Splittr - Expense Splitting

17 days, 5 couples, 3 countries, 3 currencies, $7,500 in shared expenses and creative expense splitting throughout. Splittr made the finances of this trip between friends SOOOOO simple. I’ve had trips with 2-3 friends over a weekend or so and used a spreadsheet to track it all. But before going on this trip, I knew I needed something more as my spreadsheet became unwieldy when you had to split things unevenly and/or had to exclude different people for different expenses. Not to mention multiple currencies. Splittr handled it all with ease. It can split expenses by $, %, evenly, a weighting, or any combination of these. I merely took a picture of the receipt when an expense was incurred and either entered it on the spot into Splittr (took well less than a minute even with the OCD double checking I do), or that night. It gives a complete report of each expense by person/couple showing what each paid and was allocated for the expense. So complete transparency for all. Also figures out the most expedient way to settle up to minimize transactions between parties. Can’t say enough good things about this app.

We travel often with friends. In the old days before Splittr we would write down every expense and who paid for what. It was painful to settle up at the end of the journey, and we probably made a lot of mistakes. We read about Splittr in a news article when it was quite new and have been enthusiastic users ever since. Early on there were a few things the app couldn’t do for us, and I corresponded with Raphael. He was so receptive to the feedback, and the app now has all the features we need. I keep the “books” on Splittr when we travel, but the whole group loves the app as much as I do. Love being able to email everyone a statement at the end of the trip so everyone can check everything over. It’s truly a great, great app.

We have used splitter for 4+ years & really like it. It is great for keeping track of your own expenses on a trip or splitting expenses with friends on a trip. In the past I think R, the developer, has been very helpful with problems & responsive to suggestions. That doesn’t appear to the case as much probably due to the volume of users. Also ads have recently become an integral part of the app, which I understand due to the need for income. However they come with sound that can’t be turned off easily. This causes problems if you are in a public space or in a room with someone that is sleeping. It would be great to be able to turn off all sound for the app in the future R.

With 8 of us taking a trip to Europe I wanted something to track expenses because it was 2-3 of us paying for most things with the knowledge that we would make it right with each other after the break. The reason I like this app over others is because not everyone cares to login so I needed something that can track “virtual people” as well as people that want to login. What I think should be improved is the “settling up” feature. The report is good but it confuses everyone with the way it’s done now and no effective way to double check that it’s correct. But it does let you export the report to CSV/PDF to manipulate so that helps.

I have used this app a number of times over the past couple of years. Last time was a few months ago. We just started a trip and we’re surprised to find out that the current version is much less intuitive than previously. This is a trap app developers get into: Keep throwing requirements in and a previously simple and graceful app that did one thing well now does many things-poorly. To be clear, this used to be simple and intuitive and is now inscrutable. Clearly little or no user involvement before release.