DropSheet / No subscription
Receipt scanner without a subscription
$29.99 once. Photos or PDFs in. Excel or CSV out. No monthly plan, no seats, no account. Not Expensify.
Expensify alternative, one-time payment
Expensify is for teams that submit expenses, reimburse, and keep receipts in the cloud. You pay for that machine every month. If you are a freelancer who needs a spreadsheet for the accountant, you are renting a building to store a shoebox.
DropSheet is the shoebox tool. One person. One computer. One payment. It does not do corporate cards, approval chains, or payroll. If you need those, stay on Expensify. If you need rows, date, vendor, total, category, this is the job.
Shoeboxed alternative
Shoeboxed is a service: mail the paper, or snap it, and they keep the documents. That is the right product if you want someone else to store the archive. It is the wrong product if the point was that a pharmacy receipt never sits on someone else’s server.
DropSheet does not store your receipts. It reads them here and writes Excel or CSV. What they publish about where photos go is on where receipt apps send your data.
On how long they keep it, Shoeboxed publishes two answers. The privacy policy says raw data is deleted from databases and applications within six months of a deletion request, and that data may remain in backup files for up to three years. The GDPR page says raw data is deleted within ninety days, with document backups up to one year on a rolling window and account backups up to three years. Both pages are theirs. They do not agree. The full comparison is on the Shoeboxed alternative page.
That is not an accusation. It is what is published, read on 3 September 2026, and it is the sort of thing worth knowing before a year of receipts goes anywhere.
For a freelancer, not a finance team
One person with a year of slips who needs a spreadsheet for Schedule C. No seats to manage, no approvals to route. It is not a free Expensify, Expensify is a different machine, and “free” here means try the sheet, then $29.99 once for export.
What you pay, what you don’t
| Typical receipt SaaS | DropSheet | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Monthly or per-seat | $29.99 once |
| Account | Yes | No |
| Where the photo goes | Their cloud | This computer |
| Cancel | You remember to | Nothing to cancel |
Who should not buy this
A finance team. Anyone who needs receipts available on every device from a login. Anyone who wants SmartScan emailed to a shared inbox. Buy the subscription product. DropSheet is local on purpose. Nothing is uploaded.
Four sample rows are already loaded. Drop one of your own on top of them.
Subscription FAQ
Is there a receipt scanner without a subscription?
Try it on the homepage. The demo holds 6 rows. A license unlocks the whole sheet. $29.99 once. No monthly plan.
Is DropSheet an Expensify alternative?
Only if the job is a spreadsheet, not company expense reports. No reimbursement workflow, no corporate cards, no seats. One person, one computer, one payment.
Why not the free image-to-CSV sites?
They upload the file. They are not a product you own. DropSheet is a local program. Nothing uploaded.
Is DropSheet a Shoeboxed alternative?
Only if you wanted a spreadsheet, not a mail-in scan service. Shoeboxed stores the documents in their system. DropSheet reads the file in the browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Is there a free Expensify alternative?
The sheet on the homepage is free to try, and the demo holds 6 rows. A license unlocks the whole sheet. $29.99 once. It is not Expensify’s free tier, and it does not do expense reports.
Best receipt app for freelancers?
If the job is a spreadsheet for the accountant, and the photos staying on your computer: this. If you need seats, cards, and reimbursements, buy the subscription product.
Can I cancel?
There is nothing to cancel. One payment. Refunds on Gumroad if the export is useless for your pile.
Mike Printz · [email protected]