Comparison

FairPay vs Photo Browser

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

Photo Browser

Features
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Photo Browser: External Disk opens the photos and videos on your USB drive, SSD, SD card, NAS or cloud storage right where they are. Nothing is imported first, and there is no account to create. Your photos are never uploaded to us. The app only opens the drives, folders and services you choose. Passwords and keys, if you use any, stay in your device's Keychain. Built for big libraries. Folders with thousands of photos, or many more, open in moments and scroll smoothly, whether they're on a drive plugged into your iPhone or on a NAS across the house. Everything stays in one flow: browse a dense grid, act on many photos at once and check RAW details, with nothing imported. Every place you keep photos USB drives, SSDs, hard drives and camera cards (SD, CFexpress) NAS and shared computers (SMB and WebDAV) OneDrive Storage buckets: Amazon S3, S3-compatible services, Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage Drives you've used before open again with one tap Browse and check Photos, videos, RAW files and Live Photos Camera, lens, exposure and a map of where each photo was taken Sort by date taken, camera, size or name Move, rename and delete on the drive, or save your picks to Photos Remove private info before you share Strip GPS location, capture time and camera serial numbers from photos and videos Save a cleaned copy or overwrite the original. Quality doesn't change Back up your iPhone or iPad Copy your photo library to your own drive, NAS or cloud location Only new photos are copied, and originals, Live Photos and RAW files are kept Also included: Light and Dark appearance, iPad and landscape layouts, and a speed test for your drive. Whether you're checking a camera card after a shoot, going through years of photos on a NAS, or freeing up space on your phone, Photo Browser: External Disk keeps your photos where you put them.

Screenshots

FairPay4 screens
Photo Browser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Photo Browser at daily against FairPay's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FairPay ships an update monthly, Photo Browser daily. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
FairPay versus Photo Browser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFairPayPhoto Browser
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSABAR NIMMAGADDA坤宁 毛

In-app purchases

None

FairPay

No in-app purchases

None

Photo Browser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FairPay free?
FairPay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Photo Browser free?
Photo Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FairPay or Photo Browser have ads?
Neither FairPay nor Photo Browser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FairPay or Photo Browser?
FairPay ships an update monthly, and Photo Browser daily. Most recently, FairPay was updated on October 6, 2026 and Photo Browser on October 3, 2026.

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