Beya vs LayerNext
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beya
This AI-powered business management tool streamlines back-office tasks like sales analytics and payment processing. It allows you to accept payments anywhere, manage inventory from connected platforms, and operate in a hands-free storefront mode.
- Accept contactless payments anywhere
- Hands-free storefront sales assistant
- Sync inventory with Shopify/Square
- Centralized payment history
- AI-powered analytics
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Beya is the AI agent built for revenue, product and sales analytics; the messy, time-consuming back-office tasks that pull you away from your customers. Our iPhone app puts that agent in your pocket and turns your phone into things every business needs: a register, an analyst, a salesperson. ACCEPT PAYMENTS ANYWHERE Tap to Pay on iPhone lets you take card and contactless payments with no extra hardware. Customers tap, you get paid. For remote sales, share a Payment Link by text, AirDrop, or any messaging app. Your customer pays from their own device. STOREFRONT MODE Switch into storefront mode and let Beya act as a hands-free sales assistant. While you talk to customers, the agent listens, builds the cart in real time, pulls from your inventory, and gets the order ready to charge. Your hands stay on the product and your eyes stay on the customer. YOUR INVENTORY, IN SYNC Connect Shopify or Square and Beya pulls in your full product catalog. Add items by tapping a product or typing a custom amount. Prices, variants, and stock stay in sync with whatever platform you already run. ONE PLACE FOR EVERY SALE Every transaction flows into Beya's payment history with full receipts and order details. Filter by status, payment method, or date. No more chasing transactions across Stripe, your point of sale, and your e-commerce backend. BUILT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES Beya is a specialized agent that understands the workflows small business owners actually run — checkout, inventory, daily operations — and removes the friction. The iPhone app is one way to use it; the agent works wherever you do.
LayerNext
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LayerNext is an AI agent platform for accounts payable automation and finance operations. Our AP automation software processes invoices, reconciles accounts, codes transactions to the GL, and generates CFO-grade reports across any ERP or accounting platform. This is not another dashboard or OCR tool. Our agents handle invoice automation end to end. An invoice is captured, validated, matched to its PO, exception-handled, posted, and reconciled. Your team approves every step, and a full audit trail is kept. LayerNext works where other AP automation tools cannot. No API on your ERP? No problem. Our agents operate desktop applications, legacy systems, and Windows-based software the same way your team does. If a human can use it, the agent can automate it. What LayerNext does: • Accounts payable automation • Invoice automation and approvals • Real-time bank reconciliation • GL coding and transaction categorization • Custom finance workflows • ERP and desktop automation, no API required • CFO-level reporting: cash flow, margin analysis, management reporting Works with SAP, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Epicor, Sage, and legacy or custom ERPs — including QuickBooks. Finance work, done by AI, with humans in control.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: LayerNext at fortnightly against Beya's every 8 months. 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.
Beya ships an update every 8 months, LayerNext fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beya | LayerNext |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beya Inc. | LayerNext Inc. |
In-app purchases
Beya
No in-app purchases
LayerNext
No in-app purchases









