Dext Prepare vs Receipt Wrangler

Dext Prepare captures receipts and invoices and extracts their details for bookkeeping. Documents can come in through the mobile apps, computer upload, supplier invoice fetch, or email. Dext says its AI extracts supplier, date, tax, and total with 99.9% accuracy, and the product can apply learned categorisation rules and flag duplicate transactions. It includes line-item extraction, purchase-order matching, and approval routing. Dext says it connects to 36+ accounting platforms, e-commerce platforms, and more than 11,500 banks and financial institutions; named examples include Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Shopify, PayPal, and Stripe. The annual Business plan is £290 a year, billed at £24.17 per month, excludes VAT, and includes 250 documents per month for five users. There is no free plan; a 14-day free trial requires no credit card. Access is available on Android, iOS, web, and as a Chrome or Edge extension. Dext says it is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and encrypts stored data with AES-256 and communications with TLS 1.2 or higher.

Receipt Wrangler is a free, open-source, self-hosted tool for organizing receipts and managing expense data. OCR reads receipt images, and AI parses the extracted information into receipt records. Quick Scan accepts one or more images and single- or multi-page PDFs, and can save parsed receipts immediately. Magic Fill uses an image to populate receipt fields with extracted values that users can edit before saving. Users can share receipts and track expenses together; email integration can add image attachments to a group as separate receipts. Optional AI providers include OpenAI, Google Gemini, and self-hosted OpenAI-compatible models such as Ollama. The application is designed to run in Docker and Docker Compose with a supported database and Redis. Database options are SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, though SQLite is not recommended for long-term use. API keys let external tools interact with permissions inherited from the associated user. When AI features are enabled, potentially identifying details may be sent to OpenAI or Google Gemini for processing. Mobile crash and error reporting is on by default and can be turned off in Profile → Privacy.