Help Pay Rent vs Split Rent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Help Pay Rent
This app connects landlords and renters with state and local rental assistance programs. It facilitates the application process for emergency rental aid, helping tenants remain housed and ensuring landlords receive payments.
- Access state and local rental assistance programs
- Facilitates landlord applications for aid
- Assists renters in completing applications
- Helps ensure timely rent payments
- Supports housing stability for renters
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State and local programs are distributing billions of dollars in rental assistance to help renters stay housed. If you’re a landlord, you may think of rental assistance as help for renters. But right now, most federal emergency rental assistance programs accept applications from landlords. Where renters can apply, they often need your help to complete the process and make payments to you.
Split Rent
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Split rent with roommates without the monthly argument. Enter the rent, add everyone, and see each person's exact share in seconds. Most splitting apps only divide the total evenly. This one handles the part that actually causes fights: unequal bedrooms and unequal paychecks. Split evenly, by room size, by income, or blend room size and income with a slider until the numbers feel right to everyone. The math stays on screen for the whole household to see, so nobody has to take your word for it. WHAT YOU GET - Each roommate's exact amount and percentage, recalculated the instant you change anything - Four split methods: equal, by room size, by income, or a custom room-size and income blend - A shared bill log for utilities, internet, groceries, supplies, furniture and one-offs, tagged with who paid - Settle up with the fewest possible transfers: the app shows exactly who sends what to whom - Unlimited saved households, so a lease, a sublet and a holiday rental never overwrite each other - A monthly reminder on the 1st to collect everyone's share and log the month's bills PERFECT FOR - Roommates in an apartment where the bedrooms are nowhere near the same size - Couples or households where one person earns far more than the other - Anyone fronting the utility and internet bills and chasing everyone else for money - Sublets, house shares and short-term rentals where people change every few months WHY NOT JUST USE A SPREADSHEET A spreadsheet gives you one fixed formula and breaks the moment someone moves out or the amounts change. Here you switch methods with one tap, drag the blend slider, add or remove a roommate, and every share updates instantly. Room sizes work in square feet or square meters, and amounts follow your device's local currency automatically. PRIVACY Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no servers, no bank login, no ads, no tracking. Incomes and room sizes never leave the device. FULL ACCESS Full Access unlocks the fairness split methods (by room size, by income and the hybrid blend), the shared bill log with settle-up, and unlimited saved households. It is available as a weekly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store settings; the lifetime option is a single payment with no renewal. Add your roommates and this month's rent, then tap By Room Size to see what a fair split really looks like. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? tphuc.work@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Help Pay Rent at none against Split Rent's 3. Help Pay Rent also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Split Rent's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). On price 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. Split Rent sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Help Pay Rent asks for nothing beyond the download.
Help Pay Rent ships an update every 5 months, Split Rent every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Help Pay Rent | Split Rent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ovidiu Lup | Phuc Pham |
In-app purchases
Help Pay Rent
No in-app purchases
Split Rent
- Shared Expenses: Weekly$2.997 Days
- Household Budget: Yearly$14.991 Year
- Who Owes Who: Lifetime$29.99
Questions
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Do Help Pay Rent or Split Rent have ads?
Which is updated more often, Help Pay Rent or Split Rent?
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