Published April 2026 · 4 min read
A few years ago, a returned item was rejected at the customer service desk. The receipt had faded — thermal paper does that — and there was no digital backup. It was a small loss, but a frustrating one. It could have been avoided with 10 seconds of effort at the time of purchase.
That frustration turned into a question: why is there no simple, private, free tool for this?
There were receipt apps in the app stores. Most of them had one or more of the same problems:
None of those felt right. A receipt is mundane information, but it's also private. It shouldn't cost money to store, and it shouldn't leave your device to be processed.
When we started building, we set a few rules that shaped everything:
billFT is now available on Android and in active development. It scans receipts from hundreds of merchants, tracks item-level spending, handles family sharing, and exports your history to CSV or PDF. The OCR has been trained on real receipts to handle the messy formatting that store printers produce.
We're a small team at LogicFT building tools we actually want to use ourselves. billFT is one of them.
The iOS version is in progress. We're also working on smarter spending insights — automatic category summaries, month-over-month comparisons, and better merchant recognition across more Canadian and US store chains.
If you've ever wished your receipt tracking just worked without a subscription or a privacy tradeoff, that's what we're building.
Try billFT on Android →No account needed. Free to download and use.
