Comparison

Cashinator vs Split Expense

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cashinator

Easily track and split shared expenses for trips, parties, or flat shares. This app simplifies complex calculations, handles multiple currencies with up-to-date exchange rates, and allows seamless collaboration without registration.

Highlights
  • Split bills easily
  • Track travel and home expenses
  • Multi-currency support with live exchange rates
  • Collaborate without registration
  • Set budgets and recurring expenses
  • Clear expense evaluations (PDF)
  • GPS location tagging for expenses
Features
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Traveling with friends and need to split expenses? Planning a party, sharing an apartment, or taking a group trip? Then you know the question: Who owes whom, and how much? Cashinator does the math for you! Split expenses with friends – simple and stress-free. Forget complicated spreadsheets and endless calculations. Cashinator makes it easy to track shared expenses, split bills, manage travel costs, and settle up with friends. Add an expense in seconds and instantly see who paid, who owes money, and what the trip costs each person. The easy expense splitter for friends and groups. Cashinator is more than a travel expense tracker. Use it to split costs on vacation, manage shared household expenses, keep track of a group budget, or organize expenses for parties, road trips, festivals, weddings, and projects. More time for your trip. Whether it’s a weekend getaway, a road trip, or a trip around the world, enter expenses in any currency. The built-in currency converter supports more than 160 currencies and converts your travel expenses into your home currency using up-to-date exchange rates. Share expenses without registration or login. Invite friends to your group and use Cashinator together across devices. No account, phone number, or registration required. Simply scan a QR code and start tracking expenses together. Your privacy matters. Simple, powerful features: * Split expenses: Instantly see who owes whom and how much * Settle up: Minimize the number of payments needed to settle the group * Group expenses: Track who paid and how costs are shared * Travel expenses: Keep all trip costs in one place * Budgets: Set spending limits and stay on track * Recurring expenses: Automatically add rent and other regular costs * Households and families: Optimize payments between households * Photos: Attach receipts, bills, or travel photos to expenses * Statistics: See who spent how much * Collaboration: Share your group with friends using a QR code * Unlimited participants: Add as many people as you need * Solo travel: Track your own expenses while traveling or at home * Timeline and filters: See when and where your money was spent * No ads, no subscription * GPS: Track expenses by the places you visited * Reports: Analyze travel costs with charts and PDF reports * Privacy: No registration or login required * Currency converter: Track expenses in more than 160 currencies * Shared cash: Manage a common group fund * Categories: See what you spent on hotels, food, flights, and more * Refunds: Easily record deposits, refunds, and repayments * Settle after your trip: Calculate how everyone can settle their balances * Payment methods: Take credit card fees into account * Offline and online: Track expenses even without an internet connection * Backup: Keep your data safe * Join for free: Friends can join an existing group for free From vacations with friends and family trips to shared apartments, parties, festivals, weddings, and everyday expenses: Cashinator keeps shared spending organized. No spreadsheets. No complicated calculations. Just add your expenses and always know who paid what and who owes whom. Cashinator – the simple way to split expenses, share costs, and settle up with friends!

About

Split Expense

Easily track and split expenses for groups, roommates, travel, or couples. Manage budgets with a clear history of deposits and expenses, and quickly see who owes whom.

Highlights
  • Create unlimited events
  • Offline functionality
  • Simple and clean interface
  • Track balances at a glance
  • Track expenses at a glance
  • Calculate who pays whom
  • Budget tracking with history
Features
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Split will be helpful for: - Roommates splitting rent and apartment bills - Travel trips with friends - Splitting a vacation expenses - Couples tracking budgets - And so much more Features: - Create Events, UNLIMITED - Works OFFLINE - CLEAN and SIMPLE interface, easy to use. - Track BALANCES at a glance. - Track EXPENSES at another glance. - Find out "Who pays who? How much?" with a tap. - Track budget with clear history of deposit/expense.

Screenshots

Cashinator4 screens
Split Expense4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Split Expense at none against Cashinator's 13. Cashinator's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cashinator sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Split Expense asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Cashinator against 5.0 for Split Expense. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cashinator has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cashinator ships an update every 8 days, Split Expense every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Cashinator versus Split Expense: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCashinatorSplit Expense
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (13 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.514.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel MikusChi Chiem

Customer experience

Cashinator

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Split Expense

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Cashinator

One-time13
  • One additional journey$1.99
  • Small Tip$2.00
  • PLUS Upgrade (current journey)$2.99
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  • Three additional journeys$3.99
  • One additional journey PLUS$3.99
  • Medium Tip$4.00
  • Unlimited number of journeys$6.99
  • 200 Express Scans$8.99
  • Three additional journeys PLUS$8.99
  • PLUS Upgrade (unlimited)$8.99
  • Generous tip$10.00
  • Unlimited journeys PLUS$14.99
  • 10 postcards$24.99
None

Split Expense

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cashinator free?
Cashinator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Split Expense free?
Split Expense is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cashinator or Split Expense?
Split Expense is rated higher. Cashinator averages 4.9 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Split Expense averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cashinator or Split Expense have ads?
Neither Cashinator nor Split Expense shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cashinator or Split Expense?
Cashinator ships an update every 8 days, and Split Expense every 3 months. Most recently, Cashinator was updated on September 29, 2026 and Split Expense on September 29, 2026.

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