Audit-Ready PDF Receipt Reports, Generated on Your iPhone

Updated November 3, 2026

Short answer: ReceiptIQ AI turns any date range of scanned receipts into a single professional PDF in one tap: an expense summary with per-category totals, an indexed table of every receipt, and then every scanned receipt image on its own page — the actual proof an auditor or accountant asks for. The whole document is generated on your iPhone; nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Why this exists

It was built for a real subscriber whose auditor didn't want a spreadsheet — they wanted to see the receipts. Most expense apps export CSV files (we do too), but a CSV proves nothing: an audit, an insurance claim, or a picky finance department wants the image of the receipt next to the numbers. Assembling that by hand from a photo library is an afternoon of misery. Here it's one tap.

What's in the report

• Summary page — the period, receipt count, total expenses and income, and a per-category breakdown sorted by amount.
• Receipt index — every receipt in the range: date, store, category, amount, and the page number where its scan appears. Income entries are marked; receipts without images are listed too, so the index is complete.
• One scan per page — each receipt image, full size, with a store · date · amount header. This is the section auditors actually use.

Practical details

• Pick the range — a month, a quarter, or a full year — and the report covers it as one document, because an auditor wants the year in one file, not twelve.
• Generated entirely on-device with careful memory handling, so even reports with hundreds of scanned pages build reliably on an iPhone.
• Share it anywhere iOS shares files: AirDrop to your accountant, save to Files, attach to email.
• CSV export exists alongside it for the spreadsheet half of the job.

How to export it, and what it is used for

1. Open Settings, Your Data, Data Export.
2. Choose the period: a preset, or a custom start and end date for a quarter or a tax year. You can also pick one category.
3. Tap Export PDF Report, then save it to Files, AirDrop it to your Mac or send it from the share sheet.

The receipt photos appear in the PDF only if Keep Receipt Images is turned on in Settings. PDF and CSV export are free. People use the report for:

• Tax season: the expenses with the receipt evidence attached, in one file. See the tax receipts guide.
• Business audits: the summary answers the overview question and the scan pages answer the "show me the original" question.
• Expense reimbursements: one PDF for your finance team instead of a spreadsheet plus twenty photos.
• Your own records: a yearly archive you can store anywhere and read without the app.

Ambiguous printed dates (is 5/6/2026 the 5th of June or the 6th of May?) are settled before they reach the report: the app works the order out from the receipt where it can, learns how each store prints dates, and asks you once when nothing settles it.

And the receipts get into the app how?

Point the camera at a receipt: ReceiptIQ AI's AI reads the store, date, and every line item with its price, categorizes them, and files it — including two-column receipts, discount lines, and receipts in Dutch, Japanese, Spanish, or Traditional Chinese. Free for your first 30 AI scans, no account required.