Earn money with the 8 best receipt snapping apps

After you’ve been shopping, scan receipts for money, and you can earn money to spend on whatever you want with these awesome apps.

You don’t even need to be a master photographer to make money taking photos.

And you don’t need to shop for anything specific.

After you’ve been shopping, simply snap a photo of your receipt (even if you’ve just spent £1).

Then you can make money to spend on whatever you want.

Scan receipts for money

Here are the best apps you need to be using.

And the best thing, in a similar way to online surveys for money, you can use all the apps at the same time.

That means the same receipts can earn you money on every single app!

Store Rewards

STOREWARDS  lets you earn points when you take photos and scan receipts. 

You collect 600 points for each receipt, plus bonuses as you scan more and daily sign-in bonuses.

Use the Store Rewards promo code QGFJX and get 250 extra coins.

You save your points up until you can exchange them for cash via PayPal, or you can choose an Amazon voucher instead.

• Read > STOREWARDS review

Amazon Shopper Panel

Using the Amazon Shopper Panel app, you can earn a monthly reward for uploading receipts and taking short surveys.

It’s not about Amazon purchases; you can add receipts from shops you do at other retailers in store and online.

The app is currently working on an invite-only program, but you can join the waitlist now as spots are opening up all the time.

Shoppix

Snap photos of your receipts, and you earn tokens that you can save up for Amazon, iTunes or Love2Shop vouchers.

On top of earning tokens from your receipts, you can earn more points.

Take part in short paid surveys and regularly scanning, which will move you “up the shelves” for more bonuses.

Take a look at detailed Shoppix reviews to see how the app really works.

The app is available on both the App Store and GooglePlay.

Shoppix referral code

Use the Shoppix promo code 3B74ZJ55 to get a bonus 200 tokens when you join.

SnapMyEats

Answer a few questions about what you eat, take a photo of your food/drink receipt and earn.

You’re able to earn gift cards when you take pictures of your receipts, and just three receipts a month will earn you £1.

Taking photos of 15 receipts will earn you £5 a month.

If you buy breakfast, snacks, the odd coffee on the go from fast food or restaurants, then you can make a few quid back easily with this app.

Plus, they offer bonus opportunities and extra gifts too.

SnapMyEats is available on both:

the Apple app store for iOS devices and

Google play store for Android devices.

HuYu

Scan your in-store receipts with the HuYu app to earn points which you can swap for rewards.

You can only use grocery receipts from Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl and Co-op.

You can also boost your earnings by completing short surveys within the app.

You earn 5 points per receipt and can cash out shopping vouchers when you hit 500 points.

Zipzero

With Zipzero, you’re able to earn up to £50 a month.

Instead of cashing out as money or vouchers, Zipzero works a bit differently from the other apps.

You’re able to reduce the cost of your household bills, like your water, gas and electric, TV/internet/phone and council tax.

Read up on our Zipzero review for more details about how the app works.

Scanning receipts with SMA Baby Club

With the SMA Baby Clubs reward programme, you can make money back by uploading a copy of your receipt.

You need to have purchased one of their follow on or growing up milk and get £5 cashback on your first purchase.

You’ll go on to earn £5 cashback after every third purchase.

It’s paid to you as cash to your bank account or PayPal.

Swagbucks

With Swagbucks Magic Receipts, you can earn their credit (SB) which you can change into gift cards or PayPal cash.

Use their website from the app to scan receipts for money, plus get bonus cashback when you buy certain items.

You can sign up for a free Swagbucks account here and get a £10 bonus.

Shopprize – bonus app to mention

Yes, there are more than seven apps here for those of you who were checking my counting skills.

Shopprize is not available to download anymore.

The reason we’re still including Shopprize (if you’re already downloaded it) is more of a warning to current users.

If you delete the app, you won’t be able to download it again from the Android store.

But, you should still be able to use it (for the time being anyway).

With the app, you scan photos of your shopping and save up points which you can swap for Amazon vouchers or use them for daily sweepstakes and giveaways.

It doesn’t take too long to collect points, but you’re only able to put five receipts through a day.

Please remember, while it’s a great way to boost the pennies in your pockets, these apps may not be around forever.

If any of the companies were to go bust, then you’d lose any points or earnings in the app.

Therefore, it’s best to cash out as soon as you’re able to, rather than leaving any vouchers or cash saved up in the app.

If you’re a wombler, please do check the terms and conditions of the apps.

Read next: What on earth is a wombler?

Many of them state that you need to use personal receipts (or receipts from your household).

If they think you’ve been scanning other people’s receipts (like from wombling), they make close your account down.

Receipt scanning apps we don’t mention

We keep this list concise and only share the best receipts apps that work.

You may see other apps mentioned, but they don’t work in the UK:

Fetch Rewards UK

It’s not set up.

American users only.

Receipt Hog

The Receipt Hog app no longer works for scanning receipts.

Receipt Hog was replaced with STOREWARDS, which is actually of the best receipt apps.

Scanning receipts FAQs

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