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Genius Scan alternatives

Genius Scan is a document scanner app from The Grizzly Labs for iPhone and Android. It detects the page, corrects the perspective and saves a PDF, with documents processed on the phone. The paid Ultra plan adds on-device text recognition, cloud backup and export to services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive.

Why people look

Why teams look for a Genius Scan alternative

The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.

I have a folder of receipt PDFs, and I still type each total into a spreadsheet.

Smartbills reads the merchant, items, taxes and total from the photo and creates the expense for you.

Searching my scans for one purchase means opening files until I find it.

Receipts are searchable by store, date, amount and the items on them.

Scanning works for paper, but half my receipts come by email.

Email receipt capture pulls receipts out of the mailbox you connect, next to the ones you photograph.

The shortlist

6 alternatives to Genius Scan

The products teams shortlist against Genius Scan, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.

  1. Adobe Scan

    Adobe Scan turns receipts into searchable PDFs in Adobe's cloud. Smartbills turns them into expenses, with items, taxes and totals read for you.

    Best forPeople already working in Acrobat who want any paper turned into a searchable PDF.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  2. CamScanner

    CamScanner scans, converts and edits documents of every kind. Smartbills reads receipts into expenses and keeps them ready for approval and your books.

    Best forStudents and office workers who scan, convert and edit all kinds of documents.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  3. Smart Receipts

    Smart Receipts turns photographed receipts into PDF and CSV expense reports. Smartbills reads them too, finds the ones in your email and syncs everything to your books.

    Best forIndividuals, field crews and small teams who mostly need receipts turned into a PDF or CSV expense report.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  4. Foreceipt

    Foreceipt scans receipts and builds PDF or Excel reports for tax time. Smartbills reads every item and tax, checks your mailbox itself and syncs to your books.

    Best forSelf-employed people who want a simple receipt log and a tax-time report at a low monthly price.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  5. Dext

    Dext collects the receipts and invoices your accounting practice is sent. Smartbills gets the receipt from the merchant at the moment you pay.

    Best forAccounting practices collecting documents from many clients at once, who need client reminders and publishing built in.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  6. Hubdoc

    Hubdoc moves documents into Xero and stops there. Smartbills adds digital receipts, expense policy, cards and payables around those documents.

    Best forXero users whose only need is getting bills and receipts into Xero at no extra cost.

    Compare it with Smartbills

Disclosure

And Smartbills, which is ours

Slipping our own product into a roundup without saying so is exactly what makes these pages worthless, so to be clear, this one is ours.

Smartbills

Best for: People and businesses who scan receipts to track expenses, not just to file a copy.

Smartbills vs Genius Scan

How this list was put together

These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Genius Scan, drawn from what prospects actually shortlist against it and from the rest of its category. The order is editorial rather than a ranking, because we don't run benchmarks on products we don't operate, and a scored table written by a vendor about its competitors isn't evidence. Each entry links to a full comparison with claims specific enough to check.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

Not a general one. It scans receipts and reads them. For contracts, letters and forms, a scanner like Genius Scan is the better tool.

Yes. Upload the images or PDFs, and Smartbills reads each receipt the same way it reads a new photo.

It handles every kind of paper, it keeps processing on your phone, and unlimited scanning costs nothing.

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Comparing Genius Scan with something else?

Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions. The number that settles it is the share of transactions that ended up with an itemized document attached, and you can measure that in one cycle.

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