Tabs: Split Bills & Receipts

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About this app

The check arrives, and the friend who always covers the gap covers it again. Tabs is a bill splitter for that moment: start a tab, add the people, then drag each item onto whoever ordered it, a food icon riding under your finger. Each person's chip shows what they owe, tip and tax already inside: no spreadsheet, no group chat argument about who owes what.

Fair by default
Tip and tax are never divided per head. Each share comes from that person's own items, so the steak carries more of both than the soup, and every total is reconciled to the penny so the shares add up exactly. Nobody quietly overpays, and nobody has to take your arithmetic on faith.

Let the camera do the typing
Tap Scan inside a tab and the shutter fires by itself, or tap it. The receipt scanner reads printed item names and prices on your phone, not on a server, and every line is yours to check against the strip of photo it came from. If the items don't match the printed total, Tabs names the single edit that would close the gap and waits for you to accept it; when two edits would both work, it says so rather than guess. The camera is optional, and typing items in works just as well.

A tab doesn't end when dinner does
Splitting the bill takes a minute. Getting paid back takes a week. A tab is a record, not a calculator you clear: it stays on your home screen holding who still owes you. Mark each person paid as the money arrives, and the tab settles itself when the last one is. A restaurant bill, a bar tab, group expenses from a weekend away, every one comes apart the same way.

Send a plain text summary of who owes what to any app you message in. One honest limit: Tabs does not move money and connects to no bank or card; you square up the way you already do.

Also in Tabs
• Enter tip and tax as a percentage, or the exact amount the receipt charged.
• Split a shared plate 2 to 20 ways, and merge it back if plans change.
• Save the people you split bills with as friends, with photos and history.
• Light, dark or follow your system, with a dark theme built for OLED screens.

Everything stays on your phone
No account, no sign-up. Nothing you type or scan is uploaded: tabs, friends and receipt images stay in the app's own storage, and the app makes no network calls of its own. Scanning uses Google's on-device text recognition, bundled in the app; it reports limited diagnostic data, never receipt content. No ads, no tracking added by us. Android's backup is off: everything lives on this phone only, with nothing to restore if you lose it.

Start a tab the next time the check arrives, and everyone sees their own share before the plates are cleared.

What’s new

Open beta. Thanks for testing Tabs!

Fixed in this build:
• An item tapped after removing a person could drop out of the totals
• A missed tax line no longer says "Adds up"; one tap sets the tax
• A tab settles when the last person is paid and all items are assigned
• The camera no longer scans behind the photo picker
• A service charge inside the total is offered as an item
• Two receipts in one tab total correctly
• Adding items is easier on small screens

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