Splitting a bill equally is easy. Four friends, ₹2,400 dinner, ₹600 each. Done.
But real life rarely works like that.
One friend only had a starter. Someone skipped drinks. The person who booked the hotel paid for an extra night. Suddenly someone opens the calculator app, someone else disagrees with the math, and the group chat turns into an accounting meeting.
That's the first problem I wanted EzySplit to solve properly.
Four ways to split
When you add an expense in EzySplit, you pick how it's divided:
Equal: everyone pays the same. The default, and right most of the time.
Exact amounts: you type what each person owes. Good for "I had the ₹450 thali, you had the ₹300 one."
Percentage: divide by percent. Useful for rent when one room is bigger.
Shares: divide by parts. If two people stayed 3 nights and one stayed 2, give them 3, 3 and 2 shares, and EzySplit works out the rupees.
You can also choose who's included, so the friend who skipped dinner isn't charged for it.
Bills with many items
Some bills are a list: groceries, a long restaurant order, a shopping trip. In EzySplit you can add each item and its price, and the app adds up the total for you. No adding up on paper first, and the full breakdown is saved with the expense.
The boring part that matters: making the math add up
Here's a small problem most people never notice. Split ₹100 three ways and you get ₹33.333… each. Round everyone to ₹33.33 and you're 1 paisa short. Over many expenses, those leftover paise make balances drift, and someone ends up owing ₹0.02 forever.
EzySplit's split logic makes sure the parts always add up to exactly the total, with any leftover paisa going to a specific person rather than disappearing. It's a tiny detail, but balances you can trust start with every single expense adding up exactly.
The app also checks your input before saving. Percentages have to add up to 100, and exact amounts have to match the bill, so mistakes are caught when you add the expense, not weeks later.
Why this matters
The point of a split app isn't the math. It's not having to argue about it. When everyone can see exactly how an expense was divided, there's nothing left to question.
Tomorrow: who owes whom, and how EzySplit keeps everyone's balances in sync the moment someone adds an expense.
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