TiPPeR: (Yet Another Tipper App)

So Christina Warren and I got into this big debate over at TUAW.com about tipping applications. Christina thinks that theyve been "done" and that Apple should put a moratorium on any more tip apps as "the over-saturation of these programs is a real negative for the App Store as a whole".

As for me, I felt App Store could support any useful app that could make a place for itself. So thats why theres TiPPeR. I wrote that should any tip calculator prove itself novel and innovative, it could set itself apart and find an audience.

So here it TiPPeR and heres your chance to give it a try. My goal was to build an app that was reasonably elegant and lent itself to the way people really tip -- whether they want to tip before tax or after, using qualitative criteria or quantitative ones, with some fun little features to jazz it all up.

I think its a sweet little app, and I hope you like it too. If you have any comments, feature requests or (heaven forfend!) bug reports, theres a nice link to follow on the flip side. (Tap "i" to get there.)

The crazy capitalization scheme in the name, by the way, comes from my need to have no descenders (letter bits below the line, as in "p" and "j") because it was messing up the reflections. Plus the off-tint "e" in the current release is a nod to the logo on my personal website, ericasadun.com.

TiPPeR was a great deal of fun to write and I cant wait to find out if youll like it as much as I do.

MARKETING TEXT: Available free (for a limited time or until I change my mind or something like that), TiPPeR offers a flexible tipping assistant for those times when you dine out. Features include pre-tax tipping, a service timer, and check splits among many others.

TiPPeR is written in honor of Christina Warren.

UPDATE: Version 2, which is in review with Apple, breaks out the actual tip amount for use when paying by credit card. Hopefully the new version will be approved in short order. Thank you to all the great users who wrote in and suggested the enhancement.