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Barely Legible
Your bills, finally explained in plain English
Most people receive a bill, can't decode it, and just pay. Barely Legible is the first app that actually explains what you're being charged for — in plain English. Point your phone at any bill — medical, utility, insurance — and get every line item decoded, with a math check to flag errors. Bill images never leave your device. Free to try. Subscription for unlimited scans.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Jason, and I built Barely Legible because of a medical bill that sat on my counter for three weeks — I genuinely didn't know what I was looking at.
I kept telling myself I'd call the hospital to ask about the charges. I never did. I just paid it.
Turns out that's pretty much everyone's experience with bills — and it's a real problem, because billing errors (especially on medical bills) are far more common than most people realize. Studies suggest most hospital bills have at least one error. But the documents are dense, the codes are cryptic, and calling to dispute something is its own full-time job.
So I built the app I wish I'd had.
How it works: You take a photo of your bill. Barely Legible runs OCR to pull the text, then uses an LLM to explain every line item in plain English — what the charge is, what it's for, and whether the math checks out. The whole thing takes about 10–15 seconds.
A few things I'm proud of:
- Bill images are never stored or transmitted to any server — everything stays on your device
- It works on medical bills, utility bills, insurance EOBs, and most anything else with line items
- The math-check feature adds up the line items and flags it when the total doesn't match
This is a solo project — I built it over the past few months, and today is the first real public launch. I'd love to hear what you think, and I'm here all day to answer questions.
If you try it and something doesn't work, please let me know — I fix things fast.
Thanks for checking it out. 🙏
— Jason
Want to follow what we're building next? There's a closed beta dropping end of the month — join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/CwCMk5zwXf
About Barely Legible on Product Hunt
“Your bills, finally explained in plain English”
Barely Legible was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #156 on the daily leaderboard. Most people receive a bill, can't decode it, and just pay. Barely Legible is the first app that actually explains what you're being charged for — in plain English. Point your phone at any bill — medical, utility, insurance — and get every line item decoded, with a math check to flag errors. Bill images never leave your device. Free to try. Subscription for unlimited scans.
On the analytics side, Barely Legible competes within Health & Fitness, Productivity and Finance — topics that collectively have 742.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Barely Legible performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Barely Legible?
Barely Legible was hunted by Jason Johnson. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Barely Legible including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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