# Shimau - Receipts & Tax Prep — Snap receipts, AI files them

> Snap receipts, AI files them (iPhone/iPad app by JIACHEN SHI.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shimau-receipts-and-tax-prep/id6792043711 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [JIACHEN SHI](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792043713)
- Category: Finance, Business
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 33 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-22
- Data updated: 2026-10-15

## What is Shimau?

Just put it away.
Shimau is a tidy-up box for the money and paperwork of working life in Japan.

Receipts, invoices, that envelope from the tax office. Meant to sort them later, and then didn't? Shimau keeps them in order simply because you dropped them in. You don't have to be organised. Once a year, take it all out at once.

■ Three steps
1. Snap it - Photograph a receipt, pick several from your album at once, or keep it as a PDF.
2. AI reads it - Date, amount, shop and category, in a few seconds. No typing.
3. Put it away - Work or personal? One tap, and the filing happens for you.

■ What Shimau does
- Tidies away whatever you drop in
  Photograph a receipt or jot one line. That is the whole record.
- Keeps work and life apart
  Money leaves the same wallet, but the totals stay separate. Personal spending never lands in your work figures.
- Sums up your month and your year
  Made to be understood at a glance, by category and by client, even if numbers are not your thing.
- Hands over a clean year of data
  Export CSV for your accounting software, or pass it straight to your accountant.
- Lets clients keep a nickname
  "Company A" or "Project 1" totals up just fine. No real names or registration numbers needed.

■ What Shimau does not do (better said up front)
- It does not file your tax return. Filing belongs to accounting software or your tax accountant. Shimau takes care of everything up to that point.
- It does not connect to your bank or credit card. We never hold your IDs or passwords.
- It does not make tax judgements. Whether something relates to your work is yours to decide.
- It does not replace your paper originals. Shimau does not meet the storage requirements of Japan's Electronic Books Preservation Act, so keep the originals after you photograph them.

■ Who it is for
- Sole proprietors, freelancers and people with side income in Japan
- Anyone whose receipts keep piling up
- Anyone who feels a small weight before opening accounting software
- Anyone who stops at the words "chart of accounts"

■ No difficult words
There is no "chart of accounts" and no "trial balance" in Shimau. Snap, jot one line. That is it. This is a tool for people who find accounting hard.

■ About Pro (auto-renewing subscription)
Free covers the current month's summary and basic exports. Pro adds full-year reports, profit by client, a pre-export check, and a higher monthly limit for photo and text reading. Your past records stay available as far back as they go.

- Plans: Shimau Pro (monthly) / Shimau Pro (yearly)
- Prices are shown on the purchase screen in the app and in the In-App Purchases section of this page.
- Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when you confirm the purchase.
- Unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, it renews automatically on the same terms, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends.
- You can manage or cancel your subscription any time after purchase in your App Store account settings.
- Terms of Use: https://shimau.jp/legal/terms/
- Privacy Policy: https://shimau.jp/legal/privacy/

## Is Shimau safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Shimau.

## Is Shimau legit?

Shimau - Receipts & Tax Prep has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Shimau is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.9 — 2026-09-30

- When a year of records is too large for Yayoi's import limit, the Yayoi export is now split into several files by month. The share sheet sends them all at once.
- Small display and motion adjustments throughout.

### 1.0.8 — 2026-09-28

The spending breakdown in Reports is easier to read.

- The chart now names up to five categories.
- "See all categories" lists every category for the month, largest first. Pick one to open its records.
- Records with no category are gathered under "No category" and can be opened too.

### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-13

- Recurring costs can now repeat weekly and yearly, as well as monthly.
  Weekly for a class, yearly for a membership or insurance. Set it once and leave it to us.
- If the day you chose has already passed this period, we now ask whether to record it this time too.
- Personal recurring costs can carry a category, so your report shows what went where.
  You can add your own category right there.
- However many notes you jot in one go, it counts as a single reading.
- We now say plainly that the AI reading limit resets on the 1st of each month.
  Your billing date and the reset date are two different things, so we spelled it out.
- Prices on the plan screen now line up on one right edge.

Small display and motion adjustments throughout.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-01

・「固定費・定期記録」で、毎月にくわえて毎週・毎年が選べるようになりました。
  習い事は毎週、年会費や保険は毎年。一度登録すれば、あとはおまかせです。
・登録した日がもう過ぎているときは、今回のぶんも記録するかどうかを
  おたずねするようにしました。
・プライベートの固定費にも費目をえらべるようになり、レポートで
  「なににいくら」が見わたせます。じぶんの費目もその場で追加できます。
・ひとことメモは、いくつ書いても読み取りは1回ぶんになりました。

こまかな表示の調整と、動きの改善もおこなっています。

### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-22

No release notes.

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