Tip Trapper

End-of-shift math, done before you clock out.

Punch in your cash, your card tips, and your hours, and you’re done. Working the same section as yesterday? Tap “same as last shift” and fix what changed. Tip Trapper keeps it all straight, so you can see what you really made per hour, whether it was a slow Tuesday or a slammed Saturday double.

Features

Big, easy-to-read text if you want it. Pick Normal, Large, or Extra large on the very first screen, before anything else.
Cash and card tips logged separately on every shift, plus your hours and real hourly rate
“Same as last shift” for quick logging when tonight looks a lot like last night
Work more than one place? Each restaurant gets its own color, with its own sections and tip-outs.
Charts that put your restaurants side by side, with an average line, your best day, and an optional weekly goal
A tip pot calculator for that shift that works the way real crews do it. Pick the restaurant up top (set your usual one in Settings), split it evenly or by hours, and if someone already took cash for food or a shirt, it comes out of their own share. Hit Reset when you’re done. The amounts are never saved, backed up, or exported.
Your coworkers’ first names saved for each restaurant, so you’re not retyping them every night. Just the names, never what anybody made.
IOUs for whatever someone still owes after the night is over. Mark one paid and it stays there, greyed out, for 7 days so nobody gets asked twice. Then it clears itself.
A tax-time summary for any year: cash, card, tip-outs, take-home (your tips minus your tip-outs), and hours, by month and by restaurant. Personal records, not tax advice.
Export any year, week, or date range to a spreadsheet, one row per shift, with cash and card tips in their own columns. It opens in Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers, and it's easy to copy into your household budget sheet. The tax summary exports as a spreadsheet or PDF too.
Mark an old job as a “former job” so it stays in your history without cluttering things up
Optional reminders, off unless you turn them on: a nightly nudge to log your tips, and one in mid-January for last year’s tax summary. Your phone handles them, so nothing gets sent anywhere.
Automatic backups on your phone, plus your phone’s own iCloud or Google backup, and one tap to save a copy to iCloud Drive or Google Drive
Switching from another tip app? Import your old shifts from a CSV or Excel export. It’s read right on your phone, you see a preview before anything’s saved, duplicates get skipped, and one tap undoes the whole import.
Works offline, in the walk-in, or in a dead zone

Pay once. No subscription, ever.

Coming soon to the App Store

iPhone only at launch. Android is on the way.

Tip Trapper launches on the Apple App Store first, for iPhone only. There’s no iPad version yet. An Android version on Google Play will follow. Email support@fairpriceapps.com if you want a heads-up when it lands.

Take a look

Home screen showing $1,110.97 take-home for the last 7 days, 41 hours, $1,222.68 in tips, $27.10 an hour, and a weekly goal bar at $1,111 of $1,500 — Home, the basic setup: your last 7 days at a glance, take-home after tip-outs, your hourly, and your weekly goal

Log a shift screen with restaurant, section, shift type, 6 hours, $112 in cash tips and $148.50 in card tips, optional sales, and weather — Log a shift: cash, card, and hours, plus optional extras like sales and the weather

History screen with restaurant filter buttons along the top and a list of shifts, newest first, each showing the date, restaurant and section, cash and card tips, weather, shift type, hours, and take-home in green — History: every shift in one list, with take-home, cash and card, hours, shift type, and weather. Tap a restaurant to filter.

Charts that actually tell you something

Your charts take all those shifts and show you where the money really comes from. See every shift on a timeline with your average and your goal drawn right on it, so you can tell at a glance if you’re having a good month or a slow one. Your best day gets called out too.

Work more than one place? Put your restaurants side by side and see which one actually pays better per hour, not just which one feels busier. And the day-of-the-week chart shows which shifts are worth picking up and which ones you can let somebody else have.

Charts timeline showing take-home for each shift in color by restaurant, with an average line, a goal line, and the best day, 10/09 at $351.71 — Charts: every shift on a timeline, with your average, your goal, and your best day

Charts comparing take-home per hour by restaurant: Harbor Grill Bar $33.63, The Salty Pelican $31.70, and Sunrise Diner $19.77 — Compare your restaurants by what you really make per hour

Charts comparing average take-home per shift by day of the week, with Saturday the highest at $238, and a Shifts row under each day showing how many shifts it’s based on — See which days pay best. Saturdays average $238 a shift, and the Shifts row shows how many shifts each day is based on.

Split the pot & IOUs

Split the tip pot fast, even when somebody already grabbed food or a shirt out of it. Pick the restaurant at the top (set your usual spot in Settings and it’s already there), put in the cash, add who’s in, and go Equal or By hours. Whatever someone already took comes out of their own share, not everybody’s.

Your coworkers’ first names get saved for each restaurant, so you’re not typing Dani and Luis every single night. Just the names, never what anybody made or took. The split itself is for that shift only. Hit Reset when you’re done, and none of the amounts get saved, backed up, or exported.

Somebody still short at the end of the night? Add an IOU for who owes who, and mark it paid when it’s settled. Paid ones stick around for 7 days so nobody gets asked twice, then they clear themselves.

Your take-home is just your own tips minus your tip-outs. Nobody else’s earnings get saved.

Split and IOUs screen with Harbor Grill Bar picked as the restaurant, the tip pot calculator set to Equal, $280 cash in the pot, and Dani down for $20 already taken from the pot — Pick the restaurant, put in the cash, and whatever somebody already took comes out of their share

Person dropdown open in the tip pot calculator showing Me, Add new name, and saved coworker names Dani, Jess, and Luis — First names saved for each restaurant, so you’re not retyping them. Names only, never amounts.

IOU list with two open IOUs, Dani owes you $20 and you owe Luis $15, and a paid IOU from Marcus that clears in 5 days — IOUs: mark one paid and it sticks around 7 days so nobody gets asked twice, then clears itself

Bring your old shifts with you

Switching from another tip app? You don’t have to start over. Export your shifts from your old app as a CSV or Excel file, then go to Settings and tap Import from another app.

Tip Trapper reads the file right on your phone and figures out which column is which. If it can’t tell, it asks you, and you pick what each column holds. You get a preview of everything before it’s saved, duplicate shifts are skipped, and if something looks off, one tap undoes the whole import.

The file never gets uploaded anywhere. It’s read on your phone, and your imported shifts are saved there just like the ones you log yourself.

Import preview showing 177 shifts ready from January 3 to October 24, 2026, with cash tips, card tips, tip-outs, and hours totals, plus a choice for each restaurant in the file — A preview of everything before it’s saved, with totals and where each restaurant goes

Column setup screen asking for help reading the file, with columns named When, Pocket, and Card set to Date, Cash tips, and Card tips — If it can’t tell which column is which, you pick