What is Reddit's opinion of Smart Receipts?

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Bookkeeper here.

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Quick look in the Google play store:

No idea of the costs (contains in-app purchases) but this looks pretty perfect elsewise.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wb.receipts

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Receipt Bank does this but is somewhat expensive.

Hubdoc looks pretty good and scales its cost with how much you use it.

CamScanner has OCR and I believe has functionality similar to what you're after but requires a subscription and likely more manual input, too, than the others.

Is it for personal tracking or professional tracking? If it's professional then I'd look into a bookkeeping package, we have MYOB and Xero here in Australia (quick books too but don't). A number of of these apps hook straight in.

If it's for personal then I think Hubdoc is likely your best bet but if you google "similar to Hubdoc" you should get a bunch of sites that list apps of a similar function with comparisons and everything.

Edit: Guys here's an Open Source alternative to this app that doesn't require you making an account. Also it stores receipts of basically anything: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wb.receipts

Also you can use Notebloc to save receipts: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.notebloc.app

Dev,

What if I don't want my data in the cloud though?

Why do I need to make an account? I'm really not okay with making another account for yet another thing.

I'd rather back up my purchases on my phone. This is looking pretty good because Password managers don't really have a properly built in system for saving warranty info.

However, I'm very skeptical what you're doing with user data if you want us to register and put these items in the cloud. Just deleting it all? Yeah I don't believe that...

If you truly don't intend to make a profit and you really aren't doing anything shady, then the app should be open source.

If you want to simply keep a list of your expenditures, I haven't found anything that beats Smart Receipts for Android. You can set up categories, take photos of your receipts or import them, generate reports, back up your info, it just does it all simply and does it right. This has been enormously useful to me and the dev is prompt to help you with any problems or questions. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wb.receipts

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I'm fortunate enough to qualify for your definition of successful, since my app, Smart Receipts, currently nets about 3-4k/month in revenue through a mix of ads and in-app purchases. Smart Receipts was designed to help anyone that travels for work to easily generate beautiful expense reports (PDFs, CSVs) and make the tracking of receipts much easier.

It's open source (Rx2, Dagger2, and an MVPish/VIPERish mix) so you're welcome to check out the code here:

• https://github.com/wbaumann/SmartReceiptsLibrary

As for your questions:

• I built the app around 2011/2012 when I was working as a traveling consultant. Tracking receipts and submitting them on a weekly basis was regularly wasting 1-2 hours of my time, so I went out in search of a better way. After trying out a few Android apps that failed to meet my needs, I created Smart Receipts and have been maintaining it ever since.
• At the start, all user adoption was grown via word-of-mouth as I shared the product with some of my fellow consultants to save them time as well. While my first iteration was pretty terrible :), I was able to get good feedback from them to slowly improve the app.
• While I've dabbled with advertising and other paid channels, I've had the most success growing the app via a combination of SEO and diligently responding to customer emails. On the SEO front, I've been lucky enough to be granted the title of "Google Top Developer", which means that my app generally appears at the top of the list for "Receipt" queries (note: I still have no idea why Google awarded me this). But getting to that point was a lot trickier, since I need to have a highly reviewed and downloaded app. My strategy for this was embed my email in the app and make it extremely simple for users to email me. My belief is that anyone that cares enough to take up 10 minutes of their time writing an email, also cares enough to want to see the product succeed and will share it with their friends. I make a point of responding to all these requests and focusing on adding new features that are mentioned by a enough users (say 5% of all emails).
• I was the only one involved making the Android and iOS versions of the app initially, but I've since hired 3-4 individuals off of UpWork to help me to continue to grow at a faster pace.
• In terms of time, I've worked on this project part-time for over 5 years. I'm not sure the exact time-frame but likely over 1000 hours.
• The app has completely evolved over the course of it's life. I've added multiple new features, database tables, re-built the UI/UX, and probably re-architected the whole app on 2-3 occasions.
• I still actively work on it, but I tend to also defer more work to my UpWork contractors. I'd say the main difference is that I'm a lot quicker at writing good code now, so it reduces the future refactoring work.

I'll be hanging around for a few hours, so I'd be happy to answer any specific questions as well. Thanks for asking!

Found this

I'm using Smart Receipts. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wb.receipts

Smart Receipts

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wb.receipts

If you have an android phone I think Smart Receipts is what you're looking for.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wb.receipts&hl=nl&gl=US

Smart Receipts outputs to CSV and has good reviews on the Play Store.