About Split the Bill

Split the Bill does one job: it works out the tip and how much each person owes, fairly and to the cent. It started from a familiar end-of-dinner scene: one phone calculator, a crumpled receipt, and someone saying “let’s just split it evenly” while the person who had a side salad quietly winces.

What it does

• Calculates tips on the amount before or after tax, with common presets or your own percentage.
• Splits a bill evenly, by custom amounts or percentages, or item by item with shared dishes.
• Reads a receipt photo so you don’t have to type every line.
• Handles leftover cents openly, so shares always add up to the exact total.
• Converts shares to another currency using the European Central Bank’s daily reference rates.

How it works

The whole tool runs in your browser. Amounts are handled as whole cents rather than decimals, which avoids the rounding errors that make some calculators a cent out. Receipt scanning uses an open-source OCR engine (Tesseract) that downloads to your device the first time you use it. Your photo is never sent anywhere.

We don’t ask you to sign up, and we don’t keep a record of your bills. Your preferences (currency, tip percentage and so on) are remembered in your own browser so the calculator is ready next time.

How it’s funded

The site is free and supported by a small number of clearly labelled ads. Ads are kept away from the calculator’s buttons and inputs and never pop up over the page. See the privacy policy for what that means for your data.

Get in touch

Found a receipt it can’t read, or a calculation that looks wrong? Let us know.