Comparison

Tab vs Chronora

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

Chronora

Easily track significant dates with a clean, minimal interface. Count down to future events or count up from past milestones, personalizing each entry with custom colors. Ideal for remembering birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, and other life achievements.

Highlights
  • Count up or down in days
  • Support for multiple events
  • Customizable event colors
  • Clean and minimal interface
  • Accurate day tracking
Features
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Chronora is a simple and elegant way to track the days that matter. Count down to upcoming events or count up from important dates. Add multiple events, personalize them with color, and instantly see how many days remain or have passed. Perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, goals, and life milestones. Features • Count up or down in days • Multiple events • Custom colors • Clean, minimal interface • Accurate day tracking

Screenshots

Tab4 screens
Chronora3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chronora at 5.0 against Tab's 4.2. Chronora also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%). Tab's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.2). 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

Chronora 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 1, 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 Chronora's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tab ships an update every 3 weeks, Chronora every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tab versus Chronora: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabChronora
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (1.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerbring10, LLCArsham Mehrani

Customer experience

Tab

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

Chronora

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Chronora

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tab

No in-app purchases

None

Chronora

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tab free?
Tab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chronora free?
Chronora is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tab or Chronora?
Chronora is rated higher. Tab averages 4.2 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Chronora averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Tab or Chronora have ads?
Neither Tab nor Chronora shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tab or Chronora?
Tab ships an update every 3 weeks, and Chronora every 10 days. Most recently, Tab was updated on October 22, 2026 and Chronora on October 19, 2026.

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