Frequently asked questions
What exactly is Tipper?
An earnings assistant for DoorDash drivers on Android. It automatically logs your deliveries — tips, addresses, offers, wait times — then turns your real history into maps and insights: which areas have paid you, where offers have come fast, and the days and times you've earned the most per delivery. Tip tracking is the foundation; the point is helping you earn more. Since 2.0 the analysis is AI-powered: models built on your phone from your own history, which say so plainly when they don't yet have enough to go on.
How does the automatic capture work?
Tipper uses Android's accessibility service to read the Dasher app's screens — the same information already displayed to you. When the delivery-complete screen shows your tip, Tipper records it. It reads what's shown on your own screen, only from the Dasher app, and stores it on your device.
Can I see the tip before I accept an offer?
Tipper can't, and I don't know of any app that can. Para managed it briefly in 2021, using drivers' DoorDash logins to read pay details DoorDash sent along with each offer, until DoorDash changed its app that July and cut Para off. Be wary of any app that claims it can today.
What Tipper can show you is the tips you've recorded at each address you've delivered to, from your own delivery history.
Can Tipper help me avoid long pickups for low pay?
Indirectly, and only from your own history. Tipper records the pay and distance of the offers it can read from the Dasher screen, how long you waited for offers, and what you were finally paid — then works out which areas have earned you the most per mile, which days and times of day have earned you the most per delivery, which areas have kept you parked longest, and where offers have come fastest.
It will not filter or decline anything for you. It never accepts, declines, or responds to an offer. It shows you what your own numbers say, and the deciding stays yours.
How do I get more orders on DoorDash?
No app can send you more offers — DoorDash decides who gets what. What you can control is where you are and when you're dashing, and those two things decide how long you sit between offers. Tipper measures that from your own history: it times the wait between offers by area and shows where offers have come fastest for you, so you can spend your dash where your own numbers say the orders have been, instead of guessing.
How do I get higher-tipping offers on DoorDash?
You can't see a tip before you accept, and neither can any app. What you can see afterwards is a pattern: some areas and some hours have paid you more per mile and per delivery than others. Tipper records every tip it reads from your delivery-complete screen and puts it on a map of where it was earned, next to the pay per mile for that area and the hours that have paid you most. That doesn't raise any one offer; it tells you which areas and times have been worth your hours in your own market.
Does Tipper connect to my Uber or Lyft account?
No — and it doesn't connect to your DoorDash account either. Tipper is DoorDash-only, and it signs into nothing. It reads what is already on your own screen in the Dasher app, on your phone.
Apps like Gridwise pull earnings from many platforms by logging into them for you. That is a genuine advantage if you drive for several, and an honest trade-off: Tipper has no password of yours to lose, and no account of yours to be locked out of, but it also can't tell you anything about Uber or Lyft.
Does Tipper tap anything in the Dasher app?
On one screen only, and I'd rather tell you than have you find out. On the delivery-complete screen DoorDash keeps the tip breakdown collapsed behind a “This offer” row. Tipper taps that row open so it can read the tip — the same tap you would make yourself a second later. If the row hasn't opened yet, it taps it again.
That row is the only thing it taps, anywhere, ever. It does not accept, decline, or respond to offers, and it does not navigate the app. Everything else it does in the Dasher app is reading, though if you turn on its optional "Offer pay & no-tipper alerts", it can show a pop-up over the Dasher app about an offer's pay or a drop-off that didn't tip before. If you would rather it did not tap at all, don't install it — I would rather lose the sale than have you find this out afterwards.
Is my data private?
Your deliveries live in a local database on your phone. There are no accounts, no cloud sync, and no server that collects your data. Apart from the usual records of visits to this website, the only things I receive are emails you send me (including any log you choose to send from the app's Settings), what my payment provider, Lemon Squeezy, handles when you subscribe and when the app checks your license key, and the standard details your phone attaches to web requests when the app checks my site for a new version.
A few things do leave your phone, because "nothing ever leaves your phone" would not be true. When a map is on screen, any map pictures not already saved on your phone (or whose saved copy is out of date) download from OpenStreetMap, which sees your IP address, the app's ID and version number, and roughly where you work. Addresses go as text, with no name and no amounts, to your phone's built-in address lookup, which on most Android phones is Google Play services working over the internet. That happens when the Tip map places your deliveries and when you type an address while logging a delivery by hand. When you take a proof photo with location allowed, your location goes to the same lookup to get the street address for the stamp. If you enter a license key, the app sends it and your phone's model name to Lemon Squeezy to activate it, then re-checks the key when the app starts, every few days. With a subscription or the free trial, showing Insights checks my site for a new version, normally no more than once a day. If you allow location, Tipper also records where you are while you dash, including while it runs in the background, and keeps it on your phone, in its data and its automatic backups. The full list is in the Privacy Policy.
