iPhone & iPad · Group trips

Split travel expenses without the awkwardness.

Shared trips are the best kind, right up until someone has to work out who owes what. PocketTrip tracks every shared cost as it happens, handles the uneven splits, and shows a clean who-owes-whom overview. Your group settles up in a few minutes instead of arguing over a spreadsheet.

PocketTrip split-expenses screen showing what each of four travel companions paid on a Bali trip

Why it gets messy

Group trips don't go wrong on the flights. They go wrong on the maths

One person books the villa. Someone else covers dinner three nights running. A third puts the rental car on their card and forgets to mention it. By the time you're home, nobody can remember who paid for what, everyone's rounding in their own favour, and the friend who fronted the most is quietly annoyed. A split expenses app sorts this the moment the money leaves someone's hand, not weeks later from memory.

Track who paid, right when they pay

Every time someone in the group covers a cost, add it in a few seconds: the amount, who paid, and who it was for. PocketTrip keeps a running balance for each person, so you never have to reconstruct a week of spending from a pile of receipts and half-remembered rounds. The awkward "so… who owes who?" conversation is already answered before you ask it.

  • Mark who paid for each shared expense
  • Split equally with one tap, or set it uneven
  • Leave people out of costs they didn't share
  • See a live who-owes-whom overview at any time
  • Split across currencies with live exchange rates

How it works

From first round of drinks to final settle-up in three steps

1

Add your group

Set up the trip and add everyone travelling with you. It all lives on your phone, so your friends don't need to download anything or make an account.

2

Log shared costs

Each time someone pays, add the expense and pick who it covered. Split it evenly, or set an uneven split when only some of the group shared it.

3

Settle up

Open the overview to see exactly who owes whom, simplified down to the fewest payments. Square up in a couple of transfers and fly home even.

Real trips, real splits

Because nobody splits a whole trip perfectly in half

Real groups are messy. People arrive on different days, skip the pricey dinner, or share a room while someone else pays for a single. PocketTrip handles all of it instead of forcing everyone into an even split that quietly cheats somebody.

Even splits

The house rental, the group taxi and the shared groceries all split equally across everyone with a single tap.

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Uneven splits

When only some people shared it, split by exact amounts or leave people out entirely, so each person carries only their share.

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Who paid what

Every expense records who fronted the money, so the person who covered the villa deposit actually gets it back.

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Simplified settle-up

Instead of everyone paying everyone, PocketTrip nets it down to the fewest transfers to close the group out.

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Any currency

Split a cost in the currency you paid it in; totals convert back to your home currency automatically.

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Live, not later

Do it as you go, offline if you have to, so the balance is always current. No reconstructing the trip afterward.

Live vs. the spreadsheet

The group spreadsheet was never going to happen

A shared sheet sounds organised. It isn't.

Somebody makes a beautiful spreadsheet on day one. By day three it has three rows in it. Nobody wants to open a browser and type formulas while everyone else is heading to the beach, so the whole thing gets left until the flight home, where it turns into an hour of "wait, what was that one for?" that nobody enjoys.

Logging a split in PocketTrip takes about as long as splitting the bill in your head, except it actually gets saved. Do it at the table, hand your phone back, and the group balance updates for everyone at once. When the trip ends there's nothing to reconcile, because it's been reconciling itself the whole time.

  • Add a split right at the table, not weeks later
  • No formulas and no shared-doc permissions to chase
  • The balance is always current, not "as of the last time someone updated it"
  • Works offline when the villa Wi-Fi doesn't
  • Settle up the moment you land instead of chasing people for a month

FAQ

Splitting expenses, answered

How does splitting expenses work in PocketTrip?

When you add a shared expense, you mark who paid and who it was for. PocketTrip keeps a running tally for everyone in the group and turns it into a simple settle-up overview that shows exactly who owes whom, so nobody has to add anything up by hand.

Can splits be uneven?

Yes. Split a cost equally with one tap, or set it uneven when only some people shared it: a taxi three of you took, a bottle of wine two of you drank, a room one person had to themselves. You can split by exact amounts or leave people out entirely.

Do my friends need the app to split costs?

No. You track the whole group from your own phone, so friends don't need to download anything or create an account. When it's time to settle up you can show or share the who-owes-whom summary with everyone.

Can I split expenses in different currencies?

Yes. Log a shared cost in whatever currency you paid it in and PocketTrip converts it back to your home currency with live rates, so the settle-up totals stay accurate even when the group is spending across borders.

Even Stevens

Settle up with friends, the easy way.

Free on the App Store for iPhone & iPad, with one trip and 25 expenses included. Upgrade to Pro (€ 4,99/month · € 19,99/year · € 49,99 lifetime) for unlimited trips.