Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets were my usual go-to solutions for planning and splitting holiday expenses with my friends and family. For years, I’ve struggled with maintaining complicated expense sheets, grappling with complicated formulas, and ensuring everyone contributes to adding and updating data. For a writer who is not a math genius by a far stretch, this certainly wasn’t the wisest way to go about managing holiday budgets. Add to that the awkwardness of repeatedly pointing out unpaid dues to people. Needless to say, I was dreading having to go through the whole ordeal before an all-girls trip to Dubai. Then I chanced upon an app that saved me both the mental hassle of doing math and the embarrassment of asking people to settle up — Splitwise.