Circula vs ConfPulse
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.
ConfPulse
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ConfPulse is a quiet, focused list of the developer conferences worth knowing about. No feed. No account. No notifications begging for attention. Open the app and it lands on the next conference due, marked so you can't miss it — upcoming events above, past ones below. Tap one and you get what you actually needed to know: when it runs, what city it is in, where the venue is, what the talks cover, and a link straight to the official site. WHAT YOU GET • A curated list of developer conferences, upcoming events above past ones • Opens straight on the next conference due, highlighted so a glance is enough • Dates, city and country on every row • Detail pages with venue address, an overview of the programme, and topic tags • A direct link to each conference's own website • Pull to refresh, and a footer that tells you plainly whether you are seeing a fresh sync, a cached copy, or the built-in list BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY The list is curated by hand rather than scraped, so it stays short and stays useful. It updates over the air — new conferences appear without a new app version. Everything works offline. The last list you loaded is kept on device, and the app ships with a starter list built in, so it is never an empty screen. PRIVACY ConfPulse has no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics and no tracking. It does not ask for your location, contacts or calendar. It fetches one file — the conference list — and nothing else leaves your phone. DESIGN Designed dark from the first pixel, for iPhone. Native SwiftUI, system typography and full Dynamic Type support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ConfPulse at every 3 days against Circula's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Circula ships an update every 3 weeks, ConfPulse every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Circula | ConfPulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (72 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 45.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 336 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Circula GmbH | Valentin Ranshakov |
In-app purchases
Circula
No in-app purchases
ConfPulse
No in-app purchases









