Chiipin

What’s new

Every release of Chiipin, newest first. The App Store only ever shows the latest set of notes, so this is the rest of them.

Version 1.0.16

November 2026

Pay for a friend, read what you opened with no signal, and fuller event bills.

Pay for a friend

  • Cover what someone owes: on a bill, tap Pay for under their name, or use Everyone in an event, group or household.
  • A bill shows who paid a share for someone.

Works without internet

  • Bills, groups and events you have opened stay readable with no signal.
  • Events you host that start within a day are ready at the door before you open them.

Event bills

  • Split a bill with the whole event or only the people you pick, with portions for a +1.
  • Keep the receipt’s items and choose who paid.
  • Change a split after people have paid: what is left shows as Still owes.
  • Ended events with money still open stay under To settle.
  • Anyone who owes on a bill sees where to pay the person who paid.

Hosting

  • Pick when each reminder goes out.
  • Keep the address hidden until a guest replies.
  • Count how many came when a guest brings a +1.
  • Carpool suggests pick-up areas near the event.

Version 1.0.15

November 2026

Check guests in at the door, even with no signal.

Events

  • Check people in at the door with no signal. The phone checks the code and sends it when you are back online.
  • Guests see their code change once they are in.
  • The date and time of an event now respond when you tap their lower half.
  • A new event offers its invitation once, not every time you open it again.

Version 1.0.14

November 2026

Plan events, invite everyone with a link, and split the bill afterwards.

Events

  • A new Events tab: plan a birthday, a dinner or a trip, and see what is coming up.
  • Share an invitation as a poster, a moving poster or a folding card. Friends reply from the link, with no account.
  • Guest list, waitlist, polls for the date or place, and updates for everyone who replied.
  • Make an event public, or browse public events nearby. Hosts can approve who joins.
  • Carpool: offer seats or take one, with the cost agreed first.
  • Check people in at the door with a QR code.
  • When it is over, split the bill with the people who came.

Adding things

  • The + is now a menu: group bill, household bill, event or storage item.

Also

  • Paywall, colors and text are easier to read.

Version 1.0.13

October 2026

A page of its own for every bill, repeating bills included.

Bills

  • Tap a bill and its page opens, growing out of the row.
  • A bill's page puts who still owes first, with a tick beside each person.
  • The receipt reads like a till slip, and prints out the first time you open a new bill.
  • Each way of paying has its own sound as a bill is added. Turn it off under Sounds in Profile.
  • Settling up prints a receipt with a stamp, and tapping your balance takes you to Settle up.

Household

  • Each repeating bill has a page of its own, with the days it pays for and its earlier periods.
  • Tap the circle beside a housemate to mark their share paid, with a moment to undo it.
  • Rows show who paid, with their face.

Storage

  • Pick a category and a place from chips, and the count sits on the picture's corner.
  • Scanning comes first when you add an item.

Version 1.0.12

October 2026

Amounts you can add up as you type them.

Typing amounts

  • Every amount opens a calculator keypad: add up two receipts, or a price times a quantity, right in the field. The bill keeps the total.
  • Percent works the way the Calculator app does, so a tip is one key: 80 + 15% is 92.
  • On iPad the keypad opens beside the amount instead of across the screen.

Gestures

  • Swipe sideways on the Split tab to move between Groups and Household.
  • The first time you reach a gesture nothing on the screen shows, like changing the calendar's month, arranging Storage or a group's shortcuts, a hand shows you how.

Version 1.0.11

October 2026

A new look on every page, a Home that keeps only what needs doing, and where to pay someone right beside what you owe them.

A new look

  • Every page has been redrawn: Home, groups, the household, Settle, bills, Profile, storage and contacts.
  • Cards take their colour from where you stand, and everyone has their own colour, so a row of faces is easy to tell apart.
  • Widgets match the app.

At a glance

  • Home shows only the blocks with something to do, in the order you choose, each half or full width.
  • Group and household pages open with one figure – what you get back or pay in all – and who to settle with.
  • Bill rows show the name and total, who paid and when, and where you stand.

Settling up

  • Someone you owe shows their ways to be paid right under their name, each with a copy button.
  • In a household, housemates always see each other’s ways to be paid.
  • Other people’s sign-in emails no longer appear anywhere in the app.

