December 2023 I travelled to Europe for a holiday with my girlfriend. She recommended Splitwise for the trip expenses. Unfortunately they had just limited transactions to 4 per day and added 10-second wait timers for expenses.
Splitwise is 13 years old and bloated. Every non-basic feature was paywalled and we were amalgamating expenses into one as a workaround. I wanted it streamlined. So, I removed the paywalls and implemented only the features I wanted, for free:
Basics:
- Expenses & debt simplification
- Friends
- Groups
Paid Splitwise features:
- Currency conversion
- Defualt currencies
- Graphs for group balances
Removed paywalls:
- Expense wait timers
- Daily expense limits
I've been using Divvy Up for a few months, and I'm happy with it for now.
If it sounds useful to you, please try it for your next holiday!
Future considerations
- Native app
- Features:
- Default splits
- Payee splits
- Customise currency conversion
- Expense searching
- Non-group expenses
- More graphs
Contact me: divvyup@jvr.software