Receipt Scanner Expense App, Every Line Read | Cash Book
Quick answer
Receipt scanning in Cash Book is the coral camera circle at the bottom of Home. Tap it, point the camera at a receipt, or pick a photo or screenshot you already have. An AI model reads every line and returns transactions with the amount, merchant, tag and date filled in, ready to edit or keep. It works on paper receipts, bills, and screenshots of bank notifications or online orders. The photo is processed over a connection and not stored afterwards.
Receipts have one job: telling you what you spent. In most apps they become a photo you never open again. In Cash Book they become transactions.
Camera or photo library
Tap the coral camera circle at the bottom of Home. A small sheet titled Snap a receipt gives you two options. Camera, with the hint "Point at the receipt", opens the viewfinder. Photo library, with the hint "A photo or screenshot you already have", opens your library so you can pick something from earlier.
That second option matters more than it sounds. Half of what people buy today never produces paper. The card notification, the online order confirmation, the delivery app summary: all of those are a screenshot away, and Cash Book reads them the same way it reads a till receipt.
Every line gets read
An AI model looks at the image and returns what it found. A single coffee comes back as one transaction. A supermarket receipt comes back with the merchant name in the note and the tag matched to your own tags, so a Lidl bill lands under Groceries with its emoji. Bills and screenshots with several charges are read line by line, each with an amount and a date taken from the paper where it is printed.
Nothing is saved without you seeing it. The transactions appear on Home in the day's list with an Edit option, and the sheet is the same one the keypad uses. Change a tag, move something to a different account, fix a date the receipt printed oddly. Then you are done.
The photo is processed, not stored
Scanning needs a connection, because the reading happens on an AI model reached through the studio's relay rather than on the phone. The photo is sent, parsed and dropped. Cash Book keeps the transactions on your iPhone, with optional iCloud sync to your own Apple account, and never keeps the image.
That also means there is no receipt gallery to manage and no storage counter creeping up. If you want the paper for a warranty, keep the paper. The app only needs the numbers.
Snap, say or tap
The camera is one of three ways in. When a purchase is easier to describe than to photograph, voice logging takes one sentence. When you paid by card, Apple Pay auto-logging can log the tap before you have put the phone away, and the receipt is only needed for the split. The three add up to a log that actually gets filled in, which is the only kind worth having.
For the step-by-step version, including what to do with a faded receipt or a long grocery bill, read how to scan receipts into an expense tracker.
Frequently asked questions
What can I scan?
Paper receipts, printed bills, and screenshots. A screenshot of a card notification, an online order confirmation or a delivery app summary all work, because the AI reads the text and amounts rather than a barcode.
Do I have to take the photo in the app?
No. The Snap a receipt sheet offers Camera and Photo library. Pick anything already on your iPhone, including screenshots you took earlier in the day.
Is the receipt photo kept?
No. The image goes through the app's relay to an AI model for parsing and is not stored after the transactions come back. Cash Book keeps the transactions, not the picture.
Does it work offline?
Scanning needs a connection, because the reading happens on an AI model rather than on the phone. Everything else in Cash Book, including editing the result, works offline.
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