Tip Time vs SimpleTip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tip Time
Quickly calculate and split tips with ease. This straightforward utility app simplifies bill splitting for various dining scenarios.
- Quick tip calculation
- Easy bill splitting
- User-friendly interface
- Fast processing
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It's time for the tip! Here is a simple app that will crunch those numbers with ease. It's quick.... It's easy... and... It will split that tip in no time!
SimpleTip
Easily calculate tips and split bills with this intuitive app. Features one-handed use, customizable tip percentages, and various rounding options. Personalize your experience with different themes and dark mode.
- One-handed operation
- Tip splitting
- Customizable tip percentages
- Multiple rounding modes
- Dark mode and color themes
- Landscape and portrait support
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SimpleTip makes calculating tip's fast, easy, and accurate. With its clean intuitive design, everything is easily entered from a single screen. - The position of controls are especially designed to make it easy to use one-handed. - Tip splitting functionality makes finding per-person tips a breeze. - Different rounding modes let you choose how your tip is calculated. - Customize the preset star rating percentages to match what you think is fair. - Different color themes and a dark mode, allow you to personalize the look and feel. - Works in both landscape and portrait orientations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tip Time at Free against SimpleTip's $0.99. Tip Time also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). SimpleTip's advantage is ratings volume (144 vs 8) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). 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
Tip Time is free to download; SimpleTip costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Tip Time against 4.8 for SimpleTip. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleTip has 144 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Tip Time's written reviews are positive against 75% of SimpleTip's.
Tip Time ships an update every 2 months, SimpleTip every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tip Time | SimpleTip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (8 ratings) — better | 4.8 (144 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 144 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Andrew Pujol | Patrick Cate |
Customer experience
Tip Time
SimpleTip
In-app purchases
Tip Time
No in-app purchases
SimpleTip
No in-app purchases
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