Tomodomo

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Answers about Tomodomo, what Pro adds, and how your data is handled.

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Getting started

What is Tomodomo?

Tomodomo helps you split bills and track shared expenses with friends — one dinner or a whole multi-venue trip. You create a tab, add the people involved, add what was bought, and Tomodomo works out who owes what.

What's a “tab”?

A tab is the group and the occasion — a dinner, a weekend trip, a shared house. Inside it, each place you spend gets its own bill: the restaurant, then the bar. Everything in a tab is settled together at the end.

When you create a tab you give it a name, a colour and (if you like) a budget, then go straight on to its first bill — or tap Skip and add bills later with +.

Do I need to create an account?

No. The first time you open Tomodomo you make a profile on your iPhone — your name and a PIN. That's all you need to split bills.

An online account is optional. You make one with Sign in with Apple when you go online (to use your tabs on another iPhone, or share them), or when you join a tab a friend invited you to. See Online & a new iPhone.

Does Tomodomo need an internet connection?

Not for the basics — tabs, bills, items and settling up all work offline. A connection is used for online and shared tabs, notifications, exchange rates, place searches and venue logos. Anything you change offline is synced the next time you're connected.

Where is Settings?

Tap the gear at the top left of My Tabs. (Settings used to be a tab of its own; that spot now belongs to the Map.) Everything this page calls Settings ▸ … is in there.

Is my data private?

Yes. If you don't go online, everything stays on your iPhone. If you do, your tabs are stored on our server in the EU (Stockholm), and only you and the people you share a tab with can see it. No ads, no analytics, no tracking. The Privacy Policy lists exactly what goes where.

Bills, items & splitting

How do I add people to a tab?

Pick them when you create the tab, or later: open the tab, tap the cogwheel to open Tab settings, and choose Add friends under Members. You can also create a new friend right there.

How do I add a bill?

Open the tab and tap +. Under Find the place, choose Search for a place to look it up in Apple Maps, From favourites to start from a place you've hearted, or Add manually to type a name yourself.

A place you find fills in the name and the local currency, and puts the bill on your Map. Tap Rename to call it something else (“Weekly shop”), or pick another currency, before you tap Add.

Can I edit an item after adding it?

Yes — swipe an item to edit its name, price or category. If you correct the price of an item split “by amount” or “by percent”, everyone's share is rescaled so it still adds up.

How do I rename a venue, or change its currency, logo, photo or location?

Open the bill and tap its cogwheel ▸ Bill settings, or swipe the bill in the list and tap Edit. (The tab's own name, colour, icon and cover photo are in the tab's cogwheel ▸ Tab settings.)

Changes are saved as you make them. The currency can only be changed while the bill has no items or payments yet.

What are tip / service charge / cover charge for?

One-tap ways to add a tip, service charge or cover charge without typing it in as an item. Each can be a fixed amount or a percentage, and split equally or in proportion to what each person ordered. A cover charge (a per-person entry fee) is split equally.

What are categories for?

Every item has a category (Food, Drinks & Alcohol, Transport…). They power the spend-by-category breakdown on the Overview tab.

Settling up

How does settling up work?

There are two things to settle:

  • Paying the venue. Whoever paid the bill gets paid back by everyone else — the whole table at once, or only some people.
  • Settling up between people. Tomodomo works out the fewest payments needed so everyone ends up even. In Settle up, each of those payments has its own Paid button: tap it when that one happens (you can change the amount if only part was paid). Mark all as paid records them all at once, each with its own payment method. A payment that doesn't match the list goes in Record a different payment, which shows everyone's balance and what the payment changes.
How do people know how to pay me?

Add your payment details — a Vipps number, PayPal, a bank account number… — in Settings ▸ My profile ▸ My payment details. When you're online, your friends on Tomodomo get them and see them when they owe you money: under the payment in Settle up (How to pay Anna, with Copy), and at the end of your payment requests. They're never shown in a friends list. If you delete one, it's gone from your friends' phones the next time they sync.

For a friend who isn't on Tomodomo you can add their details yourself in Edit friend — only you see those. Once that friend is on Tomodomo and connected with you, the details they added themselves are shown instead.

How do I ask someone to pay me?

In Settle up, tap Request next to the payment. If the person has joined this tab on Tomodomo, choose Send in Tomodomo and they get a notification; otherwise send it as a text message. Request from everyone who owes asks everyone at once.

Does Tomodomo send or receive money?

No. Tomodomo keeps track of who owes whom. A payment request or “marked as paid” is a message — the money itself moves however you normally pay each other (Vipps, bank transfer, cash…). Record the payment in Tomodomo when it's done.

