SparkReceipt is a capable product: automatic inbox fetching, AI scanning, income and expense tracking, mileage, bank-statement extraction, linked accounts, integrations and 190 currencies. The Paper Keep's pitch is narrower — you probably don't need pre-accounting; you need a durable, Australian-shaped receipt archive for A$3 a month.
Pick by the job you need done, not the feature count.
A personal receipt archive that fills itself from your email.
Does one job completely: every receipt captured, parsed, categorised and searchable, with Australian tax summaries. A$3/mo flat.
A lightweight pre-accounting app for freelancers and micro-businesses.
Automatic email fetching, receipt and income scanning, mileage, bank statements, multi-currency and accounting integrations — one broad Elite plan for web signups after a 7-day trial.
Everything below about The Paper Keep is shipped today — not a roadmap item.
| Feature | The Paper Keep | SparkReceipt |
|---|---|---|
| Getting receipts in | ||
| Scans your email inbox for receipts | Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Fastmail and custom via IMAP app passwords — including months of history on first connect | Automatic fetching from Gmail, Outlook and IMAP |
| Native mobile apps | Works in any mobile browser instead | iOS and Android |
| Ongoing free plan | 14-day free trial, then A$3/mo | The current web offer is a 7-day trial; check the vendor for other account options |
| What each receipt becomes | ||
| AI extraction of vendor, date, total, tax | Claude-powered | |
| Line items with per-item categories and tags | Line-item categorisation is included in Elite | |
| Email originals and inline images archived Inline images archived before the retailer's hosting dies | Stores receipt documents for at least 10 years; raw-email and inline-image preservation are not documented | |
| Field-level audit history | Receipt and line-item edits recorded | Not confirmed in the cited sources |
| The wider toolkit | ||
| Income tracking / pre-accounting | Receipts only, by design | Income docs, categories, reports |
| Mileage tracking | ||
| Multi-currency breadth | Any currency stored natively; A$ conversion at ATO monthly rates for Australian returns | ~190 currencies with conversion |
| Accountant collaboration seat | Hand over the CSV export instead | |
| Australian tax-year summaries + WFH estimator July–June years, deductible/GST totals, ATO FX rates, fixed-rate vs actual-cost comparison | Australian WFH estimator not confirmed in the cited sources | |
| Price | ||
| What it costs | A$3/mo or A$30/yr — every feature, no tiers | Elite US$99.99/yr promotion checked 6 September 2026, billed annually plus applicable tax; 7-day trial |
By Boden from The Paper Keep. This comparison uses the vendor’s public pricing and documentation linked below, checked on 6 September 2026. It is not an independent hands-on test. “Not confirmed” means the sources do not establish support; it does not mean the feature is absent. The Paper Keep prices are Australian dollars (A$); competitor prices marked US$ are US dollars. Annual prices require annual billing; promotions, taxes and regional prices may differ. Check the vendor’s checkout before buying.
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The Paper Keep doesn't try to be everything. If any of these describes you, pick accordingly.
If you're a freelancer who wants receipts, income and mileage in one lightweight app short of real accounting software, that's SparkReceipt's actual job.
SparkReceipt's capture experience is built around its mobile apps. The Paper Keep is a website (a good one on phones, but a website).
QuickBooks Online, Zapier, Make, bank-statement extraction and ten-year document storage sit alongside SparkReceipt's receipt features.
Both products fetch inbox receipts automatically; The Paper Keep also archives the raw email and downloads inline images before retailer links expire.
Originals kept untouched, email images preserved for the long haul, audit history on every edit — built for records that must survive five-plus years.
Deductible totals per July–June year, GST, ATO exchange rates and the WFH comparison are native, not spreadsheet work.
SparkReceipt is useful when you need more than receipt storage — automatic inbox fetching, income tracking, mileage, bank statements, integrations, linked accounts and true multi-currency work. If your actual problem is "receipts scattered across inboxes and shoeboxes, needed at Australian tax time and when things break", The Paper Keep is the narrower option at A$30/year, versus SparkReceipt's advertised US$99.99/year promotion (taxes may apply).
Want the wider field? See the full comparison or our roundup of personal receipt apps.
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