PocketDiner vs SplitCheck Bill Split
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.
SplitCheck Bill Split
Effortlessly split restaurant bills, calculate tips, and apply coupons. This app minimizes data entry to quickly determine what each person owes, even with shared items and tax.
- Quick item entry
- Assign items to individuals
- Split items among multiple people
- Proportional tax calculation
- Tip calculation
- Coupon application
- Detailed split breakdown
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SplitCheck – Check Splitter / Tip Calculator There may be other apps that allow you to split a check among different parties, but this app was designed to allow you to quickly enter your check and get the results fast and accurately. It does one thing and does it well. You don’t want your bother-in-law leaving the table before he knows what he owes. No more wondering why we’re still $5.00 short. Enter items from your restaurant check into SplitCheck. As you enter an item’s price, another line is automatically entered below, ready for you to touch and enter that next item. The goal of the data entry method was to minimize ‘touches’ so data can be entered fast and easily. Enter who purchased the item next to the price of the item, either as you go or after all the items have been entered. Use initials, names, or numbers to make the entry easy. (It is case insensitive to make it even easier.) If an item was split, enter the same names or initials separated by a space. Depending on how many shared items are entered 50 or more payees can be entered! If an item is split among all parties, you can leave the payee’s box blank and the program assumes that the item is to be split among all uniquely entered payees. Touch the ‘Tax’ button to enter the tax amount. The tax is proportionately calculated and applied based on the amounts each person spent. Use the spinner to select a tip amount. The tip for each person is shown separately. You can even apply a coupon value to one person or split among two or more people. Enter the value of the coupon and press ‘Coupon’. As with other entries, the value of the coupon can be assigned to one or more payees. (The tip will be calculated based on the bill without the coupon value subtracted.) At any time touch ‘Show Splits’ to display how much each payee owes. The results are sorted by name with the bill, tip and total displayed for each. Touching ‘Details’ displays the breakdown for each payee. 1.5 Initial Release
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PocketDiner at Free against SplitCheck Bill Split's $0.99. PocketDiner also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 33 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). SplitCheck Bill Split's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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
PocketDiner is free to download; SplitCheck Bill Split costs $0.99 up front. PocketDiner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SplitCheck Bill Split 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 SplitCheck Bill Split. 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. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PocketDiner ships an update every 6 months, SplitCheck Bill Split every 33 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PocketDiner | SplitCheck Bill Split |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 33 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Lai | The Software Experience |
Customer experience
PocketDiner
SplitCheck Bill Split
In-app purchases
PocketDiner
- Pocketdiner Ad Free$0.99
SplitCheck Bill Split
No in-app purchases









