Using Bonblick — at a glance

Your receipt becomes a clear entry

You photograph a receipt (camera or gallery) or share a shared bon-bon from another app. Bonblick reads merchant, date, line items, tax rates, deposits, and payment method. The app checks the receipt's math and gives you a short Sofortanalyse — observing, never moralizing.

What Bonblick is not: not a household budget tool, not a calorie counter, not a marketplace. If a feature sounds like a recommendation, it isn't an ad.

1. Bons — your scanned receipt stack

All scanned receipts land here as a list or a grid. While a scan is running, you see the current status at the top ("Bon being read", "Values being checked", "Items being checked", "Sofortanalyse running"). If a receipt gets stuck, you can drop it from the stack or retry.

Per-receipt detail view: assessment with Sofortanalyse plus all line items. You can rate items (Good, Okay, Never again, Favorite) and patch in a barcode that Bonblick missed.

2. Taste — one of the underestimated strengths

Bonblick's second soul lives here. You can capture your own products, without a receipt:

• Photograph the front label — the AI reads name and category from the packaging. You rate it directly: Good, Okay, Never again, Favorite.
• Scan a barcode in the store — Bonblick tells you instantly whether you already know the product and how you rated it before. Handy when you're standing in front of the shelf.
• Add unknown products — scanner button at the top, fill in name and category, rate it directly. The next scan in the store recognizes it instantly.

3. Mirror — how your consumption shifts

The mirror tab doesn't show single receipts but patterns. What do you buy regularly (staple share)? What's out of the ordinary? How have the prices of your regulars moved (inflation pulse)? Where did you shop (map clusters of your bons)?

Mirror gets more interesting the longer you use Bonblick — the app needs a few receipts before it can show patterns.

4. Settings — what Bonblick is allowed to do

This is where you decide what gets shared. Bonblick stores no data in cloud services unless you actively enable it. Two switches matter most:

• Bon donation — donated bons help improve recognition. Anonymous, 90-day TTL, no account link. Default on, switch off anytime.
• Price corpus — anonymous price observations from your receipts feed a regional comparison ("You pay 1,19 € for this yoghurt — others in your region pay 0,89 €"). No link to your identity, no movement data.

Red bug = direct line to the developer

In the lower-right corner of the app, you'll see a red bug button during the beta phase. Tap it and you can immediately report a bug, leave a feature request, or ask a question — optionally with screenshot, screen recording, or voice note. The message lands directly with us, the developers; we respond fast.

No external bug tracker, no email thread, no support helpdesk. This is the new way of beta testing — we use TesterPayKit.

What helps us most right now

Receipt recognition is actively under development — receipts are far more diverse and tricky than they first appear. More in the journal article "What's really on your receipt".

Especially welcome: anything you scan in everyday life — different merchants, long receipts, short receipts, shared gallery images, fresh camera captures. The more bandwidth, the better Bonblick calibrates itself.

Bonblick stores your receipts locally on your device. No tracking, no cookies, no account requirement. What Bonblick does send to servers is explicitly named:

• Receipt photo to our AI backend, to read the receipt — deleted after processing.
• Anonymous price observations (barcode + price + region, no link to you) — opt-out in settings.
• Optionally donated receipts (anonymous, 90-day TTL) to improve recognition — opt-out in settings.

More in the Privacy notice.