Tricount is a favorite for splitting trip costs, and tricount.com says it is "Free. No ads. No limits." It is owned and operated by bunq, the new app dropped the old Premium features, and newly registered users get a bunq account. People look for alternatives when someone in the group will not install an app, or when they want a plain web page for one trip. Tricount facts below come from tricount.com and its help center, read on 2 November 2026.
What is Tricount today?
- Owner: Tricount's terms say the site and app are owned and operated by bunq B.V.
- Price: tricount.com says "Free. No ads. No limits.", and its terms say shared accounts work without a password or login.
- Apps: Tricount's terms say it is available on tricount.com and in mobile apps; the help center and download pages point to the iOS and Android apps.
- bunq: the help center says newly registered users also get a bunq account on signup.
- Premium was discontinued with the new app; CSV and PDF export and the personal mode went with it, per the help center.
Tricount alternatives, ranked
Hostus is first because it is the option we recommend for one trip or one house where nobody should have to install anything. The rest follow with the case where each is the right pick.
1. Hostus. A host for pages your AI made, where a small app is one page. Ask Claude or ChatGPT (or Create with AI in Hostus) for an expense splitter as one HTML file, upload it, switch it to Public and share the link. Everyone opens it in a browser, adds what they paid, and sees the balances and who pays whom, stored with hostus.data. No account, no app, no ads, and the page looks the way you asked. Here is a live one for a weekend trip. Free: 20 pages, 2 MB in total. Paid: $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year.
2. Tricount. Pick it if everyone is happy to install the app and you want card features and bank links through bunq.
3. Splitwise. Pick it for ongoing shared costs with many groups and reminders; see Splitwise alternatives.
4. A shared spreadsheet. Pick it if the group already lives in one and likes formulas.
How do the options compare?
| Option | Install an app | Account | Ads | Bank or card features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostus | No, a link | No, for the group | No | No |
| Tricount | App-first; terms also mention the website | Not for shared accounts; bunq account on signup | No | Yes, through bunq |
We list only Tricount in the table because it is the only tool here whose pages we read for this guide.
How do you build the splitter with one prompt?
The full walkthrough is in split expenses without an app. The short version:
Make a shared expense splitter as one self-contained HTML file, mobile first, for [trip], with people [names] and currency [EUR]. Anyone can add an expense: who paid, how much, what for, and who shares it. Store expenses with hostus.data in a collection "expenses" and show the live list, each person's balance and the fewest payments to settle up. Draw every value with textContent.
Good to know before you switch
A Hostus splitter has no bank connection, card or payment requests, and no automatic currency conversion unless the page does the math you asked for. Anyone with the link can add expenses in the default data mode; keep the link to the group, or require readers to sign in to write. There is no custom domain (pages live at a hostus.page subdomain), every page carries a small Hostus badge, and pages are noindex.