TaxLens

TaxLens is an iOS receipt scanner and expense organizer for freelancers and small businesses. AI extracts merchant, date, total, and tax from each receipt, separates business from personal spending, supports 30 plus currencies with historical conversion, and exports PDF audit packets or CSV and XLS files for accounting software.

TaxLens is an iOS receipt scanner built around a specific job: turning a pile of paper receipts into organized, tax-deductible business expenses. The app uses AI to read merchant names, dates, totals, tax amounts, and line items from each receipt, then sorts the result into a deduction category. It separates business from personal spending and attaches a confidence score to items it is unsure about, so the user knows which entries need a second look before filing. In daily use, the workflow is scan first, review later. A freelancer can photograph a receipt or batch scan up to 20 at once, or pull images in from the Photos library. From there TaxLens builds a running expense list and a dashboard showing total spent, total deductible, and estimated tax saved. For anyone working across borders, the app detects more than 30 currencies and converts amounts using the exchange rate from the receipt date, which keeps foreign travel expenses consistent with the period they were incurred. The output is aimed at accountants rather than at corporate approval chains. TaxLens generates PDF audit packets that include the receipt images, and it exports CSV and XLS files with merchant, date, amount, category, and currency fields for import into QuickBooks, Excel, or similar bookkeeping tools. That positions it as a companion scanner for solo operators rather than a replacement for full accounting software. TaxLens is clearly aimed at freelancers, contractors, consultants, and sole proprietors. The homepage also cites restaurant owners and real estate agents among its users and claims 15,000 plus freelancers on board. Data is stored on-device or synced through the user's private iCloud account, and the company states it does not run ads or sell user data. Against general scanners, the differentiator is tax logic; against Expensify, it is the absence of team approval workflows. Anyone needing multi-user expense policies or direct two-way accounting sync should look elsewhere.