Alternatives
Caddle alternatives
Caddle is a Canadian app that pays you for answering surveys, buying products and writing reviews, with new opportunities each week. Brands pay for the answers and insights. You cash out by Interac e-Transfer once you've earned $20.
Why people look
Why people look for a Caddle alternative
The reasons that come up most. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on whether your shared costs come with a receipt.
I upload receipts to earn, but I can't find them at tax time.
Medical, childcare, donation and tuition receipts are sorted as they come in, with a running total for the year.
Something broke and I can't prove when I bought it.
Every receipt is searchable by item, and the warranty is counted from the purchase date.
Splitting a shared purchase means a calculator and an awkward text.
Tap who had what on the receipt, and each person sees their share in their free account.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to Caddle
The apps people try instead of Caddle, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
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Checkout 51
Checkout 51 pays cash back on weekly grocery and gas offers. Smartbills keeps each itemized receipt for splitting, returns, warranties and tax credits.
Best forShoppers who check weekly offers and don't mind photographing receipts to earn.
Compare it with Smartbills - 02
Fetch
Fetch pays you points for scanning receipts. Smartbills keeps the itemized receipt as a record you can split, return against and use at tax time.
Best forShoppers who want something back for every receipt and are happy to scan them in exchange for points.
Compare it with Smartbills - 03
Ibotta
Ibotta pays cash back on offers you add before shopping. Smartbills keeps every itemized receipt for splitting, returns, warranties and tax time.
Best forShoppers who plan their grocery runs around offers and want money back for it.
Compare it with Smartbills - 04
Rocket Money
Rocket Money finds subscriptions and can cancel them for you. Smartbills flags them too, and adds the itemized receipt behind every other purchase.
Best forUS households who want a full budgeting app and someone else to handle cancelling subscriptions and negotiating bills.
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Splitwise
Splitwise keeps a tally of who owes whom after you type each expense in. Smartbills starts from the store's itemized receipt, so splitting is tapping what you had.
Best forGroups whose shared costs are mostly amounts with no receipt behind them, like rent, a cabin or gas money, and whose friends already use it.
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Tricount
Tricount makes it painless to log a group trip's costs from a shared link. Smartbills starts from the itemized receipt and keeps it after the trip is over.
Best forA one-off trip where everyone logs what they paid and nobody wants to sign up for anything.
Compare it with Smartbills
Disclosure
And Smartbills, which is ours
Slipping our own product into a roundup without saying so is exactly what makes these pages worthless, so to be clear, this one is ours.
Smartbills
Best for: Canadians who want their receipts kept, split and ready for tax time.
Smartbills vs CaddleHow this list was put together
These are the apps that come up alongside Caddle when people look for a way to split costs, keep receipts or track what they pay for. The order is editorial rather than a ranking, because we don't benchmark apps we don't run, and a scored table written by one app about its competitors isn't evidence. Each entry links to a full comparison with claims specific enough to check.
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