Adds Up: Game Night

Game night should end in laughter, not in an argument about who owes what. Adds Up counts the buy-ins as the evening goes, checks the numbers add up before any money moves, and tells you exactly who pays whom, in as few payments as possible. How it works Open a group once and get a six letter code. Anybody who enters the code watches the night live, with no way to change anything. Start a night, pick who turned up and what an entry costs, and tap a name to add an entry. Somebody who arrives late joins mid night, and somebody who leaves early closes their account without holding up the rest. A new game opens with the settings of the last one, so a regular night starts in two taps. At the end of the night Enter what each person has left. The app checks the count adds up and warns you if it does not. Everybody gets one account: what they did at the game, their share of the host, what went to the group kitty, and one bottom line you can check in two seconds. The payments are settled over all the accounts at once, so there are fewer of them and nobody pays twice. Under each player, in large type, who they hand over to and how much, or who they collect from, exact to the last cent, and each transfer can be ticked as done so everybody sees what is still open. And if the group prefers, choose whole amounts before the game: every amount is rounded to a whole number and the totals still balance. The host and the group kitty You can set who hosted and what everybody else pays them. That is a reimbursement and not a win: it does not change who came out on top and it is not counted in the table. You can also agree that a share of every winner's profit goes into a shared group pot, for instance to pay for the next night. Between the nights A running balance for every player, over all time, this year or this month, plus a set of titles: who never goes home, who keeps buying back in, and who is paying for the next night. Every night's length is recorded on its own. And from the table you can send the group one picture that sums up the season: the games, the hours at the table, the leaders and the titles. A screen about you One screen that says how many nights you have played, how many different people have sat at a table with you and which of them most often, the day of the week you play on most, and a line of your balance over time in each group, with your current run. The whole history exports to a file a spreadsheet opens. And if you have not played yet, a sample night shows what it looks like. No money and no accounts The app never moves money and is not connected to any payment method. It only counts and works things out. No sign up, no password, no email needed. 26 languages, including Hebrew and Arabic right to left. On the Israeli App Store in Hebrew it is called קופה קטנה (Kupa Ktana). Same app.