If you've opened Tricount recently and found that exporting your expenses or splitting them unevenly is no longer possible, you're not imagining it. Version 8.0 changed what the app does, and a lot of long-time users are reconsidering it as a result.

What actually changed

bunq, which acquired Tricount, discontinued the Premium subscription — so the app is now free. The catch is how it became free. Rather than unlocking the paid features for everyone, version 8.0 removed them. On our reading of the change as of July 2026, that includes:

  • CSV and PDF export — there is no longer a way to get your expense history out
  • Custom splits — uneven splitting by share, percentage or exact amount
  • Expense sorting
  • Personal mode for private entries

Tricount's help centre has indicated custom splits may return in a future update, without committing to a date. Even splitting, balances and settle-up all still work and remain free with no expense cap — if that's all you used, you can happily stay. Check the app yourself before deciding; this is a fast-moving situation and details may have changed since we wrote this.

The awkward part: you may not be able to take your data

This is the bit worth understanding before you switch anywhere. Because export was removed, there is no clean way to move your Tricount history into another app — including ours. We import Splitwise's export file, but we can't import a file that Tricount no longer produces.

So, practically:

  • If you have an older export saved from before v8.0, keep it. It's your only structured copy.
  • If you haven't updated the app yet, check whether your version still has the export option before it updates.
  • Otherwise, the realistic move is to settle up your current balances in Tricount, screenshot them for your records, and start fresh elsewhere. Annoying, but a clean line is better than a half-migrated ledger.

We'd rather tell you this plainly than imply a one-click migration we can't deliver.

What to look for in a replacement

  • An export button you've actually tested. This whole situation is what lock-in looks like from the inside. Before you trust the next app with a year of expenses, export once and confirm you get a real file.
  • Uneven splits, free. Real life isn't split evenly — someone had the steak, someone stayed two nights instead of three.
  • No expense cap. Some apps limit how many expenses you can add per day on the free plan.
  • Low friction for the group. The person tracking expenses will tolerate an app install. The other four people usually won't.

Your options

Splitwise is the most mature and has the deepest features, but its free tier caps how many expenses you can add per day and puts receipt scanning behind a subscription. More on that limit here.

Spliit is free, open source and link-based, with no accounts. If you're comfortable with a community-paced project — or want to self-host — it's a genuinely good fit and there's nothing to pay.

Splitpond — ours — is link-based like Spliit, with the four split modes Tricount removed (equal, shares, percent, exact) and a JSON export that's free and always will be. Receipt scanning is free for five scans per group per month. Nobody in your group needs an account; you send a link and they're in.

Where Splitpond won't suit you

Being straight about it: we have no native mobile app (the site works well on phones, but it isn't in the App Store), no bank-transfer settle-up the way Tricount has via bunq, and no currency conversion yet. If bunq integration was the reason you used Tricount, none of the alternatives here replace it.

The actual lesson

A free app that can't export your data isn't free — you're paying with the ability to leave. Whichever tool you pick next, export from it once in the first week and check that the file is real. It's the cheapest insurance there is, and it's why our export is free, unlimited, and stays that way — it's written into our public promise.