Someone covers your lunch. You get the next round. Three weeks later nobody can remember who's up. Tallypad keeps one running balance with each friend — no account, no server, no awkward maths at the table.
No fiddly per-loan bookkeeping. Every friend has a single number: what they owe you, or what you owe them.
Wipe the slate clean, or pay off part of it and leave the rest running. Settling is an entry, not a delete — the history stays.
Lend euros on holiday and dollars at home. Tallypad tracks them side by side and never invents an exchange rate, because a made-up rate turns a real record into a wrong one.
Attach a photo to any entry, for the times “what was that for?” needs a better answer than memory.
Send a friend a clean summary showing the balance and every entry behind it, with the reason and date for each.
Keep what you’re owed on your home screen, so you actually remember to ask.
A balance is only ever the sum of the entries behind it. Nothing is cached, so deleting or editing an entry can never leave a stale total sitting there.
TallyPad is a native app on both platforms — built separately for each, not a web page in a wrapper. The numbers below are the same ledger on an iPhone and on a Pixel.
Everyone, at a glance · iPhone
One person, and the entries behind the number · iPhone
Adding a loan · Android
Everyone, at a glance · Android
One difference worth knowing: the iPhone app can sync between your own devices through your private iCloud. The Android app keeps everything on the device and has no sync, so the two apps hold separate ledgers.
Tallypad has no account, no login and no backend. Your ledger lives on your phone. On iPhone you can turn on iCloud sync, and it moves between your own devices through your private iCloud database — which belongs to your Apple Account, not to us. On Android it simply never leaves the device. We never see it either way, because we have nowhere to keep it.
Every feature unlocked, no in-app purchases, no subscription. If paid features ever arrive, everything described on this page stays free.