TallyScan vs GroceryLens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TallyScan
Effortlessly track grocery expenses by scanning receipts. This app uses on-device AI to categorize items, monitor price changes, and help you build a budget. All your data stays private on your device.
- On-device AI receipt scanning
- Itemized price history tracking
- Automated item categorization
- Spending insights and charts
- Price hike alerts
- Budget tracking
- AI savings tips
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Stop guessing where your grocery money goes. Scan any receipt and TallyScan's on-device AI reads every item, price and category — then tap any product to see what you have paid for it over time, at every store you shop. Private by design: every scan happens on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no data ever leaves your device. Catch price hikes, build a budget, and finally see where the grocery bill goes. PRICE HISTORY FOR EVERYTHING YOU BUY Tap any line item to see every time you have bought it: what it cost, which store was cheapest, and whether the price is climbing. The longer you scan, the more it knows. SMART RECEIPT SCANNING Snap a photo of any receipt and on-device AI instantly extracts the store, total, and every line item — auto-categorized into Produce, Dairy, Meat, Household, and more. Works with crumpled, faded, and long receipts. Prefer typing? Quick manual entry with one-tap templates. SPENDING INSIGHTS Monthly spending charts, category breakdowns, top items, and store-by-store comparisons — all generated from your real receipts. PRICE WATCH Buy the same items week after week? TallyScan compares your own purchase history and flags exactly which items got more expensive — and which got cheaper. BUDGET TRACKING Set a monthly budget and watch progress in real time, with clear over/under indicators. AI SAVINGS TIPS Personalized suggestions based on your actual shopping patterns, powered by Apple Intelligence — entirely on your device. PRIVATE — ON-DEVICE AI No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No cloud. Your data is never uploaded, processed remotely, or shared with anyone. FREE, WITH NO LIMIT Scan as many receipts as you like. Monthly spending, the category breakdown, three AI questions per receipt and CSV export are free for everyone — and so is the full price history of one item you choose. TALLYSCAN PREMIUM Premium opens the rest: • Price history for every item, not one — every price you have paid, at every store • Store comparison — which shop charged less for the things you actually buy • Price Watch — the items you rebuy that are getting more expensive • AI savings tips, and unlimited questions about any receipt • Budget tracking, with clear over and under indicators Catch one price rise and it can pay for the year. Terms of Use: https://dotdotdotapps.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://dotdotdotapps.com/privacy
GroceryLens
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Your grocery bill went up. GroceryLens tells you why. Scan a grocery receipt and GroceryLens reads every item, price and total, then shows what actually changed since last month: which prices rose, what you bought more of, and where the money really went. WHAT IT DOES Receipt scanner. One photo. It reads the items, prices, quantities and totals. It checks the maths. If the items do not add up to the printed total, GroceryLens flags the gap instead of quietly showing a wrong number. Your own price history. See what you paid last time for the things you buy every week, and when you paid less. Budget tracker. Spending by category, month over month, against a budget you set. Bill change explained. How much was price rises, how much was buying more, how much was switching products. Shopping list built from what you actually buy. Every line editable. Correct anything it misreads, and your correction sticks. WHY THIS AND NOT A SPREADSHEET Because the interesting question is not what you spent. It is why it changed. GroceryLens separates a price rise from a bigger shop, so "groceries cost more" becomes something you can act on. BUILT TO ASK FOR ALMOST NOTHING An email address. That is the whole list. No name. No phone number. No home address. No card details. It never asks for your location. Photos are resized and stripped of location and camera metadata on your iPhone, before anything is sent. You see every receipt and confirm it before it is saved. Your receipts are yours: read them, correct them, export them, delete one, or delete your entire account from inside the app. On any plan. At any time. No adverts. No tracking across other apps. Nothing sold to anybody. HONEST ABOUT NUMBERS Every figure is arithmetic on receipts you saved. GroceryLens shows the lowest price you have recorded yourself, never a claim about what a shop near you charges today, because it does not have that information and does not collect it. FREE AND PLUS Free: 10 receipt scans a month, 90 days of grocery spending history, category budgets, and a monthly explanation of what changed. GroceryLens Plus: unlimited receipt scans, your full grocery price history, detailed bill-change explanations, weekly shopping plans, and unit-price and shrinkflation insights. Prices are shown by the App Store in your local currency. A subscription renews until cancelled, and you can cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Questions: hello@nikhilailabs.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GroceryLens at none against TallyScan's 4. GroceryLens also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. TallyScan sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. GroceryLens asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | TallyScan | GroceryLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dotdotdotapps LLC | Nikhil Pal |
In-app purchases
TallyScan
- Aisle Weekly$1.497 Days
- Aisle Monthly$2.991 Month
- Aisle Annual$19.991 Year
- Aisle Premium$39.99
GroceryLens
No in-app purchases









