Comparison

FairPay vs Tabby

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

Head to head
About

FairPay

Effortlessly divide group bills with this app. Simply scan your receipt, add friends, assign items, and get a fair, mathematically calculated split of costs, tax, and tip.

Highlights
  • AI-powered receipt scanning
  • Automatic item and price extraction
  • Easy friend addition
  • Tap or drag item assignment
  • Proportional tax and tip distribution
  • One-tap export of breakdown
Features
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Stop doing math at the dinner table. Welcome to FairPay: Scan and Split! The fastest, most hassle-free way to divide group bills without the headache. We’ve all been there: You go out to dinner with a large group, everyone orders different dishes, and when the check arrives, chaos ensues. Figuring out exactly who owes what—especially when trying to fairly calculate tax and tip—can ruin the end of a great night. FairPay does the heavy lifting for you in four simple steps: Snap a Photo: Take a picture of your receipt and let our AI instantly extract all the items and prices. Add Your Friends: Quickly add everyone who shared the meal. Assign Items: Simply tap or drag items to the person who ordered them. Shared an appetizer? Split it down the middle! Get the Fair Split: FairPay automatically calculates each person’s exact share, mathematically distributing the tax and tip proportionally based on what they actually ordered. Key Features: Lightning-Fast Receipt Scanner: Powered by advanced AI to accurately read complex, crumpled, or long receipts. Proportional Math: Stop splitting the tip evenly when someone ordered a salad and someone else ordered a steak. Tax and tip scale automatically. Easy Exporting: One tap to share the final breakdown with the group via text so everyone knows exactly what to pay. Focus on the meal, not the math. Download FairPay today and make group dining effortless!

About

Tabby

Features
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Tabby helps you split restaurant bills without the awkward math. Scan a receipt or enter items manually, add friends, assign each item to the right people, include tax and tip, and see clear totals for everyone. If a receipt is crumpled or poorly formatted, you can highlight the parts that matter so Tabby can still help pull out the right items and prices. When the split is ready, Tabby can generate settlement messages with your payment handles so friends know exactly what to send back. Features: - Scan restaurant receipts or add items manually - Highlight messy, crumpled, or poorly formatted receipts - Split individual items across multiple people - Add tax and tip to the final totals - Save friends for faster future splits - Share review links so friends can check their own items - Lock a split and generate settlement messages - Track who has paid you back Privacy: - Receipt scanning is processed on your device - Your saved friends, payment handles, and local split history stay on your device - When you create a review link, the split details needed for friend review are uploaded so friends can open the shared link - Review links are meant for short-term collaboration, not permanent public records - Tabby does not use your receipt data for advertising Tabby is built for dinners, drinks, takeout nights, group meals, and any shared restaurant bill where one person pays and everyone needs to settle up.

Screenshots

FairPay4 screens
Tabby4 screens

Verdict

The call

FairPay and Tabby are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
FairPay versus Tabby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFairPayTabby
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB27 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSABAR NIMMAGADDAROOSHI SUDESH PATIDAR

In-app purchases

None

FairPay

No in-app purchases

None

Tabby

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FairPay free?
FairPay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tabby free?
Tabby is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FairPay or Tabby have ads?
Neither FairPay nor Tabby shows ads.

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