Group Cost Split vs Mates Away
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Group Cost Split
Easily split bills and track shared expenses with friends and roommates. Create groups, add costs, and see who owes what without manual calculations. Ideal for trips, shared living, or casual outings.
- Create and manage groups
- Add and track expenses
- Calculate who owes what
- Minimize settlement transactions
- Sync expenses across group members
- Generate email reports
- Support for multiple currencies
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Cost Split is the best bill-splitting app to share IOUs and split expenses with friends to make sure that everyone gets paid back. Dividing expenses/bills with friends? Simply create a group and add members. Add expenses and free yourself from managing too many receipts. Track balances at any time. Know whom you need to pay or take and how much without any calculations. Use Cost Split to Start Trip Expenses Calculator & Bill Split with roommates, to figure out costs for a group vacation, or just to remember when a friend spots you for lunch. Pay Your Restaurant and Bar Bills From Your Phone Easy splitting of group expenses.The simplest way to calculate who owes what. Cost Split keeps track of your gang’s expenses and IOUs – great for travelers, friends, couples, and others. It shows who should pay next to keep the balance. It also calculates how you should settle at the end of the trip and minimize the number of transfers. All expenses are backed up and synced across the group so each member can see them. This app will help you settle your debts and emotions. Cost Split is the most versatile of all the bill splitter apps on the app store and fits most situations where you need to split costs between multiple people. You can create groups with various friends and divide up what each person owes. Cost Split helps to divvy up travel expenses on a group vacation. Budget and Bill Organizing • Organizing bills by week, month, and year as well as by categories • Schedule the payments and recurring payments • Payment alerts • Calendar view for expense and income • Calendar budget forecasting Split cost Key features: Fast and easy to use Attach photos to expenses and sync them as well Push Notifications when someone updates your groups Split expenses unevenly (either by amount or coefficient) Transfer support (money transactions like loans and paybacks) Payback calculations (who should pay what to whom?) Intelligent payback algorithm - minimize the number of transactions by entering an amount you don't care about E-mail reports (list of expenses, person summary, payback plan, and currency information) Multiple currencies - download currency rates, intelligent localized currency support Covers many use cases (even split, split by weights, multiple people paid, incomes, etc.) Easy group sharing via a link or to nearby devices Many currencies and exchange rates No need for every group member to download the app Member statistics & transactions filter Notifications about changes and history Read-only access Widget & shortcuts for quick expenses Translated into many languages Focus on a great design and user experience Plus Our Extra Features: - Tips calculation - Tax calculation - Equal bill splitting - Unequal bill splitting (super sleek! the best out there) - Local currencies support - Edit items (long-press an item to edit) - Save/load groups - Save/load tax presets - Quantity option
Mates Away
Easily track shared expenses and manage group finances for trips. Assign who paid for what and calculate individual balances to settle debts fairly.
- Create and manage trips
- Invite fellow travelers
- Add shared bills
- Split bills equally or by share
- Track who owes what
- Reconcile balances at trip end
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Mates Away willl help you track who pays for what and how much everybody owes at the end of a trip. Adding Trips: Create a new Trip each time you and your mates go away. Invite fellow travellers to join the trip, or add them manually. Add bills to track your shared expenses. Adding Bills: Add a new bill every time there's a shared expense. Bills are used to track who picked up the bill, and how much each person owes. You can split the bill equally or specify anyone's individual share. The Reconcile tab will work it all out and shows who owes what, at the end of the trip.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mates Away at every 2 weeks against Group Cost Split's every 3 months. Group Cost Split's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Group Cost Split ships an update every 3 months, Mates Away every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Group Cost Split | Mates Away |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Incipient Infotech Pty Ltd | Richard Clarke |
Customer experience
Group Cost Split
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In-app purchases
Group Cost Split
No in-app purchases
Mates Away
No in-app purchases
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