Cost tracking is one of the most boring and least fun activities you can do, but perhaps with the right tool it can become easier to do it.
Not only can professionals with VAT number and company employees easily catalog the expenses for calculating taxes or for a refund, but also normal individuals can find in these tools a way to record and save the shopping receipts and do the math accounts. how much and what money comes out every month.
In this article we are going to discover the best apps to save expense reports such as receipts, bills and receipts, so you can keep them organized in a list and maybe even have a final report with the monthly or weekly or annual total totals.
The convenience and innovation of this type of tools is due to the fact that to save an expense, just take a photo of the receipt.
In many cases the application will be able to extract the amount spent by means of a scan and store it automatically.
For those who need to report expenses and travel by car, these applications also include counting kilometers for calculating road expenses.
1) Zoho Expense (Android / iPhone, free) is perhaps the best application on this list, with an interface also in Italian, which can be used freely to store expense reports, receipts and receipts. When you take a photo of a receipt, the app scans and tries to automatically extract the money spent to mark it on the list and make it easy and quick to insert. In addition, it also allows you to keep track of mileage through its integrated GPS tracker, to always know how many kilometers have been covered during business trips. The sending of expense reports can be done in bulk directly from the application. The main limitation of Zoho Expense is in the number of users (maximum 3 which is fine for personal use) and in the number of automatic scans (therefore manually there are no limits).
2) Smart Receipt for iPhone and Android is a simple, but completely free application for storing receipts and receipts with automatic scanning and recognition of written numbers. With this open source app you can use the OCR technology on receipts to automatically recognize dates, prices, taxes, categories of receipts, comments, payment methods and much more, in order to generate a digital report that can be saved and kept. You can then create folders for each expense report, take photos, import PDFs and photos already taken, track the kilometers made for work and get personalized reports.
3) Expensify (Android / iPhone) is the most famous application of this type, with many functions to store expense reports and organize personal and professional accounts. You can use the tool that scans receipts and receipts so you can automatically save the expense figures, although this service is limited in the free account to 10 scans per month. Among other functions, there is also the account of the kilometers traveled by car, the monitoring of working time, useful for those who get paid on time, and then other professional information for managing their work. This is an application with many functions that can also be used by company administrators to adjust employee spending policies and to approve some payments.
4) Receipts by Wave (iPhone) is another app mainly focused on saving and managing receipts and receipts. Easy to use and synchronizes with the free Wave account to store all receipts in the cloud.
5) Veryfi (Android / iPhone, free) is a service that uses the optical character recognition technology OCR to scan receipts and receipts and transcribe the sums spent automatically on its app. The information is then organized into a legible and easy-to-consult list of data. To use the app it is necessary to register an account with an email address even if the free use has many limitations (such as that of the maximum 15 scans per month and limit on the retention time of documents). In addition to the basic app, there is a Veryfi web interface that can be used by any browser.
6) The applications to manage personal expenses on Android and iPhone described in another article are excellent for making personal accounts and keeping receipts and receipts, even if they are not automatic.
7) Note-taking apps like Evernote or Google Keep can certainly be used to store receipts, receipts and expenses of various kinds. For example, Google Keep can be used not only to keep photos of receipts, but also to extract the text written inside them and, therefore, the amount spent. In fact, Keep includes OCR technology, therefore it scans paper documents and transforms them into digital text. The only thing missing is the possibility of adding the figures to have a monthly report with the total, which will have to be done by hand.
8) Google Sheets (for iPhone and Android) is the free alternative to Microsoft Excel that can be used for free on both smartphones and PCs. By creating a spreadsheet it is easy to save the money spent on a list and automatically have all the accounts and totals added up.
9) Office Lens is a free app from Microsoft that works as a document scanner, particularly suitable for photographing receipts and receipts. The writings in the photos are recognized and made copyable on a digital sheet, you can also save each scan online on OneDrive or save them as PDF.
10) Genius Scan (Android / iPhone) is a generic app for scanning documents, which can be used very well to photograph receipts and invoices and save them as JPEG or PDF images.
11) Clear Scanner (Android / iPhone) is an app that transforms your smartphone into a scanner, to scan any sheet of paper and save it as an image or PDF. It can become a perfect receipt manager thanks to the built-in OCR (optical text recognition) functionality.
12) Tiny Scanner (Android / iPhone) is another app for scanning sheets and receipts, very light, fast and essential, which saves receipts and any photos taken as an image or PDF.
13) Receipt Lens (Android / iPhone) is a free Android application for storing receipts on your phone by taking photos of receipts and invoices. With OCR technology it is able to read the text in the receipt and save the expense figures in a list that becomes easy to consult.
14) Foreceipt Receipt Tracker is a free iPhone-only app for limited use, for tracking weighs and receipts. It offers real-time scanning and processing service, with content automatically saved in Google Drive.
