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title: "Spenti — Blog & build notes"
description: "Compare Thai slip and receipt apps, including MeowJot, Qalta and Neto, with sources for AI processing, data storage and prices. Build notes and privacy guides from Spenti."
url: "https://spenti.app/blog"
lang: "en"
---

Blog / build notes

# Building Spenti in the open.

How it works under the hood, why decisions were made — and the honest work behind keeping a private, on-device app alive.

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Compared 10 min read

## Thai slip and receipt apps, compared.

Compare Thai slip and receipt apps, including MeowJot, Qalta and Neto, with sources for AI processing, data storage and prices.

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](https://spenti.app/blog/thai-expense-apps-compared/)

More blogs

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Compared 5 min read

## Spenti vs MeowJot: two ways to read your Thai slips.

Bank-app albums, data storage and pricing: where the two approaches differ.

](https://spenti.app/blog/spenti-vs-meowjot/)[

Compared 5 min read

## Spenti vs Qalta: where does the AI actually run?

A local expense ledger and cloud AI can exist in the same app. Here is the distinction.

](https://spenti.app/blog/spenti-vs-qalta/)[

Compared 5 min read

## Spenti vs Neto: both scan on-device. Then the paths split.

Receipt images stay on the phone. What happens to the financial records?

](https://spenti.app/blog/spenti-vs-neto/)[

Privacy, plainly 5 min read

## Privacy is control, not secrecy.

What receipts can reveal, why it matters, and three questions to ask any app.

](https://spenti.app/blog/privacy-is-control/)[

Under the hood 6 min read

## Two small models, both on your phone

How Spenti reads receipts and answers spending questions on-device.

](https://spenti.app/blog/how-spenti-processes-receipts/)