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A lens on
every dollar.

Every receipt you scan gets categorized, trended, and added to your in-app history. Budget Lens learns, and helps you shop smarter, by comparing price across history and matching lowest price basket and store recommendation.

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01 CAPTURE02 SCAN03 CATEGORIZE04 SIGNAL
MORNING CAFÉ
4TH AVE · APR 22

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● REC · AF LOCKED
f/1.8 · 1/60 · ISO 400
MORNING CAFÉ · 4TH AVEAPR 22 · 08:41
||||| |||| |||COFFEE BEAN REG$4.75Coffee
||| ||| |||| ||OAT MILK LATTE$5.50Coffee
|||| ||||| |||ALMOND CROISSANT$4.25Food
|||TIP$2.00—
TOTAL$16.50
CONF 0.97
SIGNAL · COFFEE
WEEKLY
$38.20
↑ 12%
vs $34.10 · 4-week avg
Four mornings at Morning Café pushed coffee past your calm zone. Not an alert — just a heads-up.
— MANIFESTO

Budget apps ask you to trust a cloud with the most intimate data you own. We think that’s backwards. Your receipts belong on your phone — read by a lens, not a ledger.

Parth · Founder, Budget Lens
Signed, April 2026
01 — PRODUCT

Precision, without
the paperwork.

Budget Lens is a quiet instrument. Point it at a receipt, it reads; open the app, it has already done the filing.
Scan anywhere
Point the camera at any receipt — crumpled, faded, or perfect. Totals, dates, and line items land on your phone in seconds.
Categorized as you spend
Budget Lens learns your patterns. Coffee stays coffee, even when the merchant renames itself.
Insights you can tap
Top category, top store, weekday rhythms — every card opens the receipts behind it. No dead ends, no "coming soon".
Smart Basket
Build a shopping list, and Budget Lens compares it against your own scanned history at every store you shop. The cheapest match wins.
Export + monthly recaps
Pick any range — this month, last 12 months, all time — and share as PDF or CSV. Monthly and quarterly summary emails arrive on their own.
Your phone, your receipts
Receipt images stay on your iPhone. Encrypted in transit and at rest for everything else. No ads. No data sold.
MORNING CAFÉ
LATTE5.50
CROISSANT4.25
TIP2.00
TOTAL$16.50
· · · ·
COFFEE
WHOLE HARVEST
OAT MILK4.29
KALE3.50
SALMON18.00
BREAD5.49
TOTAL$47.82
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GROCERIES
BLUE LINE METRO
FARE2.90
TOTAL$2.90
· · · ·
TRANSIT
BOOKSHOP WEST
PAPERBACK16.99
NOTEBOOK8.50
STICKER2.91
TOTAL$28.40
· · · ·
BOOKS
PHARMACY 24
VIT D12.99
BANDAGE4.50
TOOTHPASTE6.99
TOTAL$34.10
· · · ·
HEALTH
ROUND TRIP CO
TICKET142.00
TOTAL$142.00
· · · ·
TRAVEL
CORNER BODEGA
WATER2.25
CHIPS3.50
MINT1.50
TOTAL$7.25
· · · ·
SNACKS
VINTAGE THREADS
SHIRT38.00
SCARF30.00
TOTAL$68.00
· · · ·
APPAREL
DRIP ROASTERS
ESPRESSO4.00
BEANS 12oz8.75
TOTAL$12.75
· · · ·
COFFEE
— IT’S ALL RECEIPTS

Nine thousand pieces
of paper a year.
None of them escape.

The average household generates about 9,000 receipts a year. Budget Lens reads every one, keeps the images on your phone, and surfaces the story they tell.

02 — BASKET MATCHING

Your own receipts know
the cheapest store.

Every receipt you scan builds a private ledger of what you pay, where. Milk at Trader Joe’s vs Safeway vs Costco. Eggs last Tuesday vs three weeks ago.

Before your next shop, build a basket — Budget Lens checks your own receipt history and suggests the store that gave you the best price, based on your own scans.

Gas, restaurants, subscriptions — those show up in your Category Spend so you see where the money went.

