OpenTable for Restaurants vs Tipsee Elite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenTable for Restaurants
This app helps restaurants manage reservations, optimize operations, and enhance guest experiences. It allows for remote access to key metrics, reservation editing, and marketing campaign initiation. The iPad version offers comprehensive front-of-house and shift planning tools.
- Fill more seats
- Deliver remarkable hospitality
- Optimize operations
- Check cover trends and stats
- Make and edit reservations
- Start marketing campaigns
- Front-of-house guest and table management
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The OpenTable app is a robust restaurant management and marketing solution that helps fill more seats, deliver remarkable hospitality, and optimize operations. It is available for download for all OpenTable customers. From an iPhone, OpenTable customers can stay connected to their restaurant from anywhere. The Owner app on iPhone lets you check cover trends and stats, make and edit reservations, start a marketing campaign, receive VIP push notifications, and more. Additionally, OpenTable customers should use the iPad app for cloud-based front-of-house guest and table management, shift planning, and more. Note: This app is for restaurants using OpenTable. If you want to book a reservation, please download the OpenTable diner app or go to https://www.opentable.com/mobile.
Tipsee Elite
This app helps service industry professionals track their daily tips with a simple interface. It offers detailed reports and graphs to visualize earnings throughout the year, including cash and credit card tips. An upgrade option is available for more advanced features.
- Daily tip tracking
- Extensive reports with graphs
- Supports cash and credit card tips
- Fresh layout and design
- Simple and easy to learn
- TipOut support
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TipSee Elite is the latest Tip Tracking app available in the App Store and provides a fresh layout and design. Used by people in the service industry when tips are the major source of income. TipSee Elite is based the TipSee the leader is Tip Tracking Apps and one of the first Apps design for waiters, bartenders and others who depend on tips. Tipsee Elite should really be called Tipsee lite, because it was designed to be simple to use and easy to learn. TipSee Elite tracks your tips daily, and provide extensive reports with graphs for a quick glance at all you tips for the year. TipSee Elite has many of same features as Tipsee, draws upon the long history and experience of Tipsee. All this is provide free with only banner ads. TipSee has a more advance calendar for better viewing of tipsees throughout the month. Users can easily upgrade to Tipsee if for example you want to track multiple jobs at the same time. For a more complete list of Tipsee capabilities just select TipSee in the App Store. TipSee Elite even supports TipOut and Tips from other then cash sources, like credit cards.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OpenTable for Restaurants at 4.0 against Tipsee Elite's 2.4. OpenTable for Restaurants also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). Tipsee Elite's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 24%) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OpenTable for Restaurants holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OpenTable for Restaurants has 431 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 24% of OpenTable for Restaurants's written reviews are positive against 40% of Tipsee Elite's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
OpenTable for Restaurants ships an update weekly, Tipsee Elite every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OpenTable for Restaurants | Tipsee Elite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (431 ratings) — better | 2.4 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.2% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 431 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OpenTable, Inc. | Web Coast Apps |
Customer experience
OpenTable for Restaurants
Tipsee Elite
Bugs and requests
OpenTable for Restaurants
Reported bugs
5 issues- Reservations not syncing across devices
- Guest info not displaying correctly
- Inability to update reservation details
- Crashing and freezing issues
- Compatibility problems with newer devices
Requested features
6 requests- Floor plan view on mobile
- Ability to customize tags/courses
- Waitlist functionality improvements
- More control over reservations on mobile
- Better guest management tools
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- Ability to respond to reviews in-app
Tipsee Elite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
OpenTable for Restaurants
No in-app purchases
Tipsee Elite
No in-app purchases
