The good Mac receipt apps died, went to the cloud, or started charging rent.
Neat killed its desktop app and became a $200/year cloud service. Mariner Paperless was abandoned — its users stranded with no export. The last maintained Mac app moved to subscription-only. Counterfoil is the one built to keep your data yours: an open, documented library of plain PDFs and one database on your own disk, exportable in full at any time — including during the trial.
Drop receipts in. Get your tax season out.
Capture
Drag in PDFs and photos, or point Counterfoil at a watch folder — your ScanSnap's output lands in the library automatically.
Extract
On-device OCR reads vendor, date, total, and tax, and links every number to where it appears on the receipt. Anything it isn't sure of goes to a review queue — never a guess.
File & find
Auto-sorted into US Schedule-C categories, full-text and semantic search, and grounded answers to "what did I spend on X?" — each with its receipts cited.
Package
One click builds a tax package: per-line totals, category CSVs, and the supporting receipts merged into a PDF your accountant can actually use.
Rescue
Bring your old library with you. Import wizards read Mariner Paperless and Neat exports and tell you exactly what mapped and what didn't.
Prove it
Run the built-in audit with Wi-Fi off: it exercises the whole pipeline and reports zero external connections. Privacy you can check, not just a promise.
Built to be owned, not rented.
Nothing leaves your Mac
On-device OCR and search. No account, no upload, no telemetry. The only network calls are license activation and a manual update check.
No lock-in, by design
Your library is plain PDFs in dated folders plus one open database. "Export everything" is one click and always free — the trauma every Neat and Paperless refugee remembers, fixed at the root.
Never a wrong number
Every extracted amount is traceable to the receipt. When Counterfoil isn't sure, it leaves the field blank and asks you — it never invents a total.
Made for US taxes
Schedule-C categories out of the box and a tax package that assembles the evidence, not just a spreadsheet. Organizer, not adviser.
Cancel and keep it
After twelve paid months your license vests: cancel any time afterward and the version you paid for keeps working, forever, with all your data.
Runs on your Mac
Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 13 and up. Signed and notarized. No heavy GPU box, no cloud subscription underneath.
The same price as the rent-only alternative — except you keep what you paid for.
Counterfoil
14-day free trial · perpetual fallback after 12 paid months
- Everything: capture, extract, search, ask, tax packages
- All rescue importers (Neat, Mariner Paperless, CSV)
- Free updates while subscribed
- Cancel anytime — keep the version you paid for
- Two Macs
Month to month
Same features · lower commitment
- Everything in the annual plan
- Switch to annual anytime
- Two Macs
Switching from Neat, Mariner Paperless, or Receipts? Your first year is $39 — bring your old library with the built-in importers.
Be a founding subscriber.
$39 for your first year — locked in
Counterfoil is in active development for a tax-season release. Founding subscribers get the first year at $39, direct input into the roadmap, and the perpetual-fallback guarantee from day one.
Prefer to just hear when it ships? Leave your email — no charge.
No charge now. Founding-list members lock in $39 for the first year when Counterfoil ships (renews $59.99/yr — cancel anytime), plus roadmap input and the perpetual-fallback guarantee. We'll email you the moment it's ready.
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The honest answers.
It's a subscription — why should I trust that?
Because you keep what you pay for. After twelve paid months your license vests to a perpetual one: cancel afterward and the version you paid for runs forever, with your full library. If we ever disappear, your data is plain PDFs and an open database on your own disk.
Does anything go to the cloud?
No. OCR, extraction, search, and the tax package all run on your Mac. The only network calls are license activation and a manual update check — and you can verify that yourself with the built-in audit, Wi-Fi off.
I'm leaving Neat or Mariner Paperless. Can I bring my receipts?
Yes. Counterfoil imports Mariner Paperless libraries directly and Neat's CSV+PDF exports, and it reports exactly which fields mapped and which didn't — no silent data loss.
Will it do my taxes?
No — and it won't pretend to. Counterfoil organizes and packages your records with US Schedule-C categories so your accountant (or you) can file. It never gives tax advice.
Do I need a scanner?
No. Drag in PDFs or phone photos, or point it at any folder — including your ScanSnap's output folder — and new files are picked up automatically.
Keep the proof. Keep the version. Keep it on your Mac.
Counterfoil ships for tax season. Join the founding list to lock in $39 for your first year — no charge until it's ready.