Switch from Splitwise without moving your whole group
The hard part of leaving was never the data. It was convincing five people to download a new app on the same day. You don't have to: one person imports, and everyone else keeps their balance and joins whenever they want.
The whole move, in four steps
Export each group from splitwise.com. Open the group, click the gear icon, choose "Export as spreadsheet". One group, one CSV file. Full export walkthrough here.
Import into Dutched. Open Account, tap Import from Splitwise, pick the file, and tell it which member is you. The group is rebuilt in one step: every expense, every payer, every balance, to the cent.
Everyone else is already there. Each groupmate appears by name with their balance intact and gets a claim code. They owe what they owed. Nothing is required of them.
Share the claim codes. When a friend installs Dutched, their code hands them their whole side: history, balances, and membership. If they never install, you can keep splitting with them anyway.
What survives the move
Every expense: date, description, amount, payer, and each person's share.
Every balance, matched to the cent. Multi-currency groups keep each expense in its own currency.
Every person, as a claimable member. Refund rows and uneven splits import correctly.
What stays behind: Splitwise's export does not include comments or receipt images, so no app can bring those along.
If a friend already uses Dutched
This is the case most migrations get wrong, and the one we built for. When someone with an existing, active Dutched account enters their claim code, the imported history is folded into the account they already have. They keep their identity and their other groups; the imported group, balances and all, joins them. If they have not signed up yet, claiming simply makes the imported member become their account.
Either way, the moment of joining is theirs. Nobody can attach history to an account that did not consent to it.
Why the balances can be trusted
Dutched rebuilds imported groups on an append-only double-entry ledger, and every split is validated to sum exactly. If the import cannot reproduce your group faithfully, it refuses and imports nothing rather than importing something almost right. Money math is exact by construction, never floating point.