tricount vs PayForMe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
tricount
Easily split bills and track shared expenses with friends, roommates, or partners. Manage group costs for trips, rent, or dinners with real-time overviews and instant payment requests. Stay organized and settle up fairly, even with uneven amounts or multiple currencies.
- Free and unlimited expense tracking
- Fairly split even uneven amounts
- Manage group expenses for trips, rent, and more
- Real-time bill tracking and balance overviews
- Instant payment requests
- Supports multiple currencies
- Offline expense tracking
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Join over 21 million users worldwide who trust tricount to split bills, track expenses, and settle up—free and unlimited. tricount is the easiest way to split costs, manage group expenses, and settle balances with friends, roomies, or your partner. Whether you're organizing a trip, splitting rent, or going out to dinner, tricount helps you stay on top of every bill—fairly and stress-free. Why Choose tricount? • Free & unlimited – No subscription, no hidden fees, no limit on tricounts or expenses • Fair splits – Even for uneven amounts • Great for roomies, couples, friends, or any shared situation • Ideal for cost split on rent, trips, groceries, shared budgets, and more • Real-time bill tracking with clear payback and balance overviews • Send and receive payment requests instantly through the app • Built-in calculator for easy amounts per person • Share expense photos and track everything—even offline • Supports multiple currencies for international trips • Better than spreadsheets—and easier than Splitwise Whether you're planning a getaway, splitting a check, or managing household costs, tricount is the smart, simple way to share expenses and stay organized. Download tricount today – the best way to split, track, and settle group expenses. 100% free, unlimited, and trusted by millions. You can find our Terms and Conditions here: https://tricount.com/documents/terms-conditions
PayForMe
Easily track money lent and borrowed between friends. Manage multiple projects, view balances, and clear debts efficiently. Color-coding helps differentiate users for better organization.
- Track borrowed money
- Manage multiple projects
- View member balances
- Create and update bills
- Clear individual debts
- Color-coded user differentiation
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PayForMe is an app to track borrowing money between friends. It either uses Cospend on your Nextcloud instance or iHateMoney as a backend, and has the following features: - Show listed bills - Create new bills - Balance of project members - Handling several projects - Colorcodes to differentiate users - Update bills - Delete bills - Clearing debt of single members - Setting a default payer on a project basis
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PayForMe at none against tricount's 3. PayForMe also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 65%). tricount's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (7.3K vs 2). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. tricount sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. PayForMe asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for tricount against 5.0 for PayForMe. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tricount has 7.3K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of tricount's written reviews are positive against 82% of PayForMe's.
tricount ships an update every 9 days, PayForMe every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | tricount | PayForMe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7.3K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.3K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 334 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tricount | Jona Koenig |
Customer experience
tricount
PayForMe
Bugs and requests
tricount
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes when adding new expenses
- Incorrect balance calculations for some users
- Sharing/inviting others to a group not always reliable
- Currency conversion issues for certain regions
Requested features
5 requests- Add notes/descriptions for expenses
- Provide expense categorization and reporting
- Enable export of expense data (CSV, PDF)
- Improve split payment options and flexibility
- Introduce a web-based version for desktop use
PayForMe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
tricount
- Premium$3.491 Month
- Premium$9.491 Year
- Small tip$0.99
PayForMe
No in-app purchases
