Comparison

Tab vs Enginehire App

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

Head to head
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!

About

Enginehire App

This platform streamlines operations for staffing agencies. It allows clients to post job requests and provides staff with real-time notifications, job acceptance, scheduling, and time tracking capabilities.

Highlights
  • Client job request submission
  • Staff notifications for new jobs
  • Job acceptance and scheduling
  • Hours worked tracking
  • Staff and client management
Features
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Enginehire is a platform that helps staffing agencies manage their staff and clients. Clients can submit job requests and staff can receive notifications about new job requests, accept jobs, view their upcoming jobs, and track their hours worked.

Screenshots

Tab4 screens
Enginehire App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Enginehire App at 4.7 against Tab's 4.2. Enginehire App also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Tab's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 80) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

Enginehire App holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tab has 1.1K ratings behind it against 80, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Tab's written reviews are positive against 60% of Enginehire App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tab ships an update every 3 weeks, Enginehire App weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tab versus Enginehire App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabEnginehire App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (1.1K ratings)4.7 (80 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.2% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.1K — better80
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerbring10, LLCEnginehire Inc.

Customer experience

Tab

All ratings1,043 ratings
Positive79.8%
Neutral7.4%
Negative12.8%
Written reviews234 reviews
Positive66.2%
Neutral12.0%
Negative21.8%

Enginehire App

All ratings80 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral3.8%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Bugs and requests

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

Enginehire App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tab

No in-app purchases

None

Enginehire App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tab free?
Tab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Enginehire App free?
Enginehire App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tab or Enginehire App?
Enginehire App is rated higher. Tab averages 4.2 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while Enginehire App averages 4.7 from 80 ratings.
Do Tab or Enginehire App have ads?
Neither Tab nor Enginehire App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tab or Enginehire App?
Tab ships an update every 3 weeks, and Enginehire App weekly. Most recently, Tab was updated on October 13, 2026 and Enginehire App on October 2, 2026.

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