Why can't I “settle up” across multiple tabs at once?

With three or more people, “who pays whom” for the fewest transfers isn't always a single answer across tabs. Tomodomo shows your overall position across every tab in the Reports tab, but the settling itself happens tab by tab, where it's unambiguous.

I shook my phone and it jumped to a bill — what was that?

Shaking is a shortcut back to the bill you were most recently working on that still owes the venue money.

Online & a new iPhone

What does going online do?

Your tabs are copied to our server, so you can:

  • use them on another iPhone, or restore them on a new one;
  • share a tab, so friends can add and edit bills from their own phone;
  • send payment requests and get notifications in Tomodomo.

Your tabs still work offline as before — changes are synced when you're connected.

How do I go online? Does it cost anything?

Open Settings ▸ Online and sign in with Apple. Keeping your own tabs online is part of Tomodomo Pro. Joining a tab a friend shares with you is free — you don't need Pro for that.

How do I move to a new iPhone?

If you're online: install Tomodomo on the new iPhone and tap Restore from my online account on the welcome screen. Sign in with the same Apple ID, choose a PIN for the new phone, and your tabs, friends and look come down. You'll be asked once about venue logos and location, because each phone decides those for itself.

If you're not online: make a backup in Settings ▸ Backup on the old phone and restore it on the new one. To get Pro back, tap Restore Purchases in Settings.

My other iPhone doesn't show my latest changes
  • Changes are sent a few seconds after you make them, and fetched when you open the app. Pull down on My Tabs to fetch them right away.
  • Check that both iPhones are online and signed in with the same Apple ID: Settings ▸ Online shows when it last synced, and Sync now.
  • If your Pro subscription has ended, your own tabs stop syncing (they're still on your phone). Tabs shared with you keep syncing.
  • If you edited the same bill on two phones before either synced, the last one saved wins.
I deleted something on one iPhone, but it's still on the other

To keep you from losing something you're looking at, deletions from another phone are applied the next time Tomodomo starts. Close the app fully (swipe it away) and open it again.

What happens to my online tabs if Pro ends?

Nothing is deleted. Your tabs stay on your phone and online, but your own tabs stop syncing until you subscribe again. Tabs others share with you keep working.

How do I sign out, or delete my online account?
  • Settings ▸ Online ▸ Sign out on this iPhone stops this phone syncing. Your online copy stays.
  • Settings ▸ Online ▸ Delete online account deletes everything on our server and disconnects your Apple ID. What's on your phone stays. It doesn't cancel Pro — do that in your Apple ID settings.

Shared tabs

How do I share a tab with my friends?

Open the tab ▸ cogwheel ▸ Tab settings, and tap the person under Members.

  • Invite to this tab makes a one-time invite. Send it with Messages, WhatsApp or any app — or, at the same table, let your friend scan its QR code. Your friend taps the link (or scans, or types the code) and joins as that person — the bills already split with them become theirs.
  • If the friend is already on Tomodomo with you (a green dot by their name), you'll see Add to this tab instead: no code needed — they get a request and choose Join or Not now.

You need to be online and have Pro to share a tab you own. Your friends don't need Pro.

Someone sent me an invite — how do I join?

Tap the link in the invite, or scan its QR code with your camera. If that doesn't open Tomodomo, install it and enter the code: on the welcome screen choose Join a tab with a code, or in the app tap + on My Tabs ▸ Join a tab with a code — there you can also Scan QR code. You'll sign in with Apple. Joining is free.

How do I add a friend who's on Tomodomo?

With their friend code — no shared tab needed, and it's free. One of you opens Friends ▸ + ▸ My friend code; the other scans the QR code with their camera, or taps Friends ▸ + ▸ Add with a code and scans or types it. You're then friends on Tomodomo (the green dot): you can add each other to tabs without an invite, and payment requests arrive in the app. Each of you appears under the name and colour you chose yourself.

If you'd already added them by name, choose that friend under Already in your friends as — the bills already split with them stay theirs.

Your code works for anyone, as often as you like. If it has reached someone it shouldn't, tap Make a new code: the old one stops working, and friends you already have stay.

The invite code doesn't work
  • A code works once and expires after 7 days. Ask the owner to send a new one (Invited — send again).
  • Check the code: it's 10 letters and digits; spaces, dashes and upper/lower case don't matter.
  • You can't join your own tab — you're already in it.
Who can change a shared tab?

Everyone in it can add and edit bills, items and payments. Under each bill you'll see who edited it last (“Edited by Anna”). Only the owner can invite people, remove people or stop sharing.

Do I see my friends' changes straight away?

