Split a bill when nobody wants to sign up
"Another app? Another signup?" they say. There is neither. A room is a web link, and whoever opens it types a name and starts adding what they paid.
The arithmetic was never the problem. You fronted the villa deposit and then the airport taxi, and dividing that by five is not going to get anybody a PhD. What is left is the message that starts with "sorry to be annoying", written five times, once each. No more!
Most people put it off for a week. Some never send it at all, and live with a quiet resentment that kills the friendship. Hand the asking to Split by Peanut. The link goes in the group chat and the numbers sit on a page nobody has to argue with.
What everyone else has to do
Open the link
It opens in the browser already on the phone. There is no app store page in the way.Type a name
That is the whole of joining. Nothing to verify, nothing to remember.Add what they paid
The supermarket run, the boat tickets, the last round of drinks. Balances move as people type.Ana typed her name in from the back of the taxi and added the fare before the bags were out of the boot.
At the end the room nets the debts down, so the group makes two or three transfers instead of twenty. Two people settle however they settle, and one of them taps to record it. Just send the link. Everyone else does the typing.
Good to know
Split is free forever, with nothing to upgrade to. Peanut makes it to introduce people to Peanut, which is how Split gets paid for, so there is no paid tier here and nothing to move behind one later.
Split does not check with a bank and cannot, so a settled row means somebody tapped to say they paid. It is built for a group rather than a crowd, up to twenty people.
Questions
- Can I split a bill with no sign up?
- Yes. There is no email field anywhere in Split, so there is no account to make and nothing to verify later.
- Can we split expenses without downloading an app?
- Yes. Split is a website, so it opens wherever a browser does. Adding it to your home screen is a phone feature rather than an install, and skipping that changes nothing.
- Can I send the split link on WhatsApp?
- Yes. Paste it where the group already talks and leave it there. The link is the key, so a room that lives only in your own browser is one lost phone away from gone.