Your forwarding rule
- When the sender is
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- Streaming service
- Airline
- Taxi service
- Power company
- Forward to
- [email protected]
The address is random: no part of it comes from your name, your Telegram account or your email.
For people who tried tracking their spending and stopped
See where your money goes, from the receipts you already get.
Send a photo of a receipt to Slipsby in Telegram, and it writes down and sorts every line for you.
Open in Telegram
Telegram is a free messenger app with about a billion users. Install it, tap the button and send a receipt.
- Scanning is free.
- Slipsby never asks for your name, email, phone or bank login.
One receipt from start to finish
Saturday’s shop: bread, eggs, cat food and 19 more lines.
This is a sample Saturday shop, read the way Slipsby reads yours: each line gets its quantity, price and category, and then Slipsby checks that the lines add up to what you paid.
- Food and drink $71.08
- Dish soap, laundry pods, toothpaste, cat food, seed potatoes and a paper bag, tax included $31.71
- Total $102.79
The lines from this one shop fall into 13 categories, and the seed potatoes are filed under Home & garden.
Alder Street Grocer
Sat 19 Sep, 09:58
- Sourdough loaf 800 g 5.50 Bakery
- Oat milk 1 L 2 × 2.49 4.98 Dairy
- Eggs, 12 4.19 Dairy
- Greek yogurt 1 kg 4.60 Dairy
- Tomatoes on the vine 0.86 kg × 3.49 / kg 3.00 Fruit & vegetables
- Spinach 200 g 2.49 Fruit & vegetables
- Apples 1.28 kg × 2.99 / kg 3.83 Fruit & vegetables
- Lemons 3 × 0.45 1.35 Fruit & vegetables
- Red lentils 1 kg 3.29 Pantry
- Oats 1 kg 2.79 Pantry
- Olive oil 750 ml 8.99 Pantry
- Coffee beans 500 g 11.49 Beverages
- Dark chocolate 100 g 2.79 Snacks & sweets
- Tortilla chips 200 g Discount −1.00 1.99 Snacks & sweets
- Chicken thighs 0.94 kg × 7.99 / kg 7.51 Meat & fish
- Frozen peas 1 kg 2.29 Frozen
- Dish soap refill 1 L 4.29 T Household
- Laundry pods, 30 Discount −2.00 10.99 T Household
- Toothpaste 75 ml 2.89 T Personal care
- Cat food 12 × 85 g 7.80 T Pets
- Seed potatoes 2 kg 3.50 T Home & garden
- Paper bag 0.10 Fees & deposits
- Subtotal
- 100.65
- Sales tax 7.25% on 29.47
- 2.14
- Total
- $102.79
- Card
- **** 4417
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Nothing counts until you confirm
You get a draft back in the chat. Confirm it, or fix it in plain words: “the yogurt was 500 g”.
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Fixed lines are marked
A corrected line keeps a small mark, and every change stays in the edit history.
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If the lines don’t add up, you’ll see it
Every receipt is checked against its own total. A mismatch is flagged before you confirm.
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Long receipts and duplicate photos
Two or three photos of one long receipt become one purchase. Duplicates are caught before they count.
How it works
It takes less time than putting the shopping away.
Send a photo, wait about 20 seconds and tap once to confirm.
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Send
Take a photo of any receipt and send it to Slipsby in Telegram.
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Check
Alder Street Grocer · 22 lines · $102.79 · adds up. Confirm?
Every line comes back sorted into categories, and you confirm it or fix it in plain words.
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Ask
How much cat food did we get through this month?
3 boxes of 12 × 85 g, $23.40 before tax, which comes to about 78¢ a day.
Ask anything in plain words, or open your overview in Telegram or on a computer with a one-time link.
Other ways to send your receipts
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WhatsApp
Send receipt photos there and get every line read back in the chat.
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Your own receipt address
Every account gets an address for e-receipts made of random characters, such as [email protected]. Forward delivery, taxi and online-order receipts to it, or set a mail rule once.
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Type in a purchase
“Farmers market, 2 kg plums, $7” goes in the same as a scan.
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Say it in a voice note Paid
With the $1 paid plan, a voice note such as “two coffees at the station, $9.20” goes in too.
