Comparison

Tab vs Tabby

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

Tabby

Features
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Tabby helps you split restaurant bills without the awkward math. Scan a receipt or enter items manually, add friends, assign each item to the right people, include tax and tip, and see clear totals for everyone. If a receipt is crumpled or poorly formatted, you can highlight the parts that matter so Tabby can still help pull out the right items and prices. When the split is ready, Tabby can generate settlement messages with your payment handles so friends know exactly what to send back. Features: - Scan restaurant receipts or add items manually - Highlight messy, crumpled, or poorly formatted receipts - Split individual items across multiple people - Add tax and tip to the final totals - Save friends for faster future splits - Share review links so friends can check their own items - Lock a split and generate settlement messages - Track who has paid you back Privacy: - Receipt scanning is processed on your device - Your saved friends, payment handles, and local split history stay on your device - When you create a review link, the split details needed for friend review are uploaded so friends can open the shared link - Review links are meant for short-term collaboration, not permanent public records - Tabby does not use your receipt data for advertising Tabby is built for dinners, drinks, takeout nights, group meals, and any shared restaurant bill where one person pays and everyone needs to settle up.

Screenshots

Tab4 screens
Tabby4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Tab at 12.0 against Tabby's 15.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tab versus Tabby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabTabby
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB27 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developerbring10, LLCROOSHI SUDESH PATIDAR

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

Tabby

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tab

No in-app purchases

None

Tabby

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tab free?
Tab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tabby free?
Tabby is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tab or Tabby have ads?
Neither Tab nor Tabby shows ads.

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