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Grocery receipt scanner

Scan a grocery receipt into editable line items.

Radish turns grocery receipt photos into proposed line items you review and edit. It proposes likely categories and lets your household mark items essential or optional without connecting a bank account.

Last updated: August 15, 2026.

Get Radish for iPhone Try the interactive sample

Free to download. Review and save one receipt before choosing a monthly or yearly plan for continued use. Requires iOS 18 or later. Optimized for English-language US grocery receipts and USD totals. Manual entry remains available.

Input to review

The scan creates a draft, not a final record.

Start with clear photos of the full grocery receipt. Radish proposes the items, checks the draft against the printed total, and opens a review screen before anything is confirmed.

Illustrative grocery receipt with nine item lines and a printed total of $52.32.
Illustrative receipt input. Your own store layout and line-item wording will vary.
Radish processing a grocery receipt and revealing four proposed line items.
Radish reveals proposed items while the receipt is processed.
Radish Review showing editable receipt details, item prices, categories, and essential or optional choices.
The review screen keeps receipt details and every proposed item editable.

What the grocery receipt scanner proposes

Radish can propose the following fields from the receipt. They remain draft values until you confirm them.

  • Receipt details: store, date, and printed total.
  • Item details: product name and line price.
  • Likely category: for example, seafood, dairy, produce, or beverages.
  • Math check: whether the proposed items add up with the receipt total.

How to fix a scan before saving

  1. Compare the proposed store, date, and total with the printed receipt.
  2. Edit an item name, price, or category when the proposal is wrong.
  3. Mark matching item families essential or optional for your household, or exclude a line from spending.
  4. Confirm only after the item list and total make sense.

Radish does not treat recognition as certainty. The review step is part of the product workflow, not an error screen you see only when scanning fails.

Scanning limits to expect

  • You can submit up to four receipt photos for one scan.
  • Folded, cropped, blurred, faded, handwritten, very long, or unusually formatted receipts can produce incomplete or incorrect drafts.
  • Taxes, discounts, multipacks, weighted items, deposits, coupons, and abbreviated store wording may need review.
  • Scanning depends on device support, iOS version, language, free storage, network, model, and service availability.

If scanning is unavailable or the draft is not useful, use Add by hand. Radish does not require scanning to save a receipt.

Receipt scanning without a bank connection

Radish reads only the receipt photos you choose to submit. It does not connect to a bank account or import a transaction feed.

Before the first scan, Radish asks for permission to send up to four receipt photos through its Cloudflare-hosted receipt-processing service to OpenAI. The service also uses security metadata and a subscription or device proof to protect usage limits. You review the returned draft before saving it.

Read the full Privacy Policy for the exact processing, retention, deletion, iCloud, and security boundaries.

Grocery receipt scanner FAQ

These answers describe the current Radish workflow and its review boundaries.

Does Radish scan a grocery receipt into individual items?

Radish proposes individual line items and prices from the receipt photos you submit. You review and edit the draft before saving it.

Can I correct a scanned receipt?

Yes. The review screen lets you correct receipt details and item names, prices, categories, and essential or optional choices before confirming the receipt.

What receipt details can Radish recognize?

Radish can propose the store, receipt date, printed total, item names, item prices, and likely categories. These are draft values, so you should check them against the receipt.

Does the grocery receipt scanner need a bank connection?

No. Radish reads the receipt photos you choose to submit. It does not connect to a bank account or import a bank feed.

What if receipt scanning is unavailable?

You can add a receipt by hand. Scanning depends on device support, iOS version, language, free storage, network, model, and service availability.

Are receipt photos sent to a processing service?

Yes, only after you give permission. Radish can send up to four receipt photos through its Cloudflare-hosted service to OpenAI to create the draft. The Privacy Policy explains the security metadata, retention boundaries, and deletion controls.

Radish for iPhone

Review the items, not just the store total.

Free to download. Review and save one receipt before choosing a monthly or yearly plan for continued use. Requires iOS 18 or later. Optimized for English-language US grocery receipts and USD totals. Manual entry remains available.

Get Radish for iPhone

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