In development — coming to iOS and Android
Dinner was lovely. Now the awkward bit.
Split the tab, not the friendship. Photograph the receipt, share a four-letter code, and everyone taps what they actually ate. No maths at the table, no chasing people afterwards.
Free, with no ads or subscriptions · Sign in with Apple or Google
Features
The part of dinner nobody enjoys, handled
Someone always ends up with a calculator, a pile of notes, and four people saying "just put me down for twenty". Tabby does that part instead.
Point the camera at the check
Tabby reads the receipt and writes out what you actually ordered — "CHKN PARM" comes back as Chicken parmesan. A line reading "2 BEER" becomes two separate beers, so two people can each claim one.
Four letters, and they're in
Every tab gets a short code and a QR to point a phone at. Nobody types an email address, nobody adds anyone as a friend, and nobody has to be in a group chat with the whole table.
Tap what you ate
Everyone claims their own items on their own phone, and the taps appear at the table as they happen. Your running total updates under your finger — including when someone joins you on the bottle of wine.
Tax and tip, in proportion
Split by head count and the person who had a salad subsidises the table's wine. Tabby apportions tax and tip to what each person claimed, and hands out the odd cents so every share adds up to the printed total exactly.
Let the cat do the chasing
You paid the whole bill and now you're the one sending "hey, no rush, but…" messages. Send a nudge instead. It gets less polite with every one you send, and it's capped at one per person per hour so it stays funny.
Your money stays yours
Tabby never touches the money. It works out who owes what and then gets out of the way — settle in cash, or with whatever app you already use. Save your bank details or payment handle once, and the people you share a tab with can see them.
How it works
Sorted before the card machine comes back
Three steps, and only the first one is yours to do.
Photograph the receipt
The items, the tax and the tip come back as a list you can edit. Fix anything the scan misread, or type the whole thing in by hand if the receipt is a lost cause.
Read out the code
Say four letters across the table, or let people scan the QR. They join from their own phones and see the same list of items you're looking at.
Everyone taps, you lock it
Claims land live as people tap. When the last item is spoken for, lock the tab — Tabby freezes each person's share and shows them exactly what they owe you.
Built for a dark restaurant
It reads like the receipt in your hand
Warm paper, plain ink, and every amount in a monospaced figure so the columns line up. No charts, no confetti, nothing that needs a second look when you're three courses in and the light is bad.
- Items you haven't claimed sit faded, so what's left is obvious at a glance
- Shared plates split between whoever tapped them, and re-split when one more person joins in
- Light and dark, one-handed, and it never asks for your location
Is Tabby really free?
Yes. There are no ads, no subscriptions and no in-app purchases — the whole app is free to download and use. If that ever changes we'll say so here and in the terms first.
Does everyone at the table need the app?
Yes. Everyone who joins a tab installs Tabby and signs in with Apple or Google — that's what lets each person claim their own items and see everyone else's taps as they happen. There's no password to invent; it's two taps.
Does Tabby take my money, or a cut of it?
Neither. Tabby is a ledger, not a wallet — no money passes through it and there's no card to add. It tells everyone what they owe, and you settle in cash or with whatever payment app you already use.
How are tax and tip divided up?
In proportion to what you claimed, not by head count — so a $12 salad carries less of the tip than a $40 steak. Where a division leaves odd cents over, they're handed out one at a time to the largest remainders, which means the shares always add back up to the total printed on the receipt.
What if nobody claims something?
Anything still unclaimed when you lock the tab goes to whoever created it — usually the person who paid the restaurant. That's deliberate: a forgotten side shouldn't stop the tab from closing. If someone owns up afterwards you can reopen the tab and work it out again, which clears everyone's paid marks and re-splits from scratch.
What if the scan gets an item wrong?
You get the extracted list before anyone else sees it, and every line, price, tax and tip is editable. If the receipt is too crumpled or too dark to read, Tabby tells you so rather than guessing, and you can add the items yourself.
Can I see how it works before I'm sat in a restaurant?
Yes — there's a demo tab on the home screen. It loads a sample receipt and three imaginary friends join and start claiming things, so you can watch a whole tab play out and settle it, on your own, before you rely on it in front of people.
What happens to my data?
The Privacy Policy lists exactly what's stored and who can see it. You can delete your account and everything attached to it from inside the app, or from the data deletion page.
Split the next one properly
Tabby isn't on the stores yet — it's in the last stretch before release. These buttons will point at the real listings the day it lands.