Receipt intelligence for real life

Get the receipts
on your spending.

Snap a photo of any receipt — Costco, Sprouts, Walmart, anywhere. CartLens reads every line item, identifies every product, and turns your everyday spending into insights you can actually act on.

📸 → 🤖 → 📊  Works in Telegram today. No bank logins. No card linking. Ever.

Reads receipts from CostcoWalmartSproutsTargetKrogerPublixTrader Joe'sWhole FoodsAldi+ 4,000 more
From crumpled paper to clarity

Easier than keeping the receipt

No app to learn. No accounts to link. No spreadsheets to maintain. If you can send a photo to a friend, you already know how to use CartLens.

STEP 01📸

Snap & send

Photograph your receipt and send it to the CartLens bot on Telegram — from the parking lot, the kitchen counter, or a week later. Crumpled, faded, and three-feet-long Costco receipts welcome.

STEP 02🤖

We read every line

CartLens extracts each line item and price, decodes cryptic register abbreviations ("KS ORG EGG LG" → Kirkland Signature Organic Large Eggs), and enriches every product with images, sizes, categories, and unit prices.

STEP 03🔗

Get your breakdown

In seconds you get a beautiful, shareable link with the full itemized breakdown — plus price history, nearby price comparisons, and trend alerts. Share it with your household or keep it private.

Powerful insights, zero effort

Your receipts know more than your bank does

Bank feeds see "COSTCO WHSE #1234 — $99.87." CartLens sees the eggs, the olive oil, and the fact that you're paying 31% more for it than in January. Line items are where the truth lives.

Line-item intelligence

Every item, identified and enriched

Register abbreviations become real products. Each line gets a product image, brand, package size, category, and normalized unit price — so "GV 2% MILK GAL" and "KS ORG MILK" are finally comparable.

  • Decodes cryptic SKU names across 4,000+ retailers
  • Unit prices everything: $/oz, $/lb, $/count, $/load
  • Auto-categorizes into 40+ everyday categories
  • Catches duplicate charges and scanning errors at the register
Try it on today's receipt →
Costco · Jun 78 ITEMS · $99.87
🥚
Kirkland Organic Eggs, 24 ctDairy & Eggs · GTIN matched
$7.49$0.31 /egg
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Kirkland Olive Oil, 2 L ▲ PRICE UPPantry · Extra virgin
$19.99$0.30 /oz
🍗
Rotisserie ChickenPrepared Foods · The famous one
$4.99$0.17 /oz
🥜
Almond Butter, 27 oz ▼ BEST PRICEPantry · No added sugar
$8.79$0.33 /oz
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Blueberries, 18 ozProduce · Organic
$6.89$0.38 /oz
Your Personal Inflation Index™

Your inflation isn't the headline number

CPI says 2.9%. But CPI doesn't shop where you shop or buy what you buy. CartLens builds an inflation index from your actual basket and tracks it against the official numbers — item by item, month by month.

  • Compares your basket's inflation vs. national CPI & grocery CPI
  • Pinpoints exactly which items drive your cost increases
  • Shrinkflation detection: flags when packages quietly get smaller
  • Suggests swap-and-save alternatives in your own purchase history
Build your index →
Your inflation vs. CPITRAILING 12 MO
+8%+4%0% YOU +6.8% GROC +3.4% CPI +2.9% JULOCTJANAPRJUN
Top driver:  Olive oil +31% · Eggs +12% · Beef +9%
Nearby price radar

Know before you go: who has it cheaper

For the items you buy most, CartLens compares your paid price against current prices at competitors near you — and tells you when switching a few staples to a different store actually pays for the gas.

  • Tracks your top 50 repeat items across nearby stores
  • Real unit-price comparisons, not misleading package prices
  • Weekly "switch list": the 5 swaps that save you the most
  • Deal alerts when a staple drops below your usual price
See your switch list →
Ground beef 88/12 · $/lb near youBOCA RATON, FL
Costco (you paid)
$5.94
BJ's Wholesale SAVE $3.20
$5.14
Walmart
$5.38
Publix
$6.49
Sprouts
$5.79
This week's switch list saves an estimated  $14.60
Trends & budgets that build themselves

Watch your habits, not your back

Every receipt you snap quietly builds a living picture of your spending: by category, by store, by brand, by month. Set soft budgets and CartLens nudges you in Telegram before the month gets away from you.

  • Category trends down to the product level ("snacks ▲ 22% this quarter")
  • Store scorecards: where your dollar actually goes furthest
  • Gentle budget nudges in chat — no guilt-trip dashboards
  • Monthly digest: what changed, what to watch, what to swap
Start your first trend →
May digest · grocery spendVS APRIL
ProduceMeat & FishPantrySnacksHousehold $211 · ▼4% $264 · ▼1% $176 · ▼6% $145 · ▲22% $112 · ▼3% NUDGE: snack spend on pace to hit $160 — mostly 🍪 Brand X cookies (4 trips in a row)
Shareable breakdowns

One link. The whole story.

Every receipt becomes a clean, private link — perfect for splitting a Costco run with a roommate, settling "who bought the dog food," or just having a searchable archive of everything you've ever purchased.

