Privacy Policy

Effective November 3, 2026

What Tip'd stores, and where

Everything you enter is saved on your iPhone. When iCloud is enabled, it also syncs through the private part of your iCloud account to your other devices signed in to the same Apple Account:

• Your jobs, positions and hourly pay
• Your shifts: dates, hours, tips, tip-outs, and any sales or notes you add
• Your goals and the money you add to them or take out
• Your week, month and year earning targets
• Your paychecks, including any pay stub photos you attach
• A few settings, such as the day your week starts

Tip'd works the same way on an iPad: what this policy says about your iPhone is true of your iPad too.

When iCloud is enabled, this data syncs with Apple's iCloud (CloudKit) in your private database. Only you can access it. We, the makers of Tip'd, have no way to read it, and it never passes through a server of ours. Apple's handling of iCloud data is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.

If you use Tip'd without iCloud, your data stays only on your iPhone, in the summary it sends to your own Apple Watch if you use one (see Apple Watch), and in your iPhone backups, if you make them. With iCloud on or off, Tip'd's data on your iPhone is included when you back up your iPhone to iCloud or to a computer, like your other apps' data.

When you import shifts from a spreadsheet or a text file (or a PDF, photos or screenshots, or text you paste), Tip'd reads it on your iPhone. None of it is ever uploaded to us or to an outside processing service. When your iPhone has Apple Intelligence, Tip'd uses it on the phone to help read it. Tip'd doesn't keep the pictures, the PDF or the pasted text; only the shifts you choose to save are kept, and they sync only through your private iCloud, as described above. The list of your recent imports, which lets you undo one, and the column layouts Tip'd remembers for your files stay on that iPhone and don't sync. If a file lists several people, the name you chose as yours stays there too, with the imports that used it.

The Home Screen widgets read a copy of your totals, goals and job names that Tip'd keeps in a storage area shared by the app and its widgets on the same iPhone; the Lock Screen widgets read it too, and it includes your earning targets. That copy is never synced or sent anywhere. Like the rest of Tip'd's data on the phone, it goes into your iPhone backups, if you make them.

When you leave Tip'd, a plain cover with the Tip'd logo goes over its screen first, so the picture your iPhone keeps for the app switcher doesn't show your earnings. It comes off when you come back.

Apple Watch

When Tip'd is on an Apple Watch paired with your iPhone (your Watch may add it on its own when you install Tip'd on your iPhone), your iPhone sends the Watch a summary: your job and position names and hourly pay, what you've made today and this week (and this month or year when you've set a target for it), your earning targets and your goals. Shifts you log or time on the Watch go back to your iPhone the same way and are saved there. If a shift you send looks like one already saved that day, your iPhone sends back that day's shifts for the job, with their position, hours and total, so you can compare. Apple's connection between your iPhone and your own Watch carries all of this; none of it goes to us or to anyone else, and it never passes through a server of ours.

The Watch keeps the latest summary, a shift you're logging or timing, the last one you sent and your iPhone's reply, and the position and hours you last used for each job, so they're there when your iPhone isn't nearby. That copy stays on your Watch and isn't synced through iCloud. Your watch faces and the Smart Stack show your earnings only after you turn on Show earnings on watch face in Tip'd's Apple Watch settings on your iPhone; it's off until you do. Deleting Tip'd from your Watch removes what it kept there.

What Tip'd doesn't do

• No accounts or sign-in
• No analytics, crash reporting or usage tracking
• No advertising and no advertising identifiers
• No third-party code that collects data
• No selling or sharing of your information with anyone
• No location access

Camera and photos

Tip'd uses the camera only when you choose to photograph a pay stub for a paycheck, and opens your photo library only when you choose a stub photo, or photos or screenshots to import shifts from. You can also choose a PDF of a stub, and when you attach a stub to a new paycheck, Tip'd reads the net pay, the pay date and the pay period from it on your iPhone, and which of your jobs it's from (with Apple Intelligence on the phone, when your iPhone has it), to fill in the form, which you check before saving. The stub is never sent to us or anyone else. It's kept with that paycheck on your iPhone and syncs through your private iCloud when enabled (a PDF as a picture of its first page).

