This is worth reading before you subscribe rather than after. If you want one budget two people sign into, Cashrou is not that, and other apps are. The longer version, with the arithmetic worked through, is the money tips article on budgeting as a couple who keep money separate.
Steps
Record the bill at its full amount
Put rent in as what leaves the account. The full figure stays on the bill so you can still see what the household costs.
Record what your partner pays back
Cashrou counts the remainder against your payday, because that is what actually leaves your account. A $1,450 bill your partner covers $725 of counts as $725.
Mark shared accounts and set your share
A joint account at 50% counts half its balance toward your net worth and your buffers. Without that, every joint balance either inflates your net worth or has to be left out entirely, and both are wrong.
There is no shared login
No joint account, no partner invite, and no single plan two people sign into. In practice couples using Cashrou run one subscription each, with their own paydays, their own accounts, and each shared bill recorded on whichever side actually pays it.
For merged finances that is a limitation. For separate finances it is closer to how you already think: your money is yours, and the shared costs are a line in it.
Who settles up
You do. Cashrou records that your partner owes you and counts your share correctly from the moment you enter it. It does not move money and it does not chase anybody, because it has no payment rail to do either with.
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