Fairtabs vs Split with Tabby
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Split with Tabby
Effortlessly divide restaurant bills by item. Scan your receipt, share a link, and let friends select their ordered items. It handles tax and tip proportionally and facilitates easy repayment through popular payment apps.
- Scan receipts to read items and prices
- Share a link for friends to select orders
- Split shared dishes among participants
- Proportional tax and tip calculation
- Integrates with Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, etc.
- Track payments and get notifications
- Save past tabs for easy reference
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Dinner's over and the check just landed. Tabby splits it by what each person actually ordered. HOW IT WORKS • Scan the receipt. Tabby reads every item and price for you. • Send one link to the table. Friends open it in any phone browser, no app or account needed. They just add a name and email. • Everyone taps what they had. Shared dishes split between the people who shared them. • Tax and tip are split in proportion to what each person ordered. • Friends pay you back with Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, Zelle or Apple Cash. STAY ON TOP OF IT • See who's joined and how much has been paid back. • Get a notification when a friend pays. • Every past tab is saved, so nothing slips through. Tabby never holds or moves your money. Payments go straight from your friends to you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Split with Tabby at none against Fairtabs's 2. Split with Tabby also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Fairtabs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Split with Tabby asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fairtabs against 5.0 for Split with Tabby. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Fairtabs | Split with Tabby |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fairtabs | TechSpeed LLC |
In-app purchases
Fairtabs
- Plus (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Plus (Yearly)$17.991 Year
Split with Tabby
No in-app purchases









