Help & FAQ

Yes. No ads, no in-app purchases and no subscription. Every feature is available right away.

On iPhone from iOS 15.5 and on Android phones. Get it on the App Store or Google Play. There is no web version to sign in to. Guests can still see their share in the browser, no app needed.

With email and password, with Google, or with Apple on iPhone. After signing in you set up your profile in two short steps. A sample expense then shows you how splitting works.

Tap "+ Expense" on the home screen. Enter the amount, what it was for, who was there and who paid. Before you save, you can already see who owes whom. You can also add an expense straight from a person's or a group's page, and they are already selected.

In three ways:

• Equally: The amount is shared evenly among everyone who was there.
• Custom amounts: You enter how much falls on each person.
• By items: You scan the receipt or type in the items, and everyone gets what they had.

The person who paid doesn't have to be the one entering the expense. So you can also record that Sarah paid.

Open the expense and tap an item. You can take it yourself, give it to someone else, or split it between several people, say a pizza for two. Everyone who was there can help, and everyone sees changes right away. Items nobody has taken yet show as "open" until someone does.

Take a photo of the receipt or pick one from your gallery. The AI recognises the items, prices, shop, date, currency and tip. You check everything before saving and can change any line.

It works best with restaurant bills and supermarket receipts. Lay the receipt flat, make sure the light is good and the whole receipt is in the picture. Handwritten or badly crumpled receipts don't always work, so then you fix things by hand or just enter the total. If the scan got something wrong, tap "Result not correct?". That helps us improve it.

Enter the tip as an amount or just type the new total. With "Split automatically" the app spreads it across the items people have taken, so whoever had more also tips more. Bottle deposits or discounts go in as an item with a minus sign and are subtracted.

Yes. Whoever created or paid for the expense can change the title, amount, currency, payer and participants, and in a group the organizers can too. Everyone who was there can take or add items. When an expense has been changed, the others see a small pencil. If you've already settled up with someone involved, the app points that out.

Yes, more than 30 currencies. Every expense has its own currency. In a group the app converts everything into the group currency, so at the end you see one amount per person. Expenses outside a group stay in their currency, and amounts in different currencies are shown separately. You set your default currency in your profile.

Whenever several expenses belong together: a holiday, a weekend away, a flatshare or a festival. In a group you collect all expenses and settle up once at the end. For a single restaurant bill you don't need a group. If you often spend money with the same people, the app suggests turning them into a group.

Tap "+ New group" on the home screen, enter a name and pick an icon. Add members right away or later. Others join themselves via a link or QR code. Guests without the app can be members too.

Everyone records in the group what they paid. In the "Balances" tab the app shows who pays whom, with as few transfers as possible. Instead of six separate payments between four people, three are often enough. Whoever pays taps "Pay". Whoever receives money can confirm it with "Payment received". Every expense in a group starts with all members included. Anyone who wasn't there is deselected and pays nothing for it.

Whoever creates the group has full rights and can make other members organizers. Organizers can edit the group, add and remove members, change any expense in the group and close the group.

The group disappears from the home screen and stays available under "All groups". All balances in the group are set to zero: whatever was still open counts as settled, even if nobody paid. So settle up first on anything that really still needs paying. You can restore a closed group, but the old open amounts don't come back.

Via "Invite someone" on the home screen. Send a link or show a QR code that the other person scans with their phone. The link is valid for 30 days and works as often as you like. Anyone who shares an expense or group with you is in your list of people anyway.

Yes. Guests join any expense and any group by name, without the app and without signing up. Under "Who was there?" tap "Add a new person". After saving, "Let them know" offers to send the guest their share as a message with a link.

The link opens a page in the browser with all of the guest's open amounts. It is valid for 30 days, and a new link replaces the old one. Payment details like bank account or PayPal are not shown there, so the guest asks you directly. If a guest creates an account later, the link lets them bring all their expenses along.

That's your balance: everything open between the two of you, netted across all expenses and groups. Below it you see "you get" or "you pay", depending on who owes whom. On the person's page you see the full history, with the balance after every expense and every payment.

No. SplitHappens works out who owes whom. You pay outside the app, by bank transfer, PayPal or cash. Then you record the payment with one tap, and the other person gets a notification.

Open the person and tap "Pay". The open amount is already filled in, but you can change it if you only pay part. If you received money, tap "Payment received". If you want to waive the rest, there's "Let off the rest". The app nets the payment against all open expenses and groups between you.

You'll find all payments in the "Activity" tab. Tap the payment to change or delete it.

You add payment details in your profile under "Payment methods". They are stored encrypted on our server. Only people you're connected with can see them: your friends, people in your expenses and in your active groups. They see them when they pay you. They never appear on the guest page.

On our own server at Hetzner in Germany, GDPR compliant. No ads, no ad tracking, no selling of data. You can turn off crash reports and anonymous usage statistics under Profile → Settings → Privacy. More in the privacy policy.

Only the people involved in an expense, and for groups, the group members.

Yes. Under Profile → Export data you get your expenses as a CSV file, for example for a spreadsheet. You can also download all your stored data there as a JSON file.

In the app under Profile → Delete account, or on the delete account page. Your data is deleted. In shared expenses only your name remains, so that everyone else's amounts stay correct.

First check in your phone's settings that SplitHappens is allowed to send notifications. In the app you can switch individual kinds of notifications on and off under Profile → Notifications. On Android, battery saving settings sometimes stop notifications from arriving.

If you signed up with Google or Apple, use the same way again. With email and password, tap "Forgot password?" on the sign-in screen and you'll get an email with a link. If no email arrives, check your spam folder.

Try again with good light, the receipt lying flat and no shadows. For very long receipts it helps to photograph only the part with the items. If it still doesn't work, type in the items by hand or just split the total. With "Result not correct?" you send us the receipt so we can improve the recognition.