Your glovebox isn't a filing system.
The only Canadian app that keeps medical receipts CRA-ready all year — right category, right line, right audit details. Nothing is guesswork at filing time.
“MedVault started because of one bad February: a kitchen drawer of crumpled Shoppers receipts, half of them faded to blank thermal paper, a couple of dental invoices folded inside a coat pocket, and the dawning realization that whatever was claimed last year was probably a guess. The medical expense credit isn’t small money — but it dies in shoeboxes, gloveboxes, and email folders nobody opens.”
— The MedVault Tax founders
Tax Year Summary
Updated today · 14 receipts · 3 members
Three steps. Zero glovebox.
From receipt to refund-ready bundle — without spreadsheets, filing cabinets, or tax-season panic.
Scan your receipt
Point your camera at a pharmacy slip, dental invoice, or lab bill. On-device OCR extracts vendor, date, and amount — then you confirm. The original image is saved alongside the data, so you never have to keep the paper.
Native iOS/Android builds. Manual entry always available as fallback.Tag & route
Pick a category (Prescription, Dental, Travel, and 5 more) and a household member. The app auto-routes the amount to Line 33099 or 33199 based on age and dependant status.
Each category collects the fields CRA will ask for during an audit.Export your bundle
One tap builds a PDF summary, an itemized CSV, and the original receipt images. Doing your own taxes? Tap the copy button next to the line total and paste it straight into TurboTax, Wealthsimple Tax, or UFile. Working with an accountant? Email them the bundle.
3% threshold, annual cap, and T1 line split all pre-applied.Capture on the go. File from your desk.
Your phone is where receipts happen. Your laptop is where filing happens. MedVault bridges them in one QR scan — no account, no cloud service, no setup.
Open the web app
Click “View receipts on this computer” below. A pairing QR code appears instantly — no signup, no login, no account.
Scan it from your phone
Tap “Send to desktop” in the MedVault app. Point the camera at your laptop screen. Confirm. Your receipts arrive in about five seconds.
File from the bigger screen
Browse, double-check, export the CSV your tax software wants. Real keyboard, real monitor — no thumb-typing a 5-inch form.
If you pay anything out of pocket for healthcare, this is for you.
Insurance doesn’t disqualify you. The credit applies to whatever portion you paid yourself — deductibles, copays, services your plan doesn’t fully cover. Most Canadians qualify for something; most leave money on the table because tracking a year of receipts is miserable.
Insured with gaps
Deductibles, copays, and services your plan doesn’t fully cover. The portion you paid yourself still counts — track only the net.
Chronic illness
High prescription and specialist costs through the year that deserve every dollar of credit.
Seniors
Frequent dental, vision, hearing, and mobility expenses — often the biggest medical-credit claimants.
Families
Claim expenses for spouse and kids. One household, one organized report, one T1 line split.
Caregivers
Paying for a parent’s or adult dependant’s care? CRA Line 33199 is built for this. Track their receipts separately — the app handles the per-person threshold.
Self-employed
Medical expenses separated cleanly from business deductions — no cross-contamination at filing time.
Built for how CRA actually audits.
Every receipt captured with the fields CRA expects, routed to the right T1 line, kept for six years. Not an expense tracker. Not a US app with a maple-leaf sticker. A CRA-ready receipt vault.
Scan once, file with confidence
Point your camera and confirm. On-device OCR extracts the data locally — photos never leave your phone, every field is editable before saving, and the original image is stored alongside the entry so you can pull up any receipt years later.
The right line, automatically
Every receipt is assigned to Line 33099 or 33199 based on household member, age, and dependant status. The app also flags when the lower-income spouse should claim to maximize the credit. No guessing at filing time.
The whole household, one report
Track expenses for yourself, your spouse, and your dependants. Tag each receipt to the right person; the export handles the T1 split.
Paying for a parent’s care? Claim it on Line 33199.
