Receipt Reader AI vs Starlog

Receipt Reader AI captures receipts from email, PDFs, or photos, extracts expense details, and exports structured records. Its capture tools include automatic detection, edge enhancement, perspective correction, and batch scanning. It can extract merchants, amounts, dates, taxes, line items, payment methods, and categories, including information from handwritten receipts. Exports include PDF reports, CSV, IIF for QuickBooks Desktop, and a JSON API for custom integrations. Listed destinations include Xero, QuickBooks, Google Sheets, YNAB, Google Drive, and OneDrive. The product supports offline use and syncs when a connection returns. Its features page says financial data is encrypted with 256-bit AES, Face ID or Touch ID can lock the app, and banking credentials are not stored. Free includes 10 AI scans per month for one account with PDF export. Personal costs $5.99 per month for 50 scans and PDF, CSV, and IIF export, plus Google Sheets, Drive, and YNAB. Pro costs $14.99 per month, Business $34.99 per month, and Enterprise $99.00 per month, with higher scan limits and additional features. Raw email is retained for 30 days before deletion.

Starlog is a receipt scanner and expense tracker for small businesses, available on Android and iOS. It reads receipt details on the phone and uses OCR to fill in the store, amount and date. Users can group receipts into reports with category breakdowns, then export a ZIP containing XLSX data and receipt images. Starlog also describes structured voucher exports for direct import into Tally. Teammates can submit receipts for the owner to review and approve, without a per-seat fee. Receipt images go into year-and-month folders in the user's own Google Drive account. Starlog says it accesses only the Drive folder it creates for receipts, which users can disconnect in settings; it also says OCR runs on the phone, so images are not uploaded to a server for reading. The free plan covers one company with unlimited receipts for six months from the first receipt, then 30 approved receipts per month. Unlimited Receipts costs $1.99 a month for one company; multi-company plans and one-time receipt packs are also listed.