Tab vs CheckHero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Receipt scanning
- Automatic item and price detection
- Real-time item claiming
- Proportional tax and tip calculation
- Shared item splitting
- Birthday bill splitting
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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!
CheckHero
Effortlessly manage group dining expenses. Digitize receipts, assign items to individuals, and split the total tab accurately. Guests can contribute simultaneously without needing an account, and everyone receives an itemized receipt.
- Digitize receipts
- Assign items to guests
- Co-Op mode for simultaneous contribution
- Itemized receipts for guests
- No account required for guests
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CheckHero helps you own the bill-splitting process when dining out with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. Digitize your receipt, add your guests, and split up the tab according to what everyone had. With Co-Op mode, you and your guests can all contribute simultaneously - no app or account required. When you're done, send your guests their own itemized receipt for their records. We're just getting started - let's make social dining more convenient and transparent for everyone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CheckHero at 5.0 against Tab's 4.2. CheckHero also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%). Tab's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 15). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. CheckHero sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Tab asks for nothing beyond the download.
CheckHero holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tab has 1.2K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Tab's written reviews are positive against 100% of CheckHero's.
Tab ships an update every 3 weeks, CheckHero every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tab | CheckHero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.2K ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | bring10, LLC | Marwan Sulaiman |
Customer experience
Tab
CheckHero
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
CheckHero
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tab
No in-app purchases
CheckHero
- CheckHero Credits$1.00
- CheckHero Credits$2.00
- CheckHero Credits$3.00
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- CheckHero Credit$5.00
- CheckHero Credit$8.00
- CheckHero Credit$15.00
