Baluchon
Overview
• Baluchon is a comprehensive tool designed to simplify shared expense tracking for group trips, family vacations, and weekend getaways.
Participant Management
• Import contacts directly to quickly build your participant list.
• Group participants by families to consolidate household balances.
• Duplicate existing trip configurations, preserving participants and family structures for recurring group trips.
Flexible Expense Tracking
• Record dated and named expenses utilizing an input field that supports basic math calculations like "12+8".
• Accommodate multiple payers for a single transaction.
• Assign custom weight shares per participant, allowing adjustments like half-shares for children or custom ratios for specific expenses.
• Select precisely which participants or families are involved in each transaction.
Balances and Settlements
• View real-time individual or consolidated family balances, alongside total trip costs per head.
• Generate a optimized, minimal list of transactions required to balance all accounts.
• Log direct peer-to-peer transfers to officially settle debts.
• Manage multi-currency transactions by applying custom exchange rates per expense.
Data Portability and Security
• Export detailed trip summaries as PDF reports.
• Export and import JSON files to merge expenses recorded by different group members across different devices.
• Maintain complete privacy with no account registration, no advertisements, and fully offline functionality where all data remains locally on your device.
• Access the open-source code under the GPL-3.0-or-later license at: https://framagit.org/android1/baluchon
FAQ
Q: How do I add participants to my trip in Baluchon?
A: You can quickly build your trip roster by importing contacts directly from your device's address book. This saves you from manually typing out names and makes setting up a group trip effortless.
Q: Can Baluchon consolidate expenses for couples or families traveling together?
A: Yes, you can group individual participants into families within the app. This feature consolidates overall household balances, making it simple to calculate what a family unit owes or is owed as a single combined amount rather than separate individual totals.
Q: How can I set up a new trip quickly if I travel with the same group regularly?
A: Baluchon allows you to duplicate existing trip configurations. Doing this preserves all your previous participants and family structures, letting you start logging expenses for a new getaway without re-entering everyone's information.
Version History
v3.3——14 Sep 2026
Track group expenses easily with Baluchon! Split travel bills, manage family budgets, and settle debts offline with total privacy. Download the latest version of Baluchon to enjoy new features and updates immediately!
*3.3
Minor bug fixes and improvements. Install or update to the newest version to check it out!
*3.2
Minor bug fixes and improvements. Install or update to the newest version to check it out!
*3.1
Minor bug fixes and improvements. Install or update to the newest version to check it out!
