Boketto (ぼけっと)

A Japanese word for daydreaming

Boketto is a Japanese word for gazing vacantly into the distance — letting your mind drift without any particular purpose. Looking out of a train window. Watching the sea. Not thinking about anything, on purpose.

That's the feeling we want you to have about splitting the bill. Money with friends shouldn't need a spreadsheet, a running mental tally, or a tense conversation at the end of a holiday. Log it, forget it, look out the window.

Why we built it

The existing tools to split shared costs all assume the same currency, an always-on internet connection, and a willingness to wrangle a spreadsheet. None of which holds for the trips and dinners and flatshares people actually want to track.

We wanted three things: fair maths (every penny accounted for, every rounding remainder distributed deterministically), fewer payments (a 4-person trip should settle in 3 transfers, not 6), and any currency (paid in yen on holiday, owed in pounds at home). Boketto is the result.

Who's behind it

Boketto is built by Au Courant Ltd, a small UK company registered in England and Wales. We're a tiny team — independent, self-funded, and not in a hurry to be anything else.

We don't take payment card details (Stripe handles those), we don't use ad trackers, and we don't sell data. The only way we make money is the £2.99-per-tab fee after your first three free tabs.

Where we are right now

Boketto is in an invite-only soft launch. We're letting people in in small batches so we can fix the rough edges before opening the doors fully. If you'd like to be invited, join the waitlist — we'll send you a magic link the moment a spot opens up.