Comparison

tab vs Split Bill

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

Head to head
About

tab

Features
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tab-it keeps track of shared expenses on group trips. Add an expense when it happens: who paid, who's in, done. tab-it works out who owes what and shows one simple balance per person. When the trip's over, settle up and you're square. It's free. No ads and no subscription. Everything's included. We made it for our own trips because the alternatives kept charging for basics. WHAT IT DOES โ€ข Equal or exact splits. Two people can pay one bill, and someone who skipped dinner can be left out of that one. โ€ข Per-currency balances. Spend in euros and pounds on the same trip and they stay separate, with no made-up conversion rates. โ€ข Works offline. Add expenses on the plane or up a mountain. They sync when you're back. โ€ข Attach receipt photos to expenses. โ€ข Add people by email. They see the trip when they sign in. โ€ข Push notifications for trip activity, if you want them. โ€ข Settling up records who paid who back, so the trip ends square. PRIVACY No ads, no analytics, no selling data. We collect what the app needs to work and nothing else. You can delete your account in the app at any time. tab-it is open source: github.com/rithwikshetty/tab-it Questions? support@tab-it.app

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Split Bill

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Split a bill between friends in seconds โ€” and know exactly who owes who. Most bill splitters stop at "divide by four." Split Bill keeps a running tally for the whole trip, the whole house or the whole night out, then untangles every debt into the smallest possible set of payments. Instead of six people paying each other back in circles, you get two transfers and everybody is even. WHAT YOU GET - Log an expense, mark who paid, and watch every balance update instantly - Split equally, by shares, by exact amounts or by percent โ€” the cents always add up to the total - One Settle Up screen showing the fewest payments that clear every debt in the group - Separate groups for the trip, the flat and the dinner, each with its own people and history - A full expense history tagged by food, drinks, groceries, transport, stay, activities and shopping, plus an optional weekly settle-up reminder - A tidy who-owes-who summary you can send straight into the group chat PERFECT FOR - Friends on a trip where different people keep covering different things - Housemates sharing groceries, utilities and household costs month after month - Big dinners and nights out where one card pays the whole tab - Group gifts, weddings and events funded from a shared pot WHY NOT JUST USE A SPREADSHEET? Because a spreadsheet never tells you who should pay whom. You still have to work out the transfers yourself, chase the rounding cents, and re-share the file every time someone buys a round of coffee. Split Bill recalculates every balance the moment an expense lands and hands you the answer as a short list of payments โ€” not a grid of numbers. Tick each payment off as it happens and the list shrinks until the group is clear. PRIVACY Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking and nothing uploaded anywhere. The app works with no internet connection at all. FULL ACCESS Split Bill is a premium app. Full access unlocks unlimited groups, the shares, exact-amount and percent split methods, and the complete minimal-transfers settle-up. It is available as a weekly plan, a yearly plan, or a one-time lifetime purchase. The weekly and yearly plans renew automatically until you cancel them in your Apple ID settings; the lifetime option is a single payment that never renews. Create your group, log tonight's dinner, and let Split Bill do the math before anyone reaches for a calculator. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? tphuc.work@gmail.com

Screenshots

tab3 screens
Split Bill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: tab at none against Split Bill's 3. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Split Bill sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. tab asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tab ships an update fortnightly, Split Bill monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
tab versus Split Bill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametertabSplit Bill
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly โ€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size7 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRithwik ShettyPhuc Pham

In-app purchases

None

tab

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Split Bill

Subscriptions2
  • Dinner Tab Sharing Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Friend Debt Tally Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Roommate & Trip IOUs Forever$39.99

Questions

Is tab free?
tab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Split Bill free?
Split Bill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do tab or Split Bill have ads?
Neither tab nor Split Bill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tab or Split Bill?
tab ships an update fortnightly, and Split Bill monthly. Most recently, tab was updated on September 27, 2026 and Split Bill on October 10, 2026.

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