Your receipts stay on your iPhone.
The short version
- Your receipts and totals are processed and stored on your iPhone.
- Budget Lens handles everything on-device.
- We don't sell your data, run ads, or track you across the web.
- iCloud backup is optional and syncs through your own private iCloud.
- You can delete everything from inside the app, any time.
Overview
Budget Lens AI runs on your iPhone. Receipts you scan, the totals, the store names, are processed and stored locally. Budget Lens handles everything on-device.
On-device processing
When you scan a receipt, Budget Lens takes care of it on your iPhone. Reading the receipt, pulling out the store and total, and sorting it into a category all happen locally. The image and the extracted data don't leave your device. If you turn on iCloud backup, your receipts sync through your own private iCloud account — we can't see them.
What we do collect
A short list:
- Your email, if you create an account or join the waitlist. Used to sign you in and send occasional product updates you can unsubscribe from.
- Subscription status, handled by Apple. We see whether you're on the free plan or paid — not your card, not your Apple ID.
- Crash reports and basic usage signals. If the app crashes, we get a stack trace so we can fix it. These don't include your receipts.
- Whatever you send us. If you email support, we keep that thread so we can follow up.
That's it. No ad tracking, no analytics sold to anyone, no building a profile of what you buy.
Third parties
We use a small number of standard infrastructure providers — for authentication, crash reporting, subscription billing (that's Apple), and sending transactional email. They process data only as needed to run the service and don't sell or reuse it. We don't share your data with advertisers, data brokers, or any third party for marketing.
How long we keep it
We keep your account email while your account is active. Crash reports expire after 90 days. Subscription records are kept as long as we're legally required to. Delete your account and we remove everything we hold about you.
Your rights
You can:
- Delete your account and all data from inside the app (Settings → Account → Delete account).
- Cancel anytime from iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions.
- Unsubscribe from product emails using the link at the bottom of any email.
Changes
All rights reserved. We may update this policy over time.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email privacy@budgetlens.ai. We read every one.