Pricing deep-dive · 2026

Snapreceipt vs Expensify pricing (2026)

Snapreceipt costs $19 once. Expensify charges $5–$9/user/mo. Here is exactly what that difference compounds into.

The price anchor

SnapreceiptExpensify
Monthly$0 — no subscription$5–$9/user/mo
Annual$0 after purchase$60
5-year total$19$300
10-year total$19$600

Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($5–$9/user/mo, ~$60/yr); the Snapreceipt column is the full price, paid once.

Break-even analysis

At Expensify's $5–9 per user per month, one person spends $15–27 in a single quarter — more than Snapreceipt costs once, for life.

  • After 1 year: Snapreceipt has cost you $19 total — Expensify has cost $60.
  • After 3 years: Snapreceipt is still $19 — the subscription is at $180.
  • After 5 years: Snapreceipt is still $19 — the subscription is at $300.

What you get for $19 once

  • Import anything. Drag and drop images, use the file picker, or point a watched folder at your phone-sync directory to land photos in a review inbox.
  • Local OCR auto-extract. tesseract.js runs entirely on-disk to pull vendor, date, total and tax as an editable prefill you review before saving.
  • Categories + project tags. A bundled category list plus your own, with free-form project and client tags for billable-expense tracking.
  • Reports. Spend by category and by month, filterable, with all math in exact integer cents.
  • Exports. RFC 4180 CSV for your accountant and a PDF expense report with receipt thumbnails embedded.
  • No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $19 is the whole price.

Pricing questions

Is it really free on GitHub?

Yes — Snapreceipt is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/receipt-scanner-expense-mvp. The $19 buys the 1-click Windows installer; building from source is free.

Do my receipt images get uploaded?

No. OCR is 100% local, nothing auto-saves, and the only network access is a one-time ~11 MB download of the English OCR language data during install. After that it's fully offline.

Does the OCR always get it right?

Not always, and we'd rather say so. Extraction is a prefill you review — a wrong guess is just something you fix in the form before you click Save.

Snapreceipt — $19, one time

Or get Snapreceipt plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.