In his article Gromov, M. Almost flat manifolds. J. Differential Geom. 13 (1978), no. 2, 231–241 Gromov exploited a notion of a *pseudogroup*. In his book Tao, Terence. Hilbert's fifth problem and related topics. Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 153. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2014 Tao systematically developed the notion of an *approximate group* and gave several applications. What is the precise relationship between the notion of pseudogroup and that of an approximate group?