Yes, while you have the shared tab open — changes appear within a second or two. Elsewhere in the app they arrive when you open Tomodomo or pull down on My Tabs.

A friend's name or colour changed after they joined

When a friend joins, they become themselves in the tab — with the name and colour they use in their own Tomodomo. That's expected: it's the same person, and their bills and shares are kept. If they later change their name or colour, your Friends list follows the next time Tomodomo syncs.

What does the green dot next to a friend mean?

You're friends on Tomodomo — you've been in a shared tab together, or added each other with a friend code. You can add them to another tab without a code, payment requests reach them in the app, and you see each other's payment details when one owes the other. The dot goes if either of you removes the other.

How do I remove a friend?

In Friends, swipe the friend and tap Remove — or open them and tap Remove friend. Tomodomo tells you what will happen before it does it:

  • A friend on Tomodomo: you stop being friends on both phones — no green dot, and you no longer see each other's payment details or places. They aren't told. A friend code or joining a tab together makes you friends again.
  • Someone in bills or tabs with you: they stay in those bills and tabs — nothing you've split changes — but they're hidden from your friends and from the lists you pick people from. Find them under Show removed at the end of the list, where Restore brings them back.
  • Someone in nothing yet: they're deleted.

Shared tabs aren't touched: if you're still in one together, you both stay in it.

A tab says “Not synced”

That tab belongs to someone else's online account, and you're not in it online any more — for example after you deleted your online account and came back, or signed in with another Apple ID. Your copy stays on this iPhone with all your changes, but they aren't synced. Tap Ask to join again (at the top of the tab, or the crossed-out cloud in its header): the owner gets a request, and once they let you in, your changes and theirs are combined — nothing is deleted. Check payments you may both have recorded while apart.

How do I leave a shared tab or stop sharing it?

All from the tab's Tab settings:

  • Leave tab (if it's someone else's tab) — it's removed from your phone and the owner is told.
  • Tap a person ▸ Stop sharing with … (owner) — they no longer see the tab and are told. They stay in it, with their bills, shares and what they owe.
  • Stop sharing (owner) — everyone else loses access and is told. The tab stays yours.

Bills and shares stay in the tab either way.

What if two of us edit the same bill at the same time?

Tomodomo merges the changes. Items, payments and people that each of you added are all kept, so nobody's work is lost. Only if you both changed the same item does the later edit win. If one of you deleted something the other just changed, the change wins and it stays.

Can the others in a shared tab see my rating and note?

Everyone rates a bill for themselves. The others in the tab see your stars next to theirs, but your note is only ever yours — it's never shown to anyone else.

A shared tab disappeared from my phone

The owner stopped sharing it (with you or with everyone), or you left. You'll have a notification saying so (the bell on My Tabs). The tab is taken off your phone the next time the app starts. Ask the owner for a new invite if it was a mistake.

Notifications

What does Tomodomo notify me about?

Only shared-tab things: someone asks you to join a tab, someone joins or leaves your tab, the owner stops sharing a tab with you, someone asks you to pay, or someone marks their share as paid. No marketing.

Where do I find my notifications?

Tap the bell on My Tabs. The newest unread one also shows in a small bubble under it, and the app icon shows how many are unread. Requests to join a tab are answered there with Join or Not now.

I'm not getting notifications
  • Check iOS Settings ▸ Notifications ▸ Tomodomo and allow them.
  • You must be online (Settings ▸ Online). The person sending must be in a shared tab with you.
  • Even without push, everything shows under the bell the next time you open the app.

Map, places & photos

Why don't my bills show the venue's logo?

Venue logos are part of Tomodomo Pro, and off until you turn them on, because the venue's name is sent to Brandfetch to find the logo. With Pro, turn on Settings ▸ Bills and payments ▸ Look up venue logos. Each iPhone asks separately. If a logo is wrong or missing, pick one by hand: open the bill ▸ cogwheel ▸ Bill settings ▸ Logo.

Does Tomodomo track my location?

No. If you turn on Remember where bills are added, Tomodomo asks iOS for your location once, when you add a bill, and saves it on that bill — nothing else. You can also set a bill's place by hand. Every bill with a place shows on the Map.

What's on the Map tab?

The Map is free. Pick a layer with the buttons at the top:

  • Mine — every place you've split a bill at, with your stars. Filter by tab to see one trip.
  • Friends' visits and Friends' favourites — places your friends on Tomodomo have been or hearted, with their stars and the year. You see them only if your friends share them (see below).
  • Everyone — the average stars Tomodomo users give the places in view, best first under Top rated here.

