CommonEx vs Check
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
CommonEx
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CommonEx is the simplest way to split shared expenses with friends, family, or travel companions. Whether you're on a group trip, sharing an apartment, or organizing a party β CommonEx keeps everyone's spending clear and fair. HOW IT WORKS Create an event with a primary currency and invite participants. Log every expense as it happens β split it equally or set custom amounts per person. When you're done, CommonEx shows you the final debts layout so everyone knows exactly who owes whom and how much. KEY FEATURES β Create or join events: Set up a shared event in seconds and choose its primary currency. Invite others or join an existing event via a shareable link. β Add participants: Bring everyone on board, even those without the app β just add their name and start tracking. β Flexible expense splitting: Split costs equally among all participants, or customise amounts for each person when the bill isn't even. β Revert expenses: Made a mistake? Easily undo or adjust any recorded expense. β Multi-currency support: Add expenses in currencies other than the event's primary one. CommonEx automatically converts them using current exchange rates. β Final debts overview: See a clear summary of all balances β who owes whom and how much β with minimised transactions. β Share via link: Send a link to your event so anyone can view or join it instantly. PERFECT FOR β Group trips and vacations β Shared households and roommates β Dinners, parties, and outings with friends β Work events and team activities β Any situation where people share costs Stop doing mental math. Download CommonEx and settle up the easy way.
Check
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Dinner for eight, a trip to the mountains, a shared flat, a gift for a colleague. It's always the same story: someone paid for everyone, someone chipped in half, and a week later nobody remembers who still owes what. Check-Check keeps track for you. AN EVENT INSTEAD OF NOTES ON YOUR PHONE Create an event, whether it's a trip, a party or a rented apartment, and add expenses as they happen. Everything the group spends lives in one place, not in a chat thread and not in somebody else's screenshots. A RECEIPT IN ONE SHOT Point the camera at the QR code on a Russian paper receipt and the items load by themselves: names, prices, quantities. All that's left is to mark who took what. No more typing it in line by line. SPLIT IT THE WAY IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED Evenly between everyone, or item by item: wine for three, dessert for one, the taxi halved. You can enter exact amounts when someone paid a bit extra. The app takes any combination and does the math. TWO OR THREE TRANSFERS INSTEAD OF TEN When everyone owes everyone, the list of payments gets long. Check-Check cancels the debts out against each other and shows the shortest way to settle: who pays whom and how much, so the whole thing closes in two or three transfers instead of ten. SETTLEMENTS BOTH SIDES CAN SEE Sent the money? Mark it in the app. The other person confirms it, and the debt closes for both of you. No more "but I did send you that" a month later. INVITE IN ONE TAP Share a link or show a QR code, and the other person joins the event themselves. Anyone without the app can simply be added by hand: expenses count for them exactly like for everybody else. TRY IT WITHOUT SIGNING UP Create an event and start recording expenses right after you install. If you decide to stay, sign in and everything you've recorded moves into your account. WHAT ELSE β’ Expenses grouped by day, so you can see where the trip budget went β’ Categories with icons: transport, cafes, housing, entertainment β’ Your own total and the group total, right there on screen β’ Notifications when a new expense appears or someone marks a transfer β’ Dark theme, no social logins, no ads Check-Check is free. We take no commission and process no payments: you send money the way you always do, and the app only remembers who is square with whom.
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Verdict
CommonEx and Check are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | CommonEx | Check |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | β | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 16.4 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vasilii Shumilov | Emil Sabitov |
In-app purchases
CommonEx
No in-app purchases
Check
No in-app purchases









