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Tally

01 / 07 · Live · Since Aug 2026

Split a bill the way people think.

Pin what one friend pays, like $25 for a salad. Everyone else rebalances, and the total stays exact to the penny.

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Made for
Whoever paid the bill
My role
Idea, design, and code
Status
Live · Open it
The Tally home page on a phone
One share pinned at $14.00 while the other three rebalance
Ten shares, each with a chip that shows how far it moved
Pin one share, and every other share moves.Real screens from the public demo.
The storyAug 2026

A dinner for ten came to $1,959. One friend owed exactly $275. One owed $25, and two owed $72 each. One owed an even share plus $100. Everyone else split the rest.

Most bill apps think in shares and percents. Nobody at a table talks that way, so this bill needed a spreadsheet on the side.

So in Tally, you tap a person and set what they pay. Everyone else rebalances at once, and the total stays exact to the penny. Friends open a link, tap what they had, and see one number.

The idea
Nobody at dinner says "put me down for 12%." They say "I’ll pay $25." So you pin that, and one equation splits the rest.
What makes it good05 ideas
01

Pin a share, and the rest rebalances

Tap a person and pick a rule. Pin an exact amount, add or take off a flat amount, or pay a percent more or less than an even share. Everyone you haven’t pinned moves at once.

Five kinds of rules fold into one equation, so one change moves everyone in a single step.

Maya pinned at $14.00, the other three rebalanced
The sheet for one person: four plain choices and a meal, tax, and tip breakdown
02

Exact to the penny

Every split adds up to the bill in whole cents. Each person’s meal, tax, and tip add up to their share, too.

Leftover pennies go to the shares that lost the most in rounding. That’s why one friend pays $233.34 while four pay $233.33.

splitwithtally.com
Ten shares on a laptop, beside the locked total of $1,959.00
03

A chip that says what moved

After an edit, a small chip beside each amount shows how far it moved. The person you changed gets +$15.00, and each person who absorbed it gets −$2.50.

It answers "why did my number change?" before anyone asks. Chips wait until you tap Done, and they sit in a slot that’s always there, so the numbers don’t shift. They’re plum because an earlier coral version looked like debt.

Ten shares after one edit, each with its change chip
04

Scan the receipt, then check the math

Snap a photo of the receipt, and an AI model reads each line. Tally adds the lines up and checks them against the printed subtotal. Until they match, it holds the bill and tells you how far off it is.

If the AI misreads one price, somebody pays the wrong amount. Plain arithmetic catches that before anyone sees a bill. It also handles receipts that only print a total, and it knows "6 Jam Doughnuts" is one item, not six.

A demo receipt that matches its $121.00 subtotal
05

Claim your items from a link

The host shares a link. A friend types a name, taps what they had, and sees their share. Anything nobody claims splits evenly, and the host locks the final split.

Friends don’t need an account or an app. Taps show at once, and if two people grab the same item, the app says so in plain words: "Someone claimed this first."

The demo guest page: one share, split into meal, tax, and tip
The look06 colors
  • Ink#1e1c24
  • Paper#f2eff9
  • Plum#7c4dbd
  • Lavender#ece7f6
  • Green#20744f
  • Mint#d9f0e1

DM Sans for the interface, Instrument Serif for the italic accents, and tabular numbers everywhere.

Plum runs the interface. Green only shows up when the numbers add up. The main text colors all clear a 4.5 to 1 contrast ratio.

Try itA working demo · made-up data

Tap a rule to pin a share.

Every other share moves, and a chip shows by how much. The total stays exactly $186.40.

TallyTap a rule
The small stuff06 details
  • Numbers stay put

    The chip column is always there, even when it’s empty, so amounts don’t shift when a chip appears.

  • No lag on a tap

    Claim taps show on screen the moment you tap, even when you tap fast.

  • Honest progress

    The receipt scan shows three real steps and a seconds counter. At 20 seconds, a line tells you it’s still working.

  • Errors in plain words

    Errors become sentences like "This bill is locked." You never see raw error text.

  • No rewriting history

    Group debts can’t be edited. Reopening a locked bill cancels the old entries with new ones, the way an accountant would.

  • Made for thumbs

    The bill sheet rides above the phone keyboard, tap targets are 44 px, and money fields open the number pad.