Snap the receipt
Your phone reads the words itself for receipts in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Turkish and Indonesian. Others are read from the photo.
For iPhone · receipts, groceries and budget
Your bank sees one line. Penny Roost sees every item.
Scan a receipt and every line is saved with its price. Over time you get your own price history: where milk is cheaper, how fast your basket is rising, and what is left to spend today.
- Free to start
- No ads
- Works offline
- 14 languages
Speaks 14 languages
- English
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- Português
- Türkçe
- Bahasa Indonesia
- বাংলা
- हिन्दी
- اردو
- العربية
- فارسی
- پښتو
- 中文
How it works
From the till to the right number, in three steps.
Check the lines
Each line becomes an item with its size and unit price. Fix anything before it is saved. Nothing is added that you did not see.
Watch it add up
Your budget, your history and your price comparisons update from that one scan. The longer you use it, the more it knows.
Inside the app
Built around the receipt, not the bank feed.
A bank knows where you shopped and how much you paid. Only the receipt knows what you bought. So that is where Penny Roost starts.
Every line, not just the total.
Point the camera at a receipt and Penny Roost turns it into items you can read: plain names, sizes, prices, and the unit price worked out for you. You look it over, then it is saved.
- Unit prices like $3.95/lb, so a big pack and a small one compare fairly
- Tax and the total you paid kept apart from the items
- Anything it cannot read, you type in a few seconds
Know where it is cheaper.
The same item, at the stores you actually shop, at the prices you actually paid. Penny Roost points out where something costs less and how much the difference has cost you so far.
+3.3%Your own basket inflation, from your own receipts. Not a national average.
A list that knows the store.
Your list sorts itself by store and estimates the total from what you usually pay. When something you buy often is due again, it asks whether you are running low.
- Add items by typing or by scanning a barcode
- Tick things off in the aisle, clear them in one tap
- Share it with your household
A budget that knows what day it is.
Set a monthly budget and the ring shows what is left to spend and what that means per day. Rent and bills post themselves on their due date, so fixed costs are counted before you spend.
- On track or ahead, said in one line
- Limits per category that warn and never block
- Bills and subscriptions added for you every month
See where the month went.
Week, month or year, by category or by store, compared with the same point last month. Tap a category to see the receipts behind it.
- Step back through past months
- Export a backup, or a spreadsheet with one row per item
And also
The small things that save the most time.
Paid by card? Screenshot it.
A screenshot of your Apple Wallet or bank app becomes one expense per payment, each under its own store.
One household, one budget
Share a list and a budget with up to six people. Only what you mark as shared leaves your phone.
Your language, either direction
Fourteen languages, including Urdu, Arabic, Farsi and Pashto, written right to left as they should be.
Works without a signal
Typing, budgets, the list, history and Price Watch all work offline. No account needed to start.
Privacy
Your money stays your business.
Your expenses live on your phone. No ads, no selling your data, no tracking you across other apps.
Asked before the first scan
Receipts are read with AI, and Penny Roost asks before anything is sent. Say no and everything else still works.
Only the receipt is read
When your phone can read the words, only the text is sent. Otherwise the photo is sent, read, and not kept. Your totals, budgets and history are never sent to the AI.
Shared on purpose
In a household, only the expenses and lists you mark as shared are synced. Everything else stays on your phone.
Prices
Free for one. A subscription to share.
Everything you need to track your own spending is free and stays free.
$0forever
- 15 receipt scans a month
- Unlimited typing and receipt photos
- Budgets, category limits and bills
- Shopping list and restock reminders
- History, export and your basket inflation
- Join someone else's household, free
$4.99a month
$49.99a year · two months free
First month free
- 200 receipt scans a month
- Start a household for up to six people
- A shared list that updates live at the store
- Every Price Watch comparison
Run out of scans? A top-up adds 100 scans for $1.99. They never expire.Billed by Apple. Cancel any time in your iPhone settings.
Prices in US dollars. Other countries see their local price in the App Store.
Questions
Good to know.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. Typing expenses, budgets, the shopping list, history and Price Watch all work offline. Scanning a receipt and sharing with your household need a connection.
Do I need an account?
No. Everything works without signing in. An account is only needed to share a household.
What happens to my receipt photos?
They are saved on your phone so you can look at the original later. They are never synced and never in backups or exports, and a photo sent to be read is not kept.
Which receipts can it read?
Most printed shop receipts, and screenshots of card payments. Receipts in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Turkish and Indonesian are read on your phone; others are read from the photo.
Can my family use it together?
Yes. One person starts a household with the subscription and invites others with a link or a QR code. Joining is free.
How do I cancel the subscription?
On your iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions, and choose Penny Roost. Apple handles the billing.
Can I get my data out?
Yes. Export a backup file to restore on another phone, or a spreadsheet with one row per item.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet. Penny Roost is on iPhone first.
Start with your next receipt.
Free to download, and free to keep using for your own spending.
Download on the App Store