Comparison

Split It vs Split Bills With Friends

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

Head to head
About

Split It

Easily track and divide shared expenses for groups on trips, nights out, or shared living situations. Avoid manual calculations and keep track of who owes whom, simplifying debt settlement.

Highlights
  • Create expense groups
  • Add and track expenses
  • View participant balances
  • Calculate payback
  • Minimize settlement transactions
  • iMessage integration
  • Push notifications
Features
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Split It makes it easy to keep track of group expenses and split bills. Stay on top of the expenses made by the group and settle up debts. The app is perfect for a group on vacation, a night out with friends, roommates living together,… No more napkin calculations. No more keeping receipts. No more complicated spreadsheets. It’s super simple, so you can relax. HOW IT WORKS: 1. Create an expense group 2. Add expenses. Indicate who paid and who participated 3. View the expenses, everyone’s balance and who owns whom 4. Settle up and keep everyone happy It couldn’t be more easy. FEATURES: - No accounts needed - Create an expense group and add expenses - Great overview of each participant’s balance - Payback calculation: check who owns whom - Check who is next to pay - Settle up depts - Find out the total costs - Intelligent algorithm to minimise the number of transactions to settle up - iMessage integration with a summary in the conversation - Push notifications to keep the group up to date - Send a reminder to your group - Anyone in the group can add expenses - Super fast and easy to use interface - Support for many currencies PRICING: It’s totally free to participate in a group. The first group you create is free as well. To create more groups, a very small one time purchase is required. This will help us to improve the app. Thank you for your support.

About

Split Bills With Friends

Easily manage and divide group expenses for parties, trips, or shared living. Create groups, add costs, and split them among participants in various ways. Share groups with friends via a link to collaborate on expenses.

Highlights
  • Create expense groups
  • Split expenses among participants
  • Flexible expense splitting methods
  • Share groups via link
  • Organize party and trip costs
  • Manage house sharing expenses
Features
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The free and easy solution to split bills. Very suitable for party, trip, house sharing etc. FEATURES: 1. Create a group to add expenses. 2. Split all expenses for all participants. 3. Split an expenses in different ways. 4. Share the created group to friends by a link. HOW IT WORKS: Create a group, and share your link with friends, everyone can add expenses to the groups. IN-APP PURCHASE TERMS: - Split Bills Premium is available as 1-month renewable subscription. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at purchase. - Auto-renewable subscriptions will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the initial period of subscription unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Subscriptions may be managed, auto-renewal and turned off by going to your iTunes Account Account Settings after purchase. See https://split-bills-f3c3d.web.app/eula.html for more details.

Screenshots

Split It4 screens
Split Bills With Friends4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Split It at none against Split Bills With Friends's shown. Split It also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Split Bills With Friends's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Split It sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Split Bills With Friends sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Split It against 4.9 for Split Bills With Friends. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Split It ships an update every 2 months, Split Bills With Friends every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Split It versus Split Bills With Friends: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplit ItSplit Bills With Friends
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings)4.9 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings414 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFanatic DevelopmentJIE WANG

Customer experience

Split It

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Split Bills With Friends

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Split It

One-time1
  • Unlimited Group Creations$0.99
1 purchases

Split Bills With Friends

Subscriptions1
  • Split Bills Premium$1.491 Month

Questions

Is Split It free?
Split It is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Split Bills With Friends free?
Split Bills With Friends is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Split It or Split Bills With Friends?
Split Bills With Friends is rated higher. Split It averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Split Bills With Friends averages 4.9 from 14 ratings.
Do Split It or Split Bills With Friends have ads?
Split Bills With Friends shows ads; Split It does not.
Which is updated more often, Split It or Split Bills With Friends?
Split It ships an update every 2 months, and Split Bills With Friends every 6 weeks. Most recently, Split It was updated on September 26, 2026 and Split Bills With Friends on October 9, 2026.

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