Does Tipper use Android's backup?
Not since version 1.2.6. From 1.2.6 on, the data Tipper keeps inside the app is excluded from Android's automatic backup and from phone-to-phone transfer, so it isn't copied to your Google account. Earlier versions allowed Android's backup, so if you used one with your phone's backup turned on, Android may have copied Tipper's data to your Google account back then; 1.2.6 stops new copies but doesn't delete old ones, and you can delete those in your Google account's backup settings. Proof photos are saved to your phone's gallery and are backed up like any other photo. To move your data to a new phone, use Export in Settings.
Is this against DoorDash's terms?
Honest answer: DoorDash's agreements contain broad language about automated data collection, and I can't promise they'd approve. What I can tell you is exactly what it does. It reads what's displayed on your own screen about your own deliveries, and the only thing it taps is the collapsed tip row on the delivery-complete screen, described above. It never accepts, declines, or responds to an offer. Your deliveries stay on your own device rather than on any server of mine, and the app doesn't send them to me unless you choose to email me a log from Settings. What does leave your phone is a few lookups, listed above: map pictures, address lookups, your license-key check and a check for new versions. That tap is the part I would weigh hardest if I were you, which is why it is on this page and not buried. You should read your own agreements and make your own call — see the Terms of Service.
Will it break when DoorDash updates their app?
Sometimes, temporarily. When DoorDash changes a screen's layout, capture for that screen can stop until I ship a fix. A layout change doesn't delete the deliveries you've already recorded, and manual logging always works. Updates install over the top with your data intact.
What phones does it work on?
Android 8.0 or newer. No root, no special setup beyond enabling the accessibility service. (Sorry, no iPhone version.)
How does the free trial work?
Start the trial on this site — a card is required at checkout, but you aren't charged for 30 days. Your license key arrives by email right away; download the app, paste the key in, and everything is unlocked from day one. On day 31 the subscription starts billing $9.99/month automatically — cancel anytime before then and you pay nothing. It's one app for everyone: nothing to reinstall, and everything you record stays put.
How do updates work?
The app checks this site for a new version, normally no more than once a day, and shows an "Update available" notice with a "Get it" button that takes you to the download page — on every screen, subscription or not. You can also check any time with "Check for updates" at the bottom of Settings. Download, install over the top, done — your data stays put.
Why isn't this on the Play Store?
Google heavily restricts apps that use accessibility services to read other apps, so Tipper is distributed directly from this site as an APK ("sideloading"). The install guide walks you through it — it's a few taps more than a normal install.
How do I cancel? Do I get a refund?
Cancel anytime from the manage subscription page — enter the email you bought with and you'll get a sign-in link, no account needed. During the trial, cancelling means you're never charged at all. After the trial you keep access through the end of the month you've paid for; after that, Insights, the Tip map and the Offer speed map lock. Since you get a full 30 days free to decide, I don't refund partial months — but if you were charged by mistake (meant to cancel during the trial and forgot), email me within 7 days and I'll refund it in full. See the Refund Policy.
What happens to my data if I stop subscribing?
Your data is never touched — it stays in a local database on your phone, and it's yours. Without an active subscription, Insights and every card in it (What pays, Where to dash next, Offer strategy, Worth the wait, Dead miles, $ per mile, AI status), the Tip map, the Offer speed map and the Where to wait map lock. Recording, your delivery history, your addresses, the review inbox, the proof camera, recent offers, whole-dash mileage tracking, the wait nudge and the offer line over the Dasher app (with "Offer pay & no-tipper alerts" on) keep working. Resubscribe and Insights and the maps are back, built from everything you've recorded. You can export a backup anytime from Settings.
Where do I ask a question or report a bug?
In the community at r/TipperApp. Bugs, questions, feature ideas and your own earnings screenshots all belong there, and the developer reads every post. Say what you were trying to do, what happened, your phone model and the app version from Settings. Free 60-day trial keys for the paid features are posted there as well. Email works too: [email protected].
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