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Bowtie ∞ Tip Calculator app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 608 ratings )
Utilities Finance
Developer: Carlos Perez
0.99 USD
Current version: 3.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 18 Jul 2008
App size: 1.16 Mb

Get a Tip Calculator so sleek and efficient it feels like it always belonged in your iPhone. The elegant interface is full of intuitive touches to help you do exact math while staying out of your way.

To use, just launch and tap in the price of your meal. Use the sliders to set the percentage and optionally, split the bill evenly among friends. Calculations can be made to the penny, or rounded to the nearest dollar to your intended tip percentage. You can even encode a pattern in your total amount to prevent theft! With the Mirror mode, you can confirm that every food charge in your credit card bill has the dollar and penny digits mirrored (e.g. $37.73 — a palindrome) and that nobody tried to skim a little off the top.


A TOP RATED TIP CALCULATOR SINCE THE APP STORE OPENED IN 2008!!

∗∗∗∗∗ 5 star «Review by Micah D»
"Launches fast, does the math an gets the job done. Doesnt bug you with Facebook connection or anything like that. The best tip calculator in the app store"

∗∗∗∗∗ 5 star «Another v2.0 review from a long-time user»
"Ive tried many tipping apps and this has always been my favorite."


FROM SEATTLE, WITH LOVE!

Thank you all for your awesome feedback and reviews. Ive tried to build a top-shelf iPhone App with the fit and finish you’ve come to expect of the iPhone. There are bland imitations out there, and confusing apps with jumbles of badly arranged features. Im confident youll find this app is a worthwhile upgrade to your iPhone, and I look forward to hearing your feedback and ideas.

Pros and cons of Bowtie ∞ Tip Calculator app for iPhone and iPad

Bowtie ∞ Tip Calculator app good for

It now looks like some banker app. The old icon was much better.
The best tip calculator available on the iPhone. It is very easy to use, looks great and its free!
Elegant, elegant, elegant - the Exact, Rounded, and Mirror functions are great and are offered by no other tip calculator. All that remains is check splitting but not a big issue. Well done! Excellent!
Works fast and does what it should. A helpfull tool when your having a "bad math" day and cant figure out the tip.
looks better than any other app of its kind. easy to use, reliable, and nice options makes it the best tip calculator app so far! good job!
This app would be perfect if you could split the bill between multiple people. (A feature that is coming soon.) Other than that, its user-friendly, looks good and works well. Ill be keeping this and looking for the update, hopefully soon!

Some bad moments

• Please update this app to support the iPhone 5s 4 inch retina display*
which is why I didnt rate it one star. The problem with the app is that it doesnt take into account tax. A restaurant tip is based on the pre-tax total. Which is fine if you just want to get a straight up percentage tip with this app-- just enter the pre-tax amount for the meal total. But the mirror function doesnt work the same way; either you have to tip based on the post-tax total or it doesnt work.
Looks like this app hasnt been updated in about 3 years. Functions as it should but an iPhone 5 update would be welcome. Hopefully the developer hasnt abandoned this app. Might be time to look for an alternative.
For years this app looked very nice. It was colorful, and very distinctive. Why is everybody making their apps look so cheesy now. Not colorful, everything looks ran together, and very flat. This is 2015 people, what happened to all the 3D and beyond? Now I have to search for a new, better looking tip calculator app.
Clicking bow used to freeze input, after upgrade it is not working properly. Also the new dark theme is ridiculous. "If it aint broke dont fix it" ~ Bert Lance