Where we stand, before anything else. We build four small reward apps for the iPhone. Nothing we make reads a receipt, so Receipt Hog is not a direct competitor, but it competes for the same corner of a person's attention, and it is one of the apps people mean when they ask whether any of this pays. We take no referral fee from Receipt Hog or anyone else, and there is no referral code on this page. That matters because Receipt Hog's referral bonus is why a great many pages about it exist. The sources at the foot are Receipt Hog's own terms, privacy policy and help center, plus Apple's listing.
Receipt Hog is legitimate, it pays cash rather than points, and it says out loud what it is for. Its own App Store listing says it is part of Numerator, a market research company, and that sharing receipts is how brands and retailers learn how people shop. That sentence explains every other number on this page.
The short answer
Photograph a receipt, get coins, cash coins out to PayPal, an Amazon e-gift card or a Visa e-gift card. It works and the money arrives. Before you install it, know three things: coins from receipts are capped at 100 a week, the minimum cash-out is 1,000 coins, and a US account can be eliminated after three consecutive months of inactivity.
You are the panel, and it says so
The privacy policy is as direct as the listing: clients may purchase market research reports based on personal information provided in the app. That makes this something other than a cashback app. Cashback apps such as Ibotta and Upside are funded by brands who want you to buy a particular thing. Receipt Hog pays you for the record of the purchase, whatever it was, so nothing you buy is ever cheaper. Seen that way, the modest rate is an accurate price for a shopping history.
The 100-coin week, which is the number that decides everything
Coin-receipts pay by the trip's total after tax, coupons and SNAP, and the table is published in the help center:
| Receipt total | Coins |
|---|---|
| Under $10 | 5 |
| $10 to $50 | 10 |
| $50 to $100 | 15 |
| $100 or more (no upper edge: $500 pays what $100 pays) | 20 |
| Any receipt once 100 coins are earned that week | 5, plus a sweepstakes entry |
1,000 coins is $5, so at 100 coins a week a first payout takes ten weeks. That is a floor, since hitting the cap every week takes enough qualifying shopping. Fifty cents a week is the headline rate of the receipt half of this app.
| Receipt Hog's weeks | 1st–7th, 8th–14th, 15th–21st, and 22nd to the end of the month, in UTC. The fourth is the longest; nothing resets on a rolling seven days |
|---|---|
| Weeks in a year | 48, not 52 |
| A maxed-out year of receipts | 4,800 coins, about $24 of coin value |
| Withdrawn in one payment | $25, at 4,300 coins |
| Withdrawn at the minimum | $20, as four $5 cash-outs, with 800 coins stranded |
Surveys, Hog Slots spins, level bonuses and the monthly sweepstakes stack on top of the receipt cap, and Receipt Hog publishes no rate for any of them, so a good year is somewhat more by an amount we cannot state without guessing. The arithmetic is on our payouts page.
Waiting is worth 23% more, which is unusual
| Coins | Paid | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $5 | 0.50¢ a coin; ten weeks at the ceiling |
| 2,900 | $15 | |
| 4,300 | $25 | |
| 6,500 | $40 | 0.615¢ a coin, about 23% more; 65 weeks, or sixteen months, at the ceiling |
Most apps in this category run the other way, which is why our advice on Fetch is to redeem steadily. Here the incentive points at saving, but sixteen months is a long time to leave $40 inside somebody else's balance sheet, and the next section is the reason to think about it carefully.
Three quiet months
Inactivity, in Receipt Hog's terms, means not uploading receipts, not sharing data related to purchases and not making a redemption request.
| Inactive for | Warning first | |
|---|---|---|
| Receipt Hog, US | Three consecutive months, then the account may be suspended or eliminated | None promised |
| Receipt Hog, Canada | A year | 30 to 60 days' notice, promised to Quebec residents only |
| Fetch | Three months, then points go | 30 days, by email and text, to every user |
The trap is structural rather than sneaky. The ceiling is 100 coins a week and the door opens at 1,000, so anybody who uploads enthusiastically for a month and then loses interest is holding something like 400 coins. That is $2 of value with no way to take it, and a three-month clock running against it. Our own apps reach a first cash-out at 2,000 coins, which is $2.00, and have no inactivity rule at all; that is the one place on this page where we think we have the better of it. Upload one receipt a quarter and none of this touches you.
