{
  "app": "Krane",
  "available_values": {
    "no": "not offered",
    "partial": "partly; read the answer",
    "pro": "with Krane Pro",
    "yes": "on the free plan"
  },
  "features": [
    {
      "aliases": [
        "business card",
        "business cards",
        "card scanner",
        "scan cards",
        "scan a card",
        "ocr",
        "contact scanner",
        "read cards",
        "both sides",
        "back of the card"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes. One shot fills the contact: name, job title, company, labelled phone numbers, emails, websites, social profiles and street address. Add the back of the card and both sides are read into one contact.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "business-card-scanning",
      "name": "Business card scanning",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/business-card-scanner/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "language",
        "languages",
        "japanese",
        "chinese",
        "korean",
        "arabic",
        "cyrillic",
        "russian",
        "script",
        "foreign",
        "transliteration",
        "multilingual"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes. Krane reads cards in almost any language and script, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean, and adds a Latin spelling of names written in another script.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "languages",
      "name": "Cards in other languages and scripts",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/business-card-scanner/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "offline",
        "no signal",
        "no internet",
        "without internet",
        "airplane mode",
        "no wifi",
        "no connection"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes. With no connection Krane reads each card on the iPhone right away and checks it again when you're back online.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "offline",
      "name": "Scanning with no signal",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/business-card-scanner/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "badge",
        "badges",
        "event badge",
        "trade show badge",
        "conference badge",
        "lanyard",
        "name tag",
        "qr code",
        "pdf417",
        "aztec",
        "barcode",
        "lead retrieval"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes, on the free plan. Krane saves the printed name, title, company, event, badge role and badge number, reads QR, PDF417 and Aztec codes and other common barcodes, and merges contact data in the code with the printed details. It can't decode a code the show has encrypted; it keeps the printed details in that case.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "badge-scanning",
      "name": "Trade show badge scanning",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/badge-scanner/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "encrypted badge",
        "encrypted",
        "proprietary badge",
        "show's lead retrieval",
        "decode badge"
      ],
      "answer": "No. Encrypted or proprietary badge codes can't be decoded. Krane still saves the printed name, title, company and event from the badge.",
      "available": "no",
      "id": "encrypted-badges",
      "name": "Decoding encrypted show badges",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/badge-scanner/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "event",
        "events",
        "trade show",
        "conference",
        "expo",
        "booth",
        "filed by event",
        "met at",
        "where we met"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes. While an event is running, every card and badge you scan is filed under it, with the event's tags. An event screen shows its cards and companies and exports them in one go.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "events",
      "name": "Cards filed by event",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/trade-show-lead-capture/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "many cards",
        "card after card",
        "continuous",
        "stack of cards",
        "in a row",
        "batch"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes. Lay cards down one at a time under the phone and Krane shoots each one as soon as it is still. Free users can scan 3 in a row per session; Krane Pro has no limit.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "card-after-card",
      "name": "Scanning many cards in a row",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/business-card-scanner/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "group scan",
        "bulk scan",
        "several cards at once",
        "multiple cards",
        "one photo",
        "spread of cards",
        "bulk"
      ],
      "answer": "With Krane Pro. The \"Group of cards\" mode reads a whole spread of cards from one photo.",
      "available": "pro",
      "id": "group-scan",
      "name": "A group of cards from one photo",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "hubspot",
        "hub spot"
      ],
      "answer": "With Krane Pro. Krane creates a HubSpot contact, or updates the contact with the same email: name, email, phones, company, job title, website and address. Send one card, a selection, a whole event, or every new scan automatically.",
      "available": "pro",
      "id": "hubspot",
      "name": "HubSpot sync",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/trade-show-lead-capture/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "salesforce",
        "sfdc",
        "sales cloud"
      ],
      "answer": "With Krane Pro. Krane creates a Salesforce Lead or Contact (your choice), or updates the record with the same email; the event, where you met, tags and notes go into the Description. Sign in with Salesforce.",
      "available": "pro",
      "id": "salesforce",
      "name": "Salesforce sync",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/trade-show-lead-capture/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "pipedrive",
        "pipe drive"
      ],
      "answer": "With Krane Pro. Krane creates a Pipedrive person, or updates the person with the same email, links or creates the organization, and adds a note with the position, event, tags and notes.",
      "available": "pro",
      "id": "pipedrive",
      "name": "Pipedrive sync",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/trade-show-lead-capture/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "webhook",
        "zapier",
        "make com",
        "make.com",
        "integromat",
        "n8n",
        "api",
        "automation",
        "integration"
      ],
      "answer": "With Krane Pro. Krane posts each card as JSON to a URL you choose (Zapier, Make, n8n or your own server), signed with HMAC-SHA256 when you set a shared secret.",
      "available": "pro",
      "id": "webhook",
