Comparison

Pennylane vs iBanFirst

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

Head to head
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

About

iBanFirst

Features
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With the iBanFirst App, you can securely access your global financial transactions anytime, anywhere. iBanFirst is a cross-border payment provider specialising in international transactions and FX risk management for small and medium-sized businesses. We offer transparent, secure and fast international payments in 146 currencies. The iBanFirst App adds an additional layer of security to your iBanFirst account, protecting your sensitive financial data and international transactions with two-factor authentication (2FA). So you have complete control over your business transactions thanks to push notifications or time-based codes! With iBanFirst App : - Connect to your iBanFirst account in just a few clicks - Enhance your iBanFirst account security with Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) allowing you to approve or deny login attempts instantly through push notifications, time-based codes or face/touch ID Download the iBanFirst App today and secure your international transactions in no time!

Screenshots

Pennylane4 screens
iBanFirst4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pennylane and iBanFirst are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pennylane ships an update weekly, iBanFirst fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pennylane versus iBanFirst: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPennylaneiBanFirst
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size151 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPennylaneiBanFirst France

In-app purchases

None

Pennylane

No in-app purchases

None

iBanFirst

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pennylane free?
Pennylane is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iBanFirst free?
iBanFirst is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pennylane or iBanFirst have ads?
Neither Pennylane nor iBanFirst shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pennylane or iBanFirst?
Pennylane ships an update weekly, and iBanFirst fortnightly. Most recently, Pennylane was updated on October 15, 2026 and iBanFirst on October 2, 2026.

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