Comparison

Make It Big vs Tab

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

Head to head
About

Make It Big

Display large, customizable text messages that fill your entire screen. Easily edit text, switch between portrait and landscape modes, and even flash your message with a shake. Store recent messages for quick access.

Highlights
  • Full-screen text display
  • Customizable fonts and colors
  • Portrait and landscape support
  • Shake to flash message
  • Lock Screen Widgets
  • Recent message storage
Features
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Say it without speaking. Turn your iPhone or iPad into a full-screen message with Make It Big. Type what you want to say, then tap to display it in large text that automatically fits your screen. Show a message across a room, communicate in a noisy place, or hold up a name at an airport. Make It Big is also a simple way for Deaf, hard-of-hearing and nonverbal people, and anyone who cannot or prefers not to speak, to share a written message. No ads. No tracking. No account needed. Works offline. TYPE, TAP, SHOW Tap to edit your message, then tap again to hide the keyboard and show it full screen. Short messages make the biggest impression. FOR EVERYDAY MOMENTS Order in a busy café, share a note at a concert, show a pickup sign or communicate somewhere quiet without saying a word. WIDGETS, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Keep your latest message handy with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Use Siri or the Shortcuts app to display a message, or open Make It Big from Control Center. PORTRAIT OR LANDSCAPE Hold your device whichever way works best. Your message automatically resizes when you rotate the screen. YOUR MESSAGE, YOUR STYLE Choose a font and set your text and background colours. Swap the colours whenever you like, and turn haptic feedback on or off. SHOW IT AGAIN Find previous messages in Recents so you can display them again without retyping. Share individual messages as text, or share all your saved messages at once. OPTIONAL FLASH MODE Shake your device to flash between your text and background colours. Adjust the flash speed or turn off shake to flash in Settings. WARNING: Flashing screens may trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. Use flash mode responsibly.

About

Tab

Effortlessly split bills with friends by simply snapping a picture of your receipt. The app automatically identifies items and prices, allowing users to claim their share. It handles tax and tip calculations proportionally, eliminating manual math.

Highlights
  • Receipt scanning
  • Automatic item and price detection
  • Real-time item claiming
  • Proportional tax and tip calculation
  • Shared item splitting
  • Birthday bill splitting
Features
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Tab is the simple way to split a bill amongst friends. Snap a pic of the receipt and tap your items to claim them. Tax and tip are calculated for you. No more back-of-the-napkin algebra or typing in prices by hand! Here’s how it works: - Take a picture of your itemized receipt. Tab automatically detects all the items and prices. - Select which items each person ordered. Everyone that has Tab on their phone can join onto the bill and select their own items - the app keeps everything synced in real-time. - Multiple people can select the same item if they shared it. - Tax and tip are automatically divided proportionally. - If it's someone's birthday, you can split their total evenly among everyone else. - View and share detailed summaries of your past bills Tab has been featured on the Today show, "apps of the year" lists from Buzzfeed, Complex and others, Product Hunt, CNN, and more!

Screenshots

Make It Big4 screens
Tab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Make It Big at 4.8 against Tab's 4.2. Make It Big also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 65%) and ratings volume (6.6K vs 1.2K). Tab's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Make It Big holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Make It Big has 6.6K ratings behind it against 1.2K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Make It Big's written reviews are positive against 65% of Tab's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Make It Big versus Tab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMake It BigTab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.6K ratings) — better4.2 (1.2K ratings)
Positive reviews91.2% of reviews — better65.4% of reviews
Number of ratings6.6K — better1.2K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAn Trinhbring10, LLC

Customer experience

Make It Big

All ratings6,524 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews284 reviews
Positive91.2%
Neutral3.5%
Negative5.3%

Tab

All ratings1,043 ratings
Positive79.8%
Neutral7.4%
Negative12.8%
Written reviews237 reviews
Positive65.4%
Neutral12.2%
Negative22.4%

User reviews

Make It Big

From 6.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple, easy to use
  • 👍 Works well
  • 👍 Helps communicate with deaf/hard of hearing
  • 👍 Convenient for noisy environments
  • 👍 Useful for signaling to friends

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Text input box is too small for editing
  • 🐛 Font size decreases with more text
  • 🐛 No option to save/recall frequently used messages
  • 🐛 No option to mirror/reverse text

Tab

From 1.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Intuitive interface
  • 🚀 Convenient bill splitting
  • 🚀 Accurate receipt scanning
  • 👍 Helpful for group dining

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent receipt recognition
  • 🐛 Inaccurate tax and tip calculations
  • 🐛 Buggy Venmo connectivity
  • 🐛 Limited editing capabilities
  • 🐛 Disappearing bill history

Bugs and requests

Make It Big

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Text input box is too small for editing
  • Font size decreases with more text

Requested features

7 requests
  • Option to resize/adjust text input box
  • Ability to save and recall frequently used messages
  • Mirror/reverse text option
  • Support for right-to-left scripts and cursive languages
  • Text-to-speech functionality
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  • Option to justify text left/right
  • More font and color customization options

Tab

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Incorrect item pricing and totals
  • Tax calculation issues
  • Venmo authorization problems
  • Inability to edit bill names
  • Crashing on older devices

Requested features

7 requests
  • Ability to manually edit tax and tip
  • Option to split items unevenly
  • Detailed receipt breakdown sharing
  • Support for multiple currencies
  • Saved group/friend profiles
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  • Improved Venmo integration
  • Offline bill saving functionality

In-app purchases

None

Make It Big

No in-app purchases

None

Tab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Make It Big free?
Make It Big is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tab free?
Tab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Make It Big or Tab?
Make It Big is rated higher. Make It Big averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6.6K ratings, while Tab averages 4.2 from 1.2K ratings.
Do Make It Big or Tab have ads?
Neither Make It Big nor Tab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Make It Big or Tab?
Make It Big ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tab every 3 weeks. Most recently, Make It Big was updated on November 6, 2026 and Tab on November 6, 2026.

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