$133 a month more on subscriptions than people think they spend. Pairly is the list.

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Everything you need to write about Pairly

Pairly is a shared budget for two people who split the bills and not the bank account. Copy anything on this page without asking. The descriptions below are written to be pasted as they are, and every figure comes from the same place the product reads it from, so nothing here goes stale while the site says something else.

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Pairly is a shared budget for two people who split the bills and not the bank account.

Short

Pairly gives two people who share fixed costs one picture of the month: what leaves, who covers it, and what is left. It has no bank connection — everything is typed in on purpose — which is the whole design rather than a missing feature.

Full

Pairly is a shared budget for couples and housemates who split the bills without sharing an account. It shows what leaves each month, who is covering it, and what is actually left for each person — a figure most households can only guess at. It does not connect to a bank. Nothing is imported, nothing is categorised automatically, and there is no financial login to hand over. Everything in it is typed in by somebody in the household, which takes a few minutes once and removes the single largest category of risk a budgeting product carries. It was built by two people who share their own bills and have never shared an account, after a spreadsheet lasted three weeks and every app they tried wanted a bank login.

The facts

What it is
Shared budgeting app for two people
Bank connection
None, by designNo linked accounts, no imported transactions, no financial login stored.
Price
$4.99 a month, or $47.88 a yearOne price per household, not per person.
Free trial
14 daysNo card to start.
Free tools
4, no account neededSubscription cost calculator, Rent split calculator, Who owes who calculator, The money talk game.
Written guides
62 articles
Made by
Jason and LilyBuilt Pairly. San Diego.

What we will not claim

If you read any of these about Pairly somewhere, it did not come from us.

  • That it is a bank, or connected to one.
  • That it saves anybody a specific amount of money.
  • That it is “100% secure”, “bank-grade”, or holds a certification nobody has been through.
  • That it has more users than it has.

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