Splitwise is a great ledger, for a shared house or a regular dinner crew. But a trip isn't just a list of who owes what. It's an itinerary, a pile of documents, and a group that all needs to see the same thing. Venture keeps the money clear in the same app where everything else lives.
Already a Splitwise user? You'll feel right at home, Venture splits costs the same way, just inside the trip.
| Feature | Splitwise | Venture |
|---|---|---|
| Split group expenses | Yes | Yes |
| Uneven / per-person splits | Yes | Yes |
| Shared trip itinerary | No | Built from your booking emails |
| Booking email parsing | No | Forward and it builds itself |
| Document vault (passports, certs, insurance) | No | Per person, encrypted, offline |
| Visa & entry checks | No | Per traveller nationality |
| Activity packing lists (dive, ski, overland) | No | Yes |
| Works offline mid-trip | Limited | Fully offline |
| Costs live with the rest of the trip | Separate app | One place |
For tracking ongoing costs with housemates or a regular group, Splitwise is hard to beat. It's the reason "just put it on Splitwise" became a phrase. Keep it for that.
A trip is a different problem. The money is real, but it's tangled up with the routing, the bookings, the documents, and a group who all need to stay in the loop. Put the expenses in one app and everything else in five others, and things slip. The person who organised the trip is the one who ends up chasing them.
Venture splits costs the way you already do it. Equal shares, uneven shares, who paid for what, live balances, settle up once. What changes is where it happens. The split lives inside the trip, next to the itinerary it belongs to and the people it involves.
Pay the liveaboard deposit and it's logged against the trip everyone can already see. The chalet bill splits across the people staying, not the two who booked a hotel. Get home and there's no separate link to chase, because the balance was clear the whole way.
"Every ski week ends with someone sending a Splitwise link that two people ignore until we're back home. The expense splitting alone, that's the killer feature for me."
Plenty of people keep Splitwise for the house and use Venture for the trips. That works fine. The point isn't to beat a ledger. It's to give the trip a home, so the money is one clear part of it instead of a loose end you tidy up weeks later.
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Get early accessFor trips, yes. Venture splits group expenses the way Splitwise does, but inside a full trip plan, alongside the itinerary, documents and group coordination. Splitwise remains a great general-purpose ledger for ongoing costs like a shared house.
Yes. Venture splits each expense across only the people it applies to, handles unequal shares, and shows live balances so the group can settle up in one go.
On a trip, the money is only one part of the problem. Venture keeps expenses in the same place as the itinerary, the documents and the group, so there's no separate app to chase and nothing falls between the cracks.
Venture is free and live on Android now, with iOS coming soon. Get it on Google Play, or join the waitlist to be first in on iPhone.