Photos and screenshots you choose for importing shifts are read on your iPhone, as described above, and aren't kept.

Siri and Shortcuts

You can ask Siri, or use the Shortcuts app, to log a shift, add money to a goal, or hear what you made or how a goal is going. Tip'd does that on your iPhone: it reads and saves your data there, asks you to confirm before it saves anything, and runs only once your iPhone is unlocked. Nothing about your requests is sent to us. What you say to Siri is handled by Apple, under Apple's Privacy Policy.

Reminders

If you turn on the reminder to log your shifts, Tip'd schedules notifications on your iPhone. They're created and delivered on your device; nothing about them is sent to us.

Exports

When you export a spreadsheet or a summary PDF, Tip'd creates the file on your iPhone and hands it to the share sheet. Where it goes next is your choice. Tip'd deletes its own copy of the file when the share sheet closes.

Purchases

Tip'd is free to download. Tip'd Widget Pack, an optional monthly subscription for the Home Screen widgets and the Lock Screen widgets, is bought, billed and renewed through the App Store. Apple handles the payment and your payment details; Tip'd only checks with the App Store, on your iPhone, whether the subscription is active. We don't receive your name, your payment details or your purchase history. Manage or cancel it in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions.

Ratings

Tip'd may occasionally ask if you'd like to rate it on the App Store. That prompt is shown and handled by Apple; Tip'd doesn't learn whether or how you rated it.

Deleting your data

You can delete any shift, paycheck, goal or entry in the app. When iCloud sync is enabled and your devices are connected, the deletion syncs to your other devices. To remove everything, delete Tip'd from your iPhone, and from your iPad and Apple Watch if you use it on them, and remove its data from iCloud in Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Storage (the steps vary slightly by iOS version). Backups of your iPhone or iPad made before then still include Tip'd's data until they're replaced or deleted.

Website analytics

As of October 8, 2026, this website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure page views and how pages perform, such as how quickly they load. A script running in your browser sends website usage and performance information to Cloudflare, including the page being viewed and the referring page. It does not read your shifts, tips, paychecks or goals from the Tip'd app.

Cloudflare says this analytics script does not use cookies or browser storage, and that it doesn't “fingerprint” people by their IP address, browser or any other data to show analytics. See Cloudflare's explanation of the analytics script, Cloudflare Web Analytics and Cloudflare's privacy policy. These website measurements are separate from the app's data stored on your iPhone and in your private iCloud.

The support form on this website

The support page also uses Cloudflare services to protect the form and deliver your message:

• Opening the support page loads Cloudflare Turnstile, which tells people from bots. Turnstile receives your IP address and signals from your browser, whether or not you send a message.
• If you send a message, your IP address is also used briefly to limit how many messages one location can send in a minute, and Turnstile's check of your answer is made with it.
• The subject, your message and, if you give it, your email address are delivered by Cloudflare Email to the developer's inbox so we can reply. That's the only thing they're used for; they aren't kept in a list or shared with anyone.

All of this is covered by Cloudflare's privacy policy. If you'd rather not use the form or load Turnstile, email us directly and skip the support page.

Videos in our guides

As of October 13, 2026, some guides on our blog show training videos from YouTube. Until you press play, a video is only a picture we made, served from this site, and nothing is sent to YouTube. When you press play, the video loads from YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). From then on YouTube, a Google service, receives your IP address, information about your browser and device and how you watch the video, and it may store information in your browser, under Google's privacy policy. YouTube says a view in this mode isn't used to personalize your YouTube experience or the ads you see on other sites; see YouTube's explanation of privacy-enhanced mode.

Tip'd isn't paid for these videos and receives nothing about who watches them. If you'd rather not load YouTube, don't press play; each video also has a link to watch it on YouTube itself.

Links to other sites

Some guides on our blog link to other sites, such as product pages on Amazon or an IRS publication. Those are ordinary links: Tip'd isn't paid for them and nothing on this site records that you followed one. Once you're on another site, its own privacy policy applies.

Children

Tip'd is meant for adults tracking their own work income. It isn't directed at children and doesn't knowingly collect information from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the date at the top. If a change ever affects how your data is handled, the app will tell you before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@usetipd.com.