NEAT Receipts could be quite slick

I know in the past that I wondered if NEAT Receipts would take some of my UI and put it in their Mac product. I stopped by their booth today and was pleased to see that their UI didn’t take anything from me, in fact, they have some ideas that I’d like to use in ReceiptWallet! They have an iTunes like source list on the left that is separated with things like Library and Collections (I can’t recall exactly what the titles are). That definitely makes the app look more up-to-date than ReceiptWallet (not that ReceiptWallet’s interface is all that old). In addition, their “image” view (like my thumbnail view) is actually useful; my thumbnail view has small thumbnails or receipts that I personally think is useless. In their implementation, they have decent sized receipts on the left side and the metadata on the right side. So when you scroll down, you see the receipts and the metadata. Finally, they do have a Cover Flow like view of the receipts. I’m not sure how useful this is, but I’ve had a user ask for this in the past, so it has been on my radar, just not high up on my list.

I don’t have any plans to do UI changes in ReceiptWallet, but the next time I do, I think I’ll re-visit iTunes to see how it does things. However, I do have some issues with iTunes and am not sure it is the perfect UI, either.