Tipbit: Tip & Income Tracker is an app for iPhone and iPad that keeps track of what you make: tips, wages, pay per job, miles and expenses. It has no servers and no accounts of its own, it shows no ads, and it runs no analytics. What you log stays on your devices and in your own iCloud. The developer never receives it.
Tipbit is made and run by Jason Crane, an individual developer in the United States, reachable at tipbit@3dlibrary.app. For the GDPR and similar laws, that's the data controller for this policy. In practice there is little to control, because Tipbit never sends your information to the developer.
In short
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no code from other companies inside the app.
- No Tipbit servers or accounts. The developer can't see your entries.
- Your entries sync only through your own private iCloud.
- Your location is used only while a trip you started is on, to count its miles.
What Tipbit keeps on your devices
- Your jobs and entries: what you made (tips, tip-out, wages, sales, pay per job, a day rate, a commission), dates and hours, claim or job numbers, clients, notes, and what's paid or unpaid; your macros; your planned shifts.
- Expenses: the amount, category, job and note, and a photo of the receipt if you add one. A photo is kept as a smaller copy with nothing else from the original: no place and no camera details.
- Miles: miles you type, or, with Tipbit Pro, the miles of a trip you track, with its route on a map unless you turn routes off.
- Settings: your weekly goal, the day your week starts, the look and color, your mileage rate, the name you put on statements, and your own expense categories.
- On one device only: the clock while you're on it, a trip while it runs, your reminders, and the statements and spreadsheets you make to share, which wait in a temporary folder until you send them.
Your iCloud
If your device is signed in to iCloud, Tipbit syncs your jobs, entries, macros, expenses (with their receipt photos), planned shifts and trip routes through your private iCloud database, and a few settings through iCloud's key-value storage, so they're on all your devices. That copy lives in your iCloud account, under Apple's protection and Apple's privacy policy. The developer has no access to it.
Location
Tipbit asks for your location only when you tap Start trip (part of Tipbit Pro), and only "While Using the App". It uses your location only while a trip you started is on, to count the miles, and stops when you tap Stop; it never tracks miles on its own. The route is kept with that entry, on your devices and in your private iCloud. To keep only the miles, turn off Settings → Keep trip routes; Remove kept routes then deletes the routes already kept. Your location is never sent anywhere else. Miles you type never use it.
Camera, photos and notifications
The camera is used only when you take a picture of a receipt. A photo you pick comes through Apple's photo picker, which gives Tipbit only that photo, never the rest of your library. Reminders to log a shift are set on your device; nothing is sent to a server.
What leaves your device
Besides your own iCloud, these are the only things that do:
- Purchases: Tipbit Pro is bought through Apple's App Store. Apple handles the payment, and Tipbit only learns from Apple whether Pro is on. The developer never sees your payment details.
- Maps: a trip's map is Apple Maps. To show it, Apple sends Tipbit the map of the area the route is in; the route itself is drawn on your device. Apple's privacy policy covers Apple Maps.
- The IRS mileage rates: the rates are built into Tipbit. To keep them current, Tipbit may read a public list of the IRS's rates from Tipbit's own iCloud container, at most once a day. It's a download: nothing about you or your entries is sent.
- What you share: a pay period's summary, statements (PDFs) and spreadsheets go only where you send them yourself with the share sheet.
What Tipbit doesn't do
- No analytics, advertising or tracking, and no third-party SDKs of any kind.
- No Tipbit servers, no Tipbit accounts, and no copy of your entries anywhere but your devices and your iCloud.
- No selling or sharing of your information. Tipbit never has it in the first place.
- No connection to your bank or payroll.
- No microphone, contacts or health data, and no location except during a trip you started.
Deleting your data
Anything you logged can be deleted in Tipbit: an entry, an expense, a macro, a planned shift, or a job with all its entries. Every delete asks first, and it's removed from your iCloud and your other devices too. With Settings → Keep trip routes off, Remove kept routes deletes every trip's route and keeps the miles.
Deleting the app removes what it stored on that device. Your entries stay in your iCloud until you delete them in the app, or remove Tipbit's data from iCloud in the Settings app (your name → iCloud → Manage Storage → Tipbit). There is nothing for the developer to delete, because Tipbit never sends your data to the developer.
Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask what information Tipbit holds about you, and ask for it to be corrected or deleted, by writing to tipbit@3dlibrary.app. The answer is short: the developer holds nothing about you. Everything Tipbit keeps is on your devices and in your iCloud, and you can delete it yourself. Tipbit doesn't sell or share personal information, and there is no advertising or tracking to opt out of.
Children
Tipbit is for keeping track of work and pay. It isn't directed at children under 13, and the developer doesn't knowingly collect information from them, or from anyone else.
This website
This site has no cookies, analytics or trackers, and loads nothing from other sites. It's hosted on GitHub Pages, which may log basic technical information such as IP addresses to run and protect the service, under GitHub's Privacy Statement.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about privacy in Tipbit: tipbit@3dlibrary.app