Comparison

Split vs Fairtabs

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

Head to head
About

Split

Effortlessly track shared expenses with friends, roommates, and family. This completely free application offers all features without ads or paywalls, allowing for easy splitting by various methods and real-time balance updates.

Highlights
  • Split expenses equally, by percentage, shares, or custom amounts
  • Built-in tip & tax calculator
  • Multi-currency support
  • Assign expenses to specific payers
  • Create groups for trips, households, and events
  • Real-time balances and full expense history
  • Sign in with Google or Apple
Features
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Split-Money is the modern, completely free app to track shared expenses with friends—with no limits, no ads, & no paywalls. Every feature is unlocked for everyone, forever. Split expenses with friends, roommates, and family without the frustration of hitting a paywall mid-trip or seeing ads clutter your screen. Split-Money gives you everything you'd need and want in an expense sharing app, entirely for free. Why Split-Money? 100% free—no subscriptions, no ads, no in-app purchases, ever Modern, clean design built for how people actually use their phones Everything unlocked from Day One—no premium tiers Splitting Made Easy Split equally, by percentage, by shares, or by exact custom amounts Built-in tip & tax calculator so you split the real total, not just the subtotal Multi-currency support for trips abroad Assign any expense to whoever paid—not just yourself Stay Organized Create groups for any situation—trips, households, dinners, events Activity feed so everyone can see what's been added or changed Group avatars and cover photos to keep things personal Archive groups when you're done without losing history Always in Sync Real-time balances so you always know exactly who owes what Full expense history that never disappears Sign in with Google or Apple—no password to forget Coming Soon Receipt scanning—just photograph a receipt and we'll do the math Voice dictation—add expenses hands-free AI-powered expense suggestions Stop paying for what should be free. Download Split-Money and split smarter.

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

Split4 screens
Fairtabs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Split at none against Fairtabs's 2. Split also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Fairtabs's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Fairtabs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Split asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Split against 5.0 for Fairtabs. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Split ships an update every 2 weeks, Fairtabs every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Split versus Fairtabs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplitFairtabs
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSahit MamidipakaFairtabs

Customer experience

Split

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fairtabs

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Split

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Fairtabs

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

Questions

Is Split free?
Split is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fairtabs free?
Fairtabs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Split or Fairtabs?
Split and Fairtabs are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Split or Fairtabs have ads?
Neither Split nor Fairtabs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Split or Fairtabs?
Split ships an update every 2 weeks, and Fairtabs every 5 days. Most recently, Split was updated on October 24, 2026 and Fairtabs on October 24, 2026.

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