Tip Calculator
Figure the tip, total and each person's share in seconds.
Splitting a restaurant bill should take seconds, not a group debate. This free tip calculator does the whole thing at once. Enter the bill, pick a tip percentage, and add the number of people splitting. You get the tip amount, the total, and what each person owes, instantly. Round up to a clean number when you want to keep it simple. It runs in your browser with no account and no signup, so the check gets settled before the conversation gets awkward.
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About Tip Calculator
Tipping runs on social math most of us do badly under pressure: the server is waiting, the card reader is watching, and suddenly 18% of $64.37 feels like a calculus problem. This calculator removes the performance anxiety. Enter the bill, tap a tip percent, or one of the quick buttons from 10% to 25%, and instantly see the tip amount, the total, and, if you're splitting, what each person owes. The whole interaction takes less time than signing the receipt.
The conventions baked in are the standard American ones: tip on the pre-tax subtotal, 15–20% for sit-down restaurant service with 18–20% the modern norm for good service. The quick-tip buttons exist because most tipping decisions aren't really decisions, you know before you open the tool whether it was a 15% night or a 20% night; the buttons just execute it without arithmetic. For splitting, the bill plus tip divides evenly across the headcount you enter.
A few judgment calls the tool leaves to you, correctly. Truly bad service still earns 10–15% in most etiquette guides, the tip is wages, and the complaint goes to the manager, not the math. Delivery has its own norms, roughly 10–20% with a few dollars minimum, scaling up in bad weather. And cash tips remain king for the recipient when you have bills handy. The calculator handles the numbers; the generosity is yours.
How to use Tip Calculator
- Enter the bill amount.
- Pick a tip percentage.
- Add how many people are splitting.
- Read the tip, total, and each share.
Why use this tool?
- One-tap 10–25% quick tip buttons
- Per-person split calculated automatically
- Free with no signup
Tips for best results
- Tip on the pre-tax subtotal, that's the convention this tool uses, and tipping on tax quietly overpays every time.
- Round the total to a whole dollar when paying cash; servers prefer a clean $75 to $74.63.
- Even for bad service, 10–15% is the norm, stiffing punishes wages, while a word with the manager fixes the actual problem.
- For delivery, 10–20% with a $3–5 minimum is standard; add more in bad weather or for large orders.
- If the service was exceptional, 22–25% says so clearly, big tips are memorable precisely because they're rare.