Who pays for elderly parents' care?
No install, no sign-up. 100% free.
For example, a parent's care costs among 3 siblings (1 month)
Two brothers live far away; their sister lives nearby and does the caregiving. Care home fees, supplies and appointments, and travel home were paid separately.
Split 3 ways? Should the caregiver pay the same? Who pays whom?
With FAMI-KAN, just set the ratios
Who pays whom
WHY FAMI-KAN
No sign-up, no limits, no black box
accounts or installs
Just paste a link in your group chat.
entries and members
No daily caps, no paid plan.
currencies, 8 languages
Works for trips abroad and mixed-language groups.
Shared pot (deposits) supported
Collect money up front; refunds and top-ups are settled automatically. Rare among no-sign-up apps.
Everyone can answer "why this amount?"
Who carries which ratio, what the base amount is. The whole calculation is always visible.
ABOUT THIS APP
What FAMI-KAN is
From everyday bills to trips, decide fairly who pays how much.
Adults 1.0, kids 0.5.
Split per person or per household, and set any ratio. Everyone's share is calculated automatically.
Just share a link.
No app to install, no account to create. Everyone adds what they paid from their own phone.
Who pays whom, how much. Instantly.
The fewest transfers to settle up, and every calculation visible to everyone. No black box.
HOW IT WORKS
How it works, in 4 steps
1Add households and set ratios
Adults 1.0, kids 0.5. Each household's total ratio is computed for you.
2Everyone enters what they paid
One family paid the rental car, another the hotel. Each from their own phone.
3Here's the result
Who pays whom, how much, in the fewest transfers.
4Send it and you're done
Share the result as one image, or copy the text for payment apps.
MoreHistory by date
Who paid for what, grouped by day. You can re-sort it too.
MoreBy Member
Each family's share, what they paid, and what they get back or owe.
MoreBy Item
What the money went on, by date or by category.
MoreSettlement card
One image to post in the group chat. The QR code opens the full details.
Any of these sound familiar?
One sibling pays the care home fees
Another covers supplies and appointments
Should the caregiver pay the same?
→ Settle what each sibling paid, by your agreed shares.
Log care home fees, supplies, medical visits and travel. FAMI-KAN works out who owes whom by the shares you agree on. The sibling who lives nearby and does the caregiving can carry a smaller share. No sign up, completely free.
Don't let tedious money calculations ruin a great memory.
My brother pays the care home, I cover supplies and appointments since I live nearby... who is paying more each month?
Enter each sibling's payments and FAMI-KAN compares them with your agreed shares and shows who owes whom. Use one event per month or keep one running.
Should the sibling doing the caregiving pay as much as those who live far away?
Set shares such as 1.0 for siblings far away and 0.5 for the caregiver. The time and effort can be reflected in the share, and you can change it any time.
What about inheritance, legal duties or taxes?
FAMI-KAN only settles what siblings paid. It does not give legal or tax advice; please ask a professional for that.
FAMI-KAN needs no sign-up and no install. Set a ratio once — Adult 1.0, Child 0.5 — and it applies to every expense after that. We compare it with other apps, including where they do better.
Why FAMI-KAN is Best
How siblings share a parent's care costs is a family decision, and it can involve more than money: the sibling who lives nearby and handles appointments is giving time the others aren't. Agreeing on shares, such as 1.0 for siblings who live far away and 0.5 for the one doing the hands-on care, turns that into numbers everyone can see. Say Mark and Lisa live out of state and Ellen lives near Mom. Each month, Mark pays the $3,000 care home fee and Ellen spends $500 on supplies and co-pays. With Mark and Lisa at 1.0 and Ellen at 0.5, the total ratio is 2.5, so the $3,500 comes to $1,400 each for Mark and Lisa and $700 for Ellen. Lisa sends Mark $1,400 and Ellen sends Mark $200. Without a shared record, one sibling can end up quietly carrying more for months. In FAMI-KAN, each sibling logs what they pay from their own phone, with a date and memo, and the settlement shows who owes whom. How your parent's own savings or income are counted, and any legal or tax questions, are for your family and a professional to decide; FAMI-KAN only settles what the siblings paid.
Simple 3-Step Guide
No app downloads or accounts needed.
- 1
Agree on shares
Talk through each sibling's share, such as 1.0 for those far away and 0.5 for the caregiver.
- 2
Create the care event
Start an event, add each sibling with their agreed ratio, and share the link.
- 3
Log every payment
Each sibling enters care home fees, supplies and appointments they pay, with a date and category.
- 4
Settle regularly
Check the Settle tab monthly or quarterly, send the transfers, and record them under "Settled payments".
Why we built FAMI-KAN
FAMI-KAN isn't just a calculator. It's a partner that handles the math so you can focus on what matters: "That dinner was amazing", "Where should we go next?" — preserving the afterglow of time well spent together.
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The worst part of any trip comes at the very end — when everyone's tired and someone has to sort out the money. Lining up receipts, punching numbers into a calculator, trying to remember who paid what... it brings a cold, transactional feeling to what should be warm memories.
Existing apps are useful, but often too complex or require everyone to install the same app. For family gatherings spanning multiple generations, we needed something simpler — and warmer.
Need business-style splitting?
FAMIKAN Smart for Business & Dinners
"Seniors pay more", "Students pay less", "Late arrivals get adjusted" — complex tiered splits are set up in seconds with presets. Features like edit-locking and graph-enabled share text are built for organizers.
- • Role-based tiered split presets
- • Edit lock & graph-enabled sharing
- • Perfect for work dinners & mixers
Frequently Asked Questions
Agree on each sibling's share and log who pays what. With two siblings at 1.0 and the caregiver at 0.5, $3,500 a month comes to $1,400, $1,400 and $700, and FAMI-KAN works out the transfers from what each actually paid.
You could split by income, or weigh income and caregiving time together. Ratios can reflect either, for example 1.2 for the highest earner, 1.0 for another sibling and 0.5 for the caregiver. Agree on it together, and revisit it if circumstances change.
That's for your family to agree on. If you include it, log gas, flights or rideshares as payments with a memo, so everyone can see what each trip was for.
Give each payment a category, such as care home, supplies or medical, and sort the History tab by category or by date. A memo on each payment, such as "March co-pay", makes it easier to answer questions later.
Payments from your parent's own money aren't costs the siblings shared, so you can leave them out. How your parent's funds are handled is for your family to decide.
Record each partial payment under "Settled payments". It's deducted from what she owes, and only the remaining balance stays in the settlement.
Yes. Every bill-splitting and settlement feature is free to use, and no registration is required.
No. It runs entirely in your web browser. Just share the link and everyone can access it immediately on their phones.
Yes, you can select the currency when creating an event (almost every official currency in the world). You can unify calculations easily for trips abroad.
Yes. You can switch between three views — "Settlement", "By Member" and "By Item". You can see what each person paid and owes, and for any single expense, who is covering how much. Everyone sees why the number is what it is, on the same screen.