Receipt Scanner & Expenses is live. The category is crowded, so let me tell you why we shipped one anyway, and what is different about ours.
The problem with most receipt apps
They are billing software wearing receipt-scanner clothes. You open the app, you get a paywall, you get a tour of features you do not want, and you eventually find the camera button. Then you scan, and the OCR is okay, and the export is gated behind a higher tier.
We wanted the opposite. Open the camera. Scan. See a clean structured expense. Export to CSV or PDF. All of that, on the free plan.
What is paid
Two things, both genuinely premium:
- AI categorisation that learns from your corrections and gets better at sorting your specific spending pattern.
- Multi-vendor monthly summaries with charts and an end-of-month PDF you can email to an accountant.
If you are a freelancer who scans ten receipts a month, the free tier is forever enough. If you are a small business with an accountant on retainer, the paid tier pays for itself in twenty minutes saved.
What it does well
- Tax-line OCR that pulls the tax amount separately, which most competitors get wrong on European receipts.
- Multi-currency with automatic FX based on receipt date — useful if you travel.
- No cloud lock-in — your data is yours, exportable any time, deletable any time.
Who it is for
Freelancers, small business owners, and anybody who does their own books. Not enterprise. Not for replacing Concur. For the person who has a shoebox of receipts under their desk and a vague sense that this could be easier.
Receipt Scanner is on the App Store. The free plan is generous on purpose. Try it and tell us what is missing.