7.8 million Canadians provide unpaid care to a parent, grandparent, or adult dependant — yet most don’t realize they can claim the medical expenses they paid on the person’s behalf. CRA Line 33199 exists specifically for this. Add your parent or dependant as a household member, mark them as a claimed dependant, and tag their receipts normally. The app applies the per-person 3% threshold using their net income (or $0 if unknown, as a conservative default), shows you exactly what’s claimable, and includes a full per-dependant breakdown in the accountant export.
Hand your accountant something useful
One tap builds a ZIP with a cover PDF (totals by category, T1 line split, METC estimate), an itemized CSV, and every original receipt image. Most accountants will tell you this is better than anything else they receive.
Scan reminders, on your schedule
Opt-in weekly or monthly notifications so receipts get scanned before the glovebox wins. Scheduled on-device — no push server, no third-party notification service.
Kept for CRA, six years out
The CRA can audit you up to six years after filing. MedVault stores every original image alongside the data you entered so you can pull up any receipt — from any tax year — on demand.
Eight categories. Each with the fields CRA will want.
When the CRA asks you to prove a claim six years later, they want specific details by category — RX numbers, practitioner licenses, kilometres travelled. We collect them at scan time, so your export is actually defensible.
Your data stays yours.
No ad tech. No analytics SDK. No account required. Medical receipts are personal — we designed the architecture around that from day one.
Local-first storage
Receipts, images, and settings live in your device’s local storage and file system. The only outbound calls are an optional Bank of Canada FX rate lookup (opt-in, for foreign-currency receipts) and a once-daily entitlement check with RevenueCat to confirm your subscription status.
Encrypted backups you control
Backups are AES-256-GCM encrypted with a passphrase only you know. Save the file anywhere you choose — iCloud, Google Drive, a USB drive. MedVault never sees it.
Technical details in FAQ →Self-destructing transfers
When you pair phone to laptop, the relay that brokers the connection holds the encrypted bundle for at most five minutes and deletes it after one read. There’s no persistent copy anywhere.
No account, ever
There is no MedVault account. There is no email address we store. There is no password to reset. You can’t be breached through us because we don’t hold your data.
Because medical receipts are personal data, we built the entire app around zero-knowledge from day one.
Join the beta →Simple. One thing changes.
Every feature is available on both tiers. The only difference is how many receipts you can add per tax year.
- Camera capture & manual entry
- CSV & PDF export bundle
- QR desktop pairing
- Unlimited tax years
- Unlimited household members
- CRA line 33099 / 33199 routing
- Encrypted backup
- Everything in Free
- Add as many receipts as you have
- Billed annually · cancel anytime
Short answers.
What is the medical expense tax credit?
A federal (and matching provincial) tax credit that refunds a portion of out-of-pocket healthcare costs — prescriptions, dental, vision, practitioner fees, medical travel, and more. It lives on Line 33099 / 33199 of your T1 return. Most Canadians qualify for something; most leave money on the table because tracking receipts across twelve months is miserable.
Does it work if I have insurance?
Yes — arguably this is who the credit helps most. The CRA lets you claim the net amount: receipt total minus whatever your insurance reimbursed. MedVault Tax has a reimbursement field on every receipt, so you track both the amount billed and the amount your plan paid back. The app claims only the difference. Deductibles, copays, and services your plan excludes all qualify.
Is this affiliated with the CRA?
No. We build against the CRA’s published rules (RC4065, T1 instructions, eligible-expense guidance), but we’re an independent app. You’re responsible for your return; we make the math defensible.
Does this integrate with TurboTax, Wealthsimple Tax, or UFile?
There’s no direct API integration — Canadian tax software doesn’t accept third-party medical-expense imports. You don’t need one. The home screen shows your Line 33099 and Line 33199 totals with a copy button next to each. Tap to copy, switch to your tax software, paste. Two fields, done in under 30 seconds.
How does my phone data get to my laptop at tax time?