The rules that quietly govern a receipt
| Rule | Limit | In practice |
|---|---|---|
| Receipt age | Uploaded within fourteen days of the transaction date and time printed on it, stated in Eastern time; your upload is recorded in UTC | The gap runs against you, and the help center advises not cutting it fine |
| Store threshold | Three receipts per store per transaction date, whenever you upload them and wherever the branch is | They count as they finish processing, so the first three to finish qualify; short receipts process faster, so the big shop can be the one that loses |
| Coin-Receipt threshold | Twenty a week, on the same calendar as the 100-coin cap | Twenty receipts under $10 at 5 coins each is exactly 100, so either limit ends the week in the same place |
What connecting your inbox actually hands over
The listing invites you to connect your email account so digital receipts upload themselves, and to link Amazon, Walmart, Target or Costco loyalty accounts. The privacy policy covers consent to access your email account to collect information related to your digital shopping history, consent to access linked retail accounts, and collection of your grocery, drugstore or other loyalty card numbers.
Both are optional, and Receipt Hog says so repeatedly. But a photograph is one shopping trip you chose to share. Inbox access is a standing grant over a mailbox that holds everything else, and a linked retailer account is your full order history there, backwards as well as forwards. The earn rate for saying yes is still governed by the same 100-coin week.
Our side of this trade is in how reward apps make money and what these apps can see. Our apps take an advertising identifier and show you ads; Receipt Hog takes your shopping. Neither is free.
What Receipt Hog does better than we do
- It tells you what it is in its own store listing. It names the parent research company and the data trade in the marketing copy, where a shopper will read it, rather than three clicks into a policy.
- It pays cash. PayPal, or Amazon and Visa e-gift cards. Fetch, the other big receipt app, pays no cash at any threshold.
- The effort is close to zero and it is retrospective. You already did the shopping; nothing we make pays for work finished before you opened the app.
- The reputation is enormous. 4.8 stars across roughly 267,000 App Store ratings is the strongest evidence on this page that the money arrives.
- Its ceiling is higher than ours. Fifty cents a week from receipts beats the roughly thirty-five cents a week that Todo and Earn works out at over the forty days it takes to reach $2.00, before Receipt Hog's surveys and bonuses.
Side by side with our apps
| Receipt Hog | Our four apps | |
|---|---|---|
| What you earn | Coins, spins and sweepstakes entries | Coins |
| Headline rate | 1,000 coins is $5, improving to $40 at 6,500 | 1,000 coins to the dollar, fixed |
| Paid out as | PayPal cash, or an Amazon or Visa e-gift card | PayPal cash |
| Threshold | 1,000 coins, which is $5.00 | 2,000 coins, which is $2.00, then 5,000 |
| Earning ceiling | 100 coins a week from receipts, then 5 a receipt | Ten tasks a day in Todo and Earn; the rest depend on use |
| Time to a first payout | Ten weeks at the ceiling | About forty days at Todo and Earn's cap |
| Expiry | Account may be eliminated after three months' inactivity (US) | None |
| What it collects | Your receipts, and optionally your inbox and loyalty accounts | An advertising identifier, and what the app needs to work |
| Platforms | iPhone and Android. No iPad app | iPhone, iPad and Android |
Receipt Hog's minimum is two and a half times ours in dollars, but the money it pays out is money you did no extra work for, and ours is not.
Who should install it
Install Receipt Hog if you do a regular grocery shop and are content to be on a research panel. Photograph the receipt on the way out, forget about it, and every ten weeks or so there is another $5. Redeem at a higher tier if you have the patience.
Skip it if you wanted cashback, because no amount of uploading will make your shopping cheaper. Skip it if you install things and forget them, because the ten-week climb to the minimum is exactly long enough for the three-month clause to strand you. And if the panel model makes you uncomfortable, the answer is simply no, which Receipt Hog is honest enough to let you reach before you install it.
What we checked, and when
Every figure and quotation on this page came from the sources below on 27 August 2026: Receipt Hog's own terms, privacy policy, FAQ and help center, and Apple's listing for the rating, rating count, seller and device support. The coin tiers and the weekly cap are the figures most likely to move, so re-read them if you are here much later, and tell us if something has changed. The yearly totals are our arithmetic on Receipt Hog's cap, not a figure Receipt Hog publishes.
- Receipt Hog Terms & Conditions — the $5 minimum redemption, the inactivity clause and the right to change redemption options
- Receipt Hog privacy policy — what is collected, the consent to read a connected email account, and what clients may purchase
- Receipt Hog FAQ — the coin tiers and the 1,000-coin minimum
- Receipt Hog help center — what happens when you reach 100 coins for the week, and how its four monthly weeks are defined
- Receipt Hog help center — how much Coin-Receipts are worth, the coin tiers by basket size and the monthly sweepstakes
- Receipt Hog help center — how old a receipt can be, and the two clocks the fourteen days are measured on
- Receipt Hog help center — the Coin-Receipt threshold of twenty a week
- Receipt Hog help center — the store threshold of three receipts per store per transaction date, and how processing order decides which qualify
- Receipt Hog help center — redemption options and how long approval takes
- App Store listing — Receipt Hog: Shopping Rewards (seller, rating, rating count, device support and the Numerator disclosure)