Every kind of purchase
A creased receipt, a receipt on a screen or no receipt at all can all go into your records.
Each kind of purchase has its own way to reach Slipsby, and all of them are recorded like any other receipt.
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A creased, faded or long paper receipt
Send a photo of it. If the receipt is too long for one photo, send several photos of it, and Slipsby reads them as one purchase.
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An e-receipt or order confirmation on a screen
Take a screenshot and send it to the bot as you would a photo.
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A receipt in your email
Forward the email to your own receipt address.
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A purchase with no receipt
Type a sentence in the chat that says where, what and how much, for example:
Farmers market, 2 kg plums, $7
Receipts from anywhere
Slipsby works from the receipts and files you send it, and never asks for a bank login.
You decide what to track by choosing which receipts to send or forward: a paper receipt, a screenshot, an email, a PDF invoice or a ticket. Slipsby sees nothing from your bank or your mailbox beyond what reaches the bot or your receipt address.
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A rule that forwards for you
In Gmail, Outlook or iCloud Mail, set a rule once that forwards mail from the senders you choose to your receipt address, which /email shows you in the bot together with a short guide. Their receipts then reach Slipsby by themselves, and you only confirm each draft in the bot.
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One email by hand
Forward a single email whenever you like. Slipsby finds each receipt in the message and in each image or PDF attached to it, and every receipt becomes its own purchase.
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A PDF in the chat
Send an invoice or a ticket to the bot as a PDF file. All its pages, up to 10, make one purchase.
Six emailed receipts from the sample September
Each one becomes a purchase read line by line, like a paper receipt, and waits in the bot as a draft until you confirm it. The utility bill comes apart into electricity, gas, water, waste collection and upkeep, so you see what each of them cost that month.
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Taxi ride
Crosstown Cab
Fri 4 Sep, 22:41
- Base fare 3.50
- Distance, 6.8 km 9.52
- Time, 14 min 3.50
- Booking fee 1.25
- Driver tip 3.00
Total $20.77
Adds up to the total
The tip is a line of its own.
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Plane ticket
Lakeside Air
Mon 7 Sep, 20:15
- Fare, one adult 148.00
- Taxes and airport charges 31.40
- Seat selection 14.00
- Checked bag 35.00
Total $228.40
Adds up to the total
The ticket arrived as a PDF attached to the email, and the seat and the bag are lines of their own.
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Marketplace order
Bramble Market
Thu 10 Sep, 13:02
- Linen tablecloth 24.00
- Beeswax candles, 6 11.50
- Shipping 6.90
- Buyer protection fee 1.35
Total $43.75
Adds up to the total
Shipping and the buyer protection fee are lines too.
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Food delivery
Fig & Fennel Kitchen
Sat 12 Sep, 19:48
- Lentil dal, large 12.50
- Naan, 2 3.50
- Mango lassi 4.25
- Delivery fee 2.99
- Service fee 1.80
- Courier tip 2.50
Total $27.54
Adds up to the total
The delivery fee, the service fee and the courier tip each sit on a line of their own, next to the three dishes.
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Streaming subscription
Lantern Streaming
Fri 25 Sep, 06:00
- Standard plan, 1 month 13.99
- Extra member 5.99
Total $19.98
Adds up to the total
It comes every month, so a mail rule picks it up each time.
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Utility bill
Riverside Utilities
Mon 28 Sep, 07:30
- Electricity 61.20
- Gas 38.75
- Water 22.40
- Waste collection 14.00
- Upkeep 9.50
Total $145.85
Adds up to the total
This bill comes apart into five lines, one for each thing it pays for.
Rent and other payments that come with no receipt can be typed into the chat, if you want to track them.
These six purchases belong to the sample September below, and its counts include them.
Your month, item by item
Small buys add up, and Slipsby counts every one.
Eleven takeaway coffees came to $50.60 in this sample September. Slipsby counts every item on your receipts and shows what it cost each time you bought it.
September, a sample month
- receipts
- 42
- lines
- 224
- different things
- 90
- Oat milk, 1 L 9 cartons · $22.41
It has cost $2.49 a carton since June.
