Nijude is a mobile app that logs who paid for what in your flat and works out who owes whom. You add a bill in seconds, your flatmates see it straight away, and the balance stays clear until you settle up.
Since 2017 we have been building and supporting a shared expenses app for people who split rent, bills and shopping. Here is where we stand in 2026.
From bill splitting to shared shopping lists, all inside one app.
Developers, support staff and designers working from Leeds.
The yearly average of new households we set up and look after.
The total number of households we have worked with since 2017.
Households that returned to us after their first project was finished.
Figures cover the period from 2017 to October 2026.
Sharing a rent, a broadband bill and a weekly shop is easier when everyone can see the same numbers. Here are the answers to what people in Leeds house shares ask us most often.
Nijude keeps a running record of who paid for what in your shared home. You log an expense, choose who it applies to, and the app updates everyone's balance straight away. Instead of a long group chat full of screenshots, you get one list of shared costs and one figure per person showing who owes whom. It does not move money for you; it tells you the amounts so you can settle up however you prefer.
A household can hold as many people as live in the property. Most of our users are in houses of three to six, which is typical for student and young-professional lets around Headingley, Hyde Park and Burley. If someone moves in halfway through the month, you add them and choose whether they share past expenses or only costs from their start date.
Yes. You can split equally, by exact amounts, by percentage, or by shares. That helps when one person has the larger bedroom and pays more of the rent, or when only three of five people used a streaming subscription. You set the rule when you add the expense, and the app works out each person's portion in pounds and pence so nothing is left to mental arithmetic.
It does. You can set an expense to repeat weekly, monthly or on a custom schedule, for example a £62 broadband bill on the 5th of each month. Each repeat appears automatically with the same split, so nobody has to re-enter it. If the amount changes, such as an energy bill that follows your usage, you edit that single entry and the others stay as they are.
Open the balances screen and you will see a short list of suggested payments that clear everyone's debts with as few transfers as possible. Pay by bank transfer, cash or any method you already use, then mark the payment as settled in the app. The balance updates for the whole household. Nijude records the settlement but never touches your bank account or holds your money.
The app only stores what you type in: expense names, amounts, dates and the people involved. It never asks for your bank login, card number or sort code. Data is sent over an encrypted connection, and only members of your household can see its entries. You can read exactly what we collect and why in our privacy policy, and you can ask us to delete your account and its data at any time.
It works best when everyone joins, because each person can add their own expenses and check their own balance. If a flatmate would rather not install anything, you can still add them as a person in the household and log costs on their behalf. They simply will not get notifications. Most households find that after the first week or two, everybody prefers to have the app on their own phone.
When you add an expense you can attach a photo of the receipt from your camera or gallery. This is useful for bigger purchases, such as a new kettle or a shared vacuum cleaner, where a flatmate might ask what the cost covers. The photo stays attached to that entry, so anyone in the household can look back at it later without scrolling through old messages.
You mark the person as having left on a chosen date. They stop being included in new expenses from that day, but their existing balance remains visible until it is settled. That means a flatmate leaving at the end of a tenancy can clear what they owe, or be paid back what they are owed, before they go. Their history stays in the record for the remaining housemates.
Yes. One account can belong to several households, and each one keeps its own expenses and balances separate. This suits someone who rents a flat in term time and also shares a holiday cottage or a weekend trip budget with a different group. You switch between households from the top of the screen, and notifications tell you which one they relate to.
You can add expenses without a connection, which is handy in a supermarket with weak signal or on a train. They are stored on your phone and sent to the household the next time you are online. Balances shown while offline reflect what your phone last received, so they may be a little behind if flatmates added entries in the meantime. Everything catches up once you reconnect.
When you save an expense with the same amount and date as an existing one, the app shows a short warning so you can check before confirming. If a duplicate still gets through, any household member can delete or edit an entry, and balances recalculate immediately. Every change is recorded in the activity log, showing who changed what and when, so there is no confusion afterwards.
Every expense can be tagged, for example groceries, energy, council tax, internet, cleaning or household supplies. You can also create your own tags. The summary view then shows how much the household spent per category over a week, a month or a custom range. That makes it simple to see, say, that groceries cost £214 last month while energy came to £96.
You can turn on gentle reminders that go to the person who owes money, not to the whole household. Choose how often they appear, such as weekly or only when a balance passes an amount you set. Each reminder is a plain notification with the figure and a link to the balances screen. Nobody is named in front of the group, which keeps things friendly.
Nijude is built for current iPhone and Android phones. It is designed to run on handsets a few years old, so a flatmate with an older device should not be left out. Different people in the same household can use different platforms and still see identical figures. If you have trouble installing on a particular model, email us and we will help you work out the cause.
You can export a household's expense history as a spreadsheet file for any date range. It lists the date, description, amount, category, who paid and how it was split. People use this at the end of a tenancy to agree final figures, or to keep a copy for their own records. The export contains only the data your household entered into the app.
