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Current Lekka

Photograph your electricity bill and hear it explained in Telugu, Hindi or English. On the phone, even offline.

Download for Android (beta) How it works

Android only. The beta is installed from the project's GitHub releases page.

App screen in Telugu for a sample November bill marked sample data: ₹1,304.64 to pay by 19 November, 214 units, over 200, a play button to listen, and a list of the checks the app made.
A sample bill, explained in Telugu. Sample data.

బిల్లు అర్థం కావాలి

The bill slip is hard to read

The meter reader hands over a small printed slip full of readings, codes and charges. Many households can't tell what they are paying for, or why it changed.

  • Charges and codes. Energy, customer and fixed charges and electricity duty sit side by side, with little explanation.
  • The new true-up line. From November 2026 many bills carry an extra true-up charge that has nothing to do with this month's use.
  • The 200-unit line. A Gruha Jyothi household gets a zero bill in a month of up to 200 units. Above 200, the zero bill is lost, and the slip only arrives after the month is over, too late to slow down.
  • Someone else has to read it. Elders often depend on a neighbour or a child to explain the bill, and many families pay it from another city.

How it works

Real screens from the Android app, running on a phone with sample data.

  1. బిల్లు ఫోటో స్కాన్ చేయండి

    Scan the slip

    Hold the phone over the bill slip and take one photo. The text is read on the phone itself.

    Camera screen with a frame and the instruction: place the bill slip inside these lines. Buttons for light, the shutter, and from photos.

  2. Check what it read

    Each value sits next to the part of the photo it came from. Anything the reader is unsure of is marked “Not sure, please check”. You confirm or fix each one before the bill is explained.

    Check these numbers screen for a sample bill: units 214, amount due ₹1,304.64 and pay by 19 November, each with Correct and Fix buttons. Several values are labelled not sure, please check.

  3. వినండి

    Hear it explained in Telugu

    Press play to hear what is owed, by when, and what each charge is. Switch to Hindi or English at any time. Each person in the family picks their own language.

    Speech uses the phone's own voice for that language. If that voice isn't installed, the app says so, and the same explanation is there to read.

    The same sample bill explained in Hindi, with the phone in dark mode: tabs for Telugu, Hindi and English, a play button to listen, and the checks the app made. Marked sample data.
    The same sample bill in Hindi, with the phone in dark mode.

  4. నెల నెలా యూనిట్లు

    History and next-bill forecast

    Every bill is kept on the phone, month by month, with an estimate for the month in progress.

    History screen marked sample data: a bar chart of units from May to November, green under 200 and red over 200, with December shown as an estimate of about 202 units.

  5. దగ్గర పడుతోంది

    A warning before you cross 200 units

    Photograph the meter in the middle of the month. The app shows where the month is heading and how many units a day keep you under 200.

    Meter check screen marked getting close and sample data: 121 units by day 18, heading for about 202 units by 4 December. About 6 units a day keeps the cycle under 200.

  6. కుటుంబంతో పంచుకోండి

    Share with family

    Family sharing: start a family and invite with a code. Coming in the next beta.

What we measured

We tested the on-phone reader on six real Hyderabad (TGSPDCL) bills.

Bills read as bills
5 of 6
Key fields read correctly
21 of 29
Wrong values marked as certain
0

The reader never marked a wrong value as certain. Anything it was unsure of was shown for the person to check.

This is a small test set, run on one phone. The TGNPDCL bill layout has not yet been tested on a real bill.

మీ వివరాలు, మీ చేతిలోనే

Your bills stay on your phone

  • Bills are kept on the phone.
  • It works with no network: scanning, explaining, history and the forecast.
  • No sign-in to start.
  • Bill photos are not uploaded.
  • Family sharing uses an account stored in India (Mumbai).
  • “Delete all my data” in Settings removes everything.

Built for the challenge

Current Lekka is an entry to the Telangana Innovation Startup Challenge (TISC 2026), Challenge #13. It is built by Aftershock Labs.

Contact: via the TISC application.