Comparison

GroupBalance vs Split Bills With Friends

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

Head to head
About

GroupBalance

Easily track and settle expenses for group activities like vacations or trips. Features include partial participation, multiple payers, foreign currency support with exchange rate updates, and group synchronization across devices.

Highlights
  • Track group expenses
  • Settle payments among participants
  • Partial participation in expenses
  • Support for multiple payers
  • Foreign currency recording
  • Automatic exchange rate updates
  • Group synchronization
Features
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Who should pay next? Who owns how much to whom? For everyone who needs to record expenses on group activities and share costs among participants. Now you can easily balance payments on your next holiday, skiing vacation, sailing trip, team outing, ... Super-easy to use, yet full of features: Partial participation on expenses, multiple people per party (e.g. couples or families), split payments, shared cash, record in foreign currencies with automatic exchange rate updates, built-in mini-calculator, and much more. Now with Group Sync: optionally synchronize expenses and payments between multiple devices/users. See video and full manual on our web site.

About

Split Bills With Friends

Easily manage and divide group expenses for parties, trips, or shared living. Create groups, add costs, and split them among participants in various ways. Share groups with friends via a link to collaborate on expenses.

Highlights
  • Create expense groups
  • Split expenses among participants
  • Flexible expense splitting methods
  • Share groups via link
  • Organize party and trip costs
  • Manage house sharing expenses
Features
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The free and easy solution to split bills. Very suitable for party, trip, house sharing etc. FEATURES: 1. Create a group to add expenses. 2. Split all expenses for all participants. 3. Split an expenses in different ways. 4. Share the created group to friends by a link. HOW IT WORKS: Create a group, and share your link with friends, everyone can add expenses to the groups. IN-APP PURCHASE TERMS: - Split Bills Premium is available as 1-month renewable subscription. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at purchase. - Auto-renewable subscriptions will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the initial period of subscription unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Subscriptions may be managed, auto-renewal and turned off by going to your iTunes Account Account Settings after purchase. See https://split-bills-f3c3d.web.app/eula.html for more details.

Screenshots

GroupBalance4 screens
Split Bills With Friends4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Split Bills With Friends at Free against GroupBalance's $9.99. Split Bills With Friends also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). GroupBalance's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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

Split Bills With Friends is free to download; GroupBalance costs $9.99 up front. Split Bills With Friends sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.49 per month. GroupBalance asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GroupBalance ships an update every 4 months, Split Bills With Friends every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
GroupBalance versus Split Bills With Friends: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroupBalanceSplit Bills With Friends
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating—4.9 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLinkeSOFT GmbHJIE WANG

Customer experience

GroupBalance

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Split Bills With Friends

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GroupBalance

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Split Bills With Friends

Subscriptions1
  • Split Bills Premium$1.491 Month

Questions

Is GroupBalance free?
GroupBalance costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Split Bills With Friends free?
Split Bills With Friends is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GroupBalance or Split Bills With Friends have ads?
Split Bills With Friends shows ads; GroupBalance does not.
Which is updated more often, GroupBalance or Split Bills With Friends?
GroupBalance ships an update every 4 months, and Split Bills With Friends every 6 weeks. Most recently, GroupBalance was updated on October 29, 2026 and Split Bills With Friends on October 24, 2026.

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