Tip’d vs. TipTracker: An Honest Comparison

Published November 2, 2026

Full disclosure: we make Tip’d. Several apps have “Tip Tracker” in their names, so to be clear, this guide is about TipTracker - track your income, from Pace Apps Inc. in Canada, called Tip Tracker on Google Play and in its own description. It has been on the App Store since October 2016 and has 9,466 U.S. ratings averaging 4.8. We'll make our case, but every fact below comes from each app's own App Store page, in-app purchases, version history and privacy label, plus TipTracker's Google Play page, its developer's website and the developer's replies to reviews, all checked on November 2, 2026, so you can check them yourself. We didn't buy TipTracker's add-ons or test the app for this guide, so its features are as Pace Apps describes them. And where TipTracker is better, we say so.

Tip’d vs. TipTracker at a glance

Where Tip’d comes out ahead

What “free” covers

TipTracker is free to download, and its free version covers the basics for one job: your hours, your hourly wage, cash and credit tips, notes, and graphs by week, month and year. In a 2025 reply to a Google Play review, its developer wrote, “You can log information for one job completely free.”

Past that, each extra is a separate purchase. Its App Store page lists five: Add a Job, Create an Account (its optional cloud account), Remove Ads, Export Data and Add a Custom Category. In an October 2026 reply, the developer said removing ads is a one-time purchase and that “there is currently not a single ‘Pro’ version or similar that unlocks the entire app.”

In Tip’d, every job and position, tip-outs, stats, goals, paychecks, import, export and the iCloud backup are free. The only purchase is the optional Widget Pack, a monthly subscription for its Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets.

Two jobs, positions and tip-outs

If you work two jobs, or tip out the bar or the bussers, this is the biggest difference. Tip’d lets you add as many jobs as you need for free, each with its own color, positions and hourly pay. Every shift has a tip-out field: you type the amount you tipped out, and Tip’d takes it off your tips.

In TipTracker, a second job is a paid add-on. Its pages talk about jobs, not positions inside a job, and none of them lists a tip-out field. Users have asked for one. A bartender wrote in an App Store review in November 2023, “I wish there were a spot for tipshare,” and said they'd been using the credit tips field for it instead. The closest thing on its pages is custom categories: with the paid cloud account, each one can be added to your income, subtracted from it or tracked separately, and its App Store page lists Add a Custom Category as another in-app purchase.

A free backup in your own iCloud

Neither app needs an account. Tip’d saves your shifts on your iPhone and, if you use iCloud, in the private part of your own iCloud account, so a new phone on the same Apple Account gets them back, for free.

TipTracker keeps your entries on your phone unless you buy its cloud account, which its developer's replies call a one-time fee, and exporting is a paid add-on too. Its developer told an Android user in 2023 that without the account, “if you lose/damage your phone, it won't be recoverable.”

No ads

TipTracker's App Store and Google Play pages both say it contains ads. Its developer has said the ads are “necessary to help pay for ongoing costs,” and its iPhone notes from early 2026 say it reduced some ads for people with a cloud account. Tip’d has no ads.

A shorter privacy label

Tip’d's App Store privacy label says “Data Not Collected.” It has no analytics, no crash reporting and no advertising identifiers.

TipTracker's label lists Data Used to Track You across other companies' apps and websites: coarse location, a device ID, product interaction, advertising data and performance data. The same data shows under Data Linked to You, for third-party advertising, and crash data shows under Data Not Linked to You, for third-party advertising and analytics. Its Google Play data safety section says it may share approximate location, device IDs, app interactions and crash and diagnostic data with other companies for analytics and advertising, and that it may collect an email address and user IDs, both optional. Neither lists your tip amounts or other financial info.

Your history in and out

Tip’d imports in the app: Excel (.xlsx), CSV and text files, photos, screenshots, PDFs and pasted notes, read on your phone, with one summary to check before anything is saved. It exports a spreadsheet or a year-summary PDF, one year at a time, for free.

TipTracker's website tells people coming from another app to “email us for information about how to import your data.” On Google Play, its developer has said a file you export from TipTracker “can be re-uploaded in the app.” Its export is a CSV file, and exporting is a paid add-on.

Goals, paychecks and sales

Tip’d has earning targets for the week, month and year that fill as you log shifts, savings goals you fill by hand, paychecks with a stub photo it can read on your phone, and sales with your tip percentage, all free. TipTracker's pages don't mention goals, paychecks or sales.

Ten languages, Siri and iPhone Duo

Tip’d is in ten languages, including Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese and Arabic; TipTracker's App Store page lists English. Tip’d also works with Siri (“Log a shift in Tip’d”), has Lock Screen rings and Home Screen widgets in its optional Widget Pack, has layouts made for iPhone Duo, and lists VoiceOver, Voice Control and larger text on its App Store page. TipTracker's App Store page doesn't list any accessibility features yet, and its pages don't mention Siri or widgets.

