Why I made this
I’m Jorijn, a freelance DevOps engineer from the Netherlands. I was fed up with receipts. They were everywhere: in the car, in coat pockets, on the kitchen counter, in the drawer where things go to be forgotten. Letters got the same treatment, just slower.
I already had a decent digital archive in Google Drive: everything goes into an inbox folder first and a small routine files it from there. The missing piece was getting paper into that inbox at the moment it shows up. In the shop, at the petrol station, standing at the door with an envelope. Not later, at a desk, with a scanner app and a share sheet. Later never happens.
The scanner apps that could shortcut this all wanted a subscription. Around fifty euros a year for something the iPhone already does out of the box: iOS has had a very good document scanner built in since 2017. The apps were charging for the part in between: getting the PDF from the camera into the right folder. That part is a few hundred lines of code.
So I built it, and I built it with Claude. Full disclosure, because people ask: I decided what the app should do and, more importantly, what it should not do; Claude wrote most of the Swift; I tested it on my own pile of receipts. A couple of evenings, problem solved, on to the next thing. For an app this size that is the right amount of effort, and I would rather be upfront about it than pretend I spent a year on it.
What came out: a destination is a name plus a folder. A widget per destination on the Home Screen. Receipt out of the wallet, tap the widget, scan, save, receipt in the bin. My partner uses it for the family folder, I use it for mine. Then I put it on the App Store, because I figured I am not the only one with a pocket full of receipts.
It is free and it will stay free. There is no server, so there is nothing for me to pay for either.