Tap the magnifier to search for a place. Any place's page has Start a new tab here, which opens a new tab named after the place, with its first bill already at that place, in its currency.

How do I share my ratings? Is it anonymous?

Open Settings ▸ Place sharing. There are separate switches, and all of them are off until you turn them on:

  • Share my places with friends — your friends on Tomodomo (from a shared tab or a friend code) see the place, your stars and the year you were last there, or your heart. Never your notes or amounts. This needs you to be signed in (Settings ▸ Online), which is free.
  • Share my ratings anonymously — for each place, only its Apple Maps ID, the place's own position and your stars are sent. No name, account, notes, dates, amounts or where you were. Each place is sent with a different random code, so your ratings aren't linked to your account and can't be grouped together. No sign-in needed.

Only Apple Maps places are shared — a bill with just a location and no Apple Maps place, like dinner at a friend's flat, never is. Delete my shared ratings on the same screen removes your anonymous ratings again.

Why doesn't a place show any stars on the Everyone layer?

A place shows publicly only once at least three different people have rated it, so one rating in a small village can't point to a person. Zoom in if the map says so — the Everyone layer works on an area up to about 25 km across.

Where do my photos go?

Receipt, venue, trip and item photos are kept with the bill on your iPhone, and — if you're online — with your online tabs, so they're on your other phone and visible to everyone in a shared tab.

Pro & budgeting

What's included in the free version?

Everything you need to split bills and settle up: unlimited tabs, people and bills, item editing, tips and charges, categories, any currency, a simple budget per tab, the Map with your friends' and everyone's ratings — and joining tabs your friends share with you.

What does Tomodomo Pro add?
  • Online tabs — keep your tabs online, use them on another iPhone, and share them with friends.
  • Envelope budgeting — split a tab's budget across bills or people.
  • Category & per-person caps.
  • Export reports as PDF or CSV, and save snapshots of them.
  • Photo album across every tab.

More on the Tomodomo Pro page.

How do I manage or cancel my subscription?

In your Apple ID's subscription settings — Tomodomo's Settings links straight there. Apple handles all payments, so refunds also go through Apple.

Reports

What's the Reports tab?

Dashboards summarising your spending and net position across every tab, in one home currency. With Pro you can export them as PDF or CSV, or save a snapshot that doesn't change as your tabs do.

Closing & removing

What happens if I close a tab?

Tab settings ▸ Close tab moves it to the bottom of My Tabs, under the “Closed” filter. Nothing is deleted, and you can reopen it from Tab settings.

Why can't I remove someone from a tab?

In Tab settings, tap the person ▸ Remove from this tab. It's only possible while they have no history in the tab — no share on a bill and no payment — because removing them would leave amounts owed to or by someone the tab no longer lists. Bills and payments they were part of never change. To tidy up your Friends list instead, use Remove in Friends — someone with history is kept in their bills and only hidden from your friends.

Security & PIN

Can I lock the app with Face ID / Touch ID?

Yes — turn it on in Settings ▸ Security. Tomodomo never sees your face or fingerprint, only a yes/no from iOS.

I forgot my PIN — can I recover it?

If you're online: tap Forgot PIN? on the lock screen, sign in with the same Apple ID, and choose a new PIN. Nothing is lost.

If you're not online: the PIN only exists on your iPhone, so we can't reset it. You'll need to delete and reinstall the app, which starts fresh — restore a backup afterwards if you have one.

Something's not right

What should I try first?
  1. Pull down on My Tabs to sync.
  2. Check Settings ▸ Online — it shows whether you're signed in and when it last synced.
  3. Close Tomodomo fully (swipe it away) and open it again.
  4. Make sure you have the latest version from the App Store.
Settings ▸ Online says “Not synced”

Usually there's no connection, or the connection dropped mid-sync. Tap Sync now when you're back online. Nothing is lost — your changes stay on your phone until they're sent.

How do I contact you?

Write to apps@jcblix.no. Tell us your iPhone model, the iOS and Tomodomo versions (Settings ▸ About), what you did and what happened — a screenshot helps a lot.

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Last updated 2 October 2026

Tomodomo Pro

Splitting bills and settling up are free, for good. Tomodomo Pro is an optional subscription for people who want to plan a trip's spending and keep records of it, not just split it.

What Pro adds Pro

  • Online tabs: use them on another iPhone, restore them on a new one, and share them with friends (joining a friend's tab is free)
  • Envelope budgets per bill, a budget for each person, and category caps
  • Export to PDF or CSV: expense report, budget statement and settlement certificate
  • Saved snapshots in My Reports
  • A photo album across every tab

See everything Pro adds, side by side with the free app

Simple pricing

Monthly or yearly, and a year costs less than seven months. The app shows the price in your own currency.