      "name": "Webhook, Zapier, Make, n8n",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/trade-show-lead-capture/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "outlook",
        "dynamics",
        "dynamics 365",
        "microsoft",
        "zoho",
        "google contacts",
        "gmail",
        "notion",
        "airtable",
        "monday",
        "slack",
        "close",
        "copper",
        "keap",
        "gohighlevel"
      ],
      "answer": "No native connection. Outlook, Dynamics 365, Slack and monday.com connections are coming soon. Until then, and for Zoho, Google Contacts, Notion or Airtable, use Apple Contacts (an Exchange or Google account on the iPhone), a CSV import, or the webhook through Zapier, Make or n8n.",
      "available": "partial",
      "id": "other-crms",
      "name": "Outlook, Dynamics 365, Zoho, Google Contacts, Notion, Airtable",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/trade-show-lead-capture/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "csv",
        "excel",
        "export",
        "spreadsheet",
        "numbers",
        "google sheets",
        "xlsx",
        "download contacts"
      ],
      "answer": "With Krane Pro. Export one event or all cards as a CSV that opens in Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets; headers are always in English.",
      "available": "pro",
      "id": "csv-export",
      "name": "CSV / Excel export",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "apple contacts",
        "contacts app",
        "iphone contacts",
        "vcard",
        "vcf",
        "share contact",
        "save contact"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes, on the free plan. Add any card to Apple Contacts, or share it as a vCard.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "apple-contacts",
      "name": "Apple Contacts and vCard sharing",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/scan-business-cards-iphone/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "tags",
        "notes",
        "reminder",
        "reminders",
        "follow up",
        "follow-up",
        "duplicates",
        "duplicate",
        "merge",
        "search",
        "map",
        "favorites"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes, on the free plan: tags, notes, where you met, favorites, follow-up reminders, duplicate detection with one-tap merge, search across every field, and contacts on a map.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "organize",
      "name": "Tags, notes, reminders, duplicates, search, map",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/business-card-scanner/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "siri",
        "shortcuts",
        "spotlight",
        "voice"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes. Siri and Shortcuts can scan a card or start an event, and cards are searchable from Spotlight.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "siri",
      "name": "Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/business-card-scanner/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "account",
        "sign up",
        "signup",
        "login",
        "privacy",
        "stored",
        "cloud",
        "backup",
        "gdpr",
        "where is my data"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes. There is no account or sign-up. Cards and CRM tokens are stored on the iPhone, and the whole library backs up to one file you can restore any time.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "no-account",
      "name": "No account, data on the device",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/about/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "iphone",
        "ipad",
        "ios",
        "iphone duo",
        "ios version",
        "requirements"
      ],
      "answer": "Yes. Krane runs on iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad and requires iOS 17.6 or later. A Krane Pro subscription works on all of them on the same Apple Account.",
      "available": "yes",
      "id": "iphone-ipad",
      "name": "iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/scan-business-cards-iphone/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "android",
        "samsung",
        "pixel",
        "mac",
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "pc",
        "web app",
        "browser",
        "desktop",
        "chrome extension"
      ],
      "answer": "No. Krane runs only on iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad. There is no Android, Mac, Windows or web version. The free web tools at kraneapp.com/tools/ work in any browser.",
      "available": "no",
      "id": "other-platforms",
      "name": "Android, Mac, Windows or web",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/tools/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "digital business card",
        "digital card",
        "nfc card",
        "my card",
        "share my card",
        "wallet pass",
        "virtual card"
      ],
      "answer": "No. Krane reads the cards you're handed; it doesn't make a digital card for you to share. It can share any saved card as a vCard, and the free vCard QR code tool at /tools/business-card-qr-code/ makes a QR code for your own card.",
      "available": "no",
      "id": "digital-business-card",
      "name": "Your own digital business card",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/tools/business-card-qr-code/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "import",
        "import contacts",
        "import csv",
        "import vcf",
        "migrate",
        "move from",
        "transfer"
      ],
      "answer": "No. Krane can't import a .vcf or CSV. Add photos of old cards from the photo library instead. The free VCF converter at /tools/vcf-to-csv/ is a separate web tool, not an import path into the app.",
      "available": "no",
      "id": "import",
      "name": "Importing contacts (vCard or CSV)",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/tools/vcf-to-csv/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "team",
        "teams",
        "team plan",
        "volume",
        "enterprise",
        "admin",
        "seats",
        "shared database",
        "family sharing",
        "company plan",
        "sso"
      ],
      "answer": "No. There are no team or volume plans and no shared admin portal. Each person subscribes on their own Apple Account, and Krane Pro isn't shared through Family Sharing. A team can send everyone's scans to the same CRM.",
      "available": "no",
      "id": "teams",
      "name": "Team plans, shared lead database",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "aliases": [
        "trial",
        "free trial",
        "demo",
        "intro offer",
        "discount",
        "coupon"
      ],
      "answer": "There is no free trial of Krane Pro. The free plan, 10 scans a week with no account, is the way to try Krane.",
      "available": "no",
      "id": "free-trial",
      "name": "Free trial",
      "page": "https://kraneapp.com/pricing/"
    }
  ],
  "generated": "2026-11-09"
}