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Receni is a receipt scanner and expense tracker app for self-employed people and small businesses. Scan a receipt with your phone camera and Receni’s AI reads the merchant, date, totals, tax and category in seconds. It also works as an automatic mileage tracker for business drives, sets monthly budgets by category, and exports everything as CSV for your accountant or tax return.

Yes. The Free Forever plan needs no credit card and includes 30 AI receipt scans and 30 tracked mileage trips per calendar month, unlimited manually entered receipts and manually added trips, one personal workspace, and every feature — budgets, spending insights, CSV export and multi-currency support. Receni Premium removes both monthly caps and adds unlimited business workspaces.

Yes. The Receni receipt scanning app is available for both iOS and Android, and your receipts, budgets and mileage records sync across every device you sign in on.

Receni’s AI reads merchant, date, totals, tax and category from typical printed and emailed receipts, and you always review what it extracted before anything saves. Corrections happen on the spot instead of living in your expense records.

Yes. Screenshot an email receipt, upload a PDF invoice, or share an image into Receni from another app, and it is processed the same way as a photographed paper receipt.

Turn on automatic mileage tracking and Receni logs each business drive with the date, distance, and start and end address — the four things a mileage claim needs. Classify each trip as business or personal with a swipe, add the purpose, then export a mileage log as CSV at the end of the tax year for your self-assessment, tax return, or accountant.

Receni’s free plan records 30 tracked mileage trips per calendar month, plus unlimited trips you add by hand, with no credit card. Automatic drive detection, swipe classification and the tax-year mileage log export are included on the free plan. Premium removes the monthly trip limit.

Yes, once you switch it on. Receni detects when a drive starts and ends — including when the app is closed — and records the journey without you pressing anything. Tracking is off until you enable it, and you can restrict it to the days and hours you actually work.

Yes. Add each trip by hand with the date, start and end address, distance and purpose. The mileage log and the tax-year export are identical either way — automatic tracking is a convenience, not a requirement.

Your trip records — date, addresses, distance, purpose — are kept for your tax history, because that is the record a tax authority may ask for. The detailed route between the two endpoints is deleted automatically after 30 days. You can also choose to keep routes on your device only, so they never reach our servers at all.

Yes. HM Revenue & Customs, the Internal Revenue Service and the Canada Revenue Agency all want a log of each journey’s date, start and end point, purpose and distance — none of them ask for a GPS trace. Your year-end mileage export is built entirely from the trip records, which are kept.

The published rates for your tax country — HMRC approved mileage allowance payments in the UK, the IRS standard mileage rate in the US, and CRA automobile allowance rates in Canada — including tiered thresholds where they apply. Set your tax country in mileage settings and your tax-year total is valued at the correct rate.

In the UK, ordinary commuting between home and a permanent workplace is not claimable, and Receni tells you so rather than quietly counting it toward your claim. Rules differ by country and circumstance — Receni gives you an accurate mileage log, and your accountant gives you the advice.

Yes. Self-employed drivers are exactly who per-mile deductions matter most to, and Receni logs every trip with the detail a tax authority expects. Fuel, parking and toll receipts scan into the same app, so your whole vehicle claim sits in one export instead of two systems.

Export a CSV per workspace or date range on every plan, including free. The file opens directly in Excel, Google Sheets or any bookkeeping software, with every receipt dated, categorized and totaled. Mileage exports as its own log with dates, addresses, distances, purposes and business or personal classifications.

Workspaces are separate spaces for different parts of your life or work — personal and business, one per client, job or property. Each keeps its own receipts, categories, budgets, mileage and exports, so a business claim never mixes with household spending.

Yes. Multi-currency support records each receipt in the currency printed on it, which also covers travel and cross-border purchases.

Your data belongs to you. Receni uses it to run the service — it is not sold, and it is not shared with advertisers or data brokers. Receipts and account data are encrypted in transit, location is never used for advertising, and you can export or delete everything at any time. Our privacy policy sets out exactly what is collected, how long it is kept, and which service providers process it on our behalf.

Yes. You can export your receipts and your mileage log as CSV at any time, on any plan. Your data is never locked in.

Yes. Open Profile, then Delete Account. If you have an active App Store or Google Play subscription, cancel auto-renew in your store account first. You will be asked why you are leaving and to confirm with your password. Deletion is then scheduled rather than immediate: there is a 30-day grace period during which signing back in cancels it. After that, your receipts, mileage records and account data are permanently removed and cannot be recovered.

Use the Contact page on receni.com, email support@receni.com, or open Contact support from inside the app under Profile.