Tricount is built to get a group logging costs in seconds, with no sign-up. Smartbills is built around the receipt. A bill from a connected restaurant or store arrives itemized and can be split by what each person had.
At a glance
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.
Best for
Friends who want to split restaurant and store bills by what each person had, and keep the receipts afterwards.
Where it's stronger
Best for
A one-off trip where everyone logs what they paid and nobody wants to sign up for anything.
Where it's stronger
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Side by side
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Where the bill comes from
Splitting item by item
Joining a group without an account
Balance clears when the money arrives
Receipts kept for returns, warranty and tax
Built for a one-off trip
No need to switch everyone at once. Settle what's open in the old app, then start the next shared bill in Smartbills.
Settle an open Tricount in Tricount. Start the next trip in Smartbills instead of moving one halfway through.
That's how a store that uses Smartbills's receipt finds you while you're away.
Add the people going. Anyone not signed up yet can still get their share by text or email.
The cabin, the car rental, the gas. Anything with an amount can be split, evenly or by share.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside Tricount.
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.
Read the comparisonSplid 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.
Read the comparisonSettle 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.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Split a bill by what each person actually had, starting from the receipt already on your phone, and the balance clears when a friend pays you back.
The Smartbills receipt wallet for everything you buy: itemized receipts, email receipts you upload, and photos of the paper ones.
Digital receipt software that turns every sale at your POS into an itemized electronic receipt, hosted online and delivered by app, SMS, email or API.
Get started
Get the app for free, pay as usual, and tap what you had. Your friends see their share in their own free account.
