Floatcard vs PingParrot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Floatcard
This app simplifies company spending for finance teams. It offers smart corporate cards, customizable controls, automated accounting, and real-time reporting. Manage expenses, track spending, and upload receipts directly from your phone.
- Mobile receipt capture
- On-the-go approvals
- Real-time spending visibility
- Transaction detail updates
- Biometric login
- Customizable themes
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Float is Canada’s leading spend management solution that helps finance teams enable, control, and track spending all in one platform. At Float, our goal is to simplify spending for companies and teams with smart corporate cards, customized spend controls, simple accounting automations, and real-time reporting. App Features: - Seamlessly take photos of your receipts and upload them to transactions at any time, directly from your phone - Quickly request and approve temporary limits, new cards, or reimbursements on-the-go - Get immediate visibility into your active cards and available funds - Review and update transaction information, from supporting documents to accounting inputs - Login with biometrics and customize your theme (dark/light) to your preference Business spending as it should be. Spend your time and money where it counts.
PingParrot
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PingParrot is on-call paging built for teams that can't afford to miss an alert. When something breaks at 2 AM, PingParrot keeps notifying until someone confirms they're on it. Critical Alerts Entitlement — Apple approved PingParrot holds Apple's granted Critical Alerts Entitlement. Critical and high priority pages play at full volume even when your phone is silenced or Do Not Disturb is on. Normal and low priority pages use Time-Sensitive delivery, breaking through Focus modes while respecting your volume settings. No configuration needed. Repeating notifications Every page repeats on your configured interval — every 30 seconds, every minute — until a team member acknowledges it. The moment someone taps Acknowledge, the repeating stops across all devices instantly. On-Call Schedules Build rotations on any interval — weekly, bi-weekly, or custom. Pages sent to a schedule automatically reach whoever is currently on duty. Need to cover a shift? Tap Cover Now directly from the app — no browser required. Escalation Policies Define multi-step chains that fire automatically when a page goes unacknowledged. Page the on-call engineer first, then their backup, then the whole team — each step on its own timer. Multi-channel delivery Every page sends a push notification and an email simultaneously. Team plan users can add SMS for recipients who need a text as a final fallback. Acknowledge from anywhere Tap Acknowledge directly from the lock screen notification — no need to open the app. A one-tap acknowledge link is also included in every email. Full audit trail Every delivery attempt, repeat, and acknowledgement is logged with timestamps so you know exactly who was notified and when they responded. REST API & Webhooks Trigger pages from Grafana, Prometheus, or any monitoring tool. Fire outgoing webhooks on page events to connect PingParrot to Slack or custom dashboards. Maintenance Windows Schedule suppression windows for planned downtime so your team isn't flooded during deployments. PingParrot is free to start with up to 3 pagers — no credit card required. What users say “She Pings me and the Parrot won't shut up until I answer her.” — Trisha Shearer
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Floatcard at every 9 days against PingParrot's every 2 months. PingParrot's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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.
Floatcard ships an update every 9 days, PingParrot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Floatcard | PingParrot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (87 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 87 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Float Card | Joshua Crann |
In-app purchases
Floatcard
No in-app purchases
PingParrot
No in-app purchases




