Splitwise 4+

I was using splitwise every month to square up charges between friends (going out, grabbing something from the cafe, a drink spot, etc.) and the app was really handy. It's so easy to find the right people, pick the date, add the expense, and see the totals. Great! This was cool for about a year or so, then all of a sudden I got a notice when I opened the app that I had reached my daily limit of items. Strange, but I'll just put them in tomorrow - no big deal. Tomorrow comes and I go to enter my expenses and what happens? 3 items in, and I have again reached my daily limit?! This was never an issue before - there were times I'd put in 10 or more expenses without any warning. Now the app completely locks me out from entering more than a single new charge each day - only one! It became so frustrating that I completely stopped using the app and went to a custom Google sheet. Nothing fancy, but way more convenient than being limited to one entry per day. And I'm not willing to pay for the premium subscription, but if you are then maybe you'll be fine. Can't say.
If they removed this limit or increased it to maybe 10-20 items, I'd be on board. Until then, I'm not going to bother.

Sorry for any confusion! With the Splitwise free tier you can add up to four new expenses per day. If you’re not interested in subscribing, you can wait a day for your daily limit to reset or ask a friend to add expenses on your behalf. If you are experiencing something different, feel free to write to us at support@splitwise.com so we can take a closer look into things. Thanks!

When someone makes a payment to you with a 3rd party payment option like Venmo or PayPal, Splitwise ASSUMES your Venmo and PayPal accounts use the same email as your Splitwise account. You can’t configure your Splitwise account with a specific Venmo account or PayPal account, nor can you deactivate receiving payments from these 3rd party apps. What this means is… say for example you don’t have Venmo or PayPal… splitwise will still allow group members to make payments to these apps to you using your splitwise email, regardless if that PayPal or Venmo account even exists. When you have large groups, this creates a disaster of people paying into imaginary 3rd party accounts…your mo yeah gets locked up for days in PayPal or Venmo u til you can take your unclaimed money back.

Splitwise NEEDS to refuse payments to 3rd party apps unless a user account has explicitly enabled and configured it as an option. I have a PayPal, but I may not want to ever accept PayPal on Splitwise, but there’s no way I can turn that off.

There is a warning message “you may want to confirm which email your friend uses for Venmo” when Splitwise identifies the risk. But why is that the PAYER’s job??? Of 10 people all get that error message trying to pay 1 person, it’s going to cause a lot of confusion. It should be the recipient’s job to validate their own Venmo email.

Sorry you had a bad experience with the Splitwise + Venmo integration! We're happy to help you sort out the issue. Please send a note to support@splitwise.com so that we can look into what went wrong. Thanks!

I love and use this app constantly, to the point that it would make sense for me to use the pro version. So I did the 1 month free trial (thank you) but it didn’t seem worth the money. Specifically because I still can’t itemize transactions on the phone app, only the desktop, and the charts aren’t really helpful. In regards to the charts, if I could tap on a section of the pie chart and have every transaction that’s in that category shown - that would be Very helpful. Also, it’s not very clear on the charts if the total amount shown is the total of what Both people spent (and then split) or if it’s what I specifically spent after splitting expenses (again, would be very helpful to know/have both options). Last feedback is that it would be great if when using the itemized feature, that items could be split by a custom % instead of only 50/50 or 100/0. Fingers crossed these updates are doable! I tell people about this app all the time and it makes my like So much easier by removing the stress of remembering debts, but the above would really help a lot.

Thanks for your kind words and for trying Pro, sorry it didn't meet your needs!
To itemize a receipt from the iOS app, please scan your receipt then tap the "itemize receipt" button. Subscribers can set a default unequal split for a group (eg 60% 40%), by visiting "group settings". If you'd like to discuss further please write support@splitwise.com. Cheers!