Pocket Pals: Travel Expense
Track, convert & split bills
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
PocketPals: Track, convert, and split your travel expenses with pals—all in one place.
Planning a getaway but dreading the post-trip spreadsheet? Welcome to PocketPals, the ultimate travel expense tracker built to handle the heavy lifting. Whether you are backpacking across the globe, navigating foreign exchange rates, or just splitting gas for a local weekend road trip, PocketPals keeps your group finances transparent, organized, and drama-free.
Zero mental math. Just easy tracking, live conversions, and instant bill splitting.
Know Before You Go
- Explore Countries or Cities: Browse a beautifully designed list of global cities and country flags. Search by city or country to instantly discover the exact currency you’ll be spending before you even pack.
- Near or Far: Perfect for international adventures with unfamiliar money, or keeping things simple by tracking domestic staycations and local trips right at home.
Smart Multi-Currency Tracking
- Track Your Way: Log every expense in either your home currency or the local destination currency.
- Live or Custom Rates: Upgrade to PocketPals Pro to auto-sync real-time exchange rates, or stay on the free tier and easily lock in your own custom rates manually.
The Group Trip Dashboard
- Invite the Crew: Add your friends to the trip in seconds by name or email.
- Shared Hub: Everyone can log their own expenses onto a single, shared trip dashboard, keeping the group budget and timeline perfectly synced.
Flexible & Fair Splitting
- Split It Your Way: Not every bill is an exact split. Choose to divide expenses equally among the whole group, assign specific costs to individuals, or mark personal items to not be split at all.
- Organize by Payment Method: Categorize your transactions as Cash, Credit, Debit, or Online Wallet so you always know exactly where your physical cash went.
Settle Up, Hassle-Free
- Instant Math: PocketPals automatically calculates the absolute most efficient way to clear all group debts.
- End the Trip Perfectly: Instantly see exactly who owes money, who gets paid back, and clear your balances with a single tap.
Skip the math. Stay friends. Download PocketPals today!
Ratings & Reviews
Here is what is included in the latest update:
New Features & Enhancements:
1. Advanced Split Customization: Manually enter different amounts for each person when splitting expenses, with real-time validation and auto-fill for the last participant.
2. Currency Symbol Display: Your trip's currency symbol now appears throughout the app for clearer expense tracking and settlement visibility.
3. Split Validation Helper: Visual feedback showing "Always adds up to [total]" to ensure your manual splits are correct before saving.
4. Remaining Amount Indicator: See exactly how much is left to allocate when splitting expenses, with alerts if you go over budget.
5. Split Notes: Add optional notes (up to 200 characters) to explain why participants are paying different amounts.
6. Single Device Per Account: Enhanced security to ensure only one device can be logged into your account at a time, preventing accidental account sharing.
Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements:
1. Optional City Selection: You can now create trips with just the country—city selection is no longer required for more flexible trip logging.
2. Offline Trip Creation: Improved reliability when creating trips without an internet connection with smart retry logic that keeps trying until your connection is restored.
3. Participant History Preservation: When removing someone from a trip, their payment history is now preserved so settlement calculations remain accurate.
4. Better Settlement Accuracy: Fixed decimal rounding in settlement calculations to ensure payment amounts are always accurate to the cent—no more odd $0.001 discrepancies.
5. Correct Payer Display: Settlement cards now properly show who paid and who needs to pay, making payment tracking crystal clear.
6. Participant Name Resolution: Names of trip participants now display correctly throughout the app, even when viewing older expenses.
7. Smarter Expense Saving: Confirmed that expenses only save when you tap the Save button—no more accidental saves when closing modals.
8. Login Flow Refinement: Canceling Google or Apple sign-in now smoothly returns you to the login options instead of showing a loading screen.
9. Trip Naming Validation: Improved handling of reserved names to ensure all trip names work without errors.
10. Organized Storage: Receipts and media files are now organized in a cleaner structure for faster access and better reliability.
11. Account Security: Your account is now protected with single-device enforcement, so you'll know if someone else signs in and will be notified to re-authenticate.
The developer, Ian Jacob Lim, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Ian Jacob Lim
- Size
- 50.3 MB
- Category
- Finance
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pocket Pals $29.99
- Pocket Pals $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Hello and Build
