Comparison

SplitBills vs Fairtabs

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SplitBills

Features
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SplitBills is the easiest way to split bills, share expenses, and track costs with friends, roommates, or family. Whether it’s a dinner, travel trip or monthly rent, SplitBills makes splitting bills simple, fast and fair. Key Features Bill Splitter: Instantly divide expenses by item or evenly. Expense Tracker: Keep a real-time balance of who owes what. Scan Receipts: Use your camera to capture and auto-fill bills. Group Costs: Manage expenses for roommates, friends, or trips. Settle Up: Mark payments, track shared bills, and clear debts easily. Why Users Love SplitBills SplitBills is designed to be fast, intuitive and social. Perfect for roommates splitting rent, friends tracking dinner bills, or travel groups sharing trip costs. No spreadsheets, no confusion. Just simple transparent cost sharing. Join other users making expense sharing effortless. Download SplitBills and never argue over money again! Privacy Policy: https://splitbillsapp.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Fairtabs

Easily split expenses with friends and roommates. Snap receipts for automatic itemization, track balances, and settle up seamlessly through your preferred payment apps. Manage recurring bills and gain insights into your spending.

Highlights
  • Receipt OCR for automatic data entry
  • One-tap settlement via trusted payment apps
  • Trip expense recaps
  • Running balance per friendship
  • Recurring expense management
  • Spending insights by category and friend
Features
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Split the bill. Keep the friends. Fairtabs is a modern bill-splitting app for trips, roommates, restaurants, and recurring household costs. Snap a receipt, split it cleanly, and settle in one tap with the wallet your friends already use. WHY FAIRTABS — Receipt OCR. Take a photo of any receipt, and we auto-fill the merchant, total, and (when itemised) the line items. Faded thermal paper, foreign-currency menus, hand-written tabs — we read what we can and let you tap to fix anything we missed. — Wallet handoffs that actually work. When it's time to settle up, tap once to open Venmo, PayPal, or Zelle with the exact amount and recipient pre-filled. Fairtabs never sees, holds, or moves your money — the payment happens entirely inside the wallet app you already trust. — Trip Stories. Every trip becomes a clean recap: who paid the most, who's settled, the timeline of the trip in expenses. The kind of thing you actually want to look back at. — Friend ledgers. One running balance per friendship — across direct expenses and shared groups. No more "wait, what about that thing from Paris three months ago?" — Recurring expenses. Rent, utilities, the streaming bundle. Set them once and let them auto-post each month. — Insights. See where the money goes — by category, by friend, by month. Built-in. Not a paywall. GENEROUS FREE TIER 100 expenses and 5 receipt scans every month, all split types (equal, %, shares, itemized), and one running balance with every friend. For most people, that's more than enough — we'll never paywall the basics of splitting a bill. Free includes the occasional in-app ad to keep the lights on. PLUS, AVAILABLE BY SUBSCRIPTION Fairtabs Plus is an optional auto-renewing subscription. Lifts the 100/month expense cap, unlocks unlimited receipt scans, adds expense search across all your tabs and a 6-month spending trend chart, and removes ads. $1.99/month or $17.99/year. Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. PRIVACY YOU CAN ACTUALLY READ We collect what we need to run the app and nothing else. No cross-app tracking. No selling data. Receipt OCR uses Anthropic's Claude API — images are sent for the single inference and not used for training. Full privacy policy: fairtabs.com/privacy. WHO IT'S FOR — Roommates splitting rent, utilities, and groceries — Friends on a trip splitting hotels, dinners, and rideshares — Couples sharing recurring household costs — Anyone who's tired of "you got me back, right?" We built Fairtabs because the existing options got worse, not better. We answer real emails at hello@fairtabs.com. Split the bill. Keep the friends. SUBSCRIPTION Fairtabs Plus — auto-renewing subscription. Available as Monthly ($1.99/month) or Yearly ($17.99/year). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in iOS Settings → Subscriptions → Fairtabs Plus. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fairtabs.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

SplitBills4 screens
Fairtabs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SplitBills at 15.1 against Fairtabs's 26.0. 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. SplitBills sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Fairtabs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
SplitBills versus Fairtabs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplitBillsFairtabs
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBRYAN CHUN KIT TAMFairtabs

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SplitBills

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
2 purchases

Fairtabs

Subscriptions2
  • Plus (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Plus (Yearly)$17.991 Year

Questions

Is SplitBills free?
SplitBills is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fairtabs free?
Fairtabs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SplitBills or Fairtabs have ads?
Neither SplitBills nor Fairtabs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SplitBills or Fairtabs?
SplitBills ships an update every 5 days, and Fairtabs every 5 days. Most recently, SplitBills was updated on October 28, 2026 and Fairtabs on October 31, 2026.

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