PocketDiner vs Split This Check
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PocketDiner
This app helps you accurately split restaurant bills, especially in group settings. It tracks individual orders, shared items, and even allows for special cases like birthday meals, ensuring fair payment for everyone.
- Track individual and shared orders
- Split bills by item
- Birthday mode for free meals
- Adjustable tax and tip rates
- Add diners from contacts
- Easy access to meal totals
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Never get screwed at lunch again. PocketDiner is not just a mere tip calculator - it's designed to be the do-everything toolkit for those who eat out in an office setting. No one counts dollars and cents when eating with friends, but face it - your coworkers are deadbeats. If you've been to a twenty five person birthday lunch with the folks at work and ended up forty-seven dollars short when the bill came, you'll know what we're talking about. This app is for you, when just dividing by the number people is too simple. PocketDiner Features: - Keep track of what everyone orders and what is shared. - Split the bill and make everyone pay for what they ordered. - Birthday mode lets you designate who eats free and fairly divides their order amongst everyone else. - Adjustable tax and tip rates. - Share food with one person in the group or with everyone in the group and split the cost only for those who need to pay. - Meal and diner bill totals are easily accessible with a simple swipe up - Add diners either from your contacts or manually.
Split This Check
Easily calculate tip amounts and split bills with friends. This tool helps you determine the total cost with tip included, ensuring fair contributions from everyone in your group. Avoid confusion and make dining out with others seamless.
- Tip calculation
- Bill splitting
- Total amount calculation
- Quick and easy to use
- Handles group payments
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When you go out to eat, or go somewhere to be waited on, normally a tip is expected. Easily calculate the tip amount and total amount with tip included using this calculator! Included is also a Check Splitter! Going out with multiple people? Easily calculate how much everyone owes with the tip included! Quick and easy to use, no more guessing on how much to tip calculating totals
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Split This Check at none against PocketDiner's 1. Split This Check also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). PocketDiner's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). 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. PocketDiner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Split This Check asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PocketDiner against 5.0 for Split This Check. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PocketDiner has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PocketDiner ships an update every 6 months, Split This Check every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PocketDiner | Split This Check |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 24 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Lai | Sinnig Media, LLC |
Customer experience
PocketDiner
Split This Check
In-app purchases
PocketDiner
- Pocketdiner Ad Free$0.99
Split This Check
No in-app purchases