  • Tap any item to split it, tag it, or flag it for return
  • Household mode: partners snap to one shared ledger
  • Searchable forever: "when did I last buy AA batteries, and for how much?"
  • Export everything to CSV — your data is yours, full stop
Share your first link →
cartlens.app/r/x7k2m9 COPIED ✓
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Paper Towels, 12 pkSplit with Sam · 50/50
$10.75your half
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Dog Food, 35 lbTagged: Biscuit 🐾 · reorder ~Jul 4
$42.99$1.23 /lb
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AA Batteries, 48 ctLast bought 14 mo ago · was $17.49
$18.99$0.40 /ct
Viewed by Sam · 6:03 PM · settled in Venmo ✓
Everything in the bag

More than a receipt scanner

📸 Snap via Telegram🧾 Line-item extraction🖼️ Product images & details📈 Personal Inflation Index™📉 Shrinkflation alerts🏪 Nearby price comparison🔗 Shareable breakdowns🔒 No bank linking, ever👫 Household sharing🧮 Unit-price everything 📸 Snap via Telegram🧾 Line-item extraction🖼️ Product images & details📈 Personal Inflation Index™📉 Shrinkflation alerts🏪 Nearby price comparison🔗 Shareable breakdowns🔒 No bank linking, ever👫 Household sharing🧮 Unit-price everything
🔔 Price-drop alerts🔁 Repeat-purchase tracking🧠 Decodes register codes💸 Overcharge & duplicate detection🗂️ 40+ smart categories📬 Monthly digest🔎 Search every purchase ever📤 CSV export🛒 Store scorecards✂️ Swap-and-save suggestions❤️ You are not the product 🔔 Price-drop alerts🔁 Repeat-purchase tracking🧠 Decodes register codes💸 Overcharge & duplicate detection🗂️ 40+ smart categories📬 Monthly digest🔎 Search every purchase ever📤 CSV export🛒 Store scorecards✂️ Swap-and-save suggestions❤️ You are not the product
Designed for everyone

What people are saying

"I sent one Costco receipt from the parking lot and got back a link that knew more about my shopping than I did. The olive-oil price alert alone changed where I buy it."

Maria R.
Maria R.Household CFO of four, Boca Raton

"My bank says 'Walmart $214.' CartLens says which 31 things that was, what they cost per ounce, and that my snack budget is the real problem. Rude. Accurate, but rude."

Dev K.
Dev K.Software engineer

"The Personal Inflation Index is the feature I didn't know I needed. CPI says 3%; my basket says 7%. Now I know exactly which items are doing it — and what to swap."

Jen T.
Jen T.Economics teacher

"It caught a duplicate scan at the register that I never would have noticed. The app paid for the year in one beep."

Andre L.
Andre L.Retired, fixed income

"My partner and I both snap to one household. Splitting the wholesale runs takes one tap now instead of a Sunday-night spreadsheet argument."

Sam P.
Sam P.Shares a Costco membership and a dog

"No bank login was the whole reason I tried it. A week later the shrinkflation alert told me my 'same' cereal box had lost 1.4 oz since March. I felt seen and betrayed simultaneously."

Chris W.
Chris W.Privacy nerd
Simple, honest pricing

Less than one good coupon a month

Start free. Upgrade when CartLens has already saved you more than it costs — most members get there on their first switch list.

Free

$0 /forever
For trying it on this week's groceries.
  • Receipts per month 10
  • Line-item extraction
  • Product images & details
  • Shareable links
  • History & search 24 hrs
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Plus

$1 /month · or $12/yr
For taking real control of your expenses.
  • Receipts per month Unlimited
  • Personal Inflation Index™
  • Nearby price comparison
  • Shrinkflation & price alerts
  • History, search & CSV export Forever
Start 30-day free trial

Household

$5 /month · or $60/yr
For families and roommates who shop as a team.
  • Everything in Plus
  • Members on one ledger Up to 5
  • Item splitting & settle-up
  • Shared budgets & nudges
  • Priority parsing & support
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Good questions

Frequently asked

Do I need to link my bank account or cards?

No — and you never will. CartLens works entirely from receipt photos you choose to send. We believe the most private expense tracker is one that only ever sees what you show it.

Who can see my data? Do you sell it?

We don't sell your data, we don't show ads, and we don't broker your purchase history to consumer-insights firms. Only you can see your data unless you explicitly share the receipt link with someone. Our entire business model is a small subscription, nothing else, and you can export or delete everything at any time.

Is it only on Telegram?

Telegram is the fastest way to start today — search for @CartLensBot, tap start, send a photo. WhatsApp, iMessage via email gateway, and direct web upload are on the public roadmap. Every channel feeds the same account and history.

What if my receipt is crumpled, faded, or three feet long?

Send it anyway. CartLens handles wrinkles, thermal-paper fading, fold shadows, and famously long warehouse-club receipts. If a line can't be read confidently, we mark it for a one-tap fix instead of guessing silently.

How does the Personal Inflation Index work?

We track the prices of the specific items you actually rebuy, weight them by how much of your spending they represent, and compute your basket's price change over time — then chart it against headline CPI and grocery CPI so you can see how your reality compares to the average.

Where do nearby competitor prices come from?

From a blend of public store pricing data and the anonymized, aggregated receipt prices of CartLens members near you — which means comparisons reflect shelf reality, not just advertised specials. Individual receipts are never shared or identifiable.

— Your next receipt is the first one that counts —

Stop guessing. Start scanning.

The receipt in your pocket right now knows whether you're winning or losing against inflation. Send it to CartLens and find out in ten seconds.

📸 Message @CartLensBot to begin
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