Install Receipt Snoop on your phone
The same app either way. It needs nothing from your bank, and it is free to download.
Receipt Snoop runs in your phone's web browser, so there is nothing to buy from an app store and no new account to set up anywhere but here. If you would like it to sit on your home screen with your other apps, so it opens with one tap, here is how, on each kind of device. It takes under a minute.
On an iPhone or iPad
- Open receiptsnoop.com in Safari. These steps are Safari's; on iOS 16.4 or later, Chrome and other browsers can also add it from their own Share button.
- Tap the Share button at the bottom of the screen. It is the square with an arrow pointing up out of it.
- Scroll down the list of options and tap Add to Home Screen.
- Tap Add in the top corner. The Receipt Snoop icon now sits with your other apps, and you open it the same way.
On an Android phone
- Open receiptsnoop.com in Chrome.
- Tap the menu button, the three dots in the top corner.
- Tap Install app. Some phones call it Add to Home screen instead; either one is the right choice.
- Tap Install to confirm. The icon appears with your other apps.
Receipt Snoop for Android is on its way to Google Play. When it arrives there you will be able to install it from the Play Store as well. There is no link to it yet, and the steps above give you the very same app in the meantime.
On a computer
There is nothing to install. Open receiptsnoop.com in any browser. No account is needed to look up a price: type a barcode's digits, or choose a photo of a receipt, and it is read just as it is on a phone. Signing in keeps your receipts as yours. The one thing a computer is not good for is pointing a camera at a shelf tag in the shop, so that part is easiest on a phone.
What you do not need
- No app store account, and no card on file with Apple or Google.
- No bank login and no retailer password. Receipt Snoop never asks for either.
- Nothing to pay to download it. The account is free; Premium is optional, not on sale yet, and can be earned by contributing.