Personal finance and investing
Receipt scanning & expense tracking
Tools that capture receipts, invoices, bank statements or transaction messages, extract the data (often with OCR/AI), categorize expenses and export or reconcile them for budgeting, bookkeeping and tax filing.
Built for: Freelancers, small businesses, budget-conscious individuals
Projects since May 04
200
Different builders
194
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -23%
AI is the core
25%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (56%), mobile app (30%), desktop app (4.0%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding
Latest
- MoneyLog — Scans bank and card SMS alerts on an Android device for a chosen period and imports detected transactions into an offline expense ledger.“I built an Android expense tracker that turns bank SMS into a ledger — only when you choose to scan”
- Monigo — Logs expenses and reconciles them against imported PDF bank statements, flagging only missing or mismatched entries.“I built a budget app that checks your expenses against your bank statement for you – free beta, everything on-device”
- Invoflow — Lets small businesses and sole traders submit expenses and claims, scan receipts with OCR, and run approval workflows.“Looking for feedback”
- OrderDraft — Checks pasted purchase-order text against a product catalog CSV and flags mismatched items and prices for review before exporting a CSV.“A small tool for checking purchase orders before manual WooCommerce entry”
- BelegDepot — Digitally captures receipts and invoices, files them in an organized way, and makes them easier to find later.“Ich habe eine App entwickelt, mit der sich Belege digital organisieren lassen”
- Betriebskostenhelfer — Calculates tenant utility cost statements for rental properties and exports them as PDF.“Ich habe eine iPhone-App für Betriebskostenabrechnungen entwickelt”
- CartItemizer — Extracts online order lines and tax from retail receipts and exports them to accounting formats with line splits that match the card charge to the cent.“I was tired of Amazon receipts breaking QuickBooks bank feeds by $0.01, so I built this Chrome Extension 🧾”
- Keelfile — Organizes uploaded tax documents and transactions and flags potential deductions for review.“Tax deduction and write off app”
- Paprly — Parses invoices and receipts, including foreign ones, to extract their data.“Progress on Paprly SaaS”
- Customer Statement Intelligence Suite — Answers questions about synthetic bank statements, computes totals and recurring payments deterministically, and answers public-policy questions via retrieval.“Finished my internship project — looking for people to try and break it before handover”
- Kleer Ledger — Lets users rename bank transactions with their own labels while keeping the bank's original description unchanged.“I built an app that renames confusing bank transactions. Launched on iOS and Android today.”
- Streamlined Bill Tracker — Tracks who you owe, what you owe, and due dates in a Google Sheet and exports calendar reminders for each bill.“I Built a Streamlined Bill Tracker in Google Sheets with No Bloat or Useless Junk”
- Hisabox — Tracks business expenses, receipts, customer credit sales and supplier payables, with an AI receipt scanner that extracts vendor, date, total and category.“Built an offline + cloud expense tracker with a 400ms AI receipt scanner to replace paper credit ledgers”
- ClearBooks — Tracks income and expenses with receipt uploads, creates invoice PDFs with paid/unpaid status, and exports date-range CSV reports.“I built a free expense + invoice tracker for freelancers after getting tired of managing my own money badly”
- CartItemizer — Reads Amazon and Home Depot order pages, lets users review item splits, and exports them as CSV or IIF files for QuickBooks.“I built CartItemizer to turn Amazon receipts into QuickBooks-ready records — feedback welcome”
- Manages small business bookkeeping for a grocery and catering business, replacing existing accounting software.“Built a bookkeeping app for my own small business and I'm getting ready to open it up to others. A few things I didn't expect”
- ExpenseEasy — Scans receipts or voice entries, organizes them by merchant, trip, and location, and lets users search and query past expenses in natural language.“I didn't build another receipt scanner. I built something to remember my money.”
- Resiboo — Captures receipts with a phone camera, extracts the expense details, and exports them to other budgeting apps.“Anyone here building a budgeting app? I want to add it to my export list”
- Moolo — Scans receipt photos, extracts items and prices for review, and saves them as searchable spending data.“I’m a product designer, not an engineer. I built a receipt app with Claude Code and got it into the App Store.”
- Parcel Invoice Auditor — Analyzes UPS billing CSV files to flag shipment charges that may warrant review, such as weight and dimensional weight discrepancies and unexpected adjustments.“I built a tool that checks UPS billing CSVs for charges worth reviewing”
Most discussed
- Tracks expenses by reading sms messages.“Finally!”
- Counts coins and bills by clicking on-screen buttons and totals the amount per denomination.“I made an online money counter”
- Snapceipt — Scans photographed receipts, extracts each line item, categorizes them, and shows spending breakdowns.“My first vibe coded app (first app in my life also) just launched in App store!”
- Generates plain-language multiple-choice questions about unclear bank transactions and collects clients' answers via a link.“I cold-called dozens of accounting firms trying to sell AI. Nobody cared. Here's what actually worked”
- Extracts, splits, and classifies messy client documents and pushes them into bookkeeping records for approval.“Ii thought i built a product to fix an actual problem”
- SmartWalt — Logs expenses from text or receipt photos without requiring bank account linking, using AI to categorize them.“We reached 100 users on our AI expense tracker after a massive revamp. Looking for brutal feedback on our new UI, onboarding, and retention.”
- MapleLedger — Scans receipts with OCR, tracks mileage, and records income and expenses for bookkeeping.“Started with zero coding experience in March. 700+ hours later, I shipped my first app.”
- TapBooks — Extracts details from receipt photos and invoices with AI, matches them to uploaded bank transaction CSVs, and packages records for an accountant.“After years of fighting with Excel, I finally built our own bookkeeping tool”
- Rubiwo — Tracks expenses for Canadian freelancers and small businesses in a CRA-compliant way.“650+downloads-100 registered users $0 Revenue-How do I get my first 10 paying customer.”
- Ledgr — Tracks expenses by parsing bank and payment SMS messages on the device, without uploading them to a server.“Got tired of asking “where did my salary go?” every month, so I spent 6 months building an app that reads bank SMS on-device — nothing gets uploaded to any server. Would honestly love your feedback.”