Privacy policy
Split & Tip — the bill splitter. Last updated 29 August 2026.
Who this is
Split & Tip is published by James Loboda (JL Apps). Contact: android.personal.support@gmail.com.
This policy covers the Split & Tip iOS app and this website, and describes what they do today. It replaces an older policy shared across several apps with different data behaviour. A policy that does not describe what an app actually does is worse than none, because it reads as a statement that nothing else happens.
What stays on your phone
Held in the app's own private storage, which no other app can read:
- every bill you enter or scan — amounts, items, tax, charges, tip and the split
- the names you type for the people sharing a bill
- photos of receipts you scan or choose
- your settings, such as your usual tip percentage and currency
None of it is uploaded and there is no cloud copy. It is deleted when you delete the app. You can delete any single bill from the history screen at any time.
Receipt photos are the only thing the app removes on its own. A photo is released 548 days (about eighteen months) after its bill was created; the bill itself, and all of its numbers, are kept. This is so a long history does not quietly grow to gigabytes of images, and the window comfortably covers a tax year for anyone exporting the CSV.
What leaves your phone
Nothing.
There is no advertising, no analytics, no crash reporting and no tracking of any kind. The app contains no advertising SDK, no in-app purchases, and does not use the Advertising Identifier or App Tracking Transparency. It makes no network requests.
Sharing a bill, and why it does not reach us
When you share a bill, the whole bill is packed into the part of the link after the
# — the URL fragment. Browsers never transmit the fragment
to the server. That is a rule of the web, not a setting we chose.
So when somebody opens a shared link, this site sends them a page, and that page does
the arithmetic in their own browser using the part of the link the server never saw.
Our hosting records that /b was requested. It cannot record which bill,
because it is never sent one. A QR code works the same way: the code is the
bill, and scanning it involves no server at all.
Nothing is stored per shared link, so there is nothing to delete and no link that expires. If you share a bill with somebody, they have it — the same way they would if you had handed them a photocopy.
The camera and your photos
The app asks for the camera so it can read a receipt, and for your photo library so you can pick a receipt you have already photographed. Both are optional; every part of the app works if you type the bill in yourself.
Reading a receipt happens entirely on your device, using the text recognition built into iOS. The photograph is not uploaded and is not sent to any service for processing.
Children
This app is a calculator. It has no accounts, no user-generated content, no messaging and no advertising, and it collects nothing from anybody, of any age.
Your rights
Data-protection law gives you rights to see, correct, export and delete data held about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to show you or delete. Everything the app knows is on your own device: you can read it in the app, export it as CSV, delete individual bills, or remove all of it by deleting the app.
Changes
If the app ever starts sending anything anywhere, this page will say so before that version ships, and the date above will change.