Share-a-bill

Sharing a bill with more than a couple of people is always a pain in the butt.  Everyone makes their best attempt to divide up the check, but in reality it’s like getting algebra tutoring from a D student.  Add to that the scenario where you’re the only one with a credit card, or one or two people don’t have the money and say they’ll pay you back later.  Good luck remembering how much everybody owes you and who paid you back and when.  Imagine how out of hand it’ll get over the course of an entire trip of vacation!  Well, with the Share-a-bill finance app by Mileware you can quickly and easily divide up bills, document who paid what, and keep tabs on who still owes you cash and how much with just a few touches on your iPhone or iPod Touch!

The most impressive part of this app isn’t it’s ability to divide up a bill, but it’s ability to organize and track expenses for a period of time.  For example, you can keep track of all of your bills related to a conference or a vacation, not just one trip to a restaurant.  Let’s just say you were like me and went to San Francisco recently for MacWorld.  You can create an event inside the app called San Francisco 2010.  For that event you can add in all of the people that you’re either visiting or traveling with, and from there you can add in expenses related to the trip, who owed how much, and whether they paid in full, have partially paid, or haven’t paid at all and intend to pay you later.  Once you’ve created an event, and added in people, keeping track of all related expenses and dividing up who owes what and who’s paid what is extremely easy.

Overall the Share-a-bill app offers a lot.  I really could’ve used something like this back when I was in high school and college.  We’ve all got ‘em.  You know…those friends that bring up the idea of going out somewhere…then when you get there they pat down all of their pockets and say “ooooh…looks like I forgot my wallet”.  That adds up over time.  With Share-a-bill you can always know who owes you what, with relatively no effort.  For that reason alone it’s a great app.  Also, if you’re a frequent business traveler you’ll find this app very handy too.  What’s also nice is that there’s a scaled down free version of the app, Share-a-bill Lite, so you can test drive it before you buy it.

Pros:

• Rich with features
• Organizes everything very well
• Relatively easy to use

Cons:

• Menu could be laid out better; adding people is the 1st step, but it’s second option on menu
• Would be nice if it had a tutorial; new users may be confused at first

Posted by Ryan Johnson
on Feb 17, 2010
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