Last updated by The EvenRound team.
About 30% of casual group expense splits still happen in a Google Sheet someone created on day 1 of the trip. It works for short trips, breaks down for long ones, and always falls on the same one person to maintain. Worth knowing why apps win without dismissing the legitimacy of a sheet for short-term cases.
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| Feature | EvenRound | Spreadsheet vs app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever | Free (your time) |
| Signup required | No | No (Google account or Excel) |
| Multi-currency | Yes - FX snapshotted at expense time | Manual - you maintain it |
| AI receipt scanning | Yes - extracts merchant, total, line items | No |
| Smart settlement (fewest transactions) | Yes - greedy minimization | Manual - you do the math |
| Real-time updates | Yes - live across all members | No (depends on collaborator) |
| Recurring expenses | Yes - weekly, monthly, custom (RRULE) | Manual - you re-enter monthly |
| Comments on expenses | Yes | Cell comments |
| Web app | Yes - full-featured, PWA installable | Yes (Sheets/Excel Web) |
| Native mobile app | Installable PWA (iOS + Android) | Sheets / Excel mobile (limited) |
| Group templates | Yes - apartment, trip, couple, event | Templates exist online |
| CSV / PDF export | CSV + PDF | Native (the spreadsheet itself) |
| Payment links (Stripe / PayPal / Wise / Revolut) | Yes - first-class | Manual |
| Languages | 7 (EN, DE, FR, ES, PT, IT, NL) | Any |
| Data residency | EU (Frankfurt, Supabase) | Wherever your account lives |
| Open source | Open core planned | Sheets/Excel are not open source |
| Ads | Never | No |
Data points reflect public information as of April 2026. Pricing, availability, and feature scope on competing products may change.
Most groups can switch in under ten minutes.
If your sheet has been working, the structure of expenses (date, payer, amount, attendees, split rule) is already in your head. That structure maps directly to EvenRound.
Same currency, same members. Use shares mode if your sheet had unequal splits hardcoded.
Don't migrate every row of the sheet. Just bring the running balances forward as a 'starting balance' adjustment expense.
Keep the sheet as historical record. Going forward, the EvenRound group is the source of truth.
The short version.
Spreadsheets remain perfectly valid for 2-person 4-day trips. For anything more - multi-week, multi-currency, multi-person - apps win. The break point is roughly 5 people × 5 days.
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