STARFACE vs Circula
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
STARFACE
This business communication app integrates instant messaging, voicemail, video chat, and faxing with your phone system. Manage calls, contacts, and messages from a unified interface, reducing mobile phone bills.
- SIP and GSM calling
- Instant messaging and chat
- Voicemail and fax integration
- Call management and forwarding
- Access to STARFACE address book
- Favorites with BLF/Direct Dial Keys
- Unified communication journal
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The STARFACE Communications Hub for your iPhone. The STARFACE Apps combine powerful high-end business telephony with a seamless integration of instant messaging, voicemail, video chat, and faxing. These features are also available for your iPhone. The STARFACE Apps bundle all communication channels on your smartphone and turn it into the innovative and modern communications center of your STARFACE telephone system. The Journal keeps you up to date with everything that happens. Who sent you a chat message? Who called you and left a message on your voicemail? You can see everything concerning your STARFACE account. Your STARFACE Function Keys (BLFs) are also available right on your mobile phone, as are instant messaging and the STARFACE address book. The integrated call manager gives you access to a wide selection of functionality and ease-of-use features such as call brokering (toggling), call forwarding and inquiry hold. The STARFACE App for iOS works over LTE and Wi-Fi and directly reduces your mobile phone bill. Features: Calling • SIP calls • GSM calls • Call-Back by STARFACE PBX • Call-Through with module installed on STARFACE • Toggle between calls • Blind Transfer / Attended Transfer • Ad-hoc conference calls Contacts • Favorites (Busy Lamp Fields and Direct Dial Keys) • Access to local contacts • Access to address book hosted on STARFACE PBX Function Keys Instant messaging • Chat with users on the same STARFACE PBX system • Definition of Chat status und status text Journal • Displays all missed events • Separate lists for calls, voicemails, faxes, and chat messages • Filter by type • Call list filter by group Status • Enable/disable iFMC • Enable/disable redirections • Enable/disable DND Settings • Encryption • Standard call method • Enable/disable phone features • Enable/disable chat features Your forum for feature requests and ideas: https://support.starface.de/forum/board/65-starface-vorschlagsportal/ System Requirements • Apple iPhone with iOS 16 or later • A STARFACE PBX (Version 8.0 or higher) • For full functionality incl. SIP telephony, a STARFACE App Premium Licence on the STARFACE PBX is required for the particular user. • STARFACE App Premium license on the STARFACE PBX for full functionality, including SIP telephony • An active and functional SIM card inserted in the device • A stable internet connection (mobile and/or Wi-Fi). Note: Some features may require stable mobile internet connection. www.starface.com
Circula
Streamline employee expense, credit card, and benefit management with this digital and automated solution. It offers seamless integrations with financial and HR systems, ensuring a compliant and efficient end-to-end process. Enhance employee satisfaction and strengthen your employer brand with hassle-free administration.
- Mobile app with OCR Scanner & web-app
- Automated per diem calculation & currency conversion
- Up-to-date travel expenses and tax guidelines
- Automatic receipt control
- Automatic expense creation & auto-receipt matching
- Integrations to DATEV, Personio, TravelPerk
- Configurable workflows & travel policies
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With Circula, your business expenses manage themselves. Circula is the flexible spend management platform for European finance teams, bringing employee & travel expenses, corporate credit cards, accounts payable, and employee benefits together in one app. From the first receipt to the pre-accounted booking in your downstream system, Circula closes the loop. With Circula you can: • Get per diem rates for trips calculated automatically • Snap a photo of a receipt or invoice, no more manual data entry • Pay directly with physical or virtual company credit cards • Get invoices captured automatically and routed for approval • Approve your team's expenses on the go • Keep an overview of the benefits budget and use it with ease • Catch duplicates and policy violations before they become a problem • Export clean, GoBD-compliant data straight to financial and payroll accounting Compliance isn't an afterthought at Circula, it's part of every process from day one. Circula keeps data clean, tax-compliant, and audit-ready, without any manual effort. Thanks to Circula AI, more than 60% of all expenses are already export-ready at the moment of submission, with no manual work for accounting required. More than 3,000 companies and 250,000 users in over 25 countries worldwide trust Circula, including About You, DATEV, Deutsche Fußball Liga, Noerr, and Securitas. Circula was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berlin. Download Circula today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: STARFACE at free against Circula's freemium. Circula's advantage is ratings volume (69 vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for STARFACE against 4.7 for Circula. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Circula has 69 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of STARFACE's written reviews are positive against 46% of Circula's.
STARFACE ships an update every 2 months, Circula every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | STARFACE | Circula |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.7 (69 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 45.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 69 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 336 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | STARFACE GmbH | Circula GmbH |
Customer experience
STARFACE
Circula
In-app purchases
STARFACE
No in-app purchases
Circula
No in-app purchases





