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Eider

Eider is the free way to split shared expenses on a trip or at home. It remembers your usual split and tracks who owes whom. Adding an expense is never capped, delayed, or interrupted. Plus adds receipt scanning, bank import, and spending reports.

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Pricing:
  • Freemium
  • Free Trial
  • $8.99 / Monthly (Plus, or $89.99/yr covers the nests you create)
Platforms:
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Web
Eider

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Features & Specs

  1. Unlimited expenses

    No daily cap on how much you add.

  2. Unlimited members

    Split with as many people as you need, at no cost.

  3. Unlimited nests

    Run a trip, a household, and a one-off side by side.

  4. Full history

    Every expense stays available, with no archive limit.

  5. Ad-free

    Nothing is ever sold against your spending.

  6. Nests

    A shared space per trip, household, or group.

  7. Standing split

    Set your usual split once and every new expense uses it.

  8. Even, percentage, or exact splits

    Three ways to divide any expense.

  9. Per-expense override

    Change one expense's split without touching the rule.

  10. Running balance

    An always-current view of who owes whom.

  11. Simplified settlement

    Nets everything down to the fewest payments.

  12. Settle up anywhere

    Records payment through Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, Zelle, or Apple Cash. Eider never touches your money.

  13. Settlement periods

    Group expenses into periods you close when everyone squares up.

  14. Settled-period lock

    A closed period becomes immutable, so history cannot be quietly rewritten.

  15. Recurring Expenses

    Rent, utilities, and subscriptions, with variable amounts and an end date.

  16. Quick Add

    The title is optional and derives from the merchant or category.

  17. Merchant memory

    A merchant recalls the account it was last paid from.

  18. Category prediction

    Categories are inferred from the merchant as you type.

  19. Placeholder members

    Add someone who is not on Eider yet and split with them anyway.

  20. Solo nests

    Works identically with one member, always using a placeholder, with no pressure to invite anyone.

  21. Real-Time Sync

    Changes appear on everyone's device as they happen.

  22. Multi-Currency

    A base currency per nest, converted at each expense's own date.

  23. Expense notes

    Add context to any expense.

  24. Edit and delete with undo

    Soft delete with an undo toast, so nothing is lost by mistake.

  25. Activity history

    A per-expense record of what was created, edited, and settled.

  26. Nest switcher

    Move between nests without losing your place.

  27. Invitations

    Invite by email, or just add someone by name.

  28. Push notifications

    Told when something in your nest changes. With grouped opt-in/out.

  29. Data Export

    Request a copy of your data.

  30. Sign in with Apple and Google

    Plus email sign-in.

  31. Dark Mode

    Follows your system theme.

  32. iOS, Android, and web

    One account across all three.

  33. Receipt Scanning

    [Plus] Reads the merchant, date, and total straight off a photo.

  34. Line-item split

    [Plus] Split a single receipt item by item instead of evenly.

  35. Receipt library

    [Plus] A searchable archive of every receipt the nest has captured.

  36. Spending patterns

    [Plus] Where the money actually goes, over time.

  37. Period reports

    [Plus] A summary for each settlement period.

  38. Monthly digest

    [Plus] An emailed recap of the month.

  39. Bank Connection

    [Plus] Bring transactions in automatically and securely with Plaid, then add them to any nest to split.

  40. Nest-wide annual membership

    [Plus] An annual subscription shares receipt scanning and line-item splitting with everyone in all the nests you create.

  41. Early Access to Features

    [Plus] New features before they roll out broadly.

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Questions & Answers

As answered by people managing Eider.
  1. What makes Eider unique?

    Eider records, it doesn't enforce. There is deliberately no way to reject, dispute, or counter what someone else added, because an app arbitrating between housemates was never going to settle anything a conversation couldn't. Most splitters are built around approval flows that quietly frame the people you live with as counterparties. The second thing is that the free tier is genuinely uncapped: unlimited expenses, members, nests, and history, with no ads. Free is the product, not a trial. And Eider runs natively on iOS, Android, and the web from one account, which is rarer in this category than it sounds.

  2. Why should a person choose Eider over its competitors?

    Three concrete reasons. Free has no daily expense limit and no ads, so you never hit a wall mid-trip and get asked to pay to finish adding dinner. Paid is a person-held pass rather than a per-person tax: one annual subscription covers everyone in the nests you create, so a six-person trip is one subscription instead of six, all year rather than for one 30-day window. And Eider is on iOS, Android, and web, so nobody in the group is left on a worse version because of the phone they own. Everything else is a well-made ledger that does the math and stays out of the way with beautiful design and user experience.

  3. How would you describe the primary audience of Eider?

    People sharing money with people they actually know. Three groups in practice: roommates and households splitting rent, groceries, and utilities month after month; couples keeping a shared ledger without merging finances, and friends on a trip who want to walk away square rather than argue about it or venmo after every single transaction. Households are the ones who stay, trips are how most people find it. It works identically for one person keeping their own record, with no pressure to invite anybody.

  4. What's the story behind Eider?

    An eider is a sea duck, and eiderdown is the softest natural material on earth. The birds line their nests with it. That is the whole idea: sharing money with people you love should feel soft rather than stressful, so the app's word for a shared space is a nest. It was built by one person, Robert Henderson, under Loftery LLC in Colorado, after too many trips that ended in a group chat, a notes app, and somebody quietly eating the difference.

  5. Which are the primary technologies used for building Eider?

    • TypeScript across a Turborepo monorepo, with the business logic shared between platforms
    • Next.js on the web, deployed on Vercel
    • React Native and Expo on iOS and Android, shipping updates over the air
    • PostgreSQL on Neon, with Prisma
    • Better Auth, including Sign in with Apple and Google
    • TanStack Query for data and Tailwind CSS on the web
    • Cloudflare for DNS and the realtime sync layer
    • Sentry, PostHog, and Resend
    • Stripe, Apple In-App Purchase, and Google Play Billing
    • Plaid for bank connections
    • Claude for reading receipts

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