Tip calculator and bill splitter
Snap the receipt, tick who had what, and see exactly what everyone owes, to the cent.
Start with a receipt
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Tip and split calculator
Your split
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- Total
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- Each
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Who pays what
How a tip is calculated
A tip is a percentage of the bill. Multiply the amount by the percentage and divide by 100: an 18% tip on $50 is $50 × 18 ÷ 100 = $9. Add that to the bill for the total, then divide by the number of people.
The one choice that changes the number is what you take the percentage of. Traditionally you tip on the food and drink before tax, since tax isn’t part of the service. If your receipt shows tax separately, enter it in the Tax box and choose “Before tax”. If you’d rather tip on the whole amount, choose “After tax”. On most bills the difference is a dollar or two.
Worked examples
Three friends, even split
The bill is $84.60 and you want to leave 20% on the total. The tip is $84.60 × 0.20 = $16.92, so the total is $101.52. Divided by three, that’s $33.84 each, which happens to split exactly.
Tipping before tax
A dinner for four comes to $108.00, of which $8.00 is sales tax. An 18% tip on the $100.00 before tax is $18.00, for a total of $126.00, or $31.50 each. Had you tipped 18% on the full $108, the tip would be $19.44.
Splitting by item with a shared starter
Ana has a $32 steak, Ben has $18 pasta, and they share $12 nachos. Tax is $5.50 and they tip 20% before tax, which is $12.40. Ana’s food comes to $38 (her steak plus half the nachos) and Ben’s to $24. Tax and tip are shared in the same proportion as the food, so Ana pays $38 + $3.37 tax + $7.60 tip = $48.97, and Ben pays $24 + $2.13 + $4.80 = $30.93. Together that’s exactly the $79.90 total.
That proportional split is the fair way to handle it: someone who ordered a salad shouldn’t pay the same share of the tip as someone who ordered the lobster. The guide to splitting a bill goes through each method in more detail.
Getting the cents right
Money doesn’t always divide neatly. $100 split three ways is $33.333…, and nobody can pay a third of a cent. The calculator works in whole cents and hands out any leftover cents one at a time, so two people pay $33.33 and one pays $33.34. Whoever pays the extra cent is marked, and the shares always add up to the bill to the penny. If you’d rather not deal with coins at all, choose a rounding option: round each share up to a whole dollar, or round the total up. The extra goes to the tip.
Scanning a receipt
Tap Take a picture to use your phone’s camera, or Upload a photo to pick one you’ve already taken. Lay the receipt flat, fill the frame and avoid shadows; printed receipts in good light read best. The scanner finds lines with prices, picks out the subtotal, tax, any service charge and the total, and shows you everything in a table to check before you use it. If the items don’t add up to the receipt’s total, it shows the difference so you can fix a misread line or add a missing one.
Everything happens in your browser. The photo is never uploaded and is gone as soon as the text has been read. For tipping norms abroad, see the tipping guide by country and service.
Frequently asked questions
How much should I tip at a restaurant in the US?
For sit-down service, 15% to 20% of the bill before tax is the usual range, and 18% to 20% has become the norm for good service in most cities. Counter service and takeout are optional; a dollar or two, or 10%, is a kind gesture rather than an expectation.
Should I tip on the amount before or after tax?
Etiquette guides say before tax, because tax isn’t part of the service. Plenty of people tip on the full total because it’s quicker, and the difference is small: on a $100 meal with 8% tax and an 18% tip it’s about $1.44. The calculator lets you pick either.
What if the bill already includes a service charge or gratuity?
Then the tip has already been added, often 18% to 20% for larger groups in the US or 10% to 12.5% in the UK. You don’t need to tip again unless you want to. When a scanned receipt shows a service charge, the calculator warns you and sets the extra tip to 0%.
What happens to the cents that don’t divide evenly?
Split $100 three ways and you get $33.333… The calculator works in whole cents, so two people pay $33.33 and one pays $33.34. That person is marked “+1¢” so everyone can see why, and the shares always add up to the exact total.
Is my receipt photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The text is read by your own browser using an on-device OCR engine. The photo is never sent to a server and is not saved; it’s discarded as soon as the items are read.
Can I split a bill that’s in a different currency?
Yes. Set the bill currency to what’s on the receipt and “Show shares in” to the currency you want to pay in. Each share is converted using the European Central Bank’s reference rate, which is published once each working day. Your card or bank will use its own rate, so treat the converted figure as a close estimate.
How do I send the split to my friends?
Use “Share link” to send a link that opens the same split on their phone, or “Copy summary” to paste a plain-text breakdown into a group chat. Nothing is stored on our side; the link itself carries the numbers.