Tab vs Engage SSF
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!
Engage SSF
Report issues, ask questions, or share feedback with your city government directly from your smartphone. Utilize GPS for location tagging and attach photos to your submissions. Receive notifications on the status of your reported actions.
- Submit questions and complaints
- Provide positive feedback
- Use GPS for location tagging
- Attach photos to reports
- Receive action notifications
- Follow and comment on submissions
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Engage SSF lets you contact the City using your smart phone or tablet. You can send us a question, post a complaint about something we are not doing right, or give us kudos for a job well done. Using your device’s GPS, you can upload a specific location (if required) and with the use of its camera, you can attach a picture, as well. Once submitted, report will be routed to the appropriate department within the City and you will be notified when action is taken. Community members can also follow and comment on your submission. Engage SSF makes it easier than ever to reach out to the City!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Engage SSF at 4.6 against Tab's 4.2. Tab's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 72). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Engage SSF holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tab has 1.2K ratings behind it against 72, 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 71% of Engage SSF's.
Tab ships an update every 3 weeks, Engage SSF every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tab | Engage SSF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.2K ratings) | 4.6 (72 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.4% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 72 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | bring10, LLC | City of South San Francisco |
Customer experience
Tab
Engage SSF
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
Engage SSF
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tab
No in-app purchases
Engage SSF
No in-app purchases









