Gratuity | Tip Calculator vs Tip Screen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gratuity | Tip Calculator
Effortlessly calculate tips, split bills with friends, and scan receipts to get accurate totals. This app simplifies everyday tipping scenarios at restaurants, bars, and for various services, ensuring you never have to guess again.
- Instant tip calculation
- Split bills across groups
- Tip before tax
- Round totals
- Scan receipt totals
- Custom tip presets
- Multiple currency options
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Tip Calculator by Gratuity helps you calculate tips instantly, split bills, and scan receipts—no guesswork required. Designed for real-world use at restaurants, bars, delivery, salons, and more, Gratuity makes tipping fast, accurate, and effortless. --- Calculate the right tip in seconds, split bills across any group, and scan receipt totals with your camera. - Calculate tips instantly - Split bills across groups - Tip before tax when needed - Round totals for cleaner payments - Scan receipt totals automatically --- FEATURES --- SMART TIP CALCULATOR - Instant tip, total, and per-person calculations - Clear, real-time updates BILL SPLITTING - Split bills evenly across any group - Fast and simple for shared payments TAX-AWARE TIPPING - Tip before tax for more accurate results ROUNDING CONTROLS - Round tips or totals for easier payments RECEIPT SCANNER - Scan receipts and extract totals automatically CUSTOM PRESETS - Save tip percentages by service (restaurant, bar, delivery, salon, spa) CUSTOMIZATION - Multiple currency options - Choice of phone-style or calculator-style numpad iCLOUD SYNC (PREMIUM) - Sync settings and presets across devices --- PRO --- Unlock advanced tools with a one-time purchase. Gratuity Pro includes all premium features and future updates in one unlock. --- Clean, fast, and built for everyday use. No ads in the experience. Featured by The Wall Street Journal, Lifehacker, Apppicker, and iMore!
Tip Screen
This app allows users to simulate giving and receiving tips for everyday actions. It provides a fun and easy way to explore the concept of tipping for small gestures like helping out or saying hello.
- Simulate tip collection
- Tip for everyday actions
- Explore giving thanks
- Fun tipping experience
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With Tip Screen, tipping is easy and fun. This app lets you simulate collecting tips for anything, like taking out the trash, opening a door, or just saying hello. It's a simple way to explore giving thanks with tips in everyday moments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Gratuity | Tip Calculator at every 4 days against Tip Screen's every 10 days. Tip Screen's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 75%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Gratuity | Tip Calculator sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Tip Screen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Gratuity | Tip Calculator against 4.6 for Tip Screen. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 208 and 516 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Gratuity | Tip Calculator's written reviews are positive against 85% of Tip Screen's.
Gratuity | Tip Calculator ships an update every 4 days, Tip Screen every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gratuity | Tip Calculator | Tip Screen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (208 ratings) | 4.6 (516 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.3% of reviews | 85.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 208 | 516 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carl Banks | Justin Ho |
Customer experience
Gratuity | Tip Calculator
Tip Screen
User reviews
Gratuity | Tip Calculator
From 208 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 🚀 Fast and quick calculations
- 💡 Effortless bill splitting
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Clean design
Room to improve
- 🐛 Calculation bugs
- 🐛 Inconsistent results
- 🐛 No pre-tax calculation option
- 🐛 Small font and bad contrast
- 🐛 Round up total option doesn't work
Tip Screen
From 516 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💖 Fun and entertaining
- 👍 Great for pranks and messing with friends/family
- 🤩 Hilarious and realistic
- 🎉 Awesome and novel app idea
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs or issues with certain features
- ⚠️ Needs more customization options
Bugs and requests
Gratuity | Tip Calculator
Reported bugs
13 issues- White screen after update
- Doesn't load after update
- Can't input price amount
- No decimal point for tax input
- App doesn't fill screen on large displays
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- Calculation errors
- Inconsistent calculations
- Save Settings & Reset Settings buttons too low
- Number pad is huge
- Round up total option doesn't work
- App doesn't add bill and gratuity correctly
- Doesn't consider tax
- Rate your service button needs to be pressed twice
Requested features
14 requests- Add tax function
- Add pre-tax calculation option
- Allow tip on pre-tax amount
- Option to round total amount
- Default establishment type
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- Choice of background colors
- Adjustable font size
- Fix calculation bugs
- Support for smaller screens
- Add decimal point for tax input
- Dark mode option
- Ability to round tip to a dollar amount
- Tip on/off with tax option
- Faster access to rounding functions
Tip Screen
Reported bugs
3 issues- Signature box not working on iPad
- Unable to access the tip screen
- Screen not matching the preview
Requested features
4 requests- Add custom tip percentages
- Include a back button or confirmation screen
- Implement a hidden stats page
- Add a speaker feature for pre-recorded audio
In-app purchases
Gratuity | Tip Calculator
- Keyboard Layout$0.99
- Tax Options$1.99
- Rounding Options$1.99
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- Venue Presets$1.99
- Currency Options$1.99
- Gratuity Pro$9.99
Tip Screen
- Tip to Upgrade$2.99
Questions
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