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.
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Scan receipts for money
Here are the best apps you need to be using.
And the best thing … you can use all the apps at the same time – meaning 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
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.
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
Currently on hold – a new app is on its way in autumn 2021.
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 cash back when you buy certain items.
You can sign up for a free Swagbucks account here and get a £3 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 lost 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
Yes, you can use all receipt apps at the same time to scan receipts.
You can only use the receipt once per app. However, you can use the same receipt across all receipt app.
Most of the apps payout as cash to PayPal, although a few offer gift cards. It’s best to get a PayPal account, so you have more flexibility.
The majority of the receipt apps works with all different sorts of retailers. A couple of them are solely for your food purchases and specify with shopping receipts and supermarket receipts they accept.
Yes, you can earn cash or gift cards but using a receipt app.
In their terms and conditions, most of the apps say that it’s only your own or your household’s receipts you should scan.
Yes, there are loads of other apps you can use your receipt with. They are mostly cashback apps, which means you need to buy something specific, so we don’t mention them in this list of best receipt apps.
Once you’ve saved up enough points, most apps payout within 24 hours.
Most of the apps allow you to scan shopping receipts from online as well as in store purchases.
Well, I have my favourite and others might find it different. It’s best to test them all out and work out which one you like the best. Even though I have a preference, I still use them all.
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Hog Receipt is closing and offering an incentive for account holders to move to STOREWARDS as an alternative receipt click app.
Do you know when it’s closing.
End September
I have just tried getting on to storewards but a message is reading
Registration is closed
I guess they are limiting the amount users it has ?
Yes, it’s a shame for people not signed up yet. A similar thing happened to the Shoprize app too. Hopefully, more spaces open up soon.
Great collection of apps to save money. Just wondering… can I use multiple apps to scan the same receipts at the same time?
Yes, apart from Checkoutsmart and Quidco’s ClickSnap which are run by the same company. Other than that, you can use the same receipt on multiple apps. But, you cannot share the receipts with other users, or your account will get shut down
Hey guys, thanks for the great article above.
Please could someone create a referal code for Huyu?
All the ones I tried came back invalid.