Comparison

PayJar vs Tip'd

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

Head to head
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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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. No ads. No account. 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. 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 phone, 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 English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Filipino, French, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Vietnamese. 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. • 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 are saved on your iPhone 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/

Screenshots

PayJar4 screens
Tip'd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PayJar at 5.0 against Tip'd's 4.8. Tip'd's advantage is ratings volume (10 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PayJar 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PayJar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tip'd has 10 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PayJar ships an update weekly, Tip'd every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PayJar versus Tip'd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPayJarTip'd
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings110 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaurizzio PenalbaJoseph West

Customer experience

PayJar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tip'd

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PayJar

One-time1
  • PayJar Pro$9.99
1 purchases

Tip'd

Subscriptions1
  • Tip’d Widget Pack$0.991 Month

Questions

Is PayJar free?
PayJar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tip'd free?
Tip'd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PayJar or Tip'd?
PayJar is rated higher. PayJar averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Tip'd averages 4.8 from 10 ratings.
Do PayJar or Tip'd have ads?
Neither PayJar nor Tip'd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PayJar or Tip'd?
PayJar ships an update weekly, and Tip'd every 5 days. Most recently, PayJar was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tip'd on October 31, 2026.

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