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AI receipt scanner apps: what they are and who makes them
expense apps with receipt capture, bookkeeping inboxes, personal and paper-first receipt keepers, extraction apis and general scanners: Zoho Expense, Expensify, Dext through Genius Scan.
Types of AI receipt scanner apps
Expense apps with receipt capture
Zoho Expense, Expensify, Fyle and Rydoo charge per user and wrap receipt scanning in reports, approvals, mileage and card feeds. They suit companies where employees spend money and someone else has to approve, reimburse and book it. Receipt scanning is one feature among several.
Bookkeeping inboxes
Dext and Hubdoc collect receipts, bills and statements and send the extracted data to Xero, QuickBooks Online or similar. Accountants and small businesses use them to stop chasing clients for paper, and Wave Receipts offers the same idea inside Wave's own accounting.
Personal and paper-first receipt keepers
Smart Receipts, Shoeboxed and Neat serve one person or a very small office. Smart Receipts is a phone-first log, Shoeboxed adds mail-in paper scanning, and Neat is a paid filing app for documents and receipts together. None of them assume an approval chain.
Extraction APIs and general scanners
Veryfi sells receipt extraction as an API with an app on the side, which suits developers. Genius Scan is a general phone scanner that makes PDFs, so it only helps if you do the expense filing yourself and want a clean image.
Facts at a glance
| Tool | Publisher | Based in | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoho Expense | Zoho (legal entity not stated on the pages opened) | Not stated on the vendor pages | Free tier |
| Expensify | Expensify, Inc. | Not stated on the vendor pages | Free tier + API |
| Dext | Dext (legal entity not stated on the pages opened) | Not stated on the vendor pages | Trial |
| Smart Receipts | Reactive Apps Corp. | Not stated on the vendor pages | Free tier |
| Fyle (Sage Expense Management) | Fyle Inc., trading as Sage Expense Management | Not stated on the vendor pages | Trial + API |
| Rydoo | Rydoo (legal entity not stated on the pages opened) | Not stated on the vendor pages | Paid + API |
| Shoeboxed | Shoeboxed, Inc. | Not stated on the vendor pages | Trial |
| Veryfi | Veryfi (copyright line reads veryfi) | United States | Free tier + API |
| Wave Receipts | Wave Financial Inc. | Not stated on the vendor pages | Free tier |
| Hubdoc | Hubdoc Inc. | Not stated on the vendor pages | Trial |
| Neat | Neat (legal entity not stated on the pages opened) | Not stated on the vendor pages | Trial |
| Genius Scan | The Grizzly Labs | Not stated on the vendor pages | Trial |
