The best iPad apps for tipping

It's always best to tip appropriately in each and every situation. GlobeTips will give you precise advice on how to tip adequately in a specific situation in 240+ countries. GlobeTips includes a lot of features such as bill scanning that simply calculates everything for you and automatically applies geo-location based advice, handy check-splitting, results up rounding, tax excluding, full tipping guide for all countries, etc.

• Bill/Check recognition for automatic tip calculation
• Automatic country detection
• Service-based tipping
• Possibility to observe split bill and tip amount per person

When you want to quickly and easily figure out your bill and tip, Ez Bill is the way to go. The app will figure out each person's base bill and tip amount and you can split the bill with up to 30 people. The app calculates the tip before tax so you tip the right amount. Don't worry about sales tax values, either, because the app figures those out too. If you eat out a lot, you can even make it so the app loads on the Today screen. The tipping app is easy to use: just type in your total bill, tap the face and person icons to swipe along to the proper tip amount and number of diners to split with.

• Figure out your bill portion and tip amount should be
• Tips are calculated pre-tax
• Split the bill with up to 30 people
• Load the app on your Today screen
• Free iPad app for tipping

The Tip Utility app lets you quickly and easily figure out how much to tip. This one gives you support for Apple Watch, a tip guide for the United States, a straightforward user interface, a bill tracker, the option to split the bill, and an easily accessible pull-down calculator. You can exclude or include the tax before you figure out the tip amount, calculate the tax rate, and send emails of your receipts and bills. If you want, you can do reverse determination of tip percentage and specify the total and tip.

• Bill tracker
• Split the bill
• Calculate the tip pre- or post-tax
• Support for Apple Watch
• Free with in-app purchase to remove ads

iHandy Tip Calculator is designed to quickly, easily, and prettily (according to the developers) figure out the tip and split the bill among other people in just five seconds. It features rounding support, international currency, and tax. The user interface is intuitive and elegant: just swipe your finger over the people/star icons to change the number of diners and the tip percentage. Tap “check amount” to have the large number keypad pop up and shake your iPad to clear the check amount. There are five rounding options and currency support for the Dollar, Pound, Euro, Frank, and Krone/Krona.

• Easy-to-use tipping app
• Figure out the tip amount in five seconds
• Five rounding options
• Offers currency support
• Shake iPad to clear the check amount

Gratuity Express will help you figure out how much to pay for a tip based on a variety of different factors. For example, it asks you about the service you received. Developers say no other tip calculators work like this. You can split the bill among several people, see a comprehensive breakdown of totals and tips, both for everyone and per person, and you can archive your transaction for future review. It's easy to understand and the user interface is sleek and simple. There's also a calculator mode for when you know what percentage you want to tip.

• Quickly figure out the tip amount
• Split the bill easily
• Archive your transactions
• Breakdown of tips and totals
• Free with in-app purchase to remove ads

Tip Calculator % Free is an app that allows for fast bill entry and splitting, to help you out when you're dining out and need to figure out who owes what and how much tip you should each leave your server. The app easily splits the bill, tells you exactly how much to tip, and has a rounding feature if that's what you prefer, to make your total easier. The app has big font, so it is easily readable, even in dim restaurants, and makes it so you don't 430227204have to worry about math. Sliders make it easy to choose a percentage to tip, and how to split the bill.

• Sliders make it easy to use
• Big numbers make it easy to read in dim lighting
• Fast bill entry and splitting
• Choose a tip percentage
• Free iPad app for tipping

Tip Check helps you figure out exactly how much to pay for tips for different services. Have you ever been in a situation where you were supposed to tip a hairdresser, bellboy, concierge, or mail delivery person? How did you figure it out? Well now you don't have to worry about it because the app will do it for you. It will also split bills for you so you don't have to figure out who pays what. The calculator can figure out tip before and after tax, and you don't need to have Internet access. The app supports Apple Watch, is easy to read, has a clean interface, and is super easy to use.

• Supports bill splitting
• No Internet required
• Easy to use
• International tip guide for 69 countries
• Free with in-app purchases

Tab takes a bill and splits what is owing among friends. Just take a photo of the receipt and tap on your items to claim them. The taxes and the tip are figured out for you, with no scribbling on a napkin or rushed calculations input by hand. The app automatically recognizes all of the items and prices, and everyone who has the app on their phone can join onto the bill and choose their own items. Tab keeps everything synced in real time. If two or more people shared an item, they can each tap on it and the app will split it equally among them. The taxes and tip are divided proportionally. If it's someone's birthday or other celebration, you can split their total evenly among all the other guests.

• Multiple people can select an item if they shared it
• Tip and tax are divided proportionately to what was ordered by whom
• Settle within your group using Venmo or recording a cash payment
• Tab detects items and prices on a photo of the receipt
• Free iPad app for tipping 

QuickTip gives you a fast, free way to figure out the gratuity for any bill. The text and controls are large and easy to see, even in dim environments. The slider function lets you quickly adjust the percentage as you see the total amounts and tip change in real-time. There are optional buttons for setting your most frequent tip percentages, and there is support for all international currencies supported on iOS devices. It's easy to round the tip up or down. There is no split feature available.

• Easy-to-read numbers and controls
• Round the total or tip amount up or down
• Support for international currencies
• Slider to easily adjust tip percentages
• Free with in-app purchase to remove ads