Cancel any time from your Apple ID account settings — no questions asked, no separate account to close.

Download on the App Store

Tomodomo Privacy Policy

Last updated 4 October 2026

This policy explains what data Tomodomo (“the App”) collects, why, and where it goes. It's written in plain language on purpose. Tomodomo is developed by Jens Christian Blix in Norway (“we”, “us”), who is the data controller for the online features described below.

The short version

  • By default, everything stays on your iPhone. Your tabs, bills, items, friends, photos, receipts and budgets are stored in the App's local database. If you never go online, nothing you enter is sent to us.
  • Going online is optional. If you sign in with Apple, your tabs are copied to our server so you can use them on another iPhone, restore them, and share a tab with the people you split it with.
  • Sharing places is optional too, and off until you turn it on. You can show the places you've rated to friends, or share your stars anonymously so everyone can find good places — without them being linked to your account.
  • A few features talk to other services — venue logos (Tomodomo Pro, only if you turn it on), exchange rates, Apple Maps searches, push notifications and Apple's in-app purchases. Each is described below.
  • No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no selling of data.

On your iPhone

DataWhere it livesLeaves your iPhone?
Tabs, bills, items, splits, settlements, budgetsLocal database on your iPhone (SwiftData)Only if online
Friends/members you addLocal databaseOnly if online
Photos you attach (venue, receipt, trip and item photos; translated menu photos you keep)Local databaseOnly if online
Payment details (yours, and the ones you add for a friend — a Vipps number, PayPal, an account number…)Local databaseOnly if onlineYour own go to your friends on Tomodomo — see Payment details below
The phone number of a contact you link a friend toLocal database — you pick it in Apple's contact picker, which hands over only that number; the App has no access to your contactsNo
Where a bill was addedLocal database — only if you turn on Remember where bills are added, or set a place by handOnly if online
Your rating (stars) and note for a billLocal databaseOnly if online, or if you share placesYour note never leaves your own devices and account
The secret used to make anonymous rating codesiOS Keychain, synced through your iCloud KeychainNoOnly the codes made from it are sent, never the secret
Menus you scan (the dishes and prices read off a photo)Local database, on that bill, until you clear it or close the tabNoThe photo itself is read on your iPhone and is not kept
Face ID / Touch IDHandled entirely by iOS (LocalAuthentication)NoThe App only gets a yes/no from iOS
Your PINA one-way hash in the iOS KeychainNo
App preferences (currency, theme, accent colour, background, light/dark, etc.)Local device storage (UserDefaults)Partly, if onlineTheme, accent, background, light/dark and the location switch go with your online profile

Scanning and translating a menu or a photo, and Apple Intelligence where your iPhone has it, all run on your iPhone. Nothing about the photo or its text is sent anywhere. (If a translation language has to be downloaded first, iOS does that itself.)

Backups you make are files you save yourself, wherever you choose. We never receive them.

If you delete the App and you're not online, everything is deleted with it.

Online (optional): your tabs on our server

Going online is part of Tomodomo Pro; joining a tab someone shares with you is free. You go online by Sign in with Apple. Nothing is uploaded until you do.

What we receive from Apple when you sign in: an identifier for your Apple ID that is unique to Tomodomo, and an e-mail address — your real one, or a private relay address if you choose “Hide My Email”. We use the e-mail only to identify your account; we don't send you e-mail. We never see your Apple ID password.

What is stored on our server:

  • your tabs and bills — names, items, prices, who shares what, payments, settlements, budgets, and a bill's location and place if it has them;
  • your stars for a bill, which the members of that tab can see, and your note for it, which only you can read;
  • the photos attached to them;
  • your profile: which person in your tabs is you, your e-mail as above, the friends you've added (names, colours, the category you gave them, and payment details you added for them) and your look and location preferences, so a new iPhone can be restored;
  • for shared tabs: who is a member of which tab, open invites (the invite code itself is stored only in scrambled form), requests to join, and which people you've been in a tab with (so you can add them to another tab without a code);
  • the name, colour and name reading your friends see, and your own payment details if you've added any (your “friend card”), so a change you make reaches the friends you're connected with on Tomodomo; if you use friend codes, also your friend code and which people you've become friends with that way (whoever enters your code sees your name and colour before adding you);
  • the notifications sent to you (see below);
  • your iPhone's push notification token, if you allow notifications;
  • if you have Tomodomo Pro, the record of your subscription (see In-app purchases below).

