Tip Creep
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The tablet swivels, three buttons light up and the line behind you waits. That screen was set up by the company that sells it and the business that bought it, not by the person handing you a coffee. Tip Creep is a friend in your pocket for that moment.
You are not the only one
A tip used to follow the service. Now a kiosk asks before it hands you anything, at a counter where you carried your own tray, on a shelf pickup nobody brought you. Most people feel it. Few have a plan for it.
How it works
Swipe through real scenes: the airport kiosk, the coffee counter, the drive-thru, the sit-down dinner. Skip or tip, and each card tells you why, with a source you can check.
No card shrugs. It says "Keep it" or "Tip this one", so you never stand at the counter alone.
When a screen asks for more than your rule gives, tap the coin. The difference drops into your jar, in two seconds, standing in line.
No bank link, no card, no real money moving. A jar is a number that is honestly yours.
Every jar is a book you picked from a list of 244, or anything else you want: a gift for Mom counts. When the jar fills, you buy it, and pick what's next.
You decided before the screen turned. That's the whole trick.
Not against workers
Tip Creep is not a "never tip" app. Its fight is with the default, the employer and the platform, never the person at the counter.
A friend in your pocket
Each launch opens on one thing to check on a bill, and what to do about it. And every screen you log can become a post aimed at the company that can ship the fix: two buttons, Pay or Pay with tip, or a tip asked after the work is done.
Private by design
Questions
No. Where you sat down or someone brought it to your door, the app tells you to tip, and its defaults (18% sit-down, 15% delivery) cannot be talked down by a clever card. Where a screen is the only thing asking, it backs you up in keeping your money, calmly and without guilt.
No. A jar is a number: the difference between what a screen asked and what your rule gives. When a jar reaches its goal, you buy the book yourself.
Chains, platforms, payment-terminal makers and card networks: the ones who set the screen. The app never names the person at the counter or the shop on the corner, and it posts nothing itself. You copy a post and share it from your own account, or you don't.
Every reassurance line in the app carries its source, and none of them overstates the research. Settings › Honesty lists them all.
The app is free. Book links go to Amazon, and we may earn a commission when you buy through one; the app says so right where the link is.
Service first. Then the tip.