BiteSpend is a price intelligence app for the everyday grocery shopper. Snap any receipt, get every item extracted in seconds, and watch how prices move across the stores you actually shop. It's the tool I wanted for my own household, and couldn't find.
Rent is fixed. Mortgage is fixed. Utilities barely move. The largest variable line in a typical household budget is food, and it's the one almost no one can see clearly.
Most budgeting apps lump it into a generic "Groceries, $940" bucket. That tells you what you spent. It doesn't tell you whether that's normal, where you actually bled, or whether the same item costs less three blocks away. By the time the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes its retail-price report each month, you've already paid.
Two staples, both up double digits in eleven months. Some shoppers felt it more than others, depending on where they shop and what they buy. The national average is a comfort that masks the reality of your individual cart.
Three jobs, in order:
The point is not to lecture you about your spending. The point is to give you the visibility that lets you make your own call.
BiteSpend is built independently through Gorkhabots LLC. No VC, no growth-hacking playbook, no advertisers, no shareholders to please. The product does one job well, and gets better when the people using it tell us what's working and what isn't.
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BiteSpend is live on Google Play and the App Store in 177 countries.