Where: our server runs on Supabase, our hosting provider and data processor, in the EU (Stockholm, Sweden). Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and protected by access rules: only you, and the members of a tab you share, can read a tab and its photos.

Sync: the App uploads what you change and downloads what changed elsewhere — when you open it, when you pull to refresh, and shortly after you edit. While a shared tab is on screen, the App keeps a connection open to our server so changes from the other members show up straight away; it closes when you leave the tab or the App.

Sharing a tab

When you share a tab, everyone in it can see and edit the whole tab — all its bills, items, photos, amounts and the names of the people in it — and sees who last edited a bill. Only invite people you're comfortable sharing that with.

  • An invite is a one-time code that you send yourself, through any app you like. The link in it opens tomodomoapp.com, which passes the code to the App. A code works once and expires after seven days.
  • A friend who joins becomes themselves in the tab: the name and colour they use on their own iPhone replace the ones you gave them in that tab.
  • The owner can remove people or stop sharing; anyone can leave. Those who lose access are told, and the tab is removed from their iPhones. Bills they took part in stay in the owner's tab.

Sharing places and ratings (optional)

The Map can show the places your friends have been and the places other users rate well. Each kind of sharing has its own switch in Settings ▸ Place sharing, off until you turn it on, and can be turned off again at any time. Only places that come from Apple Maps (with an Apple Maps place ID) are ever shared; a bill with only a location is not.

With friends. If you turn on Share my places with friends (this needs your online account), our server stores, linked to your account: each place's Apple Maps ID and position, your average stars there, the year you were last there, and whether it's a favourite. Only the friends you're connected with on Tomodomo — through a shared tab or a friend code — can read it. Your notes and amounts are never included. Turning it off deletes those rows; deleting your online account deletes them all.

With everyone, anonymously. If you turn on Share my ratings anonymously, the App sends, for each place: its Apple Maps ID, the place's own position, your average stars there, and a code made on your iPhone from a random secret and the place ID. The code is different for every place, so two of your ratings can't be grouped together, and nothing from your account, your name, notes, dates, amounts or your own location is sent. No sign-in is needed. Others only ever see a place's rounded average and a rough count, and only once at least three different people have rated it.

  • Not linked to your account. We don't store anything that connects these ratings to you. Because of that, deleting your online account can't remove them — use Delete my shared ratings in Settings ▸ Place sharing first. Turning the switch off, deleting a bill's rating, and Delete profile and all app data also withdraw them.
  • Protection against fake ratings. Uploads are signed with Apple's App Attest, which proves they come from a genuine copy of the App on a real device without saying who you are. Our server keeps that device key's public half and a count of uploads in the current hour (to limit how many can be sent), with no account and never together with a rating.
  • Browsing. When you look at the Everyone layer, the App asks our server for rated places in the area on screen. That request carries no account or identifier.
  • IP addresses. Like any internet request, these reach our server with your IP address. We don't store it, but our hosting provider's logs keep it for a short time.

Adding friends with a code

Your friend code (with its link and QR code) lets someone add you as a friend on Tomodomo without sharing a tab first. It's free and optional — it's only made when you open My friend code. Anyone who has your code can add you: they see your name and colour, and you both become friends (the same as having been in a tab together) — from then on they also get your payment details, if you've added any (see below). The code works until you make a new one, which stops the old one working; friends you already have stay. The link opens tomodomoapp.com, which passes the code to the App.

Removing a friend

Remove in Friends ends a friendship on Tomodomo for both of you: our server deletes the connection between your accounts, so you no longer get each other's name and colour updates, payment details or shared places, and you can't add each other to a tab without an invite. The other person isn't told. Each iPhone drops the other's payment details the next time it syncs. Tabs you're both in aren't touched — you stay in them together, and what's in them stays. On your own iPhone, someone you've split bills with is kept in those bills and only hidden from your friends; someone with no history is deleted. A friend code or joining a tab together makes you friends again.

Payment details

You can add how people can pay you — a Vipps number, a PayPal address, a bank account number — in Settings ▸ My profile. If you're online, they're part of your friend card: the friends you're connected with on Tomodomo get them, and see them when they owe you money (when settling up and in your payment requests), never in their friends list. The App tells you this before you save your first one. Change or delete them at any time; a detail you delete is removed from your friends' iPhones the next time they sync — and if you stop being friends on Tomodomo, all of them are removed from that person's iPhone and online profile the next time they sync. Strangers who only have your friend code never see them.

Payment details you add for a friend are yours alone: they stay on your iPhone and in your own online profile, and are never sent to anyone else. Once that friend is on Tomodomo and connected with you, the details they added themselves are shown instead.

