Bill splitting guides and app updates
Guides for the bills you share
Choose an app, agree on a split, and follow the steps for your group.
Choose a bill splitting app
Compare free apps, understand tradeoffs, and move from Splitwise.
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- Best free bill splitting apps in 2026: compare plan limits
- Splitwise vs SplitMyExpenses: which app fits your group?
- The best free Splitwise alternative: SplitMyExpenses
- Import your Splitwise data: groups, expenses, debts, and friends
Split bills with roommates and partners
Work out rent, utilities, shared groceries, and unequal splits.
Track group trips and currencies
Keep trip costs together, handle multiple currencies, and settle up.
Split restaurant bills by item
Assign dishes, share discounts, and check tax and tip before saving.
Import expenses and account history
Bring over Splitwise groups, spreadsheets, and bank transactions.
- Import your Splitwise data: groups, expenses, debts, and friends
- Import a spreadsheet directly into a group
- How to link credit cards, debit cards, and bank accounts for auto import
- International date support for uploads!
- View detailed history of your card transaction refreshes
- How to import a saved Mint CSV into SplitMyExpenses
Understand balances and settle up
Review who owes what, record payments, and keep the group in sync.
- How to split expenses and charge friends on Venmo
- Visualize your spending and group debts
- Create a payment without debts!
- Switch between group and friend balance views instantly
- Remind groups and friends to settle up or add expenses
- See expense changes over time with the new Activity log
- SplitMyExpenses 2.0: Shared group expenses and balances
- Find expenses by who paid and who shared the cost
Use the mobile app and explore spending
Add expenses faster, find older purchases, and review category totals.
- iOS and Android apps are now available!
- Add expenses faster with shortcuts and a built-in calculator
- Search expenses without leaving the list
- Explore the expenses behind your spending stats
- Revamped graphs for better insights
- Revamped expense categorization live!
- Dark mode launched
- April updates: Auto categorize expenses, comments, auto hide settled expenses, jump to friend
Latest articles
How to split a restaurant bill by item, including tax and tip
Split a restaurant receipt by what each person ordered. Assign shared dishes, include tax and tip, share discounts, and check everyone’s total before settling.
Bradley BernardOct 10th, 2026How to split rent, utilities, and groceries with roommates
Track roommate bills in one group, choose fair splits for rent and groceries, record who paid, and settle balances without losing the expense history.
Bradley BernardOct 10th, 2026How to split shared expenses as a couple
Compare equal, percentage, and exact splits for shared expenses as a couple. Track who paid, set an agreed ratio, and review balances together.
Bradley BernardOct 10th, 2026Find expenses by who paid and who shared the cost
Use Paid by and Owed by filters to find shared expenses by person. Combine people, dates, and search to review trip costs, roommate bills, and more.
Bradley BernardOct 8th, 2026Split receipts faster with our new simple editor
Assign receipt items to friends in a simple grid, share dishes with one tap, and see what everyone owes. Plus, improved receipt scanning means less manual cleanup.
Bradley BernardOct 6th, 2026Add discounts to itemized receipts
Split receipt discounts with friends using negative line items. Add a coupon or shared discount, choose who benefits, and see each person’s adjusted share.
Bradley BernardOct 4th, 2026