TaxLens
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveiPhone receipt scanner that reads merchant, date and tax off a photo and sorts expenses business or personal.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $4.99/wk
- Billing
- Weekly
Free download with TaxLens Pro in-app subscriptions listed on the App Store: $4.99 weekly, $9.99 monthly, $49.99 yearly, plus a $39.99 yearly offer. Billed through the Apple ID and auto-renewing; the website itself shows no price table.
Use tool ↗About TaxLens
TaxLens is an iOS receipt scanner aimed at freelancers and small businesses. It photographs a receipt, extracts merchant, date and tax amounts, splits itemised lines, converts across 30-plus currencies and tags each expense as business or personal, attaching a confidence score where the call is ambiguous. Reports export to CSV, PDF and Excel for accounting software including QuickBooks. Receipts stay on the device or in the user's own iCloud rather than a vendor server. It is positioned as a cheaper alternative to Expensify. Subscriptions are weekly, monthly or yearly through the App Store; the app itself is a free download.
- Platforms
- iOS
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- App Store listing: in-app purchases TaxLens Pro Weekly $4.99, Monthly $9.99, Yearly $49.99, Yearly Offer $39.99; seller is an individual developer, Yanmei Chen; requires iOS 17 (15 October 2026)apps.apple.com ↗
- App Store lookup: first released 17 February 2026, version 1.0.4 of 17 May 2026, 3 ratings (15 October 2026)itunes.apple.com ↗
- Home page: AI receipt scanning of merchant, total, tax and category, business/personal split, PDF and CSV exports, data on-device or in iCloud (15 October 2026)taxlensapp.com ↗
Is TaxLens legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Feb 19, 2026Registry record (RDAP), registrar Cloudflare, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 22, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2026The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Yanmei ChenOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of TaxLens
A focused receipt scanner that keeps data on your device and exports clean files, which suits a sole trader who just needs a shoebox turned into a spreadsheet at year end. The yearly price is a fraction of Expensify. It is iPhone-only, published by an individual developer, and the terms are explicit that none of its tax estimates are advice.
Pros
- Extracts merchant, date and tax and handles itemised lines
- Business/personal auto-categorisation with a confidence score on uncertain calls
- 30+ currency conversion built in
- Exports to CSV, PDF and Excel for accounting tools
- Storage stays local or in the user's own iCloud
Cons
- iOS only, with no Android or web client
- Published by an individual developer with no company entity or country disclosed
- Weekly billing at $4.99 works out to roughly $260 a year if left running
Best for
- Freelancers collecting receipts for a tax return
- People who want receipt data on-device rather than on a vendor server
- Anyone exporting to QuickBooks or a spreadsheet at year end
Not for
- Android or web users
- Teams needing approval workflows or corporate card feeds
Watch out: The terms state plainly that TaxLens gives no legal, tax or accounting advice and all deduction estimates are informational.
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