Tally

Scan a receipt. Keep what it said.

Your bank already tells you that you spent $87.42 at the grocery store. It will never tell you that $12 of it was coffee, or that the same box of cereal cost $4.19 in March and $5.49 now. That detail only exists on the paper receipt, and the paper receipt goes in the bin.

Tally photographs it, reads the line items, and keeps them. That is the whole idea.

What it does

• Reads a receipt from a photo — merchant, date, total, and every line as printed.
• Keeps a running record you can look back through, per store and per item.
• Works on crumpled thermal paper, which is most of the difficulty.
• Tells you when it is not sure, instead of quietly guessing.

What it does not do

Tally does not sell your receipts. It does not share them with advertisers, data brokers, or market research companies, and there is no advertising or tracking in the app. Receipts are about as personal as a purchase record gets, and the only reason to collect them is to give them back to you.

You can delete your account from inside the app. It is immediate, and it takes the receipts and their photos with it. The privacy policy is short and says exactly who touches what.

About the points

Tally gives you points for scanning. They are a score, not a currency — they have no cash value and cannot be redeemed for money or gift cards, and the terms say so plainly. They exist because scanning a receipt should feel like something rather than nothing.

Where it is

Tally is in private testing and coming to the App Store. It is built for iPhone, it is free, and it will stay free.

Who makes it

I do. Tally is made by Strawberry Digital, an independent product studio in Tampa, Florida. I built it because I wanted it on my own phone, and I use it on my own groceries.

Questions, bugs, or a receipt it read badly: matt@strawberrydigital.llc, or the support page.