#splitwise — Public Fediverse posts

I used #Splitwise a lot over the last decade, was our goto service when spending money in friend groups. I used the API only to keep track of my balance, which is a must for me, so this will end my relationship with Splitwise unfortunately. I hate it when services take away features and put them behind a paywall.

It seems like there's two options basically for a SplitWise alternative that's open-source and self-hostable:

• spliit
• SplitPro

The issue is Split Pro requires some kind of third-party authentication provider for creating user accounts, which is annoying.

And Spliit requires, I guess like an older version of Docker or Podman or something?? Because it doesn't seem to work with newer versions... I can't get it to work.

Spliit is nicer because it doesn't need user accounts, but is also mildly frustrating in that it only supports ChatGPT API calls for OCR... tesseract is right there!!!

#opensource #foss #splitwise #spliit #splitpro

I was about to setup a group with #splitwise, and then discovered it has a great #FLOSS alternative: https://spliit.app

Their header says it best:
> Share Expenses with Friends & Family
> No ads. No account. Open Source. Forever Free.

#spliit #spliitApp #expenses

I just had the unfortunate need to use #SplitWise and oh my diety ... that's some terrible #UX.

If you want to manage group finances, please please please just go with #SettleUp: https://settleup.io/

This weekend, I've built a small tool to export your #Splitwise account data: Explitwiser
https://github.com/pleonex/explitwiser

Made with C#, it uses their official REST API.
It saves the expenses for all your groups, including any linked image like receipts and user avatars, in JSON format.

Ever since #SplitWise started forcing my friends to sign up for a premium account ($40 a year!) just to essentially use the app for a single group trip I've been on the hunt for an alternate.

I don't understand how it's ok to charge $40? Do people actually pay this?? The app essentially becomes useless once you add more than 3 expenses a day.

I think I found one.

https://spliit.app #SpliitApp #Spliit

Sure it's a little rough and not quite as full featured but guess what? It's free. Open source. Not riddled with God knows what kind of tracking and I'm fairly certain it doesn't currently sell my data.

And now I'll gladly support the developer via GitHub Sponsorships and tell everyone I can to switch over..

See how easy that was #SplitWise? Build a good app, I'll support it.

So sick of this #enshittification bullshit.

Wait, there is a nice open source alternative to #Splitwise! "I hate money" is exactly what I needed to divvy up my household expenses:

https://ihatemoney.org/
https://github.com/spiral-project/ihatemoney

When I searched AlternativeTo for open source, I saw a bunch of generic banking apps and I guess I didn't look carefully at the later entries, I somehow missed it entirely: https://alternativeto.net/software/splitwise/?license=opensource

My takeaway is to read all of the search results, even if the top hits aren't what I'm looking for.

#iHateMoney

Ok I have to complain again. #Splitwise, I nice, useful app is now going the enshittification route. Recently, they added a wait time for recording payments. Ok I can live with that. It is supremely annoying but it is ok. Now they added a limit on how many transactions you can record per day. And you know what really grinds my gears?
They could have easily gotten me to spend money on their pro subscription if they would have just communicated these changes and said they are a small team with rising expenses. But nothing.

Kann wer ein Tool ähnlich wie #splitwise empfehlen. Anforderung wäre möglichst wenig Aufwand für die Gruppe (keine extra Accounts), ein Admin, der Rest kann eintragen ohne nen Account? #tools

#splitwise (finally?) gets into payments business. For years I was wondering why Venmo/PayPal didn’t buy them although tbh, the integration in Splitwise with #PayPal and #Venmo is neat.

Splitwise raises $20M Series A to help everyone in the world divvy expenses - This morning Splitwise, a Providence, Rhode Island-based startup announced that it... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/VUvclyJiBF8/ #insightpartners #fundings&exits #providence #splitwise #startups #tc