Comparison

Receipts plus vs Stareceipt

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Receipts plus

This app helps you digitally store and track personal and business receipts and expenses. Easily categorize spending, add custom fields, and generate reports to monitor your financial trends. Secure your data with a passcode and back it up via email or upload to a web portal.

Highlights
  • Store receipt images and expense details
  • Customizable expense categories and payment types
  • Add custom data fields
  • Passcode data protection
  • Expense trend and categorized expense charts
  • Email backup and web portal upload
Features
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Receipts plus is a consumer and enterprise mobile application which helps to store business, personal receipts, expense records in your mobile device. It helps to track your daily, monthly and yearly expenses. To keep the backup copy of the receipts images in your email inbox, use email option from Manage Receipts menu. It can be integrated with your corporate and personal financial and expense management applications. Features: - Easy to store receipts image and business and personal expense details - Easy to setup and maintain your own expense category, subcategory, Payment type and merchant - Provision to add custom data entry fields for expense details - Store receipts in USD currency - Protect your data with passcode - Data Integration is available for Enterprise Financials and Expense management applications. - It stores digital Image of receipts in the local (SQLite) database. - To keep the backup of the receipts images, use email option from Manage Receipts menu. - Easy to manage, edit, delete and email stored receipts from your iPhone. - Expense trend and Categorized expense chart reports are available - Receipts can be uploaded to web portal Note: To keep the backup of the receipts images. Please use "Manage Receipts" and search, then tap on eMail and select receipts and selected receipts can be eMail to your personal email address using "Send Mail" option. AC INFOTECH is not keeping any backup copy of your receipts images, all the receipts images are stored in your mobile device. Please make sure to use the email option to send the receipt images to your personal email as a backup. You need to setup your account with AC INFOTECH to upload the receipts to the cloud storage. Minimum Requirements : - Device : iPhone 5 and above - iOS Version : 4.3 and later

About

Stareceipt

Features
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Stareceipt is an AI receipt scanner and expense tracker that helps you turn paper receipts, photo imports, and forwarded purchase emails into organized expense records. Scan receipts, import images, forward digital receipts, review AI-extracted fields, group records by ledger, track tax details, catch duplicates, and export your data when you need it. Built for personal expense tracking, small business receipts, reimbursements, purchase email organization, and receipt or invoice management. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.stareceipt.com/privacy

Screenshots

Receipts plus4 screens
Stareceipt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Receipts plus at none against Stareceipt's 4. Receipts plus also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Stareceipt's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Stareceipt sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Receipts plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Receipts plus ships an update monthly, Stareceipt fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Receipts plus versus Stareceipt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReceipts plusStareceipt
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAC INFOTECH INCqingqiao chen

Bugs and requests

Receipts plus

Reported bugs

32 issues
  • Calendar dates are incorrect (February has 31 days, October has 30)
  • App does not allow typing in dates
  • Monthly reporting is buggy
  • Reporting does not feed to Excel
  • Cannot import photos from phone's camera roll, gallery, or album folder
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  • Built-in camera has a crappy photo crop tool
  • No way to add parts to a long receipt or one that's two-sided
  • Payment type is hidden behind the main type
  • Switching to a new PC caused a glitch that blocked existing receipts
  • No response from support after multiple contacts
  • App icon shows a 'Lite' banner
  • App does not let you view your receipts after you've photographed them
  • Update erased all stored data
  • Taking pictures of receipts results in horrible, blurry, unreadable images
  • Long receipts are swished so much that you cannot read them
  • Cannot attach more than one receipt picture
  • Cannot enter negative numbers
  • Cannot run a report on just one vendor or category
  • Image is not scanned to auto-input information
  • App crashes every time trying to click something
  • Receipt photos are saved in mosaic mode or something, completely unreadable
  • Compressed file past the point of being readable
  • No way to list or total credit card purchases separately
  • Photo of receipt looks good on screen but unreadable in print
  • Cannot save receipt (says 'Please enter amount' even though all fields are filled)
  • Cannot run a monthly expense report where you could break it down by category
  • Receipt pictures are useless, unreadable, saved in mosaic mode, compressed past readability
  • User-entered fields in receipts have limited flexibility (format, search by)
  • Does not accommodate receipts that don't fit in one picture
  • All receipt data MUST be hand entered
  • Keeps kicking me out when I try to put in a dollar amount
  • Very buggy

Requested features

37 requests
  • Allow typing in dates
  • Allow importing photos from camera roll/gallery
  • Add ability to add parts to long/two-sided receipts
  • Make payment type more accessible
  • Generate reports for specific categories
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  • Fix year display (0014 to 2014)
  • Scan image to auto-input information
  • More graph options (show dollar amounts per category)
  • More image enhancing tools (like ScanPro)
  • Option for multiple shots for long receipts
  • Ability to send spreadsheet and image files to cloud apps (Dropbox)
  • Ability to edit list entries (category, sub-category, etc.)
  • Report/filter by category, sub-category, merchant, user-entered fields
  • Provide total purchase amount of items selected for a report
  • More flexibility for user-entered fields (change format, search by)
  • Rename CSV files
  • Add notes line
  • Allow using pictures from camera roll
  • Add more report options (pent cash on vs credit)
  • Run monthly expense report broken down by category
  • Convert to PDF
  • Save images at higher quality
  • Fix calendar dates
  • Fix receipt image quality
  • Fix app crashing
  • Fix data erasure after update
  • Fix inability to save receipts
  • Fix inability to enter negative numbers
  • Fix inability to run reports on single vendor/category
  • Fix support response time
  • Fix 'Lite' version display
  • Fix inability to view receipts after photographing
  • Fix inability to attach multiple receipt pictures
  • Fix long receipt display
  • Fix hand-entered data requirement
  • Fix dollar amount entry bug
  • Fix general bugs

Stareceipt

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Receipts plus

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Stareceipt

Subscriptions4
  • Core Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Plus Monthly$15.991 Month
  • Core Yearly$79.991 Year
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  • Plus Yearly$159.991 Year

Questions

Is Receipts plus free?
Receipts plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stareceipt free?
Stareceipt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Receipts plus or Stareceipt have ads?
Neither Receipts plus nor Stareceipt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Receipts plus or Stareceipt?
Receipts plus ships an update monthly, and Stareceipt fortnightly. Most recently, Receipts plus was updated on October 21, 2026 and Stareceipt on October 12, 2026.

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