CheckPlease - Tip Calculator app good for
I love the elegant interface and how easy it is to use. Keep up the awesome work.
Excellent app. The best tip calc Ive tried. It is quick and easy yet elegant and powerful with great options.
This app does a great job. The best of its type that Ive tried. Plus I appreciate the responsiveness of the developer.
When I started in the computer field 33 years ago, it was a wonderful time. If I had a problem with hardware or software, it was a simple matter to pick up the phone and get to speak to the guy who designed the hardware or wrote the software. Today, you get to talk to a call center in India, where "support" knows far less about the product than you do. But Catamount Software is a delightful exception to the current sad state of affairs. I had downloaded the free version of CheckPlease, and was so favorably impressed by it that I promptly bought Pocket Money. I use this combo daily. Then Catamount made CheckPlease an ad supported product, and I just dont do adware. So I complained, and got a great response back. Now, only days after my mumbling and grumbling, here is the ad free version (and at a cheap price, too!).
Well Hardy, I promised to be the first to buy it, I am at least the first to review it.
Boys and girls, if you see anything by Catamount Software you want, dont hesitate, just buy it.
Now ad free! I would have paid up to $10 for this, but its still be given away for practically free at $1.
Im happy to buy one of the best thought-out and easy to use iPhone apps ever. Tip calculating with rounding and bill-splitting done in seconds all from a single screen! Far superior to any other tip calculator (I tried a few). Thanks for the ad-free version.
PS - You underpriced it, Id have paid at least $5, maybe more.
Too late :-)
Some bad moments
I bought this version because I couldnt get the lite version to go to the next screen so I could put info into it. I am only getting the first screen on the paid version also. Am I doing something wrong? It seems like a great app. I just wish I could get it to show me all of the screens. Can anyone help
This is a terrible application. Not only did it not accurately compute a tip, it is also dificult to use. The buttons are so small they are nearly impossible to hit. Additionally, while you can split a bill, you can not adjust the split so one person pays more than the others.
There is actually nothing in the app to split the bill fairly among people. I thought I could itemize Person1, Person2, etc. orders and tell them what they owed. Nope.
And, even if you decide to pay equally, you must do the division of the totsl amount for splitting on your own. You could just as easily (and better) replicate what this app does by opening the Ipod calculator, entering the subtotal before taxes and multiply that by the your tip amount (1.18 for 18%, for instance) to get the tip added to total and divide by the number of persons.
Dumb app for the dumb.
I upgraded to get rid of the ads and to support a good developer. Unfortunately, there is I bug in the paid version not in the free version.
If you attempt to enter the subtotal rather than the total, your tax rate will will revert to zero, not to your default tax rate.
This app is no longer supported by the developer. Contrary to claims in the description, he does NOT respond to support requests through his support email or bugs reported on his own forum.
After years of using a great but abandoned app, I can only watch it go south. Here comes the developer willing to bring it into a new era, for the new operating system. The result... It now looks like every other Tip app, ending its distinctive and amazing design that help it earn a place in the Favorite App List of many of us.
I will try to recuperate the old but great version, until you fix it cosmetically.
The new version is not an improvement in any way. The developers have transitioned to a more "flat" environment, following the styling of Apples recent iOS, but in doing so, they have removed all of the character and depth of the original app. It now looks like something a low-level developer might come up with. The huge unused blue space at the bottom adds to the ridiculousness of the design. Its still functional, of course, but no longer unique, or special.
