Plates by Splitwise 4+

I always find it frustrating at the end of of dinner with my in-laws when people are trying to pay with a mix of cash and card and can’t do basic mental maths - myself included in the latter. My recommendation would be to download this now, practice and the amaze everyone at the table by how quickly you’ve worked this out.

I wish they would add the feature to choose between whether you want people to proportionately tip or evenly tip - tipping culture is not as distinct in the UK. E.g. you choose on a sliding scale the 8% overall you want to tip, but then it works out 8% of everyone’s meal for them to add, rather than just diving the 8% overall between all diners. I’d love that as an option.

A suggestion: If people still want to pay with a mixture of methods, they could just round up their contributions to make it easier and count that as extra towards the tip. Or one person paying by card could underpay, then quick online transfer the remaining amount to the person who overpaid by rounding up. Otherwise you’re getting dragged back into the mental maths and coins rattling round again!

Had been meaning to get an app that deals with sorting out the bill after eating out with friends for a while now, and after doing a bit of searching around I settled on this one. Well, honestly, it made the whole process of splitting the bill a pleasure! And instead of taking about 10 mins (at least) and plenty of discussion / arguments it was all sorted out in 1 to 2 mins with no complaints from anybody. Result!

Takes no time at all to learn and it’s very straightforward to use. Sure, there’s a couple of suggestions for improvement - it would be nice to be able to label each item on the bill (e.g. ‘lasagne’ instead of ‘item 4’), especially when checking larger bills with more people attending and there’s an argument for being able to split items unevenly (“I only had one glass of that wine. You had three glasses!”) but I’m being picky here. The beauty of this app is in its simplicity and its ease of use. At the end of a meal, people just want to sort the bill out quickly and move on. This app lets you do that. Highly recommended.

One complaint though, it can’t do 0.5% increments on the tip. 12.5% is a standard tip in some UK restaurants, this means the tip has to be added to the total and split evenly. Otherwise great though, really needed this