Where TipTracker comes out ahead

• Ten years, and a lot of happy users. TipTracker has been on the App Store since October 2016, and 8,270 of its 9,466 U.S. ratings are five stars. Its Google Play page shows 50,000+ downloads. Tip’d came out in October 2026, with a 4.8 from 10 ratings so far.
• Quick and simple. Many of its reviewers say so. One App Store reviewer wrote in 2021 that logging a shift's hours, pay and tips “literally only takes about 30 seconds,” another in 2019 called it “streamlined and simple to use,” and a third wrote in 2024, “I love the simplicity.” If you want hours, tips and a few graphs for one job, it does that for free.
• Android, and your data on another phone. TipTracker runs on iPhone and Android. With its paid cloud account, your data is stored in its cloud, and its notes say you can “access your information from any device.” Tip’d is iPhone only for now. Android and iPad versions of Tip’d are in the works; until they're out, TipTracker is the better choice on Android.
• Custom categories. On iPhone, with the cloud account and the custom-category purchase, you can track anything else you like, added to your income, subtracted from it or kept apart. Its Android pages don't mention them. Tip’d has set fields: cash and card tips, tip-out, hours, sales and notes.
• Comparisons between periods. You can view any date range you pick, and on iPhone, with the cloud account, TipTracker shows the percent change from the period before, such as this month against last month, or compares two date ranges you choose, such as December 1 to 10 in two different years. Its Android pages don't mention comparisons. Tip’d shows your week, month and year, compares your last few shifts with the ones before, and gives your earnings for any dates you pick through Siri and Shortcuts, but it doesn't put two periods side by side.
• Older iPhones. TipTracker needs iOS 16 or later. Tip’d needs iOS 17 or later.
• Start and end times. Google Play reviewers in 2021 and 2024 say you can enter the times you came in and left, and the 2021 one says its Advanced entry for that is in the free app. In Tip’d you enter the hours for now; start and end times are in the works.

The full comparison

TipTracker's developer says you can log one job for free, and its website lists hourly wage, cash tips, credit tips and notes, so we've marked those “Free.” Where its pages don't mention a feature, we've written “Not listed.”

Which one should you use?

• You work two jobs, or tip out, and don't want to pay: Tip’d.
• You don't want ads or tracking, and want a free backup: Tip’d.
• You're moving your shifts over from another app or a spreadsheet: Tip’d.
• You're on Android: TipTracker.
• You track one job, want it quick and simple, and don't mind ads: TipTracker.
• You want custom categories or comparisons between periods: TipTracker on iPhone, with its paid cloud account.

Already have shifts in TipTracker? You don't have to choose blind. Export them from TipTracker's Settings menu as a CSV file (exporting is a paid add-on there) and open the file in Tip’d's import. We haven't tested Tip’d with a TipTracker file, so we can't promise a clean read. Tip’d reads what it can, asks about anything it can't place, and shows you what it found before saving. Tip’d also reads screenshots, but we haven't tried it on TipTracker's screens either. Anything it can't use stays in TipTracker, which stays as it was, so you can try both side by side.

Questions people ask

Is TipTracker free?

It's free to download, and you can log one job for free, with ads. Another job, the cloud account, removing ads, exporting your data and custom categories are separate paid add-ons, and its developer says there's no single “Pro” version that unlocks everything.

Does TipTracker have ads?

Yes. Its App Store and Google Play pages both say it contains ads. Removing them is a separate one-time purchase, apart from its other add-ons. Tip’d has no ads.

Does TipTracker need an account?

No. Its cloud account is optional, and it's a paid add-on that backs up your entries and lets you log in on another phone. Without it, your entries stay on your phone. Tip’d needs no account and backs up to your own iCloud for free.

Can TipTracker track tip-outs?

Its pages don't list a tip-out field, and some users have asked for one in reviews. With the paid cloud account, you can add a custom category, another paid add-on, that's subtracted from your income. Tip’d has a tip-out field on every shift, for free: you type the amount, not a percentage.

Can I move my TipTracker history to Tip’d?

You can try. Export a CSV file from TipTracker's Settings menu, which is a paid add-on there, and open it in Tip’d's import. We haven't tested a TipTracker file, so check what Tip’d found before you save. Tip’d can keep any dates, hours, tips, wages, jobs and notes it finds in the file.

Is Tip’d on Android?

Not yet, but Android and iPad versions are in the works. TipTracker is on Android today.

Which is better for servers, Tip’d or TipTracker?

On iPhone we'd pick Tip’d, and we make it: two jobs, positions, tip-outs, goals, export and an iCloud backup are all free, with no ads. On Android, or if you track one job and like how quick TipTracker is, it's a good fit with ten years behind it.

Sources

• TipTracker on the App Store (its description, in-app purchases, version history, reviews and privacy label) and on Google Play (its listing, data safety section, reviews and the developer's replies)
• Pace Apps' Tip Tracker pages: the home page and its update notes for iPhone and Android
• Tip’d on the App Store and Tip’d's privacy policy
• The Best Tip Tracker Apps for Servers in 2026, Ranked, Tip’d vs. ServerLife, Tip’d vs. Just The Tips and Tip’d vs. Server44