Our Story

Together, we share.

The trip is always the easy part. Ten days in the mountains, a beach house split six ways, a cousin's wedding that turned into a two-week reunion — that's the part everyone remembers. What nobody remembers is the spreadsheet. The receipt someone swears they showed the group. The quiet math that gets done three weeks later, when everyone's home and the trip already feels like a memory.

Rashid Bahattab had watched it happen enough times. A beautiful trip, remembered mostly for the money talk at the end. Old friends, still friends, but tired of the same conversation every time. He didn't think the problem was the people. He thought the problem was that nobody had built something simple enough, honest enough, to carry that weight for them — so they could get back to the trip.

So one evening, he called Mohammad. Not with a pitch — with a frustration.

What if there were something that quietly kept track — who paid, who owes, who's square — so the money never got the chance to outlast the memory?

Mohammad liked the idea before he liked the details. But one thing stuck with him: most expense apps wanted a monthly subscription, an account, a login, a cloud — and all of that felt heavier than the trip itself. Travelers didn't need another bill. They needed something that just worked.

So they decided early: it would cost nothing. It would ask for no account. It would keep everything on your own phone. And it would work on a mountain with no signal, just as well as at a kitchen table with perfect wifi — because that's when the real math happens. Mid-trip. Mid-laugh. Long before anyone thinks to write it down.

Rashid funded it. Mohammad built it. Neither half worked without the other.

And they made the small things easy, because the small things are what actually matter. Adding your regular travel companions — the friends you always go with — takes one tap, saved for every trip after. Adding a new member mid-trip takes seconds. Splitting a dinner, a taxi, a hotel room — the app handles it before the plates are cleared. No subscription. No sign-up. No ads. Just the trip, and the people on it.

The whole idea was always about one thing — together. So they shortened it, the way you shorten anything you say often: Togé. Together, we share.

Two people who'd rather build something than watch another good trip end on a bad note.

— Rashid & Mohammad
Founders, Togé