platy24Split the bill,
keep the friends.
One tab, one code. Everyone taps what they had — platy24 works out who owes whom.
- Scan the receiptAI reads every line item
- Or just type it“2 beers 9, pizza 12” works
- Live for everyoneClaims sync at the table
Your tabs
No signup. Your tabs stay on this device.
About platy24
platy24 is a free web app for splitting a shared bill. One person creates a tab and shares its six-character code with the table; everyone else opens the link, taps what they had, and platy24 works out who owes whom — and the shortest list of payments that settles it. It does not move money and takes no cut: it is a calculator, and paying each other back stays between you.
Expenses go in three ways: typed in by hand, photographed as a receipt for the AI to read line by line, or written in plain language such as “2 beers 9, pizza 12”. Everything the AI produces is a draft you review before it is saved. Tabs work in English and Ukrainian, in hryvnia, euro, pounds or dollars.
platy24 needs no account and creates none unless you ask. Signing in with Google is optional, and it buys one thing: your tabs stop living on a single device. When you do sign in, platy24 receives your email address and the name on your Google account, and uses them only to keep your tabs available on your other devices and to show which account you are signed in as. It asks for no other Google data — no contacts, no calendar, no files. There is no analytics and no advertising anywhere in this app.
Read what is stored, and for how longQuestions
- How do you split a restaurant bill with friends?
- Create a tab, share its six-character code with the table, and everyone taps what they had. platy24 splits each line between whoever claimed it, spreads the service charge in proportion to what each person ate, and works out who owes whom — then reduces that to the fewest payments that settle it.
- Is platy24 free?
- Completely. There is no paid tier, no advertising and no analytics, and platy24 takes no cut, because it never touches the money. It is a bill splitter, not a payment app: paying each other back stays between you.
- Do I need an account to split a bill?
- No. Open the link, type your name, and you are at the table — no signup, no email address, no password. Your tabs live on the device you used. Signing in with Google is optional and buys one thing: your tabs follow you when you change phone.
- Can I split the bill by item instead of equally?
- Either, on the same tab. Tap the items you had and pay for those; or split an expense equally between everyone; or claim part of one — 0.2 of the bottle to somebody else's 0.8. Anything nobody claims is flagged rather than quietly shared out.
- Can platy24 read a photo of the receipt?
- Photograph the receipt or pick one from your camera roll, and its line items are read out for you — HEIC from an iPhone included. What comes back is a draft you check and correct before it is saved, because a misread price is worse than a slow one.
- Which currencies and languages does platy24 work in?
- Hryvnia, euro, pounds or dollars — one per tab, chosen when you create it. The app itself reads in English or Ukrainian and follows your browser unless you tell it otherwise.
How to split a bill
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- Who owes whom after a group billHow to turn a pile of who-paid-for-what into the shortest list of payments that squares everybody up, and why most of the debts cancel out.
- Splitting rent and household bills with flatmatesHow to divide rent, utilities and the weekly shop without a spreadsheet nobody updates, and how recurring costs differ from a one-off shared bill.