What does Tricount do well?

Splitting costs with no friction. Create the group, send a link, and people join with no account and no install. For a dinner, a flat or a weekend, it is hard to improve on.

Where does it fall short on a trip?

It does not know you are travelling. No itinerary, no bookings, no tickets — so during the trip you are still hunting for the hotel confirmation in the inbox of someone with no signal.

A Tricount alternative for group trips

Q: Where does it beat you?

Getting people in. Today, adding someone to a trip in OhMyWay needs their email address; in Tricount a link is enough. It is the clearest gap and it is on the list of what comes next.

Q: Can I import my Tricount expenses?

Tricount can export to a spreadsheet. OhMyWay does not import that file yet, so today the move is manual.

If you want to log shared costs without anyone having to sign up, Tricount does that very well and switching gains you nothing. The question is different: if you are also organising the trip, is it worth having the money in one place and the itinerary, bookings and tickets in four others?

First, the fair part: Tricount gets people in better than we do

Tricount does one thing with no friction: create the group, send a link, and people log expenses without signing up, without installing anything, and without anyone having to explain how it works. That is why half of Spain has it on their phone, and why it gets used for a flat or a dinner as readily as for a trip.

And one thing has to be said before going further: on that, it beats us today. Adding someone to a trip in OhMyWay needs their email address; in Tricount a link is enough. It is the clearest difference between the two and it is the next thing we are building. If all you need is five people logging expenses this week without installing anything, use Tricount.

Where the difference shows

	Tricount	OhMyWay
Splitting costs across a group	Yes, and very well	Yes
Joining with a link, no account	Yes	Not yet: an email is needed
Multiple currencies at the day’s rate	Yes	Yes
Day-by-day itinerary	No	Yes
Bookings with reference and tickets attached	No	Yes
Documents offline	No	Yes
Packing lists and to-dos	No	Yes
Group chat inside the trip	No	Yes
Using it outside a trip (flat, dinners)	Yes	Not what it is for
Free	Yes, with a paid tier	Yes, no in-app purchases

The real argument: where the ticket is

The problem with a group trip does not show up at the end, when it is time to settle up. It shows up at six in the morning at the gate, when you need the hotel confirmation and it is in someone else’s email, and they have no signal.

An expenses app cannot help with that, because it does not know you are travelling. That is the whole difference: Tricount solves the money, and solves it well; a travel app solves the trip, and the money is one part of it.

When not to switch

If the group will not install anything. Today that is Tricount’s strongest card, and it is a good one.
If you use it for the flat, for dinners, for anything that is not a trip. In OhMyWay everything hangs off a trip.
If the trip has already started. Changing tools mid-trip is worse than an imperfect tool.

When to

If you are the organiser and the itinerary is in notes, the bookings in email and the costs in Tricount.
If the group asks you twenty times what time you leave and where the ticket is.
If you want the whole trip kept when you get back, not just who owes what.

On taking your data with you: Tricount exports to a spreadsheet. OhMyWay does not import that file yet, so today the move is manual. That is a real limitation, which is why it is written here rather than buried.

What OhMyWay is

A free group-travel app: itinerary, bookings, documents and expenses in one place, shared with the people travelling with you and available offline. On iPhone, iPad and Android, in five languages.

The method for splitting costs — app or no app — is in how to split expenses on a group trip. And if yours is Splitwise rather than Tricount, that comparison is here.