# Expense Minion — AI Receipt Scanner — Offline

> AI Receipt Scanner — Offline (iPhone/iPad app by Apisak Musikapan.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/expense-minion/id6764738974 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Apisak Musikapan](https://appshunter.io/developer/1894439904)
- Category: Finance, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 97 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-05
- Data updated: 2026-07-18
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/expense-minion/id6764738974/reviews.md

## What is Expense Minion?

Expense Minion is a privacy-first expense tracker that uses on-device AI to automatically extract and categorize expenses from photos of receipts, payment slips, and invoices.

HOW IT WORKS
• Take a photo or import from your gallery
• Apple Vision OCR reads the text instantly
• On-device AI identifies the merchant, amount, date, and category
• Your expense is created automatically — no manual typing

KEY FEATURES
• On-device AI — everything runs on your phone, nothing leaves your device
• 50+ languages supported including Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean
• Smart categorization — food, transport, shopping, utilities, and more
• Non-expense filtering — AI recognizes non-receipt photos automatically
• Template learning — the app learns from your corrections
• Dashboard with monthly trends and category breakdown
• Search and filter by merchant, category, or notes
• Biometric authentication (Face ID / Touch ID)
• Works fully offline after one-time AI model download

TWO MODES
• Smart Mode — instant OCR extraction, no download needed
• Vision AI Mode — download the AI model for automatic categorization

PRIVACY FIRST
• No account required
• No cloud sync
• No subscription
• No ads
• All data stays on your device


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.1 — 2026-05-18

• Smarter Soot chat — answers daily/monthly spending questions accurately
• Anti-hallucination — Soot verifies numbers before answering, refuses to guess
• Behavioral learning — learns your corrections, auto-fills notes and currency
• Buddhist year fix — Thai receipts now show correct year (2026, not 2023)
• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

### 1.5.0 — 2026-05-11

• Soot AI Chat — ask about your expenses in any language, with thinking mode
• Custom categories — add/rename/delete with emoji & icon picker
• 9 languages — TH, EN, JA, ZH, KO, MS, VI, FR, DE
• Smart document detection — bank statements go to Docs tab
• Historical exchange rates — saved daily for accurate conversion
• 14 currencies + auto-detect from OCR language
• Bug fixes and accuracy improvements

### 1.4.0 — 2026-05-07

• Multi-model AI — choose between Gemma 4 E2B (2.4GB) and E4B (3.7GB, best quality)
• Spatial OCR extraction — uses bounding box positions for more accurate receipt reading
• Multi-language date+time parsing — Thai, English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and more
• Improved duplicate detection — works across separate import rounds
• Soot color changes based on active model
• Various bug fixes and accuracy improvements

### 1.3.0 — 2026-05-06

• Smart duplicate detection — automatically groups similar expenses for easy review
• Merchant memory — learns merchant names and recognizes them on future receipts
• Share extension — share receipt photos directly from any app
• Improved accuracy — better amount extraction and currency detection
• Debug log — view processing details in Settings
• Various UX improvements and bug fixes

### 1.2.0 — 2026-05-05

• Multi-currency support with daily exchange rates 
• Smart currency detection from receipt language
• Documents tab for invoices and contracts
• AI spending insights on dashboard
• Recurring expense detection
• CSV export (share to Google Sheets, Excel, etc.)
• Custom AI instructions
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-18.*