Alternatives
Tricount alternatives
Tricount is a group expense app built around trips, weekends away and shared events, and it has been owned by the European bank bunq since 2022. Anyone joins a group from a shared link without creating an account, adds what they paid, and Tricount works out the balances and who should pay whom.
Why people look
Why people look for a Tricount alternative
The reasons that come up most. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on whether your shared costs come with a receipt.
On a trip, whoever paid has to remember to log the expense, and half of them get logged days later from memory.
Pay with a connected card at a connected restaurant or store and the receipt is in the app before you've put your wallet away.
Group dinners get split evenly because breaking out who had what is too much work on a phone.
The receipt arrives with its items. Each person taps theirs and tax and tip follow what they ordered.
Once the trip is settled, the receipts are gone, including the one for the jacket you might need to return.
Receipts stay in your wallet after the split, ready for a return, a warranty claim or tax time.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to Tricount
The apps people try instead of Tricount, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
- 01
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 - 02
Splid
Splid is a quick, no-account way to split group costs. Smartbills starts from the itemized receipt, splits it by what each person had and keeps it afterwards.
Best forA group that wants the simplest possible shared tally, with no accounts and no connection needed.
Compare it with Smartbills - 03
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 - 04
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 - 05
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 - 06
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
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: Friends who want to split restaurant and store bills by what each person had, and keep the receipts afterwards.
Smartbills vs TricountHow this list was put together
These are the apps that come up alongside Tricount 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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