The receipt app you can ask

Yes, Bonstructer is on the App Store. You sign in with the same account as on the web and Android.

Your first 20 scans are free; after that a scan costs about 2–3 cents in credits (AIC). Chat, AI features and more storage use credits too; the app shows the price up front. No subscription needed.

Paper receipts via camera, QR eBons, photos, PDFs and pasted text. Photograph long receipts in several parts and the app stitches them together automatically. If a line is misread, you fix it right in the receipt.

Yes, any receipt: DIY store, electronics, furniture, garage, tradesperson, pharmacy or your insurance invoice. Bonstructer reads the shop, date, amount and line items, and the original photo or PDF stays attached. Search and chat find it again, for warranty, returns or taxes. Price check, shopping list and recipe ideas are made for grocery shopping.

Scan the receipt with the camera, upload a photo or PDF, import a QR eBon or paste text. Bonstructer reads the shop, date and every line item; you fix misread lines right in the receipt. The original photo stays attached to the receipt.

Often, yes: the examples above are real, heavily faded and crumpled receipts that were read correctly without corrections. But what’s no longer visible on the paper, no app can read. So scan receipts right after shopping.

Correct the line right on the receipt or tap “Report problem”. We teach recognition unknown shops and new layouts in the background, often within a day. After that receipts from that shop are read cleanly, and receipts you already saved can be read again; your own corrections are kept.

Thermal paper can become unreadable within months. If it has happened, a bank or card statement often helps as additional proof; whether the retailer accepts it is up to them. For the future: scan the receipt right after buying, and keep the original for expensive purchases anyway.

In Germany there is no general retention duty for private receipts. As a guide, the statutory warranty period is two years; for guarantees, the manufacturer’s period applies. Self-employed and tax rules differ – check them with your tax advisor. Bonstructer is not legal or tax advice.

Yes, for example “What did I spend at Edeka this month?” or “What can I cook tonight from my shopping?”. The answer is written by AI from your receipts; you can verify tables and totals in the notebook.

Bonstructer works from the receipt instead of the bank account, so it sees every single item, not just the total of a card payment. There is no bank connection.

Yes, QR eBons and PDF receipts can be imported. If the receipt comes by email, just forward it to bons@bonstructer.com. How you get the eBon, e.g. from REWE, Lidl Plus or Edeka, depends on the retailer.

Yes. Forward the email with the receipt or invoice from your sign-in address to bons@bonstructer.com, for example eBons, online-shop invoices or insurance documents. PDF and photo attachments are read in automatically and land in your notebook without opening the app. From a different address, put your personal code from settings in the subject line.

From two sources: public current offers for your postcode region, and your own price history from earlier receipts. You need a postcode in settings for that. Discounts from loyalty apps like Lidl Plus or Payback are not visible to the price check.

Yes. In the receipt you choose Send by email, pick the recipient — remembered addresses such as tax advisor, employer, partner or landlord — and decide whether the line items and the original photo or PDF go along. It is sent from your sign-in address, or alternatively via the mail app on your device.

Yes. In the receipt choose Split receipt, tap who had which line — unassigned lines are shared by everyone — and Bonstructer works out who owes whom. You send each share straight into the other person's app — end-to-end encrypted — or as a message with PayPal, Wero or GiroCode. Your own IBAN or PayPal address is stored end-to-end encrypted: only your device holds the key, and a token carries it to a new phone. Two receipts are free, after that splitting is part of Premium.

Answers are written by AI from your receipts. They can be wrong — which is why Bonstructer shows tables and totals you can verify in the notebook.

App servers and receipt originals are in Google Cloud in Frankfurt. You sign in with Google, email or passkey and can delete your account and data any time under Account. Chat answers go through Google Cloud AI services; that processing may occur outside the EU — unless you switch on “AI in the EU only” in Settings, (also switchable any time in the chat menu ⋮), which keeps AI analysis in EU data centres only. The default is global; EU-only can be slower or fail more often under heavy load.

Ads stay off until you opt in. No banners, no autoplay. Optionally you can earn AIC from videos in the Android app. Receipts, chat and account data are not used for ads. We never sell your data. Details in the privacy policy.

Photos and PDFs are read by a Google Cloud AI service (Vertex AI; Google does not retain the data); LlamaParse (EU endpoint) is only used in exceptional cases when we switch it on manually. Questions and notebook contents go to the same Google service so chat can answer. If you flag a receipt for review, your note and parse excerpt may be used to improve recognition. All of that is for the service — not for marketing. More in the privacy policy.

Yes. Under More → Export to finance software pick a period and a preset (WISO Mein Geld, MoneyMoney, StarMoney, Lexware, Banking4, GnuCash, HomeBank) and you get a QIF or CSV file to import. For spreadsheets, the CSV preset is all you need.

Folder sync writes every receipt as a file into a folder you choose — Google Drive, OneDrive or a local folder on the device — and keeps it up to date. Your receipts stay with you as plain files outside the app. Included from the Plus plan.