- Takeaway coffee 11 cups · $50.60
$4.60 a cup, and four of them were on Mondays.
- Spinach, 200 g 4 bags · $9.96
Whether that’s a lot of spinach is your call.
- Coffee beans, 500 g 2 bags · $22.98
$11.49 a bag, up from $9.99 in March, which is 15% more per kilo.
- Tortilla chips 3 bags · $7.97
The bag shrank from 225 g to 200 g at the same $2.99, which is 12.5% more per kilo, and one bag was $1 off.
- Lemons 14 · $6.90
They cost 45¢ at the grocer and 60¢ at the corner shop.
- Cat food, 12 × 85 g 3 boxes · $23.40
That’s about 78¢ a day, and the cat has no comment.
This list has no targets or scores.
Amounts in this sample month are as printed on the lines, before sales tax. Price per kilo and per liter comes free, and the $1 paid plan adds a note when something gets pricier or smaller.
In your overview
The Small buys view shows how often you buy each thing and what the small purchases come to.
The Small buys view in your overview has three parts, drawn here from the sample September in the catalogue above. Each part lists figures without comment.
Bought most often
This list holds up to ten of your items, sorted by how often you bought them, each with its total and what one cost on average.
- Lemons 14 times
$6.90 in all, 49¢ each
- Takeaway coffee 11 times
$50.60 in all, $4.60 each
- Oat milk, 1 L 9 times
$22.41 in all, $2.49 each
- Sourdough loaf, 800 g 5 times
$27.50 in all, $5.50 each
- Eggs, 12 4 times
$16.76 in all, $4.19 each
- Spinach, 200 g 4 times
$9.96 in all, $2.49 each
- Cat food, 12 × 85 g 3 times
$23.40 in all, $7.80 each
- Tortilla chips 3 times
$7.97 in all, $2.66 each
- Coffee beans, 500 g 2 times
$22.98 in all, $11.49 each
- Greek yogurt, 1 kg 2 times
$9.20 in all, $4.60 each
Small purchases in total
Receipts with a total under $10 are added up here, and you can change that limit in the view.
- spent on small purchases
- $112.30
- receipts under $10
- 17
- of the month’s spending
- 8%
$112.30 of the $1,421.09 spent in September
Month by month
Every item in the list gets a small chart of its total in each of the last six months. Three of them are drawn here.
- April $36.80
- May $41.40
- June $32.20
- July $46.00
- August $36.80
- September $50.60
- April $14.94
- May $17.43
- June $19.92
- July $24.90
- August $17.43
- September $22.41
- April $15.60
- May $23.40
- June $23.40
- July $15.60
- August $31.20
- September $23.40
Item amounts are as printed on the lines, before sales tax, while small purchases and the month’s spending are receipt totals with tax.
Shared households
Share the shopping with the people you live with.
Couples, families and housemates can keep a shared record of the shopping next to their personal ones, and whoever has the receipt sends it.
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One shared record Free
Invite a partner or housemates. Once they accept, receipts any of you send can go into the shared record, and everyone sees the same lines.
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Your personal record Free
It stays separate, and you choose which receipts go into the shared one.
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Split a receipt Paid
Mark whose lines are whose on a shared receipt. Slipsby keeps a running tally of who owes whom.
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Everyone says yes first Free
A housemate’s own AI can read the shared record only if everyone in it agrees.
Your own AI Paid
Talk it over with the AI you already use.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok through MCP, the connector standard these apps support. Your AI asks Slipsby for figures and gets back what was in each purchase, line by line.
- You
Which of the things we keep buying adds up to the most, and did anything get pricier?
- Slipsby: top_
items (by: spend · bought: 2 or more times · month: 2026-09) → 20 items - Slipsby: price_
history (items: coffee beans 500 g, tortilla chips) → 2 price series - Your AI
Takeaway coffee comes first: 11 cups at $4.60, $50.60 in all. Coffee beans are $11.49 for 500 g, up from $9.99 in March, so 15% more per kilo. The tortilla chips kept the same price and shrank from 225 g to 200 g, which is 12.5% more per kilo.
- You
When do we buy the takeaway coffee?
