Billr alternative — Split The Bill

What Billr is for

Billr was built by a group of students to solve a very specific, very real problem: you're at a restaurant, six people ordered different things, one bottle of wine got shared, and nobody wants to do the math or "just split it evenly" when one person had a $40 steak and another had a side salad.

You add each diner, tap the items they ordered, mark the shared ones, and Billr divides tip and tax proportionally and tells everyone their number. Then you text or email the breakdown. Nobody else needs the app. For that moment — the check has arrived, the table is waiting — it's a clean, focused tool, and the item-level accuracy is the whole point.

What it deliberately doesn't do is anything after that check is paid. There's no saved group, no history, no receipt scanning, no notion of "we'll settle up at the end of the trip". Each check stands alone. That focus is a feature for pure at-the-table use and a wall the moment your splitting spills past one meal.

Core differences at a glance

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Both apps do item-level splits well. Assigning specific dishes to specific people, handling a shared bottle, dividing tip and tax proportionally — this is exactly what Billr is for, and Split The Bill does it too. If per-item accuracy is all you need, you're covered either way.

Split The Bill adds a camera step. Instead of typing each line off the receipt, snap a photo and the items, tax, and total are read for you; you just confirm who had what. On a long table with a two-column receipt, that's the difference between 20 seconds and a few minutes of thumbing in numbers.

Split The Bill remembers. Groups, running balances, and recurring expenses mean the same crew's dinners, rent, and utilities accumulate into one "who owes whom" instead of a fresh from-scratch split every time. Billr has no persistence by design — every check starts empty.

Split The Bill hands off the payment. A settle-up tap opens Venmo / PayPal / Revolut / Cash App / Wise / SEPA QR with the amount prefilled. Billr tells everyone their number; actually moving the money is on you.

Billr wins on being frictionless at the table and iOS-native. No account, no signup, and a mature single-screen flow. If you never want anything more than "divide this one check", that simplicity is the whole appeal.

Where Billr is genuinely the better pick

Pure at-the-table splitting, nothing more. If your bill-splitting is always "the check just came, divide it, done", Billr's single-purpose flow has less to think about than a full app with groups, recurring expenses, and reports.

You want a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Billr is a small one-off App Store purchase with no recurring cost and no accounts. Split The Bill has a free tier and a $7/mo Pro tier; if you object to subscriptions on principle and only need the restaurant case, Billr's pricing model may suit you better.

You and your table are all on iPhone and offline is fine. Billr is a local iOS app — it needs no connection to divide a check. Split The Bill's web app is online-first for full features. If you're regularly splitting checks somewhere with no signal, that's a point for Billr.

Who should pick Split The Bill

Switch, or add Split The Bill alongside, if any of these match:

You're tired of typing the receipt. AI receipt scan reads the line items, tax, and total from a photo. The math never runs through the AI — only the reading does — so totals stay exact to the cent; you just assign who had what.

The same people split things repeatedly. Roommates, a partner, a regular travel crew. Persistent groups + running balances mean you settle when it's convenient, not after every single meal, and recurring expenses handle rent / utilities / subscriptions automatically.

Not everyone is on an iPhone. Split The Bill runs in any browser — mobile Safari, Chrome, a laptop — and a public link lets someone view their share with nothing installed. Billr is iOS-only.

Bills cross currencies. Split a check in EUR and let a peer settle in USD; balances reconcile correctly. Billr is single-currency.

You need the numbers later. CSV export drops every item, bill, and share into a spreadsheet for reimbursements, roommate bookkeeping, or a trip wrap-up. Billr's output ends at the shared text/email.

How to move from Billr to Split The Bill

There's nothing to migrate — Billr doesn't store data between checks, so there's no history to carry over. You just start using Split The Bill for the splits you want to keep track of.

Step 1: Make a group for the people you split with regularly. Roommates, your dinner crew, travel buddies. Invite them by email; the link auto-joins them when they sign up. For one-off tables, you can add name-only participants without inviting anyone.

Step 2: For the next restaurant bill, use the photo flow. Snap the receipt, confirm the items, assign dishes to people (and mark shared items), let it handle tip and tax. Same item-level result you got from Billr, minus the typing.

Step 3: Add anything that repeats. Rent, internet, a shared subscription — set them up once as recurring expenses so they appear on schedule instead of being re-entered each month.

Most people find the first scanned receipt already saves more time than the setup cost, and the running balance means the crew stops settling up after every single meal.