It cannot decide a disagreement for you, and it is not a legal tool. What it does provide is a clear, dated record that everyone in the household can inspect: each entry, its split, any attached receipt and every edit. Most arguments about money come from different memories of events, so having the same list in front of everyone usually resolves the question quickly and calmly.
Email [email protected] or call +44 113 950 3264 on Monday to Friday between 08:30 and 17:30. Our team of 15 is based in Leeds, and we usually reply to a request within about 4 hours during those times. Include the household name and a short description or screenshot of what you are seeing, and we can usually trace the cause on the first reply.
Create a household, give it a name such as the street or house number, and invite your flatmates by link or email. Add the people, enter your first shared bill, and choose how to split it. A typical house of four can be set up in under ten minutes, including recurring rent and utilities. From then on, each new expense takes only a few taps to record.
Sharing a flat in Leeds means sharing bills, groceries and the odd takeaway. Here is what the app handles for you, in plain terms.
Create a group for your flat and invite everyone with a single link. Each flatmate sees the same running totals, so nobody has to ask who paid for what last month.
Split a bill equally, by percentage or by fixed amounts. If one of you has the larger bedroom or was away for a week, the maths follows that arrangement instead of forcing an even split.
Enter an amount, pick who shared it and save. Most entries take under ten seconds, which is short enough that you will actually do it at the till rather than weeks later.
Rent, broadband, council tax and the energy direct debit come round every month. Set them up once with a due date and the app adds them to the ledger on schedule.
If Sam owes Priya and Priya owes Tom, the app works out the shortest chain of transfers. Four flatmates usually end up making two or three payments instead of a tangle of small ones.
Snap the receipt and it stays with the entry. When someone questions a £63.40 supermarket shop three weeks later, the proof is one tap away and the conversation stays short.
Nobody wants to be the flatmate who chases money. The app sends a neutral nudge when a balance has been open for a while, so the reminder comes from the app and not from you.
Every expense, edit and settlement is logged with a date and a name. You can filter by flatmate, category or month, which helps when a tenancy ends and the deposit talk begins.
Group spending into utilities, groceries, cleaning supplies, internet and household items. At the end of the month you can see where the money went and which category crept up.
Amounts are shown in pounds and pence, and rounding is handled so the group total always matches the sum of what each person owes. No stray pennies left floating around.
When someone leaves and a new tenant arrives, you can close out the old balance, add the newcomer and carry on. Shared history stays intact, and each person only sees costs from their own stay.
Our team of 15 in Leeds replies to most questions within about four hours on working days. Write to [email protected] and you will hear back from someone who knows the app.
These are accounts from households who track rent, bills and groceries with our app. Some are glowing, some come with a reservation. We left both in.
Four of us share a terrace in Hyde Park and the monthly "who owes what" argument is gone. Everyone sees the same balance, so there is nothing left to dispute.
Oliver Bennett
Splitting the electricity bill unevenly, because one of us works from home, took me a while to set up. Once the custom shares were in, it just worked. A short in-app guide for that would help.
Priya Shah
Quick and simple. I log a receipt in the shop queue and it's done.
Tom Hughes
The balance screen is clear and my flat uses it every week. What annoyed me was that two of my flatmates never open notifications, so I still end up chasing them by message. That is a people problem as much as an app one, but a gentler reminder option would help. Support did answer my question within the afternoon.
Emma Dawson
I moved into a house share in Armley in September with three people I had never met. Being able to see every shared purchase from day one meant there was no awkward money conversation at all. I asked a setup question on a Tuesday morning and had a reply before lunch. By the end of the first month we had logged the broadband, the cleaning supplies and a shared bin-bag order without a single disagreement.
Jamal Okafor
Does what it says. I would like the monthly summary to export as a spreadsheet, not just a PDF, because our landlord asks for a breakdown.
Charlotte Mills
We had a flatmate leave halfway through a quarter and the shared bills were a mess. The app recalculated everything from his last day and showed exactly what he owed us. Settled in ten minutes.
Daniel Whitaker
Good value for a house of five. Photographing receipts works well in a well-lit kitchen, but it misread a faded supermarket till slip and I had to type the total by hand. Minor, and the rest is spot on.
Sophie Kaplan
Settling up at the end of the month used to take an evening and a calculator. Now it is one screen and a bank transfer each.
Lewis Fraser
I was the flatmate who always forgot to pay my share, and I will admit that. Seeing my own running balance next to everyone else's made it embarrassing enough to fix. Six months in, I haven't been late once.
Nadia Rahman
Reviews reflect individual households and their own habits. Your results depend on how consistently everyone in your flat logs what they spend.
Nine services cover the whole life of a shared household, from the first rent split to the final move-out settlement. Prices are in pounds sterling and include VAT where it applies.