- Slipsby: search_
items (query: coffee · category: restaurant_cafe · month: 2026-09) → 11 lines · $50.60 - Your AI
Four of the 11 cups were on Monday mornings.
Every figure comes from Slipsby.
Every tool your AI can call only reads your records, so it cannot write, edit or delete anything.
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It never sees your photos
Receipt photos stay with Slipsby and are never sent to your AI.
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On your say-so
You approve the connection in Telegram and can switch it off any time. A shared record needs everyone’s yes first.
Some AI apps need a paid plan or a settings switch on their side before they accept connectors.
Monday field notes Paid
Every Monday a short note on your week arrives in the chat by itself.
The notes cover what came in, what’s new, what got pricier and what quietly shrank. They arrive in the bot on Monday morning, with a longer set at the end of each month.
Field notes
Week 38 · 14 to 20 Sep
- Receipts
- 8
- Lines
- 47
- Food $118.62
- Eating out $48.10
- Getting about $22.00
- Home & care $19.49
- Pets $8.37
- Everything else $3.85
- Week total $220.43
Noticed
- Seen more often: takeaway coffee, 4 cups, $18.40, up from 2 the week before.
- New this week: seed potatoes, 2 kg.
- Pricier: olive oil 750 ml, $8.99, up 11% a liter since June.
- Smaller: tortilla chips, down from 225 g to 200 g at the same $2.99.
- Steady: oat milk 1 L, $2.49 since June.
Mon 21 Sep, 08:00
Pricing
Scanning is free, and the extras cost $1 a month or $12 for the year.
The price is the same either way. Everything you need to see where your money goes is free. The paid plan adds your own AI, Monday field notes and a few good tools. Your first month of it is free, with no card.
- 1 month
- $1
- 12 months
- $12
- Rate
- $1 a month, either way
Slipsby is paid for only by the people who use it.
Free
$0 a month
- Receipt reading A photo of any printed receipt, from any shop, read line by line into item, quantity, weight, unit price, discount and tax, and sorted into 24 categories
- The check Lines added up against the receipt’s total before anything is saved
- Prices Price per kilo and per liter over time, with each receipt in its own currency and totals in yours at the rate of the day
- Questions and overview Plain-words answers in the chat, and an overview in Telegram or on a computer through a one-time link that needs no password
- Your records Shared with a partner or housemates once they accept, brought in from other apps, spreadsheets or a bank CSV, and exported with the photos as a ZIP any time
Paid
$1 a month
Everything in Free, plus
- Your own AI Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, read-only
- Field notes Every Monday, plus a longer one each month
- Price watch A note when something you buy gets pricier, or the pack gets smaller for the same price
- Split a receipt Whose lines are whose, and a running tally of who owes whom
- Budgets If you set one, you get a single quiet note on how it’s going
- Returns and warranties A reminder before the return window or warranty runs out
- Spreadsheets Every line in Excel, or in a Google Sheet that fills itself in
- Voice Send purchases as voice notes
The paid plan costs less than one coffee a month.
How the free month works
- Day 1
The paid plan starts with your first receipt and includes your own AI and field notes.
- Day 25
The bot sends you a reminder, and nothing is charged.
- Day 31
The paid features pause until you pay for a month or a year.
Why a dollar?
We read receipts with our own small model on our own servers, so a scan costs us a fraction of a cent. A dollar a month covers our costs, so that is the price.
You can pay without a card if you like, with no billing name or address.
Test bench: real receipts from 14 countries, read end to end and checked by hand. It grows with every country we add.
Picking it up again
Bring the history from the spreadsheet or app you stopped using.
Export a file from your old app, spreadsheet or bank and upload it. Dates, shops, amounts, categories and notes come across for free, and your records carry on from where you stopped. If you still use the old app, keep it until you’re sure.
- Google Sheets
- Excel
- YNAB
- Monarch
- Mint (your saved export)
- Copilot
- Rocket Money
- Your bank’s CSV
…and Quicken, Simplifi, Spendee, Wallet, Money Manager, Toshl, Goodbudget, Actual, Splitwise, or any CSV.
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Export
Download a CSV or Excel file from your old app or spreadsheet.
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Upload
Upload it in your Slipsby dashboard.
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Check the columns
Confirm which column is which, and your history is in.
