What BananaSplit does

Scan any photo with numbers, add guests before they download the app, split by shares, send payment reminders, share expenses as images, and keep up from iOS widgets.

Feature screenshot 1: Home
Feature screenshot 2: Groups
Feature screenshot 3: Snap It
Feature screenshot 4: Expenses
Feature screenshot 5: Payments
Feature screenshot 6: Friends
Feature screenshot 7: Activity

and much more...

Home

Your dashboard overview

  • Quick actions
  • Overview of hottest groups and friends

Groups

  • Show groups with latest interactions

Friends

  • Show friends with latest interactions

Groups

Manage shared expenses with groups

  • Create and manage groups
  • Invite members with a group link
  • Guest users — split before everyone has an account
  • Smart settlements and debt optimization
  • Real-time balances and metrics
  • Detailed balances (full who-owes-whom)
  • Share balances as text for WhatsApp or Telegram
  • Activity filters, sorting and logs
  • Import your data from Splitwise

Group management

  • Create groups
  • Edit group details
  • Set group currency

Members

  • Share a group invite link
  • Add and remove members
  • Promote to admin

Guest users

  • Add anyone as a guest — no email or download needed
  • Include guests in groups, expenses, payments, and balances
  • Hand over the full history when they join
  • Merge a guest into an existing BananaSplit account

Balances

  • View member balances
  • Detailed who-owes-whom breakdown — every member to every other
  • Copy balances as text for WhatsApp, Telegram, or any group chat
  • Settle debts individually
  • Show or hide settled expenses

Transparency

  • Detailed per-member balances (full who-owes-whom view)
  • Activity logs with clear diffs for every single change

Smart settlements

  • Reduce number of payments
  • Search and filter groups
  • Bulk operations

Personalization

  • Custom emoji and colors
  • Group descriptions
  • Group settings

Metrics

  • Total spent
  • Spending by category
  • Spent by member
  • Paid by member
  • Average paid
  • Spending over time with date-range filters
  • Member metrics for expenses, paid, and spent totals
  • Charts for spend trends
  • Doughnut charts by category

Activity & filters

  • Advanced filters inside every group: type, participants, paid by, category
  • Sort by newest, oldest, highest or lowest amount
  • Full activity logs with exact before/after diffs

Import

  • Bring your groups and expenses over from Splitwise

Snap It

Scan any photo with numbers

  • Scan any photo with numbers
  • Bank screenshots, receipts, menus, and notes
  • Any-image scanning with extra context
  • Bulk expense creation

Smart scanning

  • Any image with a value
  • Context labels like hotel, ticket, statement, or delivery order
  • Receipt photo scanning
  • Menu and note scanning
  • Bank screenshot scanning
  • Auto-fill items

Review and edit

  • Manual corrections
  • Expense preview
  • Add people per item
  • Add more expenses

Expenses

Track and split expenses

  • Flexible expense sharing
  • Share expenses as images
  • Split by shares
  • Default split rules
  • Auto-categorization

Sharing options

  • Share with friends
  • Share with groups
  • Share expenses as images for stories and chats
  • Public visibility

Share as an image

  • Turn an expense into a story-style image
  • Amount and who paid already laid out
  • Add a photo or video, stickers, and your own layout
  • Save it, send it, or post it as a story

Split methods

  • Equal split
  • Split by shares — two shares when someone covers a plus-one
  • Percentage split
  • Exact amount split
  • Custom default percentages like 60/20/20
  • Auto-adjust other shares when you edit a percentage

Smart features

  • Auto category detection
  • Custom categories
  • Copy expense
  • Calendar date and time selector
  • Default splits per group (set once, used every time)
  • Auto-adjust percentages on edits

Recurring expenses

  • Weekly recurring expenses
  • Monthly recurring expenses
  • Yearly recurring expenses
  • Check all related recurring expenses

Payments

Record and track payments

  • Payment recording
  • Automatic debt settlement
  • Payment reminders

Payment types

  • Group payments
  • Friend-to-friend payments

Reminders

  • Send a reminder when it is time to settle up

Automation (soon)

  • Auto-settle triggers

Friends

Manage your social connections

  • Easy expense sharing

Expense sharing

  • Add expenses
  • Settle debts

Friends management

  • Search
  • Add friends
  • Easy invite link

Activity

  • See friends activity across groups and direct expenses

Settle up

  • Settle debts across all shared groups

Activity

Stay updated with all activity across your groups and friends

  • Unified activity feed
  • Quick tabs for instant filtering

Quick tabs

  • All • Expenses • Payments • Groups • Friends • Recurring

Powerful group filters

  • Filter by type (Expenses, Payments, Recurring)
  • Filter by participants, who paid, or category
  • Sort by date or amount (highest/lowest €)

Transparency & logs

  • Detailed change history for every expense and payment
  • Exact diffs: see before/after, who changed it, and when

Activity types

  • New friendships
  • Expense updates
  • Group changes
  • Payment activity

Profile

Personalize your experience

  • Profile customization
  • Personal expense tracking

Personalization

  • Username
  • Bio and avatar
  • Privacy settings

Interface

Customize your app experience

  • iOS Home Screen widgets
  • Theme customization
  • Currency selection

iOS widgets

  • Recent activity at a glance
  • Total balance, recent activity, and a quick add button

Desktop

  • Keyboard shortcuts

Currency settings

  • Default currency
  • Auto-conversion
  • Multi-currency support

Display options

  • Light mode
  • Dark mode
  • System preference

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