
Tip'd
- Tip’d Widget Pack$0.991 Month
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