A receipt scanner for groceries and household spending
Photograph a receipt and Kerabat reads the store, the total and every line, then sorts each line into your own categories. You see what it
read before anything is saved — and at the end of the month you know what you actually spent on groceries.
Photograph a receipt: the store, the total and every line
A grocery run ends with a long receipt, and nobody wants to type twenty lines into a phone.
In Kerabat
Photograph the receipt, and Kerabat reads the store, the date, the total and each line. You don’t have to wait: the receipt is scanned in
the background and shows up in “Spending” under “Waiting for review.”
Open it to see what will be added (“We’ll add $42.86 — the receipt total”) and whether the lines match the total. Nothing is
saved until you tap “Add.”
Every line in its own category
One supermarket receipt is milk, coffee and dish soap. Logged as a single expense, all of it becomes “groceries,” and you never see how much actually goes on food.
In Kerabat
Kerabat puts each line into your categories: food under Groceries, dish soap and sponges under Home supplies. “By category” shows what each category gets from the receipt, and in “Totals” each part counts toward its own category. Move a line to another category, and next time that kind
of item goes there on its own — unless you tap “Just this once.”
A discount printed under a line comes off that line; a discount on the whole receipt is spread across the categories. Sales tax gets a line of its
own and is split proportionally across the categories. A bottle deposit refund stays with the drinks instead of being spread across the receipt.
Long receipts, screenshots and other currencies
Some receipts don’t fit in one photo, some arrive as a screenshot, and some are in euros from a trip.
In Kerabat
For a long receipt, tap “Photograph a long receipt” and shoot it in parts, letting the photos overlap: up to 8 photos are scanned as one
receipt. A screenshot or a PDF goes in through “From files” — from a PDF, the first page is read. A receipt in another currency is checked
in its own currency, and only the total is converted into yours.
No signal at the store? The photo waits on the phone and sends itself once you’re back online, just like spending you add offline.
Track grocery spending — and find that one item later
“How much are we spending on groceries?” is hard to answer from a pile of receipts.
In Kerabat
Every receipt you add lands in the “Spending” feed and counts toward the month’s total; “Totals” shows the month category by category. Search
looks inside receipts too: type “coffee” and you’ll find the receipt it was on. You can export your spending to a spreadsheet for Excel
or Google Sheets; a receipt sorted into several categories becomes one row per category.
Share the list with someone at home, and a receipt one of you photographs waits for review on every phone. Once someone adds it, the
others see who did and when.
Questions about scanning receipts
Is it for personal use or for business?
Personal. Kerabat is a household expense tracker — groceries, home supplies, kids’ activities, bills — that you can keep on your own or share with someone at home. It doesn’t make expense reports.
What if Kerabat misreads a line?
Before you add a receipt, you see every line: tap one to change its amount or category, or remove it, and add a missing one with “+ Line.” If the lines don’t add up to the receipt total, Kerabat says by how much and what was likely missed — a discount on the whole receipt, or a line it couldn’t read.
How long are receipt photos kept?
For 24 months; after that, each photo is deleted automatically. The expense stays, and so does everything read from the photo: the store, the total and every line. You can also delete a photo yourself at any time, from the receipt’s screen.
Do I need to connect a bank?
No. You add spending yourself, or photograph a receipt and Kerabat sorts its lines into your categories.
Does it work on iPhone?
Yes, in Safari — there’s nothing to download from a store.
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