Statently Reviews and Details

Questions & Answers

1. How would you describe the primary audience of Statently?

   Freelancers, sole traders, small-business owners, and bookkeepers/accountants who need transaction data out of PDF statements and into a spreadsheet or accounting tool — for taxes, expense tracking, or reconciliation. People who convert statements occasionally and don’t want a subscription.

2. Which are the primary technologies used for building Statently?

   Next.js (React, TypeScript) and Tailwind CSS, deployed on Vercel. Statement extraction uses Anthropic’s Claude with native PDF input and structured outputs; Stripe for one-time payments; Upstash Redis for the credit balance. No PDF-parsing library — Claude reads the document directly.

3. Why should a person choose Statently over its competitors?

   Most converters are either fragile (they break on scanned or multi-section statements) or sold as monthly subscriptions built for high-volume firms. Statently is pay-as-you-go: 3 free conversions to try it, then a one-time pack of 50 conversions for $19 that never expires — no recurring fee and no signup. It handles scanned statements, categorizes every transaction, and never stores your file.

4. What makes Statently unique?

   Statently does one thing with zero friction: it turns a bank or credit-card statement PDF into a clean, categorized CSV in seconds — no account, no subscription, nothing to install. It reads scanned and photographed statements (not just digital PDFs) by reading the page visually, and signs every amount consistently so the output drops straight into Excel, QuickBooks, or Xero. Statements are processed in memory and never stored.

5. What's the story behind Statently?

   Statently came out of a recurring, boring pain: copy-pasting bank statement PDFs into spreadsheets for taxes and bookkeeping always scrambled the columns and dropped the amount signs, turning a 5-minute task into an hour. Instead of building another heavy OCR pipeline, the whole extraction is a single modern-AI call that reads the PDF natively — scans included — and returns clean, categorized transactions. It’s deliberately small: one job, done well, no account required.