Split costs with your group

Travelling with friends or family? Log who paid, and Trovelo works out who owes whom.

2 min read Updated Nov 1, 2026 iPhone iPad Mac
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Open Group in Expenses

Open Expenses, tap Group and then Start splitting.

Split costs with your group, with Start splitting
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1Group2Start splitting
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Say who’s travelling

You’re in already. Add the others by name: they don’t need Trovelo. Then tap Start splitting.

Who’s traveling: you, Ana and Ben
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1Who’s travelling2Add someone3Start
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Log a group expense

Log an expense as usual and choose Group at the top. Say who paid, and who it’s for: everyone, some of you, or exact amounts.

A 9,000 yen dinner paid by Ana, split between everyone
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1Group2Who paid3Between whom
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See who owes whom

Group shows what you owe or get back, and each person’s balance. Prices already in your plan wait under Not split yet: tap Split to share one.

You owe 19.04 dollars, with Settle up
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Prices from the plan, not split yet
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1Your balance2Settle up3Split a price
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Settle up

Tap Settle up for the fewest payments that make everyone even. Pay outside Trovelo, then tap Mark as paid. Send the summary shares it with the group chat.

Two payments and everyone’s even, with Mark as paid
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1Who pays whom2Mark as paid3Send the summary
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On the Mac

Expenses on the Mac has the same Mine and Group tabs. Open it with ⌘2.

⌘2Expenses ⇧⌘ELog expense

Good to know

In a shared trip, everyone sees the same group and its balances.

What you log as Just me stays in your own total, and nobody else sees it.

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