Your history comes with you, and every new scan adds item-level detail to it.
What you get on day one
- Every new receipt read line by line, next to your old history
- Price per kilo and per liter, from your first scan
- Your whole history, old and new, in your own AI chat Paid
- Monday field notes Paid
Paid is the $1 plan.
Line items start with your first scan, because old apps don’t keep them. Import a bank CSV and your subscriptions show up too. Some apps (Emma, Snoop, PocketGuard) only export on their paid plans.
How Slipsby is built
Slipsby keeps a short record on you and doesn’t sell your data.
We run our own model on our own machines, keep a short record on you and charge one price that covers the cost.
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Read on our own machines
Receipts are read by our own model on servers we run, and the photos stay there. The text read from them reaches an outside AI only if you connect one yourself.
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No name, email or phone
Telegram gives us an account number and the display name you chose there. That’s how you sign in. We never ask for a bank login.
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No ads or brand deals
No brand pays us to put offers in front of you on this site, in the chat or in the app.
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We don’t sell your data
We keep your receipts and the short record below, and none of it is sold.
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Leave whenever you like
Export everything as a ZIP. Send /delete and the link between you and your receipts is cut for good.
What we keep on you
Kept
- Your Telegram account number and display name
- For an email you forward: the original sender’s address (the shop or service), subject and date
- Language, currency and time zone
- If you pay without a card: the public record of that payment
Never asked
- Name
- Phone number
- Gender or age
- Bank login
Not read from receipts
- Card digits and the cardholder’s name
- Loyalty card numbers
Left out
- Location data in the photo file, removed when it’s saved
- Everything around the receipt in the photo, cut away: a hand, a face, your kitchen
- Your IP address, never stored
Questions
Plain answers to fair questions
Is Slipsby a budgeting app? Will it tell me to spend less?
Slipsby shows where your money goes without you typing anything in, and it won’t tell you to spend less. If you like budgets, the paid plan lets you set one per category and sends you a single quiet note on how it’s going.
What if I stop for a few weeks?
Your records wait for you and nothing has to be caught up, so you can send the next receipt at any time.
Why Telegram?
Because you can start without installing a new app, making an account or choosing a password. You open a chat and send a photo. Telegram is a free messenger with about a billion users, and it runs on iPhone, Android and computers.
I don’t use Telegram. Can I still use Slipsby?
Yes. Send receipt photos on WhatsApp, or forward e-receipts to your own Slipsby receipt address, and see everything in the web dashboard. For the iPhone or Android app, tap the App Store or Google Play icon: the bot adds you to the list for your platform and messages you the day it’s in the store.
Do you link to my bank?
No. Slipsby never asks for a bank login. If you want your older history, import a file you exported yourself, from your old app, a spreadsheet or your bank’s CSV.
Who sees my receipts?
Your receipts are seen by you, anyone you share your records with, and our own reading model on the servers we run, where the photos stay. If you connect your own AI, it can read your purchase records, and you can switch it off any time. Nobody else sees them.
Do you use my receipts for anything else?
We use them to get better at reading receipts ourselves. We keep receipt photos and what was read from them, with the corrections people confirm, so we can build our own recognition and don’t need a heavy model for every receipt. Shops and products also go into a catalogue shared by everyone, with no sign of who added what, and only you can see which purchases are yours. We don’t sell your data. The privacy policy lists what we keep and what happens after you delete your account.
What happens after the free month?
The paid extras pause at the end of the free month. The free plan has no end date and includes your receipts, your history, reading, categories, the overview and asking about your spending. The bot reminds you a few days before, and nothing is charged, because there’s no card on file. When you want the extras back, pay $1 for a month or $12 for the year.
How do I pay?
You can pay by card, or with USDT or TRX, which needs no card and no billing name or address. Pick a month for $1 or a year for $12. It’s paid upfront, with no automatic renewal, so there’s nothing to cancel.
Does it work with receipts from my country?
It works with receipts in any language from any country. Each receipt keeps its own currency, and totals show in yours at the rate of the day. Our test bench has receipts from 14 countries so far.
Send the next receipt you get and see where the money went.
Scanning is free, and your first month of the paid plan is on us.