Reminders

  • Someone owes you? Tap the bell beside them on Settle, in a group or in the household to send a reminder.
  • Each reminder says it a little differently. One a day per person, so nobody gets flooded.
  • For someone without the app, share what they owe as a message instead.

Contacts

  • Add someone by picking them from your iPhone’s contacts, then text them an invite made for them. When they accept it, they link to that contact.
  • Add anyone from a group or household to your contacts with one tap.
  • Saved the same person twice? Combine the two into one contact.

Version 1.0.10

October 2026

Friends without the app on the same bills, a web version for Android, and a bill with friends that housemates still settle with the household.

People without the app

  • Add friends who don’t use Chiipin to a group by name, and split bills with them like anyone else.
  • When they pay you back, the person they paid records it; what they owe can be shared as a message.
  • If they join later with the group’s invite link, they pick their name and the bills become theirs.
  • Friends on Android can use Chiipin in a browser at chiiapp.com/app and sign in with Google.

A bill with friends

  • Friends over for dinner? In the household, choose Bill with friends, tick the housemates who came, add the friends, and record the bill as usual.
  • What housemates owe each other is settled with the household’s monthly bills; friends settle with whoever paid.
  • Already writing a bill? Add people at the end of Who’s in brings friends into a household bill, or new members into a group’s, and nothing you typed is lost.

Version 1.0.9

October 2026

Pay part of what you owe, a household page that starts with what is still unsettled, totals converted across currencies, and notifications that open the right place.

Settle up

  • Pay part of what you owe. A part payment clears the oldest bills first; the bill it runs out on is marked paid, and the rest becomes a bill of its own, linked back to it.
  • The settle-up sheet leads with what the payment settles, and the bills behind it follow.
  • A person’s balance in each group shows in that group’s own currency.

Household

  • The household page starts with what is still unsettled across every month, including what housemates owe each other, with settle up right there.
  • The month’s figure says how much is not due yet, so it adds up with the calendar.
  • A housemate’s payment on an earlier month’s bill shows on Home for you to confirm, and opens that month.

Home and currencies

  • The balance card shows what you’re owed and what you owe side by side, and overdue items show in red.
  • Totals across groups in different currencies are converted to your currency at today’s rate, with a line saying what was converted.

Notifications

  • Tapping a notification opens the bill in its month, the storage item, or the payment waiting for you; a settle-up notification opens Settle on that person’s row.
  • A payment reminder from a contact now arrives as a notification and says who sent it.

Version 1.0.8

September 2026

One Scan button for receipts, barcodes and packets, your own cards and accounts, and a checklist for putting what you bought into storage.

Scan

  • One Scan button for everything: point it at a receipt, a barcode or the name on a packet, and it works out which it is.
  • Receipts read more accurately. The items are checked against the printed subtotal, and a receipt that doesn’t add up is read again, more carefully.
  • A scanned receipt’s lines show on New bill, with a check that they add up to the total. Lines sold by weight keep their weight and price per kilo.

Cards and accounts

  • Keep your own cards and accounts, and say which one paid a bill, the rent or a payment. Only you can see them.
  • A receipt that prints the card’s last four digits picks that card for you, and each card lists what it paid, month by month.

Storage

  • After a bill, putting what you bought into storage is a checklist of its lines, with their prices.
  • A barcode fills in the product’s name, brand, size and photo from Open Food Facts, and each item shows the lowest price you have paid.

Bills and household

  • A split bill can be deleted until someone has paid towards it; the others are told what they no longer owe.
  • A move-out statement lists the leaver’s share of any deposit still held, and marking rent paid asks which card paid it.
  • On a wide iPad window, New bill and the storage form open in two columns.

Account

  • Sign out of all devices from your profile, for a lost phone. It also stops notifications to every device.
  • You stay signed in for 30 days, and no longer get signed out every day or two.

Version 1.0.7

September 2026

Bills in other currencies, converted at the day’s rate, a Storage side on New bill, and a payment sent by mistake can be taken back.

Other currencies

  • A bill can be entered in another currency. It is converted to the group’s currency at the day’s rate, and the bill keeps what it was entered as.
  • A receipt scanned abroad picks its own currency, and each group remembers the one you used last.

