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 is a free tip tracker for servers, bartenders, hosts and food runners. Keep your tips, hours, paychecks and goals together across every restaurant job you work, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. No ads. No account. • Add cash tips, card tips, tip-out and hours in a few taps. • Log tips or start a shift timer from your Apple Watch. • 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. ASK SIRI • “Log a shift in Tip’d” — Siri asks for your tips and hours and reads the shift back before it saves. • “How much did I make this week in Tip’d” or “What is my hourly pay in Tip’d” — answered from your shifts. • Use Siri and Shortcuts to check goals, add savings and open the tools you need. TIP’D, ELEGANTLY UNFOLDED Made for iPhone Duo. Open your phone and Tip’d unfolds with it, giving your shifts, earnings and goals room to breathe. • See your calendar and shift details side by side. • Enjoy layouts made for the wider screen, from stats and goals to settings and forms. • Fold it closed and return to the familiar iPhone layout. HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Tip’d Widget Pack includes six 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. • Lock Screen rings fill toward your week, month or year target. Each Home Screen widget can have its own theme and light or dark appearance, separate from the app. ALREADY HAVE A SHIFT HISTORY? • Switching tip apps? Export your history; Tip’d reads what it can and asks about the rest. • Import CSV, TSV, text and Excel files, photos, screenshots, PDFs and pasted notes. • Review one summary before saving, and change how Tip’d read it if needed. • Undo an import if you need to. Import files are read on your device, with on-device Apple Intelligence helping when available. You can import without it too. PICK YOUR COLORS • Choose Fern, Ocean, Ember, Burgundy or Graphite. • Use light or dark mode, with matching job and goal colors. • Available in 27 languages. SEE WHICH SHIFTS PAY THE 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. • Attach a stub photo or PDF to a new paycheck and Tip’d fills in what it can read, for you to check and save. • Check your paycheck totals for the year. • Export a yearly summary as a PDF or spreadsheet. YOUR DATA • Your records stay on your devices and sync through your private iCloud when enabled. • We don’t collect your shift data, and there are no ads or tracking. I made Tip’d for my wife, who works in restaurants, and for everyone juggling shifts, tips and more than one job. 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 rating: TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers at 5.0 against Tip'd's 4.8. Tip'd's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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.
TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tip'd has 11 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 every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TipBud Tip Tracker for Servers | Tip'd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 58 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$19.99
Tip'd
- Tip’d Widget Pack$0.991 Month
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