Open MedVault on your laptop browser — it shows a QR code. In the phone app, tap Settings → Send to desktop, scan the QR, confirm. Your year’s receipts arrive in about five seconds. The transfer is end-to-end encrypted (AES-256-GCM); the encryption key lives in the QR your laptop generated and never crosses the wire. There’s no signup, no account, no password — the QR is the handshake. The encrypted bundle passes through a stateless relay that holds it for at most five minutes and self-destructs after a single read.
How much does it cost?
MedVault Tax is free to use, with no time limit. The free tier lets you track up to 10 receipts per tax year — enough to try the app and see how it works. If you have more than 10 receipts a year (most people with regular prescriptions, dental, or physio do), MedVault Plus is $19.99 CAD per year for unlimited receipts. Beta users — anyone who installs before general availability — get Plus free through April 30, 2027 (the end of the 2026 tax season), then $19.99 CAD/yr. You’ll receive an email with at least 30 days’ notice before anything changes.
What’s the difference between the free tier and Plus?
One thing: the number of receipts you can add per tax year. The free tier is capped at 10 receipts per year. Everything else — camera capture, manual entry, CSV and PDF export, QR desktop pairing, multi-member household, multi-year history — is available on both tiers. If you hit the cap, the app will prompt you to upgrade. You’ll always be able to read, edit, and export the receipts you already have.
Does the app send my receipts anywhere?
Receipts, member data, and settings live in local storage and the device file system. The only outbound calls are an optional Bank of Canada FX rate lookup (opt-in, for foreign-currency receipts) and a once-daily entitlement check with RevenueCat to verify your subscription. No receipt data is ever transmitted. Backups are files you choose where to save — iCloud, Google Drive, email, a USB stick, whatever.
Important: Because your data lives only on your device, MedVault Tax cannot recover it for you. Create an encrypted backup in Settings → Back up and store it somewhere safe. If you never create a backup and your device is wiped, your receipts are gone.
What if my phone is lost, stolen, or wiped?
Restore from your encrypted backup. Go to Settings → Restore from backup on any device with MedVault installed, supply your passphrase, and all your receipts, members, and settings come back exactly as they were. If you haven’t created a backup, there is no recovery path — so create one before you need it. We recommend backing up after every filing season and storing the file in iCloud, Google Drive, or email.
What if I forget my backup passphrase?
The backup is permanently unreadable. AES-256-GCM encryption means there is no master key and no recovery option — that’s the trade-off that keeps your medical data out of anyone else’s hands. Save your passphrase in a password manager (1Password, Bitwarden, Apple Keychain, or similar) immediately when you create the backup. Do not rely on memory alone.
Is the on-device data encrypted at rest?
Device-level encryption protects data at rest (iOS Data Protection / Android file-based encryption). Biometric lock (Face ID / Touch ID / passcode) is available in Settings. Encrypted backups use AES-256-GCM with a passphrase you choose — the key never leaves your hands.
Can I use it for my spouse’s and kids’ expenses?
Yes. Add each family member and tag receipts to them. The app routes totals to Line 33099 (you, your spouse, minor children) or Line 33199 (adult dependants) automatically, and flags whether the lower-income spouse should claim.
What about Revenu Québec?
Our export supports the federal line split (33099 / 33199). French translations are rolling out screen by screen. Quebec-specific RL forms aren’t generated yet; that’s on the roadmap.
What if OCR reads the receipt wrong?
OCR is a convenience, not a source of truth. Every extracted field is editable before you save, and a confidence score is tracked so you know what to double-check. Manual entry is the default if OCR isn’t confident.
No roadmap fiction.
We’d rather tell you what’s live today than promise a feature list you can’t actually use. Ship state, honestly.
One receipt today.
Nothing to guess in April.
Start keeping CRA-ready receipts today — right category, right line, right audit details at scan time. Free to use, no time limit. Beta users get Plus free through April 30, 2027 — the full 2026 tax season.