Comparison

Receipts plus vs Rental Note

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

Rental Note

Manage rental properties, track income and expenses, and generate IRS-ready tax reports all from your device. This app keeps your financial data private and offline, offering comprehensive tools for landlords and real estate agents.

Highlights
  • Income and expense tracking
  • Property and tenant management
  • IRS Form 1040 Schedule E PDF generation
  • CSV and PDF report export
  • Offline data storage
  • Recurring transaction support
  • Bilingual support (English/Chinese)
Features
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At Rental Note, we know your Privacy is Important. Your data is ALWAYS on yourself. Rental Note is the all-in-one rental property management app built for independent landlords and real estate agents. Whether you own one unit or a dozen, Rental Note keeps your income, expenses, tenants, and tax reports organized — entirely on your device, with no subscription required. Track Income & Expenses Log every rent payment, repair bill, insurance premium, and utility charge in seconds. Assign transactions to specific properties and expense categories, attach photos of receipts, and browse your full history by month or year. Recurring transactions (like monthly rent) can be set up once and logged automatically. Manage Properties & Tenants Add unlimited properties and link tenants to each one. Store lease start and end dates, contact information, and notes for every tenant. Track open, in-progress, and resolved maintenance requests per property — so nothing falls through the cracks. Generate IRS-Ready Tax Reports At tax time, Rental Note does the heavy lifting. Generate an official IRS Form 1040 Schedule E PDF directly on your iPhone — no internet connection, no accountant, no extra fees. The app maps your categorized expenses to the correct Schedule E lines (advertising, repairs, insurance, depreciation, and more) and fills the form automatically. Export the completed PDF to share with your CPA or file directly. Export & Share Every report is available as a CSV or PDF for easy sharing with your accountant or importing into spreadsheet software. Reports include: Annual Income Summary, Expense Report, Profit & Loss Statement, and the official IRS Schedule E. Private & Offline by Default All your data stays on your device. Rental Note requires no account, no login, and no cloud subscription. Your financial records are yours alone. Bilingual Support Full support for English and Simplified Chinese, with a language toggle in settings. What's Included: • Dashboard with live income, expense, and profit summary • Income and expense tracking with category labels and receipt attachments • Property and tenant management with lease tracking • Maintenance log with status tracking (Open / In Progress / Resolved) • IRS Form 1040 Schedule E PDF generation (on-device, offline) • CSV export for all report types • Recurring transaction support • Dark mode support • Bilingual: English and Simplified Chinese

Screenshots

Receipts plus4 screens
Rental Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Rental Note at 5.0 against Receipts plus's 4.0. Receipts plus's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rental Note holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Receipts plus has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Receipts plus ships an update monthly, Rental Note every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Receipts plus versus Rental Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReceipts plusRental Note
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (27 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings27 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAC INFOTECH INCTiancheng Qiu

Customer experience

Receipts plus

All ratings27 ratings
Positive74.1%
Neutral11.1%
Negative14.8%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive48.2%
Neutral10.7%
Negative41.1%

Rental Note

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Rental Note

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Receipts plus

No in-app purchases

None

Rental Note

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Receipts plus free?
Receipts plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rental Note free?
Rental Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Receipts plus or Rental Note?
Rental Note is rated higher. Receipts plus averages 4.0 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while Rental Note averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Receipts plus or Rental Note have ads?
Neither Receipts plus nor Rental Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Receipts plus or Rental Note?
Receipts plus ships an update monthly, and Rental Note every 2 months. Most recently, Receipts plus was updated on October 13, 2026 and Rental Note on October 7, 2026.

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