Tallykins Press Kit
Everything you need to write about Tallykins — ready-to-use descriptions, a full feature breakdown and the facts at a glance. App icon and screenshots to follow soon.
Short Description
Tallykins is a private group expense tracker for holidays, weekends away, sports teams and events. One organiser creates the event, everyone else joins free. No email, no password, no ads. Just fair shares and less hassle.
Long Description
Tallykins makes it easy to track shared expenses when groups spend money together — holidays, golf trips, stag and hen weekends, sports tours, festivals or any group event. It started as a way to solve a familiar problem for its founders, Jon and Clare Worley: keeping track of who paid for what without it turning into a spreadsheet, an awkward IOU thread, or a sore subject.
Unlike many expense-sharing apps, Tallykins is designed around a simple idea: one person organises the event and everyone else joins free. No complicated onboarding — no friend has to register or hand over a password or email address just to split the cost of a pizza or taxi. The organiser signs in with an existing Apple or Google account and shares a simple join code with the group; from there, anyone can log expenses, split them equally, or exclude people and set custom amounts when costs aren't shared evenly, with balances updating in real time.
Tallykins is ad-free, with no data sold, and built around a fictional world of fluffy bear mascots — Decimalia — that gives the whole experience a lighter touch than the average finance app. It's aimed at established friend groups, sports teams and travel crews rather than flatmates splitting utility bills, summed up in its five-word motto: fluff, friends, and fair shares.
Key Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| No Sign-Up to Join | Friends join an event without registering, creating a password, or handing over an email address. |
| One Organiser Setup | A single organiser sets up the event, making it quick for everyone else to get started. |
| Join by Event Code | Participants join with a simple shared code instead of complicated invites or onboarding. |
| Shared Expense Tracking | Log expenses as they happen and keep a clear record of who paid for what. |
| Fair Cost Allocation | Split an expense only between the people who actually benefited, not automatically across everyone. |
| Custom Expense Splits | Exclude someone from an expense or set a custom amount when costs aren't shared equally. |
| Real-Time Balances | Balances update the moment an expense is added, so everyone can see where they stand. |
| TallyCash Shared Fund | Track contributions to a shared kitty and what's spent from it, kept separate from card payments. |
| Multi-Currency Support | Log expenses in different currencies, with up to 29 exchange rates updated each weekday. |
| Tally Up Settlements | A clear final summary of who owes what to whom, with settlements recorded as they're made. |
| Friend Groups | Create groups of friends for group to group and group to individual settlement options. |
| PDF Reports | Organiser Pass users can export a clean PDF summary of an event and its settlements. |
| Secure Cloud Backup | Organisers can sign in with Apple or Google to back up events and access them across devices. |
| Privacy First | No requirement to register, and no personal data used for advertising or tracking. |
| Ad-Free Experience | No ads, anywhere in the app, ever. |
| Offline Friendly | Keep recording expenses even with limited or no internet access. |
| Event-Based Organisation | Expenses are grouped by trip, holiday, sports tour or event, rather than one continuous tally. |
| Friendly Visual Experience | A cast of Tallykins mascots and clear visual balances make group finances easier to follow. |