Comparison

Dougs vs Pennylane

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Dougs

Manage your business finances on the go with this online accounting expert's mobile app. Track expenses, categorize transactions, and upload receipts in real-time from your smartphone. Simplify your bookkeeping and save time with instant access to your financial data.

Highlights
  • Real-time accounting tracking
  • Categorize and edit transactions
  • Upload documents via camera/gallery/Drive
  • Track mileage expenses
  • Add expense receipts instantly
  • Access to accounting professionals
Features
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L’application mobile de Dougs, l’expert-comptable en ligne qui vous simplifie vraiment la vie. Avec Dougs sur votre smartphone, vous pouvez suivre votre comptabilité en temps réel, où vous voulez, quand vous voulez et gagner encore plus de temps ! Catégorisez, éditez et validez vos opérations depuis votre téléphone. Ajoutez et stocker vos documents depuis l'appareil photo, la galerie photo et votre Drive synchronisé à votre mobile. Ajoutez vos indemnités kilométriques directement après chaque trajet en quelques secondes ! Plus besoin d’attendre d’être devant votre ordinateur pour enregistrer une note de frais, faites-le sur place et prenez en photo le reçu pour l’attacher à l’opération, c’est simple ! Dougs, qu'est-ce que c'est ? Dougs est un cabinet d’expertise-comptable en ligne français, membre de l'Ordre des Experts Comptables. Sa mission ? Rendre accessible la comptabilité et la gestion de leur business à tous les freelances et entrepreneurs. Ses avantages ? Une solution en ligne développée en interne, combinée à une équipe de comptables, de juristes et de fiscalistes disponible pour vous conseiller par tchat et par téléphone. Plus de 14 000 entrepreneurs utilisent déjà Dougs au quotidien !

About

Pennylane

Manage your business finances, accounting, and banking in one integrated platform. Streamline invoicing, track expenses, analyze performance, and collaborate with your accountant.

Highlights
  • Integrated business account
  • Purchase and sales management
  • Performance analysis
  • Invoice management
  • Collaboration with accountants
  • Over 300 integrations
Features
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Pennylane is the tool that brings together your finances, your accounting, and your Business Account! Discover the all-in-one solution for your business that includes purchase and sales management tools, performance analysis, and a Pro Account 100% integrated with your accounting. Pennylane is PDP certified! Receive and send your invoices in the FacturX format even before the reform is applied. Over 180,000 French companies and 2,500 accounting firms have already joined Pennylane. What changes with Pennylane: - Manage your activity from a single space: the purchase and sales modules allow you a complete management of your activity. Quotes, invoices, subscriptions, sales reminders... manage all your finances in one place! - Make better decisions: Pennylane allows you to access all the data of your activity and analyze it from a single platform. - Collaborate more effectively with your accountant: keep your accounting up-to-date in real-time. Pennylane suggests reconciliations to carry out and actions to perform. - Over 300 integrations available: simplify the retrieval of your flows and the management of your activity by connecting to your business tools directly from Pennylane. Get the Pennylane Pro Account including: - Free cards and unlimited free transfers: Enjoy customizable virtual or physical Mastercard cards and pay easily via SEPA transfer. - French IBAN, secured funds: Entrust your funds to a secured institution approved by the Banque de France (ACPR). - Payment of supplier invoices: Settle up to 400 invoices in one click, reconciliation and lettering are automatic. - Simplified collection of receipts: No more hunting for receipts! Receive a mobile notification with every transaction made with the Business Account card. Included in the mobile app: - Business Account: Initiate transfers, manage your bank cards and receive a mobile notification with every transaction made with your Pennylane Business Account. - Invoice management: Upload your purchase invoices, expense reports and follow their validation - Categorization: Categorize all your transactions and expense reports at the right time, without delay - Customer billing management: Create your sales quotes and invoices and send them to your clients - Accounting requests: Collaborate with your team and your accountant via comments and notifications - Track your cash flow and other key indicators

Screenshots

Dougs4 screens
Pennylane4 screens

Verdict

The call

Dougs and Pennylane both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Dougs's written reviews are positive against 67% of Pennylane's. Pennylane's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Dougs against 4.6 for Pennylane. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pennylane has 35 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Dougs's written reviews are positive against 67% of Pennylane's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dougs versus Pennylane: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDougsPennylane
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.6 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings335 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB150 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDougsPennylane

Customer experience

Dougs

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pennylane

All ratings35 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral17.5%
Negative15.8%

In-app purchases

None

Dougs

No in-app purchases

None

Pennylane

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dougs free?
Dougs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pennylane free?
Pennylane is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dougs or Pennylane?
Dougs is rated higher. Dougs averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Pennylane averages 4.6 from 35 ratings.
Do Dougs or Pennylane have ads?
Neither Dougs nor Pennylane shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dougs or Pennylane?
Dougs ships an update weekly, and Pennylane weekly. Most recently, Dougs was updated on September 24, 2026 and Pennylane on September 23, 2026.

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