billy vs Split
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
billy
Effortlessly split restaurant bills by scanning receipts. The app uses OCR to analyze items and allows easy assignment to individuals with color coding, calculating each person's total.
- Scan restaurant receipts
- OCR receipt analysis
- Assign items to people
- Color-coded item assignment
- Calculate individual totals
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Use billy to scan your restaurant receipts and split the bill easily! Just center the receipt in your screen around the items grid, and snap a picture. billy will scan the receipt and analyze it using OCR technology. Then, assign the items to different people using color coding, and get the total for each person. You can snap a live picture or load an existing image from your gallery.
Split
Effortlessly divide shared expenses by scanning receipts. Assign items to individuals, automatically calculate tax and tip, and track all your splits. Ideal for roommates, friends, and group travel.
- Instant receipt scanning with AI
- Item-by-item assignment
- Automatic tax and tip calculation
- Split history tracking
- No signup required
- Ad-free and no in-app purchases
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Split - Receipt Scanner makes dividing bills fair and simple. SCAN & SPLIT IN SECONDS Just snap a photo of your receipt and our smart scanner identifies all items automatically. No more manual entry or confusion about what's what. FAIR DIVISION Assign items to the right people with a simple tap. Only pay for what you ordered, including a fair share of the tax and tip. EASY TRACKING Keep a history of all your splits so everyone knows who paid what. Perfect for roommates, friends, couples, and group trips. SIMPLE FEATURES: • Instant receipt scanning with AI recognition • Item-by-item assignment to different people • Automatic tax and tip calculation • Clean, intuitive interface • No signup or account required • No ads or in-app purchases Never argue about bills again. Download Split - Receipt Scanner and make shared expenses stress-free.
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Verdict
billy and Split both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Split's written reviews are positive against 25% of billy's. Split also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). billy's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for billy against 5.0 for Split. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Split has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 25% of billy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Split's.
billy ships an update every 2 months, Split every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | billy | Split |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Berlin | Matthew James Neto |
Customer experience
billy
Split
In-app purchases
billy
No in-app purchases
Split
No in-app purchases
