I used a self-hosted app to track all my receipts and it’s shockingly good
Published on: 2025-06-08 10:00:55
Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority
If you’ve ever tried to keep track of your receipts, you know how quickly it turns into a mess. Some are paper, some digital, and some are screenshots that you’ll forget about in your phone’s gallery. I’ve tried everything to get a handle on them. India-specific money management apps. Expensify. Google Sheets. I even built a little Notion template to manually track my receipts. And while each of them worked well enough for a while, they all broke down in the same few ways. Either they were too clunky to use daily, didn’t play nice with different file types, were too complicated for family members to use, or locked useful features behind subscriptions I didn’t want to pay for. But it wasn’t until I tried a self-hosted tool called Receipt Wrangler that I found a system that finally made sense.
From Google Sheets to Expensify, nothing clicked till I tried out Receipt Wrangler.
I’ll be honest. I wasn’t expecting much when I stumbled upon the app’s Githu
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