Circula vs Swyx Mobile 2020
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Swyx Mobile 2020
Stay reachable with a single business number across all devices. Make and receive calls with your office number displayed, manage call forwarding, and communicate with colleagues via voice and messaging. Enjoy HD audio and advanced call management features.
- Unified business number
- HD audio quality
- Call forwarding rules
- Colleague messaging
- Call management features
- Voicemail support
- Presence management
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STAY FLEXIBLE – WITH SWYX MOBILE One decisive advantage of Swyx Mobile is being reachable under one single phone number. This means you can be reached at one single business number, no matter whether you are using a smartphone or a fixed phone. When using the Swyx App to make outgoing calls, your office number is displayed to the callee. Moreover, you can flexibly define call forwarding rules in the VoIP software from Swyx, thereby exercising a high level of control over your availability. FEATURES - Voice communication in HD audio quality - Navigating through contacts, favourites, call journal - Send messages to your colleagues - Starting calls via direct input, or by using the phone book, call journal and favourites - Call management (connect, forward, mute, hold and toggle) - Number suppression for calls, name resolution for numbers - Voicemail support with Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) - Contact management and telephone book with search function - Creation of a favourites list for contacts - Call protocols (incoming, outgoing, missed calls) - HD conferences, user-initiated ad-hoc 3-party conferences - Call forwarding for all calls or if the user is not answering, busy or logged out - Presence and profile management (setting manual presence status and status message) - Push Notification Support - Optimized for iPad REQUIREMENTS - iPhone or iPad with iOS 10 (or higher) - SwyxWare 12.10 on server (or higher) with push notification service correctly installed and running - Apple requires the use of TLS 1.2 for apps uploaded to the App Store. TLS 1.2 is enabled by default on Windows Server 2012, only. If your SwyxWare is running on a Windows system prior to Windows Server 2012 (e.g. Windows Server 2008 R2) you need to manually enable the use of TLS 1.2 on your server (https://www.swyx.com/support/ssdb.html?kbid=kb4894) KNOWN RESTRICTIONS - Don't use on SwyxWare lower than 12.10. For these please use the legacy app 'Swyx Mobile 2019' from App Store. - No proper error notification when a new password doesn't meet the complexity requirements defined by the server - Own user state is wrong if "SIP device" is not selected as "Login Device" for the user (needs to be set up by your admin) - This Swyx app cannot be used with a Swyxware Advance / DeutschlandLAN Swyx server - The use of h/w buttons of Jabra Stealth devices is not supported by Jabra, yet - Non-login-relevant user settings are not transferred with easy transit mechanism from the app “Swyx Mobile 2019” (version 2.x) to “Swyx Mobile” (version 3.x)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Swyx Mobile 2020 at 5.0 against Circula's 4.6. Swyx Mobile 2020 also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and device support (4 vs 2). Circula's advantage is ratings volume (72 vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Swyx Mobile 2020 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Circula has 72 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Circula's written reviews are positive against 41% of Swyx Mobile 2020's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Circula ships an update every 3 weeks, Swyx Mobile 2020 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Circula | Swyx Mobile 2020 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (72 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.8% of reviews — better | 41.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 336 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Circula GmbH | Enreach GmbH |
Customer experience
Circula
Swyx Mobile 2020
In-app purchases
Circula
No in-app purchases
Swyx Mobile 2020
No in-app purchases
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