Comparison

Help Pay Rent vs Splitly

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Splitly

Features
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Splitting rent, bills and trip costs with flatmates or friends? Splitly tracks who paid, works out who owes who, and settles the whole group up in the fewest payments. Free. No ads. No account. Splitly works completely offline and keeps every group on your phone. HOW IT WORKS Make a group for your flat, your trip or a night out. Add each expense as it happens and pick who paid. Splitly keeps every cent adding up and shows the balances instantly. SPLIT IT ANY WAY - Equally, by exact amounts, by percentage or by shares - Leave someone out of a split when they were not there - Every split reconciles to the cent, no rounding drift SETTLE UP THE SMART WAY - See each person's balance at a glance - Clear everything with the smallest set of transfers, not a tangle of IOUs - Record payments as people pay you back - Share a clean settle-up summary by text or image STAY ON TOP OF IT - Organise expenses by category - Search and filter your whole history - Set the group currency once and forget it PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account and nothing to sign up for. Your groups never leave your device. No ads, no tracking, no subscriptions. PERFECT FOR Flatmates sharing rent and bills, friends on a trip, group dinners, couples, housemates, events and shared projects. Add your first group in seconds and never chase a "you owe me" again.

Screenshots

Help Pay Rent4 screens
Splitly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Splitly at none against Help Pay Rent's shown. Help Pay Rent's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Help Pay Rent versus Splitly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelp Pay RentSplitly
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOvidiu LupChoyo Labs Limited

In-app purchases

None

Help Pay Rent

No in-app purchases

None

Splitly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Help Pay Rent free?
Help Pay Rent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Splitly free?
Splitly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Help Pay Rent or Splitly have ads?
Help Pay Rent shows ads; Splitly does not.

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