A drawer in the Lisbon office holds 4,182 receipts, one jar of them left in a car through a summer. 214 of them can no longer be read by anybody, which is a fact the reader has to live with.

Fourteen kitchen tables, one biscuit tin kept since 2011, and a shutter button in the wrong half of the screen. Most of what changed after the June visits had nothing to do with reading paper.

380 ms on an iPhone 14, 3.4 s on a Galaxy A13, and an import that Android kept killing at receipt 60. What it took to keep the reading on the device, and what it costs.

In March the price went from EUR 19 a year to EUR 29 and 1.9% of subscribers left. The reasoning behind both numbers, and the offer we turned down in 2025.

A total set in red, an arrow pointing up, and a comparison against a month with a week away in it. Taking the judgement out of the interface was more work than putting it there had been.

The first release had 41 categories and an “Other” bucket that swallowed 22% of everything within two months. What we changed, and the part no two households will agree on.