Make It Even vs the alternatives

Make It Even vs Splitwise

If you split costs with roommates, a partner, friends, or a travel group, Splitwise is probably the first name you've heard. Make It Even covers the same core job — track who paid, split fairly, and settle up — but makes a different set of choices about what belongs in the free tier and how multi-currency history is handled.

Make It Even vs Tricount

Tricount is a popular pick for quick, casual group cost-sharing, often used for a single trip or event without much setup. Make It Even takes a more account-based approach: you sign in, and your groups, friends, and history persist and sync across devices over time.

Make It Even vs Settle Up

Settle Up is a well-known group expense tracker focused on shared balances and settling debts. Make It Even does the same core job and adds features aimed at ongoing, multi-currency sharing — group budgets, locked historical exchange rates, and a no-ads free tier.

Make It Even vs Splid

Splid is known for letting groups split expenses quickly, often without requiring everyone to create an account. Make It Even takes the account-based route: you sign in, and your groups, friends, balances, and history persist and sync across devices.

Make It Even vs Venmo

Venmo is a fast way to pay a friend back, but it isn't really an expense ledger. It records individual payments and requests rather than maintaining group balances, multi-currency expenses, or who owes what over time. Venmo is also US-focused, which makes it awkward for international trips.

Make It Even vs Kittysplit

Kittysplit is a simple, no-account way to split shared costs — you create a link, share it, and everyone adds expenses. That's great for a quick one-off, but it isn't built to carry an ongoing, synced history that's tied to you.

Make It Even vs Spliit

Spliit is an open-source expense splitter you can self-host, which is a genuinely good thing if you run your own server and want full control of your data. Make It Even takes the opposite stance: it is hosted, so you sign up and start splitting in under a minute with nothing to deploy, patch, or back up.

Make It Even vs Splitser

Splitser, known in the Netherlands as WieBetaaltWat, is strong at one thing in particular: settling up over European bank rails. If your whole group banks in the eurozone and wants to square debts straight from their accounts, that regional focus is a real advantage.

Make It Even vs a spreadsheet

Plenty of groups start with a shared Google Sheet or an Excel file. It is free and flexible, and for two people splitting rent it can be enough. The trouble starts when the group grows, the currencies multiply, or someone fat-fingers a formula and the totals quietly go wrong.

Make It Even vs Cash App

Cash App is great at one job: moving money between people in the US, fast. Pools and requests make it easy to collect a few dollars from friends. What it is not is a ledger that remembers who paid for what across a trip, a household, or a recurring set of bills.