PocketDiner vs CheckMate
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.
CheckMate
Effortlessly divide bills among friends after dining out. This application ensures everyone pays their exact share, accounting for tax and tip, to avoid overpaying. Easily share personalized totals for quick repayment.
- Split bills evenly
- Calculate tax and tip
- Share personalized totals
- Organize expenses
- Fast and easy to use
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Always paying when you go out with friends? Split the bill evenly with CheckMate! Based in NYC, CheckMate is an app designed to make splitting the bill fast and easy. Everyone pays their fair share so you don't have to fork over an extra 10, 20, or even 30 dollars just because they didn't pay for tax and tip. Keep everything organized with the features that let you share everybody's personalized total so they can pay you back.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CheckMate at none against PocketDiner's 1. CheckMate also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 months). PocketDiner's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. CheckMate 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 CheckMate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PocketDiner ships an update every 6 months, CheckMate every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PocketDiner | CheckMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Lai | Nickolaos Kontonicolaou-Dits |
Customer experience
PocketDiner
CheckMate
In-app purchases
PocketDiner
- Pocketdiner Ad Free$0.99
CheckMate
No in-app purchases