Basket matching and store recommendation are still in beta.
Your basketTrader Joe’sSafewayCostco
Milk · 1 gal$3.49$4.29$3.19
Eggs · dozen$4.99$5.79$4.29
Paper towels · 6$12.99$14.49$9.99
Olive oil · 1L$11.49$12.99$8.79
Basket total$32.96$37.56$26.26
Best match based on your last scans: Costco
03 — PRIVACY

The only budget app
that doesn’t watch you back.

Every other budgeting app stores your receipt images and often your bank logins on their servers. Budget Lens keeps receipt images on your iPhone, encrypts everything else in transit and at rest, and never asks for your bank.

Receipts stay on deviceNo adsNo data soldNo bank link required
Budget LensTypical budget app
Receipt imagesStay on deviceUploaded to cloud
Receipt readingOn your iPhoneVendor cloud OCR
Bank linkNot requiredRequired
Default storageYour iPhoneVendor cloud
In transit / at restEncryptedVaries
Ads & data salesNeverCommon
04 — THE SIGNAL

Plain-English
insights, not charts
you have to decode.

Budget Lens reads your patterns and tells you what changed. Coffee up 12%. Rent renegotiated. Transit seasonal.
THIS QUARTER
$4,218
↓ 8.4%
vs $4,604 · last quarter
1W1M3M1Y
Coffee drift
+$42/mo
Grocery stable
holding
Transit down
−$28/mo
Coffee$412
Grocery$1,204
Transit$180
Dining$680
Apparel$320
Other$1,422
05 — THE APP

Three taps.
That’s the whole loop.

THURSDAY · APR 22
Good morning.
THIS WEEK
↓ 8%
$218.40
OF $260 PLAN
INSIGHT · 2H AGO
Coffee trending up. You’ve averaged $9.80/day this week — 34% higher than your 3-month norm.
RECENT
Morning Café
COFFEE
$16.50
Blue Line Metro
TRANSIT
$2.90
Bookshop West
BOOKS
$28.40
Whole Harvest
GROCERIES
$47.82
06 — HOW IT WORKS

Four seconds, end to end.

01
Point and shutter
Open the scanner. The camera captures even low-light, crumpled receipts in a single frame.
02
Read on your phone
Totals, dates, line items, and store names are read on your iPhone. The receipt image stays on the device.
03
Categorized & filed
Each item is matched against your habits. Uncertain entries surface for a quick tap.
04
Signal, surfaced
Weekly trends, category drift, and merchant overlaps appear in plain English on your home screen.
07 — PRICING

Honest pricing. No ads ever.

Free works forever. Premium adds encrypted cloud backup (opt-in) and deeper signal. Cancel anytime in Settings — one tap.

Free
The whole instrument.
$0
forever
  • Unlimited receipts
  • Receipt scanning
  • All categories
  • Weekly insights
  • PDF + CSV export, any range
  • Monthly + quarterly recap emails
  • Group splits up to 3 people
Get the app
Premium
POPULAR
Deeper signal, smart basket, encrypted backup.
$39.99
per year
  • Everything in Free
  • Smart Basket cheapest-store comparison
  • Encrypted cloud backup (opt-in)
  • Multi-currency trend analysis
  • Unlimited group members
  • 7-day free trial
Start free trial
08 — FAQ

Questions we get asked a lot.

Your receipt images stay on your iPhone. We never see them. For categorization and trend analysis we process anonymized parsed text on our servers, encrypted in transit and at rest. No bank logins, ever.
Profile → Export. Pick a period — this month, last month, last 3 months, last 12 months, year to date, or all time — then choose PDF or CSV. The file renders on your iPhone and shares through the standard iOS share sheet.
Yes. A monthly recap arrives on the 1st of every month, and a quarterly recap on the 1st of January, April, July, and October. Both default on; toggle either off any time from Notifications.
From the receipts you've already scanned. Smart Basket compares your basket against your own purchase history at every store you've shopped, then recommends the cheapest match. When the data is thin, it tells you so.
Any iPhone running iOS 16 or newer.
Scanning works offline — you can capture receipts anywhere. Categorization and basket matching need a connection to process, and will sync when you reconnect. Exchange rates for 15 currencies are cached locally for travel.
Only if you opt in. Premium adds encrypted cloud backup so you can restore your history on a new device. If you stay on Free, everything lives on your phone and leaves with it.
Not planned for v1. The product is built around iOS — different platform, different trade-offs.
16+
iOS supported
15
currencies, offline cache
1
home for your receipts — your iPhone
0
ads, ever