Comparison

Split vs Spēnd

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

Head to head
About

Split

Easily divide expenses with friends and track shared costs. This app simplifies group payments for everything from rent to vacations, allowing guests to pay via various methods even without the app. It automates reminders and provides transparent totals for stress-free financial management.

Highlights
  • Split bills with friends
  • Track shared expenses
  • Collect payments instantly
  • Fractional, itemized, and even splits
  • Guest payments via Google Pay, card, Apple Pay
  • Built-in receipt scanning
  • Automatic payment reminders
Features
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Split Mobile - The Modern Way to Split Anything Tired of chasing friends for payments or figuring out who owes what? Split Mobile is the easiest way to split bills, track shared expenses, and collect payments instantly. Whether you’re splitting rent, dinner, drinks, groceries, concert tickets, or a weekend getaway, Split Mobile turns any group payment into a clear, automated split. Use fractional splits, itemized totals, or quick even splits. Guests can pay with Google Pay, card, or Apple Pay, even if they don’t have the app. With built-in receipt scanning, transparent totals, and automatic reminders, you’ll never deal with awkward “I’ll get you next time” moments again. Split Mobile is the smarter way to manage group payments, shared tabs, and real-life costs fast, accurate, and stress-free.

About

Spēnd

Features
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Spēnd splits what a group spends, and tells you where your own money went. SCAN A BILL, SPLIT IT BY ITEM Point the camera at a receipt and Spēnd reads every line off it, item by item, with the tax and the tip. Pick a person, tap the things they ordered, and tax and tip distribute in proportion to what each of you actually had. Anything the lines don't cover lands on whoever paid, so the bill always nets to zero. The scan runs on your phone. Nothing is uploaded to read it, there's no monthly quota, and it works with no signal. FIVE WAYS TO SPLIT Equal, by fixed amounts, by percentage, by shares, or item by item. Equal splits count heads, so a couple sharing one entry owes two shares. Split rules let a household set rent at 75/25 once instead of on every bill. SETTLE UP IN THE FEWEST PAYMENTS Spēnd nets everyone down to the smallest set of transfers, then hands off to Venmo, Cash App, PayPal.Me or Revolut with the amount already filled in. PayPal.Me carries the currency too, which matters when the trip wasn't priced in dollars. BUILT FOR TRAVEL Every expense keeps its own currency and the rate on the day you spent it. Rates refresh daily, cache for offline, and fall back to a rate you type yourself. When the market has moved since the trip, Spēnd shows you what settling at today's rate would cost instead of quietly picking one. WORK TRIPS Turn the splitting off and Spēnd gathers and categorises instead. Mark what you can claim back, and export a PDF report with every line, the exchange rate, and each photographed receipt appended as its own page. It warns you about missing receipts before you send it, not after finance sends it back. HOUSEHOLDS A shared apartment never ends, so Spēnd reads it a month at a time. Square August while September fills up behind it. A payment settles the oldest month first, and a receipt found late reopens the month it belongs to rather than quietly disappearing into this one. SHARE A GROUP, OR DON'T Sharing is opt-in per group and uses the Apple or Google account you already have. Solo use never signs in to anything and works fully offline. CHOOSE THE PAPER IT PRINTS ON Five papers, from cream through kraft to near-black. Three of them are a light and a dark printing that follow your phone on their own, so the ledger reprints itself at sunset. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No Spēnd account, ever. Your ledger lives on your device. Nothing is uploaded to read a receipt, and receipt photos never reach our servers. We run no analytics and no ads. The only thing we hold is a group you choose to share: its expenses, names and payout handles, so every phone in it sees the same ledger. PAY ONCE Two full groups free, with unlimited quick splits. One payment of $4.99 removes the limit, forever, on every device signed in to your Apple ID, and Family Sharing covers the rest of your household. No subscription, no ads, and nothing is feature-gated: the only thing the free tier meters is how many full groups you create. Groups you already made never lock, and export is never gated. ALSO IN THE BOX - Home and Lock Screen widgets showing what you're owed across every group - A cross-group figure, so you know your position without opening anything - Burn rate, category breakdown, and what's sustainable to finish on budget - Recurring expenses, for the bills that arrive on the same day every month - Your ledger on your iPhone and your iPad, through your own iCloud - On iPad, your groups sit beside the one you're reading - CSV export for a spreadsheet, PDF for the group - Share cards that carry no names and no per-person amounts

Screenshots

Split4 screens
Spēnd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Split at none against Spēnd's 1. Split also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Spēnd sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Split asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Split ships an update every 10 days, Spēnd every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Split versus Spēnd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplitSpēnd
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (818 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings818 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSplit Mobile Inc.Dennis Hodgson

In-app purchases

None

Split

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Spēnd

One-time1
  • Spēnd Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is Split free?
Split is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spēnd free?
Spēnd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Split or Spēnd have ads?
Neither Split nor Spēnd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Split or Spēnd?
Split ships an update every 10 days, and Spēnd every 3 weeks. Most recently, Split was updated on October 30, 2026 and Spēnd on October 4, 2026.

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