OneTimeScan receipts with local OCR and export tax-ready reports — nothing uploaded.
Expensify is $5–$9 per user every month, forever, and your receipts live on their servers. Snapreceipt reads receipts with OCR that runs entirely on your machine, prefills the vendor, date, total and tax, and lets you review before anything saves. $19, once. No image or text ever leaves your machine.
Snapreceipt in 60 seconds
Everything in the box
Local receipt scanner and expense tracker: on-device OCR, categories, mileage, CSV and PDF exports.
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.
Mileage log
Date, purpose, miles and a configurable cents-per-mile rate, with reimbursement auto-calculated to the cent.
Private by design
SQLite file on your disk, receipt images copied into your app data folder, and zero network calls at runtime.
Snapreceipt vs Expensify
Expensify charges $5–$9/user/mo. Here's what actually differs.
| Snapreceipt | Expensify | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19 once | $5–$9/user/mo |
| Cost after 3 years | $19 | $180–$324 per user |
| Receipt OCR | Yes — 100% local | Yes — cloud |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Your data | SQLite file you own | Their cloud |
| Mileage log | Yes | Yes — paid tiers |
| PDF report with receipt images | Yes | Yes |
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.
One price. No asterisks.
Desktop app — pay once, it's yours on your machine forever.
Download Snapreceipt
install, then sign in with Whop. Your purchase unlocks it; there is no licence key to enter.
Snapreceipt
Windows and macOS. Buy once, download any time — this page always links the current build.
Up and running in three steps
Buy once on Whop
One payment of $19 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/receipt-scanner-expense-mvp and build it yourself for free.
Drop in a receipt
Drag an image in or watch a folder — local OCR prefills the vendor, date, total and tax into an editable form.
Review and export
Fix any prefill, hit Save, then export a CSV or a PDF report with receipt thumbnails for your accountant.
Fair 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.
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More about Snapreceipt
Every page we publish about this app — comparisons, personas, platforms and the problems it solves.
Stop renting. Own Snapreceipt.
Local receipt scanner and expense tracker: on-device OCR, categories, mileage, CSV and PDF exports.
Get Snapreceipt — $19 once