Rent split calculator
Split the rent evenly, by income, or by room size, and see exactly what each roommate owes every month, down to the cent.
The rent & the roommates
Each person's share
$2,400.00 a month across 3 roommates. Shares always add up to the full rent, down to the cent.
Three ways to split, none of them wrong
Even is the easy default, and it's fine when the rooms are similar. Going by income keeps everyone paying the same slice of what they make, which is the fair move when roommates earn very different amounts. By room size, the primary bedroom or the one with its own bathroom finally pays for itself. Whichever you land on, the one that actually matters is the one everybody signed off on before move-in day.
Rent is the easy part
It's the same number every month. The friction is everything around it: the hydro bill, the internet, the shared groceries someone always fronts. Those change month to month, and that's where the running tally nobody trusts comes from. Once you've settled on the split above, the dvup app is where it lives: enter it as a custom split, set rent to recur on its own, and split the variable stuff as it lands against a household balance that doesn't reset. Nobody has to be the one sending reminder texts. For the variable bills, try the who owes who calculator, or read how to split rent with roommates.
Questions
How should roommates split rent?
However everyone agrees to up front. Even is the simplest. Splitting by income keeps rent in proportion to what each person earns, which helps when one of you is a student and one has a salary. Splitting by room size charges more for the big bedroom with the ensuite. This does all three so you can compare.
How do you split rent by income?
Add up everyone's income, and each person pays that same slice of the rent. If you make half the household's income, you pay half the rent. Switch to the 'By income' method above and type in what everyone earns.
How do you split rent fairly when bedrooms are different sizes?
Split by square footage. Measure each bedroom, add them up, and each person pays their room's share of the total. The shared space stays even. Use the 'By room size' method above.
Does dvup split by income automatically?
No, and we'd rather say so than have you find out after installing. dvup splits equally or by a custom split, where you set each person's share yourself. It doesn't ask anyone's income or measure your bedrooms. That's what this calculator is for: it works out the amounts, and you enter them in the app once as a custom split that recurs.
Is the rent calculator free?
Yes, no sign-up. If you want rent to recur every month and split the utilities and groceries in the same place, that part lives in the dvup app.
Rent, bills, and groceries in one place
Set rent once and it recurs on its own. Everything else you split as it lands, and the household stays square. Free on iOS and Android.