How to export your Splitwise data (and what to do with it)

Splitwise lets you export every group as a spreadsheet, free. Here's where the option lives, what's in the CSV, and three useful things to do with it.

You can export any Splitwise group as a spreadsheet on the free plan: open the group, go to its settings, and choose “Export as spreadsheet”. Splitwise generates a CSV with every entry in the group — date, description, category, cost, currency, and each member's share — which you can archive, open in a spreadsheet, or import into another app.

How do you export a group from Splitwise?

1. Open Splitwise — the web app is the most reliable place to find the option — and go into the group you want to export.
2. Open the group's settings.
3. Choose “Export as spreadsheet”.
4. Download the CSV file it generates and save it somewhere you'll find again.
5. Repeat for each group. Exports are per group, so you get one file per group.

The export is part of the free tier — no Pro subscription needed. Menus do get rearranged from time to time, so if you don't see the option where you expect it, look through the group's settings screen rather than the app-wide ones.

What's inside the CSV?

Each row is one entry in the group — expenses, and the payments people recorded when settling. As of writing, the columns are the date, description, category, cost and currency, followed by one column per group member showing that entry's effect on their balance: positive when the entry leaves them owed money, negative when it leaves them owing.

That per-member layout is what makes the file genuinely useful. It isn't just a list of expenses — it's the group's full ledger. Sum any member's column for one currency and you get their balance in that currency, which is also how you can verify an import elsewhere reproduced your numbers faithfully.

One thing the CSV can't carry: attachments. Receipt photos and comments aren't tabular data, so they stay behind in Splitwise. If a receipt matters to you — a deposit, a damage charge — save the photo separately before you archive the group.

How do you check the export is complete?

Before you rely on the file, spend two minutes verifying it. Skim the row count against the group's history — a long trip should produce a long file. Then pick one member and sum their column, filtering by currency if the group used more than one; the result should equal the balance Splitwise shows for them today.

If those numbers agree, the file is a faithful copy of the ledger, and anything you build on top of it — an archive, an analysis, a migration — starts from solid ground.

What can you do with the export?

1. Archive it

A trip that's settled and done doesn't need to live in an app. A CSV in your own storage is a permanent, app-independent record — readable in twenty years by anything that opens text. If a dispute ever resurfaces (“wait, did I pay you back for the taxi?”), the ledger is right there.

2. Analyze it in a spreadsheet

Open the file in Google Sheets or Excel (if accented characters look wrong, re-import it as UTF-8). Splitwise keeps charts-by-category behind Pro, but a pivot table on the category and date columns is free: spend by category, spend by week, who fronted the most money. Ten minutes of spreadsheet work replaces the paywalled view.

3. Import it into Deudin

If you're moving off Splitwise — the daily expense cap is the usual reason (we explained it here) — the CSV is your moving box. Deudin imports it and recreates the group: expenses, payers, shares, payments. Balances match Splitwise's to the cent, per currency, so you can check the totals side by side before telling the group anything changed. The migration itself is short:

1. Export the group from Splitwise as described above.
2. Open Deudin and start the Splitwise import.
3. Pick the CSV file.
4. Compare the per-currency balances against what Splitwise shows — they should match to the cent.

Your friends don't need accounts in Deudin — they arrive as named members, count in every balance from day one, and can claim their spot later with a link, or never. And if the group mixed currencies, each stays on its own ledger rather than being converted — here's why that matters.

Why export even if you're staying?

Because the data is yours, and free tiers change. Splitwise's has been tightening since late 2023, and features that are free today aren't guaranteed to stay that way. An export takes a minute per group and costs nothing; a yearly backup of your active groups is cheap insurance either way — you'll never regret having the file, only not having it.

Facts checked July 2026. The export flow and CSV layout describe Splitwise's free tier as of this date; if the menus have moved since, the option should still be within the group's settings.