For ITR filers in India and abroad
LekhaLens reads CSV, Excel and PDF statements from Indian banks, merges every account into one ledger, and works out what each line actually was — so your income, spending and ITR totals are ready without a spreadsheet in sight.
No card required · Your first account is ready in about a minute
That last row says “GST”, but it is the bank’s own fee — not a tax payment. Knowing the difference is most of the work.
Three ways in
The product is organised around who you file for. Add a separate set of books for each person or business you handle, and keep them completely apart.
Professionals
Salary, freelance income, rent, capital gains and six bank accounts that never agree with each other.
CA practices
Each client gets their own books under your single login, with their own accounts, rules and output.
NRI filers
Indian bank accounts, Indian rent and interest income, and an ITR deadline in a timezone you left behind.
What it does
Upload whatever your bank gives you. Header rows, day-first dates, Dr/Cr columns and Excel serial dates are all handled. PDFs are read in your browser, so the file never has to sit on a server.
Every row gets a head — Business, Personal or Movement — and a sub-head like Rent or Fuel. Fuel is business or personal depending on who you paid, so the two axes stay separate.
Correct a payee once and it stays corrected — across every past statement and every one you upload later. Rename a payee to something you recognise and the old bank gibberish is gone for good.
EMIs, SIPs, rent and subscriptions on the way out; salary, rent received and interest on the way in. Each with its cadence, monthly cost and the date it should next appear.
The same ledger, grouped the way a return is: Salary, Business & Profession, Capital Gains, Other Sources. Derived from your categories, never from a stored guess, so it can’t drift.
An ATM withdrawal is money moved, not money spent. It becomes cash in hand you can then account for, instead of quietly double-counting against your real expenses.
How it works
One file per account, in whatever format your bank offers. Duplicate rows are recognised by content, so re-uploading an overlapping statement never doubles anything up.
Payees are pulled out of the narration, categories and heads assigned, recurring charges detected. No setup, no chart of accounts to build first.
Anything still unclassified is filtered into one list. Set it and choose to remember, and that payee is settled for every statement you ever upload again.
Read the summaries on screen, or export the whole classified ledger to Excel for your return. Next quarter, upload the new statement and stop at step one.
Built for the Indian return
Classify by what a transaction was, and the filing view follows on its own. Because the tax grouping is worked out from your categories rather than stored alongside them, your totals can never quietly disagree with your ledger.
Movement — transfers, loan receipts, redemptions, ATM cash — is held out of income and expense entirely. It is money changing pockets, and counting it is how spreadsheets end up claiming you earned twice what you did.
Also in the box
Security
Every account is walled off at the database, and the sensitive parts of a statement are encrypted before they are ever written down.
Narrations, payees, account labels, balances and your own notes are encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a key held outside the database.
Turn on an authenticator app and every sign-in needs it. Sessions sign themselves out after five idle minutes, because finance tabs get left open.
Download everything you have as one file whenever you want, or permanently delete all of it — statements, rules and uploads — in a single action.
AI features are optional and idle unless you trigger them. When you do, only the transactions in question are sent to Anthropic’s API to produce the answer, and they are not used to train models. Nothing else ever leaves.
On your phone In development
Android and iOS apps are being built in React Native on the same classification engine as the web app — so a payee you fix on your laptop is already fixed on your phone. Import a statement straight from your downloads, clear a category while you are in a queue, approve a payee rule in a few seconds.
No store links yet — the web app is complete and works on a phone browser today. Sign in and we will tell you when the apps land.
Pricing
One fee for the year’s filing, not a subscription that outlives the deadline.
Individual / Professional
₹2,500
approx. US$30 · billed in INR
CA / Tax practitioner
₹5,000
approx. US$60 · then ₹1,000 (approx. US$12) per extra client
USD figures are indicative for reference only — billing is in Indian rupees. Payment is invoiced directly rather than collected by card, so there is no card form to fill in: sign up, import your first account, and settle the invoice separately.
Questions
Any Indian bank export that has a date, a narration and an amount — which is all of them. Header names, day-first dates, split Dr/Cr columns, single amount-plus-type columns and Excel serial dates are all recognised, and the parser has been built against real HDFC, ICICI and Indian Bank statements rather than idealised samples.
If a layout does not parse, send it to us and it becomes a supported layout.
Not yet, and we would rather say so plainly. LekhaLens is India-first in two ways that matter: dates are read day-first, so a US statement written month-first would be misread, and the tax lens maps to ITR heads rather than anything the IRS uses.
What US-based customers use it for today is their Indian accounts — NRI and resident accounts, Indian rent and interest income, capital gains — all of which still have to be filed in India. US bank imports and a US-side reporting view are on the roadmap, not in the product.
No, and there is nowhere to enter one. You export a statement from your bank yourself and upload the file. LekhaLens never connects to your bank, so it can never move money or see anything you did not hand it.
Most rows land right on the first pass, and the tail is front-loaded: the payees you spend with repeat, so fixing one settles every past and future row for that payee. Anything still on a default is collected into a single filtered list, so you are never hunting through 800 rows to find the twelve that need you.
No. AI features are optional and do nothing unless you trigger them. When you do, only the transactions needed for that answer go to Anthropic’s API, and they are not used for training. Everything else — parsing, categorising, recurring detection, the ITR lens — is ordinary code that runs without any AI at all.
They are in development, in React Native for both Android and iOS, and there is no store link to give you yet. The web app is finished and works in a phone browser today, so nothing is waiting on them. Sign in and we will let you know.
Both, from the Profile tab, without asking anyone. Export gives you a single file containing everything you have. Delete permanently removes your transactions, uploads, books and learned rules — your login stays, so you can start over from empty.
There is nothing to configure first. Export a statement from your bank, drop it in, and read your own year.