The price anchor
| Snapreceipt | Expensify | |
|---|---|---|
| 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.