Tally
A calm little app for splitting shared expenses with friends: trips, flatmates, dinner clubs.
It runs entirely in the browser as a single index.html with no build step and no dependencies.
▶ Try Tally live: it opens with sample groups, so you can explore right away. Nothing to install.
Why Tally?
Splitwise is the best-known app for this, and it's great. Tally exists for the moments where it gets in the way.
| Tally | Splitwise free plan* |
|---|
| Expenses per day | Unlimited | Blocked after about 3–5 a day |
| Ads | None | Shown between screens |
| Spending charts and search | Free | Pro only |
| Receipt photos | Free | Pro only (scanning) |
| Add an expense by typing a sentence | Yes: Pizza 32 with Mia and Leo | No |
| Reminders with a pay link (UPI, Venmo, PayPal) | Yes, amount pre-filled | No |
| Sign-up needed | No, open the link and start | Yes |
| Where your data lives | Your browser (private groups) | Splitwise's servers |
| Open source | Yes | No |
*As of October 2026, from Finny's Splitwise pricing breakdown. Splitwise Pro removes these limits for about $4.99 a month in the US.
What Splitwise does better today: native iPhone and Android apps, push notifications, accounts that sync across every device, and years of reliability. Tally is a young, open project. If you need those, use Splitwise. If you want something free, fast and private for your next trip or flat, try Tally.
Features
- Groups and balances. Add expenses and see who owes whom. Settle up suggests the fewest payments that clear everyone's balance.
- Flexible splits. Split equally, by exact amounts, by percentages or by shares (for example 2 : 1 : 1).
- Quick add. Type a sentence like
Tacos 45 with Alex and Sam yesterday and Tally fills in the amount, group, people, date and category for you.
- Recurring expenses. Rent or internet can repeat weekly or monthly, and any dates you missed are filled in automatically.
- Notes and receipt photos. Photos are shrunk in the browser before saving.
- Payment links. One-tap UPI (INR), Venmo (USD) and PayPal links with the amount pre-filled, plus a "Remind" message that includes your link.
- Insights. Spending month by month, who pays most often, biggest expenses, and breakdowns by category and by group.
- Dark mode, animations and a phone layout, with support for reduced motion.
- Shared groups. When the app is hosted on claude.ai, groups sync live between friends. Anywhere else, data is saved in each person's browser.
| Pay a friend | Phone, shared group | Dark mode |
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Run it
Open index.html in any modern browser. That's it.
Publish with GitHub Pages
Go to Settings → Pages, choose Deploy from a branch, and select main and / (root).
After a minute the app is live at https://<your-username>.github.io/<repo-name>/.
Data and privacy
- Private groups are stored in your browser's
localStorage. Use Export your data in the sidebar to keep a JSON backup.
- Tally never moves money. Pay links open your payment app, and you record the payment once it goes through.
Tests
The browser test drives every feature end to end with Playwright, including two simulated phones syncing a shared group:
pip install playwright && playwright install chromium
python tests/test_app.py
