Flick it to whoever had it
Split by dish: tap a line and give it to someone. A dish can be split between a few people, or by shares when some of them had more of it than others.
The idea
One photo, and everyone knows their share
The bill arrives, somebody photographs it, and the table waits while one person does sums on a calculator. NachoBill was built to make that the shortest part of the meal.
You tap a dish and give it to whoever had it. When every line has a name, everyone's share is on the screen.
The problem
Splitting evenly is easy. Splitting fairly is not
Dividing the total by the number of people is quick and almost never right: somebody had the lobster, somebody else only had tea.
Splitting by dish is fair, until the service charge, the tax and the rounding have to be spread across a dozen lines by hand, and the shares come to a few cents more or less than the total printed on the paper.
The solution
So the receipt does the arithmetic
NachoBill reads the receipt on the phone, with Apple's Vision framework, and turns every line on it into something you can tap. Service, tax and rounding are shared out by what each person had, and the shares always add up exactly to the total on the receipt.
Any line it can't read can be typed in, and it stays on the row it belongs to.
How it works
From receipt to everyone's share
Photograph
Take a photo of the receipt. A long one can go across several photos and is read as one bill.
Tap
Tap each dish and give it to whoever had it, or split it between a few people.
Check
Service, tax and rounding are shared out for you, and the shares add up to the total.
Share
Send each person their share, wherever your group already talks.
What it handles
Built for the whole table
In one split
Up to 10 bills and 10 people
On the receipt
Reads 26 languages
In the app
16 languages, right to left too
Key features
Simple at the table
Exact on the receipt
Three ways to split
By dish, when everyone had something different. Evenly, when one total is divided by however many of you are paying. By shares, when some people should pay more of the total than others. Then share each person's part.
No funny maths
The shares always add up exactly to the total on the receipt, service charge, tax and rounding included. Saved groups keep the people you eat with often, past splits are kept, and a split you haven't finished waits for you.
In sixteen languages
The app is in 16 languages, Arabic, Persian and Urdu among them, right to left. Dish names printed in another language get a translation under the printed name, from Apple's Translation framework on the phone.
Where it is
Free for a week, then yours
Everything is free for seven days, then it's one purchase. There's no subscription, and Family Sharing is supported. When the week is up your past splits and saved groups stay open: the purchase is only asked for when you start a new one.
NachoBill is in TestFlight now, on its way to the App Store. It needs an iPhone on iOS 17 or later, and everything it keeps is stored on that iPhone: no account, no sync, no server.