READ ALSO: 10 free invoicing and accounting programs for self-employed and small businesses
Not only can professionals with VAT number and company employees easily catalog the expenses for calculating taxes or for a refund, but also normal individuals can find in these tools a way to record and save the shopping receipts and do the math accounts. how much and what money comes out every month.
In this article we are going to discover the best apps to save expense reports such as receipts, bills and receipts, so you can keep them organized in a list and maybe even have a final report with the monthly or weekly or annual total totals.
The convenience and innovation of this type of tools is due to the fact that to save an expense, just take a photo of the receipt.
In many cases the application will be able to extract the amount spent by means of a scan and store it automatically.
For those who need to report expenses and travel by car, these applications also include counting kilometers for calculating road expenses.
1) Zoho Expense (Android / iPhone, free) is perhaps the best application on this list, with an interface also in Italian, which can be used freely to store expense reports, receipts and receipts. When you take a photo of a receipt, the app scans and tries to automatically extract the money spent to mark it on the list and make it easy and quick to insert. In addition, it also allows you to keep track of mileage through its integrated GPS tracker, to always know how many kilometers have been covered during business trips. The sending of expense reports can be done in bulk directly from the application. The main limitation of Zoho Expense is in the number of users (maximum 3 which is fine for personal use) and in the number of automatic scans (therefore manually there are no limits).
2) Smart Receipt for iPhone and Android is a simple, but completely free application for storing receipts and receipts with automatic scanning and recognition of written numbers. With this open source app you can use the OCR technology on receipts to automatically recognize dates, prices, taxes, categories of receipts, comments, payment methods and much more, in order to generate a digital report that can be saved and kept. You can then create folders for each expense report, take photos, import PDFs and photos already taken, track the kilometers made for work and get personalized reports.
3) Expensify (Android / iPhone) is the most famous application of this type, with many functions to store expense reports and organize personal and professional accounts. You can use the tool that scans receipts and receipts so you can automatically save the expense figures, although this service is limited in the free account to 10 scans per month. Among other functions, there is also the account of the kilometers traveled by car, the monitoring of working time, useful for those who get paid on time, and then other professional information for managing their work. This is an application with many functions that can also be used by company administrators to adjust employee spending policies and to approve some payments.
4) Receipts by Wave (iPhone) is another app mainly focused on saving and managing receipts and receipts. Easy to use and synchronizes with the free Wave account to store all receipts in the cloud.
5) Veryfi (Android / iPhone, free) is a service that uses the optical character recognition technology OCR to scan receipts and receipts and transcribe the sums spent automatically on its app. The information is then organized into a legible and easy-to-consult list of data. To use the app it is necessary to register an account with an email address even if the free use has many limitations (such as that of the maximum 15 scans per month and limit on the retention time of documents). In addition to the basic app, there is a Veryfi web interface that can be used by any browser.
6) The applications to manage personal expenses on Android and iPhone described in another article are excellent for making personal accounts and keeping receipts and receipts, even if they are not automatic.
7) Note-taking apps like Evernote or Google Keep can certainly be used to store receipts, receipts and expenses of various kinds. For example, Google Keep can be used not only to keep photos of receipts, but also to extract the text written inside them and, therefore, the amount spent. In fact, Keep includes OCR technology, therefore it scans paper documents and transforms them into digital text. The only thing missing is the possibility of adding the figures to have a monthly report with the total, which will have to be done by hand.
8) Google Sheets (for iPhone and Android) is the free alternative to Microsoft Excel that can be used for free on both smartphones and PCs. By creating a spreadsheet it is easy to save the money spent on a list and automatically have all the accounts and totals added up.
9) Office Lens is a free app from Microsoft that works as a document scanner, particularly suitable for photographing receipts and receipts. The writings in the photos are recognized and made copyable on a digital sheet, you can also save each scan online on OneDrive or save them as PDF.
10) Genius Scan (Android / iPhone) is a generic app for scanning documents, which can be used very well to photograph receipts and invoices and save them as JPEG or PDF images.
11) Clear Scanner (Android / iPhone) is an app that transforms your smartphone into a scanner, to scan any sheet of paper and save it as an image or PDF. It can become a perfect receipt manager thanks to the built-in OCR (optical text recognition) functionality.
12) Tiny Scanner (Android / iPhone) is another app for scanning sheets and receipts, very light, fast and essential, which saves receipts and any photos taken as an image or PDF.
13) Receipt Lens (Android / iPhone) is a free Android application for storing receipts on your phone by taking photos of receipts and invoices. With OCR technology it is able to read the text in the receipt and save the expense figures in a list that becomes easy to consult.
14) Foreceipt Receipt Tracker is a free iPhone-only app for limited use, for tracking weighs and receipts. It offers real-time scanning and processing service, with content automatically saved in Google Drive.
READ ALSO: 10 free invoicing and accounting programs for self-employed and small businesses