Notifications

Joining, asking to join, being added as a friend, payment requests and “marked as paid” create a notification for the person concerned. It contains names, the tab's name and, for payments, the amount, as the sender wrote them. It's stored on our server so the App can show it, and — if that person allowed notifications — sent to their iPhone through Apple Push Notification service. The text is put together on the receiving iPhone. You can turn notifications off at any time in iOS Settings.

Other things that leave your iPhone

Venue logos (Brandfetch) — Tomodomo Pro, and off unless you turn them on

With Pro and Look up venue logos on (offered when you first open the App or sign in on a new iPhone, and in Settings ▸ Bills and payments), the App sends a bill's venue name — nothing else, no amounts, no people — to Brandfetch to find a matching logo, and loads that logo from Brandfetch. Each iPhone asks you separately; the choice is never synced. Turning it off, or Pro ending, deletes the logos already downloaded. See Brandfetch's privacy policy.

Exchange rates (Norges Bank)

To convert between currencies, the App fetches published daily exchange rates from Norges Bank (Norway's central bank). Nothing about you or your bills is sent.

Apple Maps

When you search for a place, or open a place's details, the search text, your approximate location (for “Nearby”) and the place's identifier are sent to Apple to answer it. When Remember where bills are added is on, the App asks iOS for your location once when you add a bill; iOS asks your permission first. See Apple's Privacy Policy.

App Attest (Apple) — only if you share ratings anonymously

To prove that anonymous ratings come from a genuine copy of the App, iOS creates a key on your iPhone and Apple confirms it. Apple doesn't learn which places you rate.

In-app purchases (Apple)

Tomodomo Pro is sold by Apple through StoreKit. We never see your payment details or billing address; Apple only tells the App whether you're entitled to Pro. If you use online tabs, our server also keeps a record of your Pro subscription — Apple's transaction ID, which plan, and when it renews or ends, signed by Apple — linked to your online account, so it can check that your own tabs may sync. Apple sends the server updates when the subscription renews, ends or is refunded. The record is deleted with your online account.

None of the logo, exchange-rate or map requests include an identifier tied to you personally (no account ID, no advertising identifier).

How long we keep it, and deleting it

  • Your online data stays on our server while you have an online account.
  • When you delete a tab or a bill, its content and photos are removed from our server. Only a marker that it was deleted stays, so your other iPhones remove it too.
  • Notifications are deleted after 90 days, answered requests to join after 90 days, and invites 30 days after they were used or expired.
  • Anonymous ratings stay until you withdraw them (see Sharing places). An App Attest key is kept while the App uses it; its upload count only ever covers the current hour.
  • Delete online account (Settings ▸ Online) deletes your account and everything on our server that belongs to it — your tabs, bills, photos, ratings and notes, places shared with friends, profile, notifications and push tokens — and revokes Tomodomo's access to your Apple ID. Tabs that others shared with you stay with their owners. What's on your iPhone is left alone.
  • Sign out on this iPhone only stops this iPhone from syncing; your online copy stays.
  • Delete profile and all app data (Settings ▸ My profile) erases this iPhone; to remove the online copy too, delete your online account first.

What Tomodomo does not do

  • No analytics or crash-reporting SDK.
  • No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
  • No tracking across other apps or websites.
  • No selling or renting of your data, and no sharing except as described above (our hosting provider, the people you share a tab or your places with, your friends on Tomodomo for your payment details, and — anonymously — your stars for a place).

Your rights

Under GDPR you have the right to access, correct, delete and take a copy of your personal data, and to object to or restrict how it's used. Most of this you can do yourself in the App: view and edit anything, make a backup, or delete your online account. For anything else, contact apps@jcblix.no. You can also complain to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) or the authority where you live.

We process your online data to provide the features you ask for (performance of our agreement with you). Venue logo lookups, recording where bills are added, and sharing places with friends or anonymously happen only with your consent, which you can withdraw by turning them off.

Children's privacy

Tomodomo is not directed at children under 13 (or the relevant minimum age in your country) and does not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes to this policy

If what Tomodomo collects or sends changes, this page will be updated and the “Last updated” date above will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy: apps@jcblix.no.

Tomodomo Terms of Use

Last updated 5 October 2026

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of Tomodomo (the “App”) and its optional online service, developed by Jens Christian Blix (“we”, “us”, “our”). By downloading or using the App, you agree to these Terms. The App itself is licensed to you under Apple's Standard EULA (section 8); these Terms add the rules for Tomodomo Pro and the online service.

1The App

Tomodomo helps you split bills and track shared expenses with friends. By default it stores your data on your device. If you choose to go online (section 3), a copy of your tabs is kept on our server. The Privacy Policy explains what is stored where.

