Adding by voice
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Say it, instead of typing it

“Dinner was eighty-four pounds, Sam paid, split evenly with Mia and Kai.” One sentence, and every field is filled: the amount, the currency, who paid, who is in, and what kind of thing it was.

Nobody wants to fill in a form at a table. The alternative most apps offer is a faster form.

From the photo
Ichiran Shibuya66.00
Tax6.00
Tip0.00
Total72.00

Items, tax and tip add up to the total. Check it and save.

Save expenseChange something

What comes back is a draft

It fills the form and stops. You read it, change what it got wrong, and save — nothing reaches anybody’s balance on the strength of a sentence it heard. A wrong number in a shared ledger is worse than a slow one.

Both happen in the app, where the camera and the microphone are. A page can tell you what they do; it is not somewhere either one can be done.

Does the recording leave my phone?

No. Your own browser does the listening, so no audio is uploaded and none is kept. What is sent is the text it heard — which you can see and edit before anything is saved.

Which phones can listen?

Chrome, Edge and Safari can, which covers iPhone and most of Android. Firefox has no speech recogniser at all — there the button asks you to type the same sentence instead, and it produces the same draft from the same words.

What can it understand?

Amounts in words or figures, a currency if you name one, who paid, who it was split between, whether it was even or by shares, and a category. Name somebody who is not in the group and it asks who they are rather than inventing them — a misheard name makes a person exactly as plausible as a real one, so that is never automatic.

The other way to skip the typing: photograph the receipt

Is it free?

Five a month on a free account, four hundred on Pro. The ledger underneath — expenses, balances, settling up, every split method — is free at every tier.

Questions about adding by voice

Can you add an expense by talking?

Say what it was, who paid and how to split it, and Tabrillo fills the form in. No other expense-splitting app does this.

Is my voice recorded or uploaded?

No. The listening happens in your own browser, so no audio leaves the phone and none is kept. Only the text it heard is sent, and you can read and edit it before anything is saved.

What if it mishears the amount?

You see the draft before it is saved — it fills the form and stops. Nothing reaches a balance until you confirm it.

What if my phone cannot listen?

The button asks you to type the same sentence instead, and it produces the same draft. Firefox has no speech recogniser; Chrome, Edge and Safari do.

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