Log a shift in 20 seconds. See your true hourly rate, split cash vs card tips, track tip-outs, and export tax-ready records. Private iCloud backup — never lose a shift.
TipBud is the tip tracker for servers and bartenders: log a shift in ten seconds, see your true hourly rate, and keep a history that syncs between your iPhone and iPad with no account.
TipBud logs a shift in about ten seconds and shows your true hourly rate: wages + tips − tip-outs.
And your history survives anything — private iCloud backup, CSV export, no account, no ads.
Built for servers, bartenders, baristas, and anyone who works for tips.
WHY TIPPED WORKERS SWITCH TO TIPBUD
• Ten-second shift entry that learns your patterns — it fills in your usual Saturday, you just fix the numbers
• True hourly rate on every shift and every week (wage + tips − tip-outs ÷ hours)
• Tip-out rules per job — busser 2%, bar 1.5%? Set it once, it's computed every shift
• Your month on a calendar, night by night, with a tap-any-day breakdown
• Home screen that knows you: last night's take-home, week trend, month pace, and what your best weekday actually pays
• Weekly recap on YOUR pay week, not the calendar's
• Home-screen widget — last shift and your week, at a glance
• Cash vs card split, day-of-week averages, personal bests
• Multiple jobs with separate wages — all included, nothing extra to buy
• New U.S. federal tip deduction (2025–2028): keep the daily tip log the IRS expects, export it any time
• CSV export, always — your tips are your data
• Switching apps? Import your history from a CSV in minutes
• Private iCloud sync + backup files — no account, no login, nothing to lose
• Face ID app lock — your money stays your business
• Share a night as a clean card — with a $-hidden mode that shows the shape, never the dollars
• Optional reminders computed from your own history, off by default
• Light, dark, or system appearance — and built to respect your text-size settings
ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER
Your first 14 shifts include every feature, nothing held back. After that, a single one-time unlock keeps TipBud yours for good — no subscription, no ads, ever. And your history stays viewable and exportable even if you never buy.
No account. No tracking. Just your tips, added up honestly.
So I’m a new server and I love the layout and information I can enter, it’s everything I need. I’m currently testing several other apps and I’m between TipBud and Server44 reason being both having great ui and tracking everything I want. I prefer server44’s insight/net income but it requires a subscription to see insights from the last 90 to 365 days. I think it would be nice if we had the option to show total wages, not just tips on the home tab summary and how many tables we had that day, and yearly summary instead of just today, last 7 days, and for the month. But what’s great about TipBud is that there’s a lifetime purchase but I’m going to test it for a while before making the purchase. I’m also aware that this is a fairly new app so I’m excited to see future updates!2nd shift update: it’d be so nice if I could enter my total sales, number of tables served, and it would calculate the average tip %/rate!Edit: thank you so much for responding and yes I found the total sales and guests input option! Now that I know that exists, everything’s perfect and I can’t wait for the future updates
Developer Response
Thanks for testing it properly across shifts — that's the review we want. Two of your asks are already in there, just tucked away: on the shift sheet tap "Add more fields" and you'll see Sales and Covers (guests served). Fill those and the shift shows its tip % and average check, and Insights carries your average tip % and best tipping day. Fair point that the name hides it — we'll make that plainer. The other two go on the list for the next update: a wages + tips total on the Home cards, not only tips, and a full-year view next to the week and month. Everything stays in the one-time unlock. — Shakti
Bigger numbers, and your whole year.
• Easier to read. Every amount on Home and across the app is a size larger — the cash, card and tip-out lines first.
• Wages on Home. Each shift card now adds wages to your tips under what you took home, and the week and month cards carry the total with wages.
• Your year. Insights has a This Year card — tips, true hourly, shifts and hours — and a 12-month chart under the 8-week one.
• What you sold, your covers and your tip percentage. They were always there; now the shift sheet says what they give you, and after a couple of shifts Home nudges you once to add the night's total.
• Spanish, all the way. Weekdays and months now follow the app's language.
Also: the unlock button stays on screen at every text size, a tidier shift sheet, and smaller fixes throughout.
Version 2.2
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