Comparison

Tip Calculator vs Calculator Plus

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

Head to head
About

Tip Calculator

Easily calculate the correct tip amount for your bills, even with complex taxes and multiple people splitting the cost. This tool simplifies tipping to ensure you always leave the right amount, saving you hassle and potential financial missteps.

Highlights
  • Calculate service-based tipping
  • Exclude sales taxes from tip calculation
  • Split bills up to 100 ways
  • Per-person billing and tipping
  • Currency switching
  • Simple tap and swipe interface
  • Social media sharing
Features
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Hmmm so I have a bill of $259.65 including tax, so how much should I tip? Tipping used to be simple. Now with a truck load of taxes, service charges, per person splitting and what not, a simple restaurant etiquette has turned into a full on battle of the brains. Luckily, there’s Tap Tip to save you the hassle of tipping wrong. And even calculating it. Within seconds you can get the perfect amount of tipping needed to keep that waiter smiling, your reputation intact and your finances up and running. Imagine tipping incorrectly at every meal every time you eat out. Sounds simple but the damage builds up over time to be something serious. An app like Tap Tip can help you loads. Oh, and it has lots of other nice features too! • You can calculate service based tipping • You can exclude sales taxes from tipping • Up to 100 person split of the bill ( VERY convenient) with per person billing and tipping • Switch the currency with ease! • Just a simple tap and swipe action to operate • Oh and if you want, you can even share it on social media like Facebook, twitter etc.

About

Calculator Plus

This app simplifies everyday math with a clean interface and a history of all your calculations. Easily handle basic operations, percentages, and more, with the ability to review past entries for quick reference. It's designed for efficient problem-solving on the go.

Highlights
  • Clear, readable calculation display
  • Basic arithmetic and percentages
  • Backspace for error correction
  • Memory buttons and calculation history
  • Light and dark themes
  • Advanced functions (squaring, square root, pi)
Features
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The world’s favorite calculator app, with more than 40 million downloads worldwide. The perfect day-to-day calculator for both iPhone and iPad, Calculator Plus is easy to use and beautifully designed to be your daily calculator. Calculator Plus makes math simple and fun with crisp HD and a layout for fast and easy calculations. Solve all of your everyday calculations, from simple addition to fractions and multiplication. Calculator Plus remembers everything you calculate, and lets you review your history and past calculations anytime, making it perfect for shopping, doing homework and schoolwork, balancing checkbooks, making tips, taking notes, calculating taxes, and everyday math problems you’re sure to encounter. Calculator Plus is also an exceptional school calculator. Calculator Plus is the perfect calculator for teachers, students, and working professionals. If you quit the calculator and go do something else, it's all still there whenever you come back. You'll never need to type the same calculation twice again making it the perfect math calculator to take the best notes and solve any problem. FEATURES: - Calculations in clear, elegant type that's easy to read - Perform all the basic calculations you could ever need including addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, and percentages - Use backspace anytime to correct a simple mistake, instead of starting over - Keep track of your results using the memory buttons and history screen - Express yourself with light and dark themes - For more complicated and advanced problems, use options like squaring, square root, percent and the pi button Try out Calculator Plus – the simplest, strongest equation solver around! From everyday addition and subtraction to complex percent and fraction problems, you can solve and track it all for free. Download Calculator Plus for your iPhone or iPad and finally put that handheld calculator to rest. This version of Calculator Plus is ad-supported. An ad-free version is also available. Calculator Plus © 2022 Digitalchemy, LLC

Screenshots

Tip Calculator4 screens
Calculator Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Calculator Plus at every 5 weeks against Tip Calculator's every 6 months. Calculator Plus also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 75%) and ratings volume (694 vs 27). Tip Calculator's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Tip Calculator costs $4.99 and Calculator Plus $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tip Calculator against 4.9 for Calculator Plus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calculator Plus has 694 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Tip Calculator's written reviews are positive against 94% of Calculator Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tip Calculator ships an update every 6 months, Calculator Plus every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tip Calculator versus Calculator Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTip CalculatorCalculator Plus
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.9 (27 ratings)4.9 (694 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews93.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings27694 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTardent Apps Inc.DigitAlchemy LLC

Customer experience

Tip Calculator

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Calculator Plus

All ratings694 ratings
Positive98.6%
Neutral0.6%
Negative0.9%
Written reviews322 reviews
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.4%

Bugs and requests

Tip Calculator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Calculator Plus

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Clicking sound not removable
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Algebraic order of operations
  • Customizable color schemes

In-app purchases

None

Tip Calculator

No in-app purchases

None

Calculator Plus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tip Calculator free?
Tip Calculator costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calculator Plus free?
Calculator Plus costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tip Calculator or Calculator Plus?
Tip Calculator and Calculator Plus are both rated 4.9 out of 5 on the App Store, from 27 and 694 ratings respectively.
Do Tip Calculator or Calculator Plus have ads?
Neither Tip Calculator nor Calculator Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tip Calculator or Calculator Plus?
Tip Calculator ships an update every 6 months, and Calculator Plus every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tip Calculator was updated on September 12, 2026 and Calculator Plus on September 30, 2026.

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