Alternatives
Ibotta alternatives
Ibotta is a cash back app. You add offers from more than 2,600 retailers before you shop, buy the items, then submit your receipt in the app to collect. Once you reach $20 you can cash out to a bank account or a gift card.
Why people look
Why people look for a Ibotta alternative
The reasons that come up most. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on whether your shared costs come with a receipt.
I submit receipts for cash back, then can't find the one I need for a return.
Every receipt stays in your wallet, searchable by store and by item, with return and warranty deadlines counted for you.
Scanning a long grocery receipt is a chore.
At stores that send receipts through Smartbills, the itemized receipt arrives on your phone right after you pay.
I split groceries with roommates and work it out on a calculator.
Open the receipt, tap who had what, and the split is sent to everyone in the group.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to Ibotta
The apps people try instead of Ibotta, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
- 01
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 - 02
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 - 03
Caddle
Caddle pays Canadians for surveys, purchases and reviews. Smartbills keeps your itemized receipts for splitting, returns, warranties and tax credits.
Best forCanadians who want to earn a little by answering surveys and trying products.
Compare it with Smartbills - 04
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.
Compare it with Smartbills - 05
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 - 06
Settle Up
Settle Up tracks group expenses and suggests the fewest payments to square up. Smartbills starts from the store's itemized receipt so the split is already half done.
Best forGroups that share lots of costs with no receipt behind them and want the app to work out the fewest transfers.
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: People who want their receipts kept as records they can use after the purchase.
Smartbills vs IbottaHow this list was put together
These are the apps that come up alongside Ibotta 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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