Smart Receipts: Expenses & Tax 4+

The app works flawlessly with my IPhone 11 and I enjoyed taking pics of my receipts. It lets you write the amount in as well then, you can print a report. You choose how you want the report to come out. I liked it and was going to buy it but saw you could only buy a subscription at $11/year. I have to be honest and say I don’t like subscriptions. I prefer to buy the app outright. It enabled me to print a report to another app. The pics did not come out too clear but were still readable. If the developer could make the pics clearer it would be good. The camera on my iPhone does take very clear pictures so it was the app that did not focus on the receipts enough to produce clear pics.

We appreciate your feedback and are delighted you found the app enjoyable and effective. Your thoughts on clarity and subscription options are noted! Thank you for sharing your experience.

No longer able to create or restore backups on your own device, must have subscription to use backups at all. No longer able to send PDFs to the app to add to receipt. Importing PDF from files fails to attach receipt. Unable to update I image/PDF on expense. Not all settings are preserved during upgrade. Sort order has been reversed, making it hard yo navigate to most recent reports (now at the bottom). Report name truncated when viewing report. Unable to reorder receipts in expense report. Not ready for mass deployment, wish I could go back. Avoid this update.

Update: some issues were resolved in 5.0.1, but the most critical issue remains. It is not possible to use PDFs as receipts. Do not upgrade to 5.x until this is resolved. I have lost a critical part of my workflow, and I wish I could go back. People depend on this app, and they released an update that breaks it.

Update: Version 5.0.2 does allow PDF receipts again, but only when browsing to find them. It is still not possible to send a PDF to Smart Receipts and attach it to an entry, which much simpler. It is also still not possible to manually back up or restore to your own storage, which had been possible prior to 5.x. Not allowing non-subscribers to back up or restore their data as previous versions had allowed is quite a gamble for the user.

Hello, please don't worry and don't reinstall the app. Email support@smartreceipts.app. We'll help you to restore your data.

I have enjoyed this app for a few years. Despite the problems with it I will continue using it despite its flaws.

With the latest update they made an automatic backup of my files and did the update completed automatically. When the new version opened none of my receipts were available. I contacted them and they told me how to restore my old receipts. I did what they said and I get a message the restore failed. I contacted them again explaining the restore didn’t work I told them I could see my old receipts on my device in the files folder but couldn’t open them in the new version using their restore function. They said they no longer support the older version and the only way to get the receipts back was by their restore procedure, which continued to fail. Again they said there was nothing they could do or suggest.

Version 5 requires a whole new Tech Stack and Infrastructure, all app data was locally stored on your device prior to Version 5. If that data is correupted on your device, then the restore will fail. We have no control over your data prior to Version 5 and a Pro Subscription. Version 5 requires a stable internet connection and a Pro Subscription for Data Recovery and Backup.