Paid Up vs Splitwise: Pro features free, no sign-up

Splitwise is the app most people know for splitting bills. Paid Up is a free alternative for the same job. Here's what we checked and where each fact comes from.

What Paid Up does

• Up to 2,000 expenses a day, and no ads.
• Search, charts, currency conversion and default splits are all included.
• No account needed to start a group or join one.
• Bring a Splitwise group over from its spreadsheet export, with a balance check before anything is imported.

What we checked about Splitwise

• Splitwise limits how many expenses a free account can add each day, reported as 3 to 5 per day, as of October 2026.

  Source: kb.splitwise.comChecked October 2026

• Splitwise lists expense search, charts by category, currency conversion and default splits as Pro features.

  Source: kb.splitwise.comChecked October 2026

Comparisons age. Each fact above carries the date we last checked it.