Spendesk vs Circula
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spendesk
This all-in-one solution provides finance teams with enhanced control, visibility, and automation for managing company spending. It integrates approvals, virtual and physical cards, reimbursements, and invoice management into a unified platform for smarter financial decisions.
- Real-time spending tracking
- Receipt capture and upload
- Virtual and physical card management
- Expense claim submission and tracking
- Invoice management
- Spend approval workflows
- Automated reconciliation
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Spendesk is the all-in-one spend management solution that delivers more control, visibility, and automation to today's finance teams. Combine spend approvals, virtual cards, physical cards, expense reimbursements, and invoice management into a single source of truth. With automated reconciliation processes and complete pre-spend control, finance teams are empowered to make smarter spending decisions. Within the Spendesk mobile app you are able to: • Track your spending in real time • Snap and upload receipts on the spot • See your card balance • Block and unblock your Spendesk card • Request top-ups • See your card's PIN code • Approve your teams' requests on the go • Submit expense claims and follow reimbursement • Request and generate single-use & recurring virtual cards
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 update cadence: Spendesk at every 4 days against Circula's every 3 weeks. Spendesk also leads on ratings volume (634 vs 69). 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 — 4.7 for Spendesk against 4.7 for Circula. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spendesk has 634 ratings behind it against 69, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 46% and 46% positive.
Spendesk ships an update every 4 days, Circula every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spendesk | Circula |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (634 ratings) | 4.7 (69 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 45.8% of reviews | 45.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 634 — better | 69 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 336 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spendesk | Circula GmbH |
Customer experience
Spendesk
Circula
In-app purchases
Spendesk
No in-app purchases
Circula
No in-app purchases







