Business expense tracking with local receipt OCR. Your data, your one-time price.
Small businesses get nickel-and-dimed by per-user pricing on helpdesks, forms, signatures and scheduling. One-time software makes the toolset a capital expense instead of a creeping payroll line.
The tool this job usually means renting is Expensify, at $5/user/mo — roughly $60 a year, every year. Ledgerly does the job for a one-time $79 — running on infrastructure you control.
Drop a JPG/PNG receipt and tesseract.js runs entirely in your browser — no image ever leaves your machine. Vendor, amount and date are parsed and prefilled for your review; OCR never auto-saves.
For small business owners, local receipt OCR pays off without adding another line to the monthly overhead — and it's covered by the same one-time $79, not metered per month.
Quick-add row + full form: amount, currency, category, vendor, date, project, payment method, notes, receipt image.
For small business owners, fast expense entry pays off without adding another line to the monthly overhead — and it's covered by the same one-time $79, not metered per month.
Date range, category, project, vendor/notes search, sortable columns.
For small business owners, filterable, sortable list pays off without adding another line to the monthly overhead — and it's covered by the same one-time $79, not metered per month.
One-time $79 for the packaged Windows installer — no per-user pricing, no monthly invoice.
Desktop mode is zero-config with data in your user profile. Need it reachable from your phone or team? docker compose up on a $5 VPS.
OCR prefills vendor, amount and date for your review, budgets track themselves, and month-end is one CSV or PDF export.
Ledgerly is $79, once. Expensify at $5/user/mo — roughly $60 a year, every year. Pays for itself vs Expensify in about 16 months for a solo user — faster with every additional team member, since there's no per-seat fee.
Pays for itself vs Expensify in about 16 months for a solo user — faster with every additional team member, since there's no per-seat fee. Ledgerly costs $79 once; Expensify charges $5/user/mo — about $60 a year. For small business owners, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — the full source is MIT at github.com/bensblueprints/ledgerly-expenses-mvp. The $79 buys the packaged installer, 1-click setup and lifetime updates.
No. tesseract.js runs client-side — in your browser or inside the desktop app's window — and the worker, wasm core and language data are all served from the app itself, never a CDN. Receipts with card numbers and addresses on them stay on your disk.