Month, quarter and year at once
This month, the quarter to date and the year to date. The quarter is in bold, because the 2026 estimated tax dates are April 15, June 15, September 15 and January 15, 2027.
iPhone. Not on the App Store yet.
An expense tracker for the self-employed that starts with the paper
Almost everything sold as an expense tracker opens by asking for your online banking login. That covers the card spending already on your statement, and loses the parking stub, the cash sale at the hardware store and the toll.
79.99 a year or 12.99 a week. No free trial. Not on the App Store yet, so the only things to press here are the waitlist and the calculator.
The gap
A bank feed can only see what a bank touched
Card spending is the easy half, and it already sits in a statement you can download.
Plenty of people who file a Schedule C do not run every dollar through a card. The trades pay cash at the counter, drivers pay tolls, consultants pick up the check and get the tip line back on paper. What a feed does capture arrives thin: an amount, a scrambled merchant string, a date later than the day you spent it.
| The expense | What a bank feed shows | What the paper shows |
|---|---|---|
| Two hours at a meter | Nothing, you paid in coins | Dated stub, with the amount |
| Cash at the hardware store | Nothing at all | Total, tax, date, the items |
| Dinner with a subcontractor | One charge, tip folded in | Subtotal, tax and tip, split out |
The IRS expects you to keep the supporting documents behind what goes on a return: see what kind of records should I keep and the wider recordkeeping guidance. So this one starts at the paper. Photograph the receipt, your iPhone reads it with Apple's Vision framework without the image leaving the device, and you confirm five fields: total, date, merchant, sales tax and tip. A total it cannot read is left empty, never guessed. The whole scan is on the receipt scanner page.
The dashboard
Where the month, the quarter and the year add up
Scanning is the input. The payoff is the screen you open before a payment is due.
Totals by category, with the line number
Advertising 8, Car and truck 9, Contract labor 11, Office expense 18, Supplies 22, Travel 24a, Meals 24b, Utilities 25. The line numbers come from the Schedule C instructions and ride into the export. More on the Schedule C expenses page.
A running year to date figure
One tile adds up everything filed into a business category this year. A sum of what you entered, not a verdict on what is deductible.
Search and filters that total themselves
Type a merchant, get every receipt from it. Filter by category, date or amount, and whatever is on screen totals at the top.
Widgets on both screens
Month total on the home screen, camera in one tap from the lock screen. Of the thirty apps here with a hundred ratings or more, none ship a widget.
One reminder a week
One nudge on the day you pick, to clear the camera roll, plus one before each estimated tax date.
Work out the number this is meant to move
The free calculator does the 2026 self-employment math in your browser: the 15.3% rate applied to 92.35% of net profit, and what each quarterly payment comes to. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Honest scope
Who this is for, and who it is not for
A tracker that tries to be everything for everybody ends up being a bank feed with a logo on it.
It is for you if
- You file a Schedule C as a sole proprietor or single member LLC.
- A real share of what you spend is cash or paper: parking, tolls, materials, meals, cabs.
- You have a backlog. Batch import takes a multiselect from the camera roll and queues it for confirmation.
- You want the export on the form's own line numbers, and an iPhone on iOS 17 or later.
It is not for you if
- You need bank reconciliation. No Plaid, no transaction import, no matching against statements.
- You have a team. One person, one phone, no bookkeeper login.
- You need invoicing, estimates or payments.
- You are on Android, or you file outside the United States.
If the second list is you, close the tab with our blessing. If the first is you, the front page shows the scan end to end, quarterly taxes on 1099 income covers the payments, and an audit with no receipts covers the paper already gone.
The trade
No GPS. No battery drain.
Version one does not log mileage from a background location feed. A decision, not an oversight.
Nothing runs in the background
No always-on location permission, and no overnight battery cost for a feature that only matters on the days you drive for work.
Car costs still get tracked
Gas, parking, tolls and repairs go in from the receipt, under Car and truck, line 9. What to keep for cars is in Publication 463.
No account, no bank login
No sign-up and no email before you see the price. Nothing asks for a banking password. Records sync to your own private iCloud.
Questions
Five things worth asking before you join a waitlist
Including the answers that send some people elsewhere.
Does it connect to my bank account?
No, and it is not planned. No Plaid link, no transaction import, no reconciliation, and you are never asked for banking credentials.
If you want card charges pulled in and matched to receipts, use something else.
Does it track mileage?
Not in version one, and not with GPS. No GPS. No battery drain. Car costs still go in from the receipt, under Car and truck, line 9.
Does it work with no signal?
Yes. Text recognition runs on the phone with Apple's Vision framework, so a receipt scans on a job site or in airplane mode. The leading app here reads receipts on its server and stops when the connection does.
How do I get the numbers out at tax time?
Export CSV or PDF by quarter, year or a range you choose. Every row carries its Schedule C category and line number, and the PDF groups the images by category.
What does it cost, and can I download it today?
79.99 a year, which works out at 1.53 a week, or 12.99 a week. No free trial and no countdown to forget about.
It is not on the App Store yet. The waitlist below sends one email the day it opens, and the tax calculator is free today.
Sources
Every tax figure, and where it came from
Each link checked on August 25, 2026.
- The 15.3% rate, 12.4% plus 2.9%. IRS, Self-Employment Tax
- The 92.35% share, and the 2026 dates. IRS, Form 1040-ES (2026)
- The Schedule C line numbers. IRS, Instructions for Schedule C
- What counts as a supporting document. IRS, What kind of records should I keep
- Recordkeeping for a small business. IRS, Recordkeeping
- What to keep for car costs. IRS, Publication 463
One email, on the day it ships
No newsletter and no drip sequence. One message when DeductHound reaches the App Store.
DeductHound is not tax advice. It records, categorizes and totals what you enter, and nothing more. Whether an expense is deductible, and what you owe, are questions for a tax professional. See the Terms of Use.