The short version
SparkReceipt is a receipt scanner — that's its whole job, and it does it well. Hustlay scans receipts too, but that's one feature of a full financial dashboard. If you run multiple income streams and want to know which makes money, SparkReceipt can't answer that. We can.
Honest
What SparkReceipt is actually good at
SparkReceipt wins on
- Clean, minimal mobile app for receipt scanning
- Fast OCR extraction of vendor/amount
- Lightweight — no feature bloat
- Simple CSV export
Hustlay wins on
- Multi-project P&L — know which hustle makes money
- Split shared costs across projects (VPS, Adobe, tools)
- Tags per transaction (domain, client, launch)
- Profit-per-hour via integrated time tracking
- Budgets per project with smart alerts
- Invoicing with status tracking + auto-reminders
- Customer CRM with tags and activity
- Web dashboard + full data export (CSV, Excel)
Side by side
Feature matrix
TL;DR
Our honest take
If all you need is receipt scanning, SparkReceipt is fine and cheap. If you want to know which of your hustles actually pays the rent and which client is costing you time vs money — you need a dashboard, not a scanner. That's what we built.