The Hisaab Blog
Splitting expenses fairly in India — comparisons, how-tos, and honest founder retrospectives from building The Hisaab.
800+ organic users, 92% retention, 30+ unsolicited reviews. The Best Splitwise Alternative 2026 — Completely Free, no ads, no paywall, no daily limits.
What “Completely Free” actually means in 2026. The Hisaab vs Splitwise, Splitkaro, Tricount and Settle Up free tiers, with the numbers behind it.
Two people, one running balance, 50–200 expenses a month — without a Splitwise Pro upgrade. The Hisaab for couples, Completely Free.
Honest 2026 ranking of bill-splitting apps for India: The Hisaab, Splitwise, Splitkaro, Tricount, Settle Up, Spliit, splitmybills.in.
Splitkaro's premium plan is ₹450/year. Six free alternatives that give you the same features without the paywall.
The full 2026 list of Splitwise free plan restrictions: 4–5 expense daily cap, 10s cooldown, ads, no unequal splits, and what to use instead.
Splitwise Pro costs ₹999/year. Here's the honest math on whether it's worth it — or if a free Indian alternative wins.
Done with Splitwise daily limits and ads? Migrate to The Hisaab in under 10 minutes. Step-by-step guide for Indian users.
Honest review of Splitkaro Premium for Indian users. What features it unlocks, what it doesn't, and whether the ₹450/year is fair.
Equal split, proportional split, or by room size — which method is fairest? And how to track it without monthly drama.
A 4-day Goa trip with 8 friends generates 25–40 expenses. Here's the guide to splitting fairly without arguments.
Honest founder retrospective. 6 mistakes from building Hisaab. Originally posted on r/developersIndia (104k views).
UPI is table stakes, not a wedge. Six months of building Hisaab taught us the actual moat is cultural context, not payment integration.
The gap between what users say in interviews and what they actually use. Lessons from Hisaab's usage data.
Splitwise is so embedded in friend groups that "splitwise it" is a verb. Here's how upstart apps chip away at brand gravity.
Six weeks of UAC ads brought cheap installs that killed retention metrics, which made the Play Store algorithm suppress us organically.
We rewrote our Play Store listing 4 times. It didn't matter. The bottleneck was discovery, not conversion.
User interviews: cheapest research method, easiest to skip. Why and what to change.
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