You’re off by $12.50 and it’s 9pm.

The hour isn’t the problem. The digit is.

Retyping a statement takes an hour you resent. Getting one character wrong costs you the evening.

You can’t close the month. The reconciliation is off by some amount that means nothing, so it tells you nothing about where to look. You scroll the same 200 rows for the third time hunting a 5 you typed as a 6, and every row looks correct because you typed them all the same careful way.

A bookkeeper closing a client’s books. A landlord working out who actually paid. Anyone whose accountant said “just send it as a spreadsheet” about a document the bank will only ever hand over as a PDF.

It’s a job nobody chose and nobody checks, right up until the number doesn’t match.

The statement never leaves your Google account

That’s not a promise about how we handle your data. There’s no upload to handle.

The PDF is read using Google’s own text recognition, inside your account, on your own quota. There’s no server of ours in the path. The only thing this add-on ever sends us is your licence key, once, to check it is real. Not the statement, not a row, not a total.

That matters more here than almost anywhere. A bank statement is the most sensitive document most people own: account numbers, balances, and every place they spend money.

It shows you the rows before it writes them

The actual sidebar, not a drawing of it.

Nothing happens until you say so

You see every row and what they add up to. Only then does it write, and it writes into a new sheet, never over the one you’re looking at.

It admits what it is unsure about

Rows it is less confident about are shaded, in the preview and in the sheet, so your eye goes to the three that need checking instead of all two hundred. Every line it could not read is listed in full, not counted and hidden.

It checks its own work against your balances

Your statement prints an opening and a closing balance. It adds the rows up and tells you whether they agree. If they don’t, you get the exact shortfall instead of a hunt.

The signs come out right

Parentheses, a trailing DR, a minus sign. Every bank writes debits differently, and getting it wrong inverts your whole month. Where the statement prints a running balance, that decides it, because the balance cannot be misread the way a symbol can.

Where it struggles, before you find out yourself

Every statement layout is somebody’s house style. These are the ones that give it trouble today, said here rather than discovered by you at 9pm:

This list will get shorter. It is here because a tool that hides where it is weak is a tool you have to check anyway, which defeats the point of it.

Priced so the decision is easy. Built so it’s the right one.

You’re not buying cheaper data entry. You’re buying numbers you don’t have to re-check.

For what it’s worth, the leading paid add-on runs $99 a year prepaid, or $228 a year billed monthly according to a customer who posted his own invoice, and two of its reviewers wrote the same sentence about it: “Installs but there’s no obvious way to use it.” Being cheaper than that is the least interesting thing about this.

Your first 3 statements are free, with no card. After that:

Your key is emailed within a few minutes. Paste it into the add-on and the limit is gone.