Help with Tabber

No. There is no sign-up, no email address to verify, and no password. Tabber asks for your first name once, on first launch, so that “I” and “me” in your description resolve to you. That name is stored only on your iPhone and can be changed in Settings at any time.

Version 1.0 is free to download, with no subscription, no advertising, and no in-app purchases. Because all the intelligence runs on your own device, there are no server bills to cover.

Yes, completely. Reading the receipt, understanding your description, and working out the totals all happen on the iPhone. The core flow makes no network requests at all, which is handy in exactly the kind of basement restaurant where you most need it.

Whatever you'd say to a friend. “Sarah had the salmon, John and I split the calamari, Mike's getting his own tab” is a normal input. So is “I had the burger, everything else is Priya's.”

You don't need to add people first — names in your sentence become people automatically. You don't need to cover everything in one go either; say some of it, then say the rest.

Tap the item and reassign it. Nothing is final until you finish the split, and the summary screen is editable too.

You can also just say the correction — Tabber keeps the thread of the conversation, so “no, the calamari was Mike” does what you'd expect.

That's expected and not an error — it happens whenever a description doesn't cover every line. Unassigned items stay visible on the assign screen, and you can either mention them in another sentence or tap to assign them by hand.

Tabber deliberately leaves an item unassigned rather than guessing at it. A missing assignment takes one tap to fix; a wrong one is wrong money.

Use + Add person on the assign screen to seat them by hand, then assign their items as normal.

Shared items divide evenly by default, but the split can be weighted — useful when one person had rather more of the bottle than everyone else. A shared item shows as a single line spanning everyone on it, not as duplicates.

Yes. Anyone you split a bill with is remembered individually, so mentioning their name next time matches them to the same person. New names are filed quietly when you save the tab — which means a mis-heard name you correct on the spot never becomes a permanent person, and an abandoned split leaves nothing behind.

Remembered people are listed in Settings, where they can be renamed, merged, or deleted. There are no saved groups; people are always remembered individually.

Proportionally, by each person's share of the subtotal — never split flat across heads. If your food came to a quarter of the subtotal, you pay a quarter of the tax and a quarter of the tip.

The default tip percentage and whether tip is calculated on the pre-tax subtotal or the post-tax total are both set in Settings. The percentage can also be changed on any individual tab, on the review screen.

Always, to the cent. Everything is calculated in whole cents, and any rounding remainder is assigned to the largest payer so the column sums exactly to the printed total. Each person's own itemised lines also add up to the figure shown at the top of their card.

No, and that's deliberate. The on-device model reads the receipt and works out who had what; every calculation after that is ordinary code. Language models are unreliable at arithmetic, so none of the money math is left to one.

No. The photo is read on your iPhone and never transmitted. There is no server to send it to — Tabber has no backend at all. The privacy policy covers this in full.

No audio is saved, and none is sent anywhere. Speech recognition is configured to run on the device only; the microphone is open only while you're actively dictating, and what comes out is text on your screen that you can edit before anything happens with it.

Settings gives you three levels: delete all stored receipt photos (keeping the tabs themselves), delete an individual tab by swiping it away on the home screen, or “Reset account” to erase every tab, person, and preference at once.

You can also set photos to age out automatically after 30 days, or never to be stored in the first place. Deleting the app removes everything with it.