Comparison

Tab vs Cast Along

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

Cast Along

Simplify knitting calculations and track your progress with this app. It offers tools for yarn estimation, sizing, and swatch analysis, alongside a row counter to keep you on track. Focus on your stitches, not the math.

Highlights
  • Yarn calculation and stash check
  • Size finder
  • Swatch analysis
  • Increase/decrease spacing calculator
  • Row and repeat tracking
  • Multiple project counters
  • Project timers
Features
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No more guessing. Just knitting. Counting rows in your head. Recalculating a pattern to fit your gauge. Wondering if you bought enough yarn. Knitting math has a way of pulling your attention away from the knitting itself. Cast Along takes that weight off your shoulders, so your mind can stay on the next stitch, not the next equation. Two things sit at the core of the app: Calculators Real math, worked out for you, not guesswork. • Yarn Sub (New) • Yarn Calculator, with stash-check • Size Finder • Swatch Check • Increase/Decrease Spacing Calculator • Horizontal bust dart instructions Project Row Counters Track every row without losing your place. • Row and repeat tracking as you knit • Multiple counters per project • Grouping counters together • Total row & progress tracking • Project timers • Quick count Cast Along is free right now, while we build alongside the knitting community. When a subscription arrives down the line, it will stay honest and fair, priced like a tool you use every day, not a splurge. No ads.

Screenshots

Tab4 screens
Cast Along4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cast Along at 5.0 against Tab's 4.2. Cast Along also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 65%) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Tab's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 54) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

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

Cast Along 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 54, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Tab's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cast Along's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tab ships an update every 3 weeks, Cast Along every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tab versus Cast Along: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabCast Along
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (1.2K ratings)5.0 (54 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K — better54
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerbring10, LLCGoodknits

Customer experience

Tab

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

Cast Along

All ratings54 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 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

Cast Along

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tab

No in-app purchases

None

Cast Along

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tab free?
Tab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cast Along free?
Cast Along is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tab or Cast Along?
Cast Along is rated higher. Tab averages 4.2 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Cast Along averages 5.0 from 54 ratings.
Do Tab or Cast Along have ads?
Neither Tab nor Cast Along shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tab or Cast Along?
Tab ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cast Along every 8 days. Most recently, Tab was updated on November 6, 2026 and Cast Along on November 5, 2026.

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