MacDaddy Repair, not just scan
Faded thermal paper made readable again. Nobody else leads with this, and it's the difference between a folder of unreadable pictures and an actual record.
Next up
Photograph it once, find it years later.
Snap the receipt in the parking lot. The app straightens it, reads it, and files it under Warranty, Tax, or Returns with the store, date, and total already filled in. When the dishwasher dies in 2029, the receipt is one search away.
The problem
Thermal receipts physically fade — often to unreadable inside a year, which is shorter than most warranties. Paper gets lost. Emailed receipts scatter across an inbox in a dozen different formats.
And you need them at exactly the worst moments: a warranty claim, a return window about to close, an accountant asking for the year's expenses in March.
Here's the thing though — people already photograph receipts. Straight into the camera roll, where they mix with forty thousand other photos and become unfindable. The capture isn't what's broken. Retrieval is.
How it works
- Point the camera. It finds the edges, straightens, and crops.
- It repairs the image — a contrast pass that makes faded thermal paper legible again.
- It reads the receipt — merchant, date, total, line items — on your device.
- It files it under Warranty, Tax, or Returns. You can always correct it.
- You find it later by store, amount, date, or any text printed on it.
- Export a folder, a year, or everything as PDF.
Step two is the whole point. Every competitor can read a crisp receipt. Almost none of them can bring back a two-year-old faded drugstore strip.
What makes it different
Findable by what you remember
Nobody remembers "Receipt_2027-03-14.pdf". They remember "the Home Depot one, around $400, last spring." Search is built for how memory actually works.
Offline, no account
The reading happens on your phone. No login, no server, nothing uploaded — which also means no data breach can involve your purchase history.
The free tier is the product
Not a ten-receipt trial that nags you. The vault on your device is genuinely useful on its own.
Who it's for
- Homeowners
- Warranty claims need proof of purchase two to five years after you've forgotten where you put it.
- Freelancers
and side businesses - Deductible expenses have to survive until March with documentation attached.
- Household managers
- Return windows, gift receipts, kid gear, reimbursements — rolling, all year.
- Landlords
and contractors - Materials and job costs, tracked per property.
None of these are daily users, and that's fine. This is a low-frequency, high-stakes tool — ignored for weeks, then urgently important. It's designed for that shape rather than pretending to be a habit.
What's in the first release
- Camera capture with automatic edge detection and straightening
- The repair pass for faded receipts
- On-device reading of merchant, date, and total — every field editable
- Warranty, Tax, and Returns folders, plus your own
- Full-text search across everything
- PDF export, single or batch
- Sync via iCloud · iPhone and iPad
A proper Mac version follows — where you can drag a year of receipts into a window and batch-export tax folders. That's the workflow no phone-only app can serve.