Tallybook

Every receipt, in a folder you own.

Snap a receipt and Tallybook reads it for you: the vendor, the date, the total, the category. Then it files it the way you would if you had the time, as a plain file in your own iCloud Drive. No account. No servers. Nothing locked away.

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The dashboard: $3,494.27 spent across 29 expenses, with spending by month from June to October.
The expense list, grouped by month: Skyline Air, Northline Electronics, Cloudway, Harbor & Pine Coffee, each with its category and amount.
One expense, Northline Electronics, $1,299.00, Hardware, with the scanned receipt below its details.

Snap it and you're done

The shoebox, sorted for you.

Scan a paper receipt with your camera, pick one from Photos, share a PDF from Mail, or just drop a file into the folder. Tallybook turns it into a clean PDF, reads it, and fills in the details for you to check. You tap Save.

  • Read on your device — Apple's on-device text recognition and model do the reading. Your receipts are never sent anywhere to be read.
  • It won't invent a number — if the total it finds isn't actually printed on the receipt, it leaves the amount blank for you to type.
  • Filed by the receipt's date — not the day you got around to it. July's receipt lands in July.
Vendor
Date
Amount
Category

Auto-fill uses Apple Intelligence where your iPhone, iPad or Mac supports it. Without it, Tallybook still keeps the receipt and its text; you type the four fields.

One receipt, every category

A mixed bag, split for you.

One trip to the store is rarely one kind of thing. Tallybook reads every line on the receipt and gives each item one of your categories. When you save, it becomes one expense per category, all pointing at the same receipt.

  • Your categories, not a preset list — it only chooses from the categories you've made. If none fits, the item waits for you, uncategorized, instead of being filed somewhere wrong.
  • Tax is accounted for — the sales tax printed on the receipt is kept with the expense and gets its own column when you export. A split receipt shares it out by what each part cost, so every piece matches what you paid.
  • Checked before it's split — every price has to be printed on the receipt, and together they have to add up to a figure printed on it too. If they don't, nothing is split.

Line items

Read from Ridgeway Supply Co., Sep 9, 2026. Change a category to see the split.

    Reading line items uses Apple Intelligence, like auto-fill. You can change any item's category, or remove it, before you save.

    It's just files

    Your expenses are plain files.

    Every expense is a Markdown file, with its receipt as a PDF beside it, filed by year and month. Open them in Finder, edit them in any text editor, back them up however you like. If you ever stop using Tallybook, nothing is trapped inside it.

    • Named so you can find them — 2026-07-15_Northline-Electronics.md. Two from the same shop on the same day get _2.
    • Your notes stay yours — what you write sits at the top. The receipt's text goes in its own section below, never mixed in.
    • Your categories are a file too — Categories.md, one per line. Add, rename or delete them from the sidebar, and a rename updates every expense that uses it.
    • Opens in Obsidian — point Obsidian at the folder on your Mac. Categories become links, and every receipt shows inline.
    • Tags in Finder too — on a Mac, the tags you give an expense show up as Finder tags on its file.

    See where it goes

    A dashboard for any slice of your year.

    Pick a month, a category, a tag or a card, and the dashboard follows: the total, the trend, what it went on. Tap any bar or slice to see the receipts behind it. Try it.

    Spending by month

    Tap a bar to see its expenses

    By category

    Tap a slice or a row

    Total

      The real thing, on iPhone. Sample data.

      The dashboard with Travel selected: four expenses totalling $963.60, from Skyline Air, City Cab Co. and Lakeside Inn.
      The dashboard in dark mode.

      Ready for iPhone Duo

      Fold it open, and your books open with it.

      Closed, it's your list, one-handed. Open it, and the list sits beside the dashboard. Drag the phone or the slider to fold it yourself.

      iPhone, iPad and Mac

      One folder. Every screen.

      Your iCloud Drive keeps the same files on all your devices. On a Mac you get a proper table you can edit in place, right-click to show a file in Finder, and the receipt right beside it.

      Tallybook on a Mac: smart folders by month, category, tag and card on the left, a table of expenses in the middle, and the selected Northline Electronics receipt on the right.
      Tallybook on iPad: the expense list beside the dashboard.
      iPad: the list beside the dashboard
      Tallybook on iPad: a Skyline Air expense open beside the list, with its receipt and notes.
      Every receipt one tap away

      Take it with you

      Hand your books to anyone.

      Your accountant wants a spreadsheet. Your manager wants the trip receipts. Export whatever you're looking at as a CSV, with the tax in its own column, or zip up the files themselves, receipts and all. The name says what's inside.

      
          
      
          
      
            
      
            
      
            
      
          
      
        
      
      
      
    
      
  
      

  
  
      
    
      
      
      
        
      Private by design
      
        
      Your receipts are nobody else's business.
      
        
      What you buy says a lot about you. Tallybook is built so it stays between you and your own devices. Not even typif.ai, the people who make Tallybook, can see it.
      
        
      
          
      Nothing sent to typif.aiThere are no Tallybook servers and no account to create. The app doesn't connect to anything of ours.
      
          
      Your iCloud Drive, not oursYour files live in a Tallybook folder in your own iCloud Drive, and sync through your own account.
      
          
      Read on your deviceReceipts are read by Apple's on-device text recognition and model. Nothing is uploaded to be scanned.
      
          
      No ads, trackers or analyticsNo sign-up, no tracking, no data sold. Just your receipts, in your folder.
      
        
      
        
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      The expense list in dark mode.
      
        
      The Folders drawer over the list: All Expenses, then by month and by category.
      
      
      
    
      
  
      

  
  
      
    
      
      
      
      Coming soon for iPhone, iPad and Mac
      
      
      Empty the shoebox for good.
      
      
      Tallybook is nearly ready. Built for iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo and Mac, with your receipts read on device and kept in plain files you own.