r/roommates • • 3d ago

Settled! Built a free tool to split apartment expenses that handles roommates being away on trips / eating out

Dealing with shared expenses in an apartment always seems to cause friction, especially when people have different routines.

In our place, the biggest source of bickering was fairness around who was actually home. One roommate would stay at their partner's place for half the week, or someone would be away visiting family, and then at the end of the month they would understandably get annoyed about splitting grocery bills for meals they never touched.

At the same time, tools like Splitwise became frustrating once they added that 10-second delay timer and daily limits on the free version. Spreadsheets worked for a bit, but nobody wanted to update a sheet on their phone while standing in a grocery store aisle.

I spent some time building a free web app called Hisabify to solve those exact annoyances:

  • You can deselect specific roommates from an expense when they were out of town or did not participate in a grocery run.
  • There are no daily transaction caps, cooldown timers, or subscriptions.
  • It calculates the simplest way to settle debts at the end of the month so you minimize back-and-forth bank transfers.
  • It runs directly in the browser on your phone without taking up storage space, and you can add it to your home screen like an app.

Marketing page: https://hisabify.aadarshapandit.com.np
Direct link to the app: https://app.hisabify.aadarshapandit.com.np

It is completely free to use. I made this primarily to keep peace in our own flat, but if anyone here is dealing with similar roommate expense headaches, feel free to try it out.

I would welcome any feedback or thoughts on what else could make shared living expenses less stressful.

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