Work out the tip and split the bill in seconds with this tip calculator
Dividing a restaurant bill at the end of a meal is one of those small moments that always seems to take longer than it should. Someone reaches for the phone calculator, someone else tries to do it in their head, and the numbers rarely line up. This free tip calculator and bill splitter removes the guesswork: type the bill, choose a tip percentage, and tell it how many people are sharing. The instant you type, it shows you the tip amount, the grand total, the exact amount each person pays, and even the tip per person — so everyone knows precisely what they owe.
It's built for real situations — dinner with friends, a coffee run for the office, a taxi fare, a hotel bar, or a group holiday where the bill needs splitting fairly. You can tap a preset of 10%, 15%, 18%, 20% or 25%, set it to 0% when no tip applies, or type your own custom percentage like 12.5%. A handy Round up switch rounds the total to a clean whole number so paying and splitting is easier, and a currency menu lets you switch between US dollars, pounds, euros, Indian rupees, Pakistani rupees, Saudi riyals, and the Australian, Canadian and UAE currencies. Nothing is sent anywhere — every calculation happens in your browser, and it keeps working offline after your first visit.
How to use the tip calculator
- Type the bill amount and, if needed, choose your currency from the menu.
- Pick a tip % from the preset buttons, or type your own in the custom field.
- Set the number of people sharing the bill using the plus and minus buttons.
- Optionally turn on Round up to round the total to the nearest whole amount.
- Read off the per-person figure, the tip and the total — no maths required.
How the tip is calculated
The maths behind a tip is simple once it's laid out. The tip is the bill multiplied by the tip percentage divided by 100 — so a 20% tip on a $50 bill is 50 × 20 ÷ 100 = $10, making the total $60. Split between four people, that's $15 each. The calculator does exactly this in real time, then divides the total evenly by the number of people. When you switch on Round up, it rounds the total up to the next whole number and adds the difference to the tip, which is why the tip figure may rise slightly when rounding is on. Seeing each step spelled out also makes it easy to sanity-check a tip by hand when you need to.
How much should you tip?
Tipping customs vary a lot by country, so there's no single right answer. In the United States, 15–20% is standard in sit-down restaurants, with 20% for genuinely good service and a little less for casual or counter service. In the United Kingdom and much of Europe, 10–12.5% is common and tipping is often optional, especially where a service charge is already added to the bill — always check before adding more on top. In many parts of Asia and the Middle East, tipping is appreciated but smaller, and in a few countries it isn't expected at all. For taxis and cafés, rounding up to a convenient amount is a friendly, low-pressure way to tip. When in doubt, tip what feels fair for the service you received rather than treating any number as a strict rule.
Tips for splitting a bill fairly
An even split is the quickest and least awkward option when everyone ordered roughly the same. If one person had far more — an extra course, a bottle of wine, or several rounds of drinks — it's kinder to adjust their share rather than ask everyone to subsidise it. A common approach is to split the food evenly and have the bigger spenders cover their own extras. For groups, deciding the tip percentage out loud before splitting keeps things transparent, and the per-person figure here gives everyone a clear number to send by app or hand over in cash. Rounding up the total can also make a cash split far easier, since you avoid fiddly change.
Private, free and works offline
There's no sign-up, no account and no fees. The tool doesn't track what you enter or send any of your numbers to a server — all the calculating happens locally in your browser, which is why the result appears instantly with no loading. Because it's lightweight and cached after the first load, you can open it on your phone and split a bill even with patchy signal or no connection at all, which is exactly when you tend to need it — at the table, in the back of a taxi, or somewhere with no Wi-Fi.