Scan a receipt, keep the numbers, bin the paper

It runs on your phone, not on a server

Text recognition uses Apple's Vision framework, which is part of iOS. The image is processed on device. It is not uploaded to an OCR service, it is not sent to us, and Tasca does not keep the photo once you have confirmed the expense.

This matters more than it sounds. A receipt carries the merchant, the time, the location and often the last four digits of your card. Sending that to a third party to save four seconds of typing is a poor trade, and Tasca does not make it.

Best effort, then you confirm

OCR on a crumpled thermal receipt photographed in a dim bar is not going to be perfect, and an expense app that silently saves whatever it guessed is worse than one that asks. Tasca pre-fills the expense form with whatever survived parsing and hands it to you to check before anything is saved.

Anything it could not read is simply left blank rather than filled with a guess. You are always one glance from a correct entry rather than one glance from a plausible wrong one.

• Take a photo or pick an existing one from your library
• Amount, merchant and date pre-fill the normal expense form
• The currency follows the country you are in unless the receipt says otherwise
• Correct anything, then save as a normal expense

When typing is still faster

For a coffee, the keypad wins. Scanning earns its place on the receipts that matter: the hotel bill you will claim, the restaurant split you need to settle, the tax invoice you need for a refund at the airport. Use it for those and type the rest.