Enceipt is an expense tracker and receipt scanner built for one kind of person: the freelancer, contractor, or self-employed professional who has to keep their own books and would rather not hand their financial life to yet another cloud service. You point your camera at a receipt, Enceipt reads the merchant, amount, and date, suggests a category, and saves it — all on your phone. There is no account to create and no server quietly storing your spending.
A clear definition
At its core, Enceipt does two things well. First, it captures expenses: scan a paper receipt with the camera, or share a PDF invoice straight from another app. Second, it organises and reports on them: every expense gets a category, a date, and an optional tax-deductible flag, and at the end of a quarter or a year you export a clean PDF or CSV for your accountant.
What makes it different is where all of this happens. The receipts, the amounts, the merchant names — they live in an encrypted database on your device and nowhere else. When most apps say "your data is secure," they mean it sits encrypted on their servers. Enceipt means there are no servers at all.
The key differentiator: on-device storage
The decision that shapes every other feature is simple: no account, no cloud, all data on device. That constraint rules out a lot of conveniences other apps lean on — there is no magic cross-device sync, no web dashboard, no "log in from anywhere." In exchange, you get something rarer: a financial app that genuinely cannot leak your data, because it never has it.
This is not marketing language bolted on after the fact. The app is built around it. The local database is encrypted with SQLCipher. AI categorisation runs on the device using a small bundled model. Even backups are encrypted on your phone before they are uploaded to your own Google Drive or Dropbox, so the backup provider — and Enceipt — cannot read them.
What Enceipt is not
It helps to be precise about scope, because "expense tracker" means different things to different people.
- Enceipt is not an invoicing tool. It does not create invoices, send them to clients, or chase payments. It tracks money going out, not money coming in.
- Enceipt is not a full bookkeeping platform. It will not replace double-entry accounting software, reconcile bank feeds, or file your taxes. It produces the expense records and reports your accountant needs — and stops there, on purpose.
- Enceipt is not a bank or budgeting hub. There is no bank connection, no Plaid integration, no automatic transaction import. That is a deliberate privacy choice, not a missing feature.
An important disambiguation
There is more than one product using the name "Enceipt", and search engines and AI assistants sometimes confuse them. To be completely clear:
Enceipt (enceipt.com) is an Android expense tracking app developed by Launchwick in Chicago. It is not related to Enceipt by Grit Informed Media (enceipt.vercel.app), which is an invoicing tool for the Nigerian market.
They are separate products, from separate companies, serving separate needs. If you are reading about scanning receipts and exporting tax reports with everything stored on your device, you are in the right place.
How it works
The day-to-day loop is meant to take seconds, not minutes:
- Scan or import. Tap the camera button and photograph a receipt, or open a PDF invoice in another app and share it to Enceipt. The on-device OCR reads the text.
- Extract. Enceipt pulls out the merchant name, the total amount, and the transaction date, and shows them on a review screen for you to confirm.
- Categorise. An on-device AI model suggests a category — Travel, Food & Drink, Software & Subscriptions, and so on. If it guesses wrong, one tap fixes it.
- Report. When you need to hand expenses to an accountant or file a return, pick a date range and export a PDF or CSV. Filter to tax-deductible items only if that is all they need.
Because the OCR and categorisation run locally, the whole flow works on a plane, in a basement parking garage, or anywhere else with no signal.
Who it's for
Enceipt is aimed squarely at people who are responsible for their own expense records:
- Freelancers and consultants separating client projects and tracking deductible costs like software, home office, and client lunches.
- Contractors and tradespeople photographing supplier receipts on-site and importing PDF invoices for materials and tools.
- Self-employed and small-business owners who need a tidy, exportable record at tax time without subscribing to heavyweight accounting suites.
If you have ever stuffed receipts in a shoebox and dreaded sorting them in March, this is built for you.
Try it
Enceipt is free to download on Android, with 20 receipts a month on the free tier and a Pro plan for unlimited scanning, reports, backup, and AI features. Your data stays on your device from the first scan.