Storage

  • New bill has a Storage side: put something in the household’s storage without writing a bill.
  • Scan name can read the whole label and fill in the name, brand and size at once. It runs on the device first; if that cannot tell, only the words go to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, never the photo.

Household bills

  • A recurring bill set up after its due day can start this month instead of next.
  • The form asks plainly whether each payment is made before or after the month it pays for, and shows which month each bill lands in.
  • When Add is greyed out, the form says what is missing, and a custom split starts out adding up to the total.

Settling up

  • Recording money someone paid you asks first, because it cannot be undone.
  • A payment you sent can be withdrawn while it waits for the other person.

Groups and fixes

  • A group with unpaid bills can be deleted together with them, once its admin owes nobody.
  • Saving a bill for one person twice no longer creates the same group twice, and actions that fail now say so.

Version 1.0.6

September 2026

Apple Intelligence reads the receipt photo itself, Siri can add a bill, and receipts in Japanese, Korean and Chinese are read properly.

Reading a receipt

  • Where the device supports Apple Intelligence, Chiipin reads the photo itself rather than only the text on it. A receipt it cannot manage on its own is handled by Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, which does not store it; the picture never reaches us.
  • When a reading comes up short, you can ask for a second, more careful one.
  • Receipts in Japanese, Korean and Chinese are read properly now, on any device — including yen and won amounts, which carry no decimals.
  • A receipt printed in another currency says what it totals instead of filling the bill with a number in the wrong money.
  • Choosing items off a receipt is one screen, and it says what each reading found.

Siri

  • “Add a bill in Chiipin” records a bill by voice. Siri asks which group it belongs to before it asks the amount.
  • Profile has a Siri page with the phrase and a link to Shortcuts.

Fixes

  • Changing the language turns the whole app, not parts of it.
  • The list of ways to pay is ordered by your currency rather than by the language you read in.
  • Detecting items no longer crashes on a receipt whose last line is the total.

Version 1.0.5

September 2026

Widgets for your Home Screen, notifications in the app’s own language, and amounts that keep their currency.

Widgets

  • Home Screen, Lock Screen and Control Center widgets: your balance, the household bills due next, what storage needs restocking, and a button that opens a new bill.
  • Profile has a Widgets page that shows each one with your own figures, and how to add it.

Notifications and activity

  • Push notifications, the notification inbox and the activity feed read in the language you picked for Chiipin, not the one the phone is set to.
  • Chiipin reloads on its own when someone in your group or household saves something, instead of waiting for a pull to refresh.

Scanning a receipt

  • The scan says which step it is on and can be cancelled, and reading the text no longer holds up the screen.

Currencies

  • Singapore dollar and Malaysian ringgit can be picked, and every amount shows the currency of the bill, group or household it belongs to.
  • Changing a group’s currency first says which bills follow and that amounts are not converted.

First time on a screen

  • New bill, household bills, Storage and Settle each point out, once, the thing there that is easy to miss.

Version 1.0.4

September 2026

Chiipin on iPad, and payment details that list the ways people actually pay where you live.

On iPad

  • Chiipin now runs full screen on iPad, in portrait and landscape.
  • Home and Household use the extra width for two columns: the month’s calendar and bills on one side, what they add up to on the other.
  • Groups keeps the list beside the group you open, Settle shows what settling with someone involves beside the people you share bills with, and Profile keeps its settings beside the page you pick.
  • Bills, Storage and every other page stay at a comfortable width instead of stretching across the screen.
  • Add bill sits in the corner, within reach from anywhere.
  • In a narrow window, Chiipin lays itself out as it does on iPhone.

Payment details

  • Add FPS, PayMe, LINE Pay, PayPay, KakaoPay, Toss, Cash App and more, with methods common where you live listed first.
  • People paying you see the ways common where they are first, and can copy any of them in one tap. Only people who share a group or household with you and owe you money can see them.

Version 1.0.3

September 2026

Fairer splits you can see before you save, one payment that settles everything with a person, and a household that reads a month at a time.

