DeductionDog hunts deductions everywhere they hide — your bank feed, your inbox, your camera roll, your odometer — then reconciles every one against your statements and hands your accountant a clean, audit-ready package.
Built with the help of an Enrolled Agent · Bank-grade encryption · Schedule C ready
Three steps to effortless year-round tax prep.
Connect bank accounts and mailboxes, and let the app watch your drives. Imports stay fiscal-year organized.
Receipts, drives, and recurring charges land in a simple review feed. Simply swipe to confirm.
One tap creates an accountant-ready PDF + spreadsheet package with every receipt attached.
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Everything the IRS expects to see, collected automatically.
Detects when you're driving and records the trip in the background — even when the app is closed. Label each drive business, commute, or personal.
Snap a photo of any receipt — vendor, amount, date, and itemized lines are extracted automatically. A personal item on a business receipt? Uncheck it and the filed total adjusts.
Link Gmail, Outlook, or IMAP mailboxes — found receipts wait in a holding pen for a matching bank charge. A one-time deep scan reaches back 5 years and files them into the right fiscal year.
Just say it — "twelve forty-nine at Office Depot yesterday" becomes a categorized ledger entry. No typing, no forms.
Drives that overlap your calendar get pre-labeled with the appointment — client name and location included.
Link accounts through Plaid or import CSV/XLSX spreadsheets. Swipe through the review feed to mark each charge business or personal.
DeductionDog keeps hunting: flags recurring vendors to auto-verify, frequent routes worth labeling, and charges that look like they're missing a receipt — so evidence gaps surface before your accountant does.
Every receipt, drive, and entry is scoped to the fiscal year it belongs to. Switch years in one tap — last year's records stay intact.
Slide to see how extra deductions change your self-employment tax, QBI deduction, and marginal bracket — computed with the correct IRS rates for the fiscal year you're viewing.
Tap any ledger row and get its exact Schedule C line, a plain-English reason it counts, and the audit caveats — like the 50% meals rule.
Mark any receipt-backed purchase as an asset — description, cost, business-use, in-service date — and the depreciation worksheet is ready for your preparer. The home-office wizard compares simplified vs. actual.
A weekly recap of what was captured, what needs review, and your running deduction totals — straight to your inbox.
One tap shares a PDF summary, ledger spreadsheets (XLSX/CSV), and a ZIP vault with every receipt attached — Schedule C ready.
The whole ledger on a real screen — review, verify, and export from any browser at deductiondog.com/app. Dense tables, bulk-friendly, same encrypted account.
Ask how anything works — the support assistant answers from the real help docs, never guesses at tax law, and hands off to a human when it's account-specific.
One tap builds a multipage evidence report — not a spreadsheet dump. Every claim on your Schedule C arrives with the paper trail to back it.
A shoebox can't tell you your Schedule C line. A mileage app can't match your receipts.
| Shoebox of receipts | Mileage-only apps | Generic expense trackers | DeductionDog | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic mileage logging | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Receipt OCR + photo capture | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mailbox receipt scanning | — | — | rare | ✓ |
| Bank feed reconciliation | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wallet + bank cross-source dedupe | — | — | rare | ✓ |
| IRS Schedule C mapping | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Audit evidence report | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Profession-aware categories | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Home-office + asset worksheets | — | — | — | ✓ |
| What-if tax planning | — | — | — | ✓ |
Sensitive fields are encrypted individually at rest — your bank tokens and email credentials aren't sitting in a readable database. Usage analytics are off by default, exports are always yours, and deletion actually deletes.
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If you're a Realtor, DeductionDog speaks your language.
Categories tuned to your work: open houses, staging & MLS dues
The short answers — details live on the security and privacy pages.
DeductionDog is an Android app for self-employed workers that automatically captures receipts, mileage, and business expenses, maps them to IRS Schedule C categories, and produces an audit-ready evidence report for tax time.
The app detects when you're driving and records each trip in the background — even when the app is closed. You label each drive as business, commute, or personal, and every entry keeps the date, route, distance, and business purpose the IRS expects in a mileage log.
Receipts live in an encrypted vault with no public URLs, bank connections go through Plaid, and usage analytics are off by default — nothing is shared unless you turn it on in Settings. You can delete any record, or the whole account, at any time.
No. DeductionDog is a record-keeping tool — it organizes the evidence behind your deductions so your tax preparer (or your tax software) has a clean, documented package. It doesn't file returns, and nothing in the app is tax advice.
Schedule C is the IRS form sole proprietors and most 1099 workers use to report business income and expenses. Its line items — car expenses, supplies, advertising, and more — are where your deductions get claimed. DeductionDog maps each entry to the right line automatically.
Anyone who files as self-employed — realtors, rideshare and delivery drivers, freelancers, contractors, stylists, and dozens of other professions. If you get a 1099 instead of a W-2, it was built for you.
DeductionDog is launching soon on Android, with iOS planned after. Plans will be $14.99/month or $119.99/year with a 7-day free trial — full access, no feature or mileage limits — and early members get the yearly plan at its special introductory price.
Real deduction talk for the self-employed.
Episode 1
The shoebox problem
Why stuffing receipts in a box fails at tax time, what "audit-ready" actually means, and the mileage most 1099 workers never claim. With Jenny Shilling, Enrolled Agent.
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