2Tomodomo Pro (subscriptions)

The App offers an optional auto-renewing subscription, “Tomodomo Pro,” in monthly and yearly terms, unlocking additional features (currently: detailed per‑bill and per‑person budgeting, category spending limits, report exports and saved snapshots, the photo album across tabs, and going online — keeping your tabs on our server, using them on another iPhone, and sharing them; see the App's own upgrade screen for the current list).

  • Payment. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase.
  • Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, at the then-current price.
  • Managing or cancelling. You can manage or cancel your subscription any time in your Apple ID account settings, after purchase. The App's own Settings screen also links directly to Apple's subscription management.
  • No refunds from us. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Refund requests are handled by Apple under their own policies, not by us directly, since Apple processes all payments.
  • If Pro ends. Nothing is deleted. Your own tabs stay on your device, and their online copy stays on our server, but they stop syncing until you subscribe again. Tabs others share with you keep syncing, because joining a shared tab doesn't require Pro.

3Going online and your online account

  • Signing in. You go online with Sign in with Apple. You're responsible for the Apple ID you use and for keeping your device secure; anyone who can unlock the App on your device can see your tabs.
  • Sharing tabs. When you invite someone to a tab, they can see and change everything in it. You decide whom to invite, and you're responsible for not sharing content with people who shouldn't have it. The owner of a tab can remove people and stop sharing; anyone can leave. Amounts and edits made by others in a shared tab are their responsibility; check them before you pay or ask for money.
  • Availability. We work to keep the online service running, but we don't guarantee it will always be available, fast, or free of errors, and its features may change. Your tabs always remain usable on your device. Keep backups (Settings ▸ Backup) of anything you can't afford to lose.
  • Deleting your online account. You can delete your online account at any time in Settings ▸ Online. This deletes your data on our server as described in the Privacy Policy. It doesn't cancel your Pro subscription; do that in your Apple ID settings.
  • Suspension. We may suspend or close an online account that breaks section 5, or that is needed to protect the service or other users. If we do, we'll tell you how to get a copy of your data, unless the law prevents us.

4Your content

Everything you enter into the App — tab names, bill items, amounts, photos, friends' names — is yours. We don't claim ownership of it. If you go online, you give us permission to store, copy and transmit it only as needed to run the online service for you and for the people you share a tab with. We don't use it for anything else.

5Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • store or share unlawful content, or content that infringes someone else's rights;
  • use invites, payment requests or notifications to harass, spam or mislead anyone;
  • post fake ratings, or try to push a place's public rating up or down by any means other than honestly rating your own visits;
  • try to access tabs, accounts or data that aren't yours, or probe or attack the online service;
  • reverse-engineer or circumvent the App's subscription mechanism;
  • use the App in a way that could disable, overburden or impair any service it depends on (our server, Apple's services, Brandfetch, Norges Bank's exchange-rate feed).

6No warranty

The App is provided “as is.” Tomodomo is a bill-splitting and budgeting tool, not financial or accounting advice — you're responsible for verifying amounts, splits, and settlements before acting on them (paying someone, being paid, closing out a tab). Tomodomo doesn't move money: a payment request or “marked as paid” is a message, not a payment. We don't guarantee the App will be error-free, uninterrupted, or fit for any particular purpose, to the extent permitted by law.

7Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the App or the online service, including but not limited to lost data and disputes between you and people you split bills with. Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law (including certain consumer-protection rights in the EU/EEA/UK).

8Third-party services

The App relies on a small number of third-party services to provide certain features:

  • Apple — processes Tomodomo Pro purchases (StoreKit), Sign in with Apple, push notifications, Apple Maps place searches and App Attest.
  • Supabase — hosts our online service, in the EU (Stockholm).
  • Brandfetch — resolves venue logos from venue names you enter (a Tomodomo Pro feature, optional and off by default: it only runs if you have Pro and turn on “Look up venue logos”, and nothing is sent to it otherwise).
  • Norges Bank — supplies public currency exchange rates.

The App is licensed to you under Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the “Standard EULA”). These Terms don't replace it: they add the rules for Tomodomo Pro and the online service.

9Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time; the “Last updated” date above will reflect the most recent change. If a change affects your rights significantly, we'll tell you before it applies, in the App or by updating this page in good time. If you don't agree, you can stop using the online service and delete your online account.

10Law

These Terms are governed by Norwegian law. If you're a consumer, you keep any protection that the law of the country where you live gives you, and you can bring a claim there.

11Contact

Questions about these Terms: apps@jcblix.no.

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