Split it fairly

  • Portions: give someone 2 for the extra lunch they packed, or 0 to leave them out.
  • See who’s in and what each person carries before you create the bill.
  • “What this changes” shows how your balance with each person moves.
  • A new bill starts on the category you last used in that household or group.

Fix it together

  • Anyone in a group can correct a bill, and everyone on it hears what changed.

Settle once

  • One payment per person clears every group you share, in both directions.
  • Payments waiting on you can be confirmed or turned down in one tap.
  • Add your e-Transfer, PayPal or other details, and people paying you see them.

Your household, a month at a time

  • One page for the household, and the month you turn to governs all of it.
  • Every bill shows your part and who owes whom.
  • A repeating bill says which stretch of time it pays for, and splits by the days each person lived there.
  • A bill left unpaid last period carries onto this month.

Home and groups at a glance

  • Home shows your household, storage and groups, and what is waiting on you.
  • Groups shows your net across groups and each group’s latest activity. Settled groups fold away.

Your settings

  • Choose which notifications reach your lock screen.
  • Set the reminder new things in storage start with.
  • Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean throughout.

Version 1.0.2

September 2026

The house itself, not just its bills: what you keep, what is running low, what goes off when, and what it costs to keep buying it.

Storage

  • What your household keeps in the house: what is there, how much is left, and who needs to buy more.
  • Mark something running low or out and everyone else is told.
  • File things under categories you name yourself — kitchen, bathroom, under the sink.
  • An icon for everything, including the things icon sets usually forget. A photo of the real thing with Chiipin Pro.
  • Put it in the order you want it. Nothing rearranges itself behind you.

Before it goes off

  • Put the date printed on the packet on anything that has one.
  • Choose how much warning you want for each thing — milk and paracetamol are not the same question.
  • The whole household hears in the morning, in your household’s own time zone.

Scan instead of type

  • Scan a barcode to find something already in storage, or to add something new.
  • Read a product name straight off the packet instead of typing it out.
  • Scan your way down the trolley and the bill writes its own lines.

From storage to a bill, and back again

  • Pick what you have run out of and Chiipin writes the shopping bill for you, brand and size included.
  • After a bill is split, put what you bought back in storage without typing any of it twice.
  • Chiipin learns what your till calls things, so the next shop at the same place matches itself.

What things cost

  • Every time you have bought a thing, on its own page.
  • How often you buy it, and roughly what that comes to in a month.
  • Filling in the price on a restock? Chiipin says whether this trip is dearer than the last one, and by how much.

An accent of your own

  • Choose the colour Chiipin uses, from the range that stays readable in both light and dark.

Version 1.0.1

September 2026

Deposits done properly, recurring bills you can change your mind about, and a home screen that keeps only what is waiting on you.

Deposits

  • Record more than one: the damage deposit, the pet deposit, the keys.
  • Say what each resident put in, not just the total.
  • Close one out three ways — returned, put towards a bill, or forfeited — and Chiipin works out who owes whom.

Repeating bills can be changed

  • Edit one after you have made it: the amount, the split, the day it falls due, what it is called.
  • Change the amount and this month’s bill follows, unless someone has already paid into it.
  • Stop one for good. The bills it already made stay where they are.
  • When a bill changes, the people who owe a share of it are told, each with their own new figure.

Home, rebuilt

  • Home keeps only what is waiting on you.
  • One card per household with the month’s progress, instead of a row for every bill.
  • Tap what needs confirming and you land on that exact payment in Settle.
  • The spending charts moved to Reports, in full.

History, per scope

  • The clock opens the history of what you are looking at: a group, a household, or everything.
  • A household’s past months sit side by side, each bill with its own trend.

Currency

  • Choose it when you make a group or a household, instead of every bill quietly landing in US dollars.
  • Correct a group’s currency and the bills still outstanding follow it.

Version 1.0

August 2026

The first release.

What it started as

  • Split any bill evenly, by exact amounts, or item by item, with tax and tip handled properly.
  • Scan a receipt and Chiipin reads the items — on your phone, so the photo never leaves it.
  • Groups for trips, dinners, and anything else shared.
  • A household for the bills that come back every month, split by who actually lived there.
  • See who owes what, and settle up in the fewest payments.

Chiipin is for iPhone and iPad. Get it on the App Store.