We create your flat group in the app, add each flatmate by email or phone number, and agree the default split rules with you. Equal shares, percentages or fixed amounts per person are all possible. A short walkthrough call means everybody knows where to log a cost before the first bill lands.
Rooms are rarely the same size, and one flatmate usually has the box room. This service sets up a rent split that reflects room size, en-suite access or a parking space, then schedules a monthly reminder. Each person sees their exact share and due date inside the app, with no spreadsheet to maintain.
Gas, electricity, water and broadband are logged in one shared timeline. You photograph the bill, enter the total, and the app divides it by the rules you chose. Because every bill sits in one place, a flatmate who joins mid-year can see what was paid before they arrived and what remains outstanding.
Not every item in the basket is shared, and the app respects that. Tick which products belong to the household and which are personal, and only the shared part is split. A running tally shows who has covered the last few shops, so the person who always pays at the till is not left out of pocket.
Awkward chasing is the most common reason flatmates fall out. The app works out the fewest transfers needed to clear every balance, then sends a polite nudge to anyone who owes money. You choose the timing, from weekly to monthly, and the message never names or shames anybody in the group chat.
Streaming accounts, a shared cleaner, a household insurance plan: recurring costs get their own tab. Enter the amount and renewal date once, and the app adds each person's portion automatically every cycle. When someone moves out, their share is removed from the next renewal and the rest is recalculated.
At the end of each month the app compiles a clean statement listing every cost, who paid it and how it was divided. You can download it as a PDF or CSV file. Landlords, letting agents and deposit scheme disputes sometimes ask for proof of payments, and this gives you a tidy record to hand over.
When a flatmate leaves, balances have to be closed fairly. We calculate what they owe or are owed, prorate the final bills to their leaving date, and produce a settlement sheet everyone can approve. If your tenancy deposit is involved, the sheet shows how much each person contributed so the return is divided correctly.
If a figure looks wrong or someone cannot log in, you reach a real person on the Leeds team rather than a ticket queue. Most requests receive a reply within 4 hours during opening hours, Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:30. This plan also covers a corrected recalculation if an entry was added to the wrong group.
Not sure which services suit your flat? Tell us how many of you live there and what you share, and we will suggest a sensible combination. Send us an enquiry and expect a reply the same working day.
Moving into a new place in October usually means a pile of first bills at once: deposits, broadband set-up, a shared shop for cleaning supplies. Create a flat group in Nijude before the deadline and the paid Plus tier costs you nothing for the first three months. You get receipt photos, recurring bills and monthly settlement summaries on top of the free basics. Add your flatmates, log the first few costs and see who owes what without a spreadsheet. If it does not suit your flat, you can drop back to the free plan at any point.
Groups created on or before this date qualify. Questions about the offer get a reply from our Leeds team within about 4 hours on working days.
About Nijude
Nijude started in Leeds in 2017. Two of our founders were sharing a four-bedroom house near Headingley, and every month ended the same way: a crumpled screenshot of the broadband bill, a half-finished spreadsheet and a group chat that went quiet for days. The money was rarely the real issue. Nobody could see who had paid what, so everybody assumed the worst.
We wrote the first version of the app for our own house. Within a year, friends of friends in other flats were asking to use it. Today the team is 15 people working from Dewsbury Road, and we have helped 1,080 households keep track of their shared costs.
Our mission is simple: give every flat a clear, shared record of who owes what, so the conversation about money takes two minutes instead of two hours. We want the app to fade into the background of daily life. You log a shop, a gas top-up or a takeaway, and everyone sees it straight away.
Every feature starts with a real complaint from a real flat. We read support messages ourselves, and we aim to reply to each request within 4 hours on working days. Of the households we have served, 265 came back for a second project with us, which tells us more than any survey could.
Over nine years we have completed 1,848 jobs across five areas of Leeds and the surrounding district. That volume has taught us where flatmates actually get stuck: uneven bill splits, people moving in mid-month, and the one housemate who is always owed a few pounds. The app handles all three without extra setup.
Every balance shows how it was worked out. If the app says you owe £14.20, you can open the entry and see which purchases make up that figure.
Splits can be equal, by percentage or by item. We built the options around how flats really share costs, not around how a spreadsheet prefers them.
We tell you what the app does and what it does not do. It records and calculates shared costs. It does not move money for you or give financial advice.
Questions about how Nijude handles shared rent, bills and groceries? Send us a few lines and one of our 15 team members will reply, usually within 4 hours on a working day.
Include how many flatmates you live with and what you split most often. It helps us give you a useful answer the first time.
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The information on this website and in the Nijude app is provided "as is" and, to our knowledge, is accurate at the time of publication. It may be changed or updated without notice. Nijude does not accept liability for errors, omissions or delays in updating content. Expense splits are for household convenience only, so please check important financial or legal matters with a qualified professional.