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What Receipt? vs Foreceipt: an honest comparison
How What Receipt? and Foreceipt compare on price, receipt limits, email import, tax categories and accounting sync, including where Foreceipt is the better pick.
Foreceipt is a receipt app with a free plan, a web portal and apps for iPhone and Android. It scans receipts, takes forwarded email receipts, and comes with expense categories set up for US and Canadian tax filing. If you're weighing it against What Receipt?, the real differences come down to what unlimited receipts cost, how email receipts get in, and whether you need QuickBooks sync, income tracking or bank imports. Here's the comparison, as of October 2026.
At a glance
| What Receipt? | Foreceipt | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes, 30 receipts a month, no card needed | Yes, up to 100 receipts, kept for 12 months |
| Entry price | $6.99/month or $59/year | From about $5/month billed yearly, or $6.25 month to month (Individual, on the web) |
| Receipts on the entry plan | Unlimited | 200 a month |
| Price for unlimited receipts | $6.99/month or $59/year | $12/month billed yearly, or $15 month to month (Business) |
| Capture | Camera (several in a row), photos, PDFs, screenshots | Phone camera, batch upload on the web portal |
| Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail and Zoho Mail auto-import (Pro); a forwarding address for any mailbox, including Outlook | A personal forwarding address | |
| Tax categories | Categories that learn from your corrections | Built-in IRS and CRA expense categories, customizable |
| Accounting software | Import files for QuickBooks Online (bank upload), Xero (bills) and Zoho Books; CSV and Excel | Push to QuickBooks Online (Business plan); PDF and Excel reports |
| Projects and clients | Tag any receipt by client, project or Personal | Tags, business or personal |
| Recurring charges | Detected automatically, with alerts when one goes missing | Scheduled recurring entries you set up |
| Income and bank imports | Statements (CSV, OFX, QFX; PDF on Pro), only to find charges with no receipt; no income tracking | Income tracking; bank transactions from CSV or PDF statements |
| Teams | One person per account; free read-only accountant links | 2 members included; extra members on Business at $72/year each |
| Apps | Web app on any phone or computer, Mac app; iPhone and Android coming | iPhone, iPad, Android, web portal |
| Local-only option | Mac Privacy Edition, $29 once, no account or cloud | No |
Foreceipt's prices are from its pricing page in October 2026. Its in-app prices on iPhone are higher: $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year for Individual, per its App Store listing.
Where What Receipt? is the better fit
You have more than 200 receipts a month, or don't want to count
Foreceipt's Individual plan covers 200 receipts a month. That's plenty for many people, but if you're near the line, unlimited on Foreceipt means the Business plan at $12 to $15 a month. What Receipt? Pro is unlimited at $6.99 a month or $59 a year, so you never have to watch a counter.
Your receipts are already in Gmail
Foreceipt takes email receipts when you forward them to your personal Foreceipt address. What Receipt? Pro connects to Gmail and imports receipts on its own: the ones already in your inbox, including the last 90 days, and new ones within minutes. Import a past year catches up a whole tax year in one go. For other mailboxes, What Receipt? has a forwarding address too. If you've never gathered your emailed receipts, here's how to find them in Gmail.
Your spending is mixed
Most people's receipts don't sort neatly. There's a business card, a personal card that sometimes buys business things, a client you bill expenses back to. What Receipt? lets you tag every receipt with a project, such as a client, a side business or Personal, and its Excel workbook has monthly totals by category and by project. Your accountant gets only the business part.
You want missing renewals flagged
Foreceipt can create recurring entries on a schedule you set. What Receipt? works the other way around: it spots recurring charges in the receipts you already have and tells you when one didn't show up this month. That's how a renewal sent to an old email address gets caught before tax time.
You'd rather nothing left your computer
The Mac Privacy Edition is a one-time $29 purchase that reads, files and exports receipts entirely on your Mac. There's no account, no cloud copy and no subscription. Foreceipt doesn't offer anything like it.
Where Foreceipt is the better fit
We'd rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one:
- You want to pay less month to month and stay under 200 receipts. Foreceipt Individual is $6.25 month to month on the web, or about $5 a month billed yearly. If 200 receipts a month is enough, that's a little cheaper than What Receipt? Pro.
- Your free allowance matters most. Foreceipt's free plan allows up to 100 receipts, against 30 a month on What Receipt? Free. Note that Foreceipt's free plan keeps receipts for 12 months, and tax records often need to be kept longer (see how long to keep receipts).
- You need QuickBooks Online sync. Foreceipt's Business plan pushes receipts straight into QuickBooks Online. What Receipt? exports files that QuickBooks Online imports (here's how), but you do the import step.
- You file in Canada, or want IRS categories out of the box. Foreceipt ships with expense categories defined for both IRS and CRA filing.
- You track income. Foreceipt records income as well as expenses. What Receipt? tracks receipts, and reads statements only to find charges with no receipt.
- You want a native app in the App Store or Google Play today. What Receipt? runs in the browser on your phone for now.
- Two people share the books. Every Foreceipt plan includes two team members. What Receipt? is one person per account.
Switching from Foreceipt
- In Foreceipt, generate an Excel report of your receipts, and request a ZIP of the original images from the web portal. Foreceipt's help pages walk through both.
- Start a free What Receipt? account and drop the original files in. They're read again automatically, so vendors, dates and totals come back without retyping.
- Connect Gmail (Pro) and use Import a past year to pull in emailed receipts, or set up your forwarding address and point your mail rules at it.
- Keep your Foreceipt report somewhere safe. It's your record of what was already filed.
Questions
Is What Receipt? cheaper than Foreceipt?
It depends on volume. Under 200 receipts a month, Foreceipt Individual on the web (about $5 a month billed yearly, or $6.25 month to month) costs a little less than What Receipt? Pro. For unlimited receipts, What Receipt? Pro is $6.99 a month or $59 a year, while Foreceipt Business is $12 to $15 a month. Under 30 receipts a month, What Receipt? is free.
Does What Receipt? have a free plan?
Yes. Up to 30 receipts a month, with camera, photo and PDF capture, automatic reading, categories, projects and CSV export. No card is needed.
Can What Receipt? import receipts from Gmail?
Yes, on Pro. It imports receipts already in your inbox, including the last 90 days, picks up new ones within minutes, and can catch up a past tax year. For any other mailbox, forward receipts to your personal What Receipt? address.
Does What Receipt? sync with QuickBooks?
It exports CSV and Excel files that QuickBooks Online imports, plus a Zoho Books import file. It doesn't publish into QuickBooks directly yet.
Can I cancel What Receipt? any time?
Yes. Pro is billed monthly or yearly, and you can cancel from the billing page in Settings. You keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for.
Competitor details are from public pricing, help and app store pages in October 2026 and may have changed. Spotted something out of date? Email hello@whatreceipt.app and we'll fix it.
