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SharedNest vs Settle Up

A Settle Up alternative for households, not one-off groups

A clean group debt tracker, and nothing more.

Settle Up does one job well: track group expenses and show who should pay whom. For a holiday or a hiking weekend that is exactly right.

A household is not a holiday. SharedNest keeps the balance maths and adds the recurring, budgeted, private and goal-driven side of living together.

What Settle Up does well

  • Simple, fast group tracking
  • Clear settlement suggestions
  • Works offline for casual groups

Where households outgrow it

No recurring bills

Rent and utilities have to be entered again every single month.

No budget or insight layer

You cannot see spending trends or whether the household is over plan.

No privacy

Everything in a group is visible to everyone in it.

Settle Up vs SharedNest, side by side

FeatureSettle UpSharedNest
Income-weighted splitsManual weights per expenseAny ratio you choose, applied automatically to every shared expense
Private expensesNot supportedMark any expense private — it counts for you, stays invisible to the household
Recurring expensesNot includedAutomatic monthly bills with splits
Budgets and trendsNot includedBudgets, pulse, monthly snapshot, benchmarks
Email summariesNot includedWeekly digest, monthly overview, settle reminders

Who SharedNest is for

Flatmates and couples whose 'temporary' group has become a home.

Switching from Settle Up

Add your fixed bills once and the recurring engine takes the month off your hands.

Questions people ask

Can I still split unevenly per expense?
Yes — percentages, shares or custom amounts, on top of your default rule.
Will I get reminded to settle?
Yes, when the balance passes a threshold you choose.
Is my data private?
Your household data is only visible to your household, with row-level security on every table.

Ready to align on money — for good?

Free while we build — every feature included. Invite your partner and set up your household in under 5 minutes.