Why this app exists
The honest answer: I built GroceryTracker Pro because I needed it. My household kept overspending on groceries every month, and none of the existing apps fit. Generic budget apps lumped Aldi and Costco together and called it \"groceries\". Spreadsheets died after two weeks. The receipt-scanner apps I tried were really just document scanners — they gave me a digital PDF, but no usable data. What I actually wanted was line-item OCR feeding straight into a per-store, per-category budget. So I built it.
About six months in, the app worked well enough to share. By April 2026 it had crossed 3,000 scanned receipts across iOS and Android, and a small but loyal user base in the US, UK, Germany, Austria, and Spain. Every feature in the app today comes from either a problem I had myself or one a real user emailed me about.
Who builds it
One person, for now: Nemanja Pećanin, an independent developer based in Europe. Mobile development background, Expo / React Native frontend, AWS Amplify backend, Google Gemini for receipt OCR and AI insights. Every line of code, every translation, every App Store screenshot is handled directly by me. There's no agency, no growth team, no marketing department.
That's a feature, not a limitation. Every email gets a real reply from the person who can actually fix the bug or ship the feature. Every release notes file is written by the same person who wrote the code. Indie scale means slower release cycles, but it also means the app stays focused on solving real problems instead of optimizing for engagement metrics.
How GroceryTracker Pro is funded
Two ways, and only two ways:
- Premium subscriptions. The app is free to download and use, with a per-month scan cap on the free tier. Premium ($2.99/month or $19.99/year via App Store / Google Play) removes the cap and unlocks advanced AI insights and exports. Subscriptions are managed through the platform stores and processed via RevenueCat — I never touch your payment details.
- Nothing else. No ads. No third-party data sales. No selling anonymized spending patterns to retailers or market researchers. Your receipts are yours.
Privacy, in plain language
Your scanned receipts are stored on AWS servers in the EU (Frankfurt region) under your account. The only third parties involved in processing are Google Gemini (for OCR — receipts are sent for extraction and not retained for training, per Google's API terms), Sentry (for crash reports), PostHog (for anonymous product analytics), and RevenueCat (for subscription management). That's it. No advertising SDKs, no Facebook pixel, no data brokers.
You can delete your account — and every receipt and household record attached to it — at any time from inside the app. The full privacy policy covers the legal detail; this section covers what actually matters.
What's next
The 2026 roadmap is publicly tracked and shaped by user requests. Major upcoming themes include deeper meal-planning integration, broader European retailer support (especially France, Italy, and the Netherlands), and an open data export so users can take their full receipt history with them at any time. If there's a feature you'd find useful, the inbox is open.
Get in touch
Direct email is the best channel: grocery.tracker.pro@gmail.com. I read every message and respond personally — usually within 1–2 business days.
