The best business card scanner apps for 2026–2027

Best for: people who want a card scanner and a digital business card in one app on both iPhone and Android, with CamCard Business as the team edition.

CamCard, from the maker of CamScanner, scans paper cards, makes digital cards and transcribes meetings by voice. Its site says it reads cards in 16 languages. You choose the languages in settings, and CamCard recommends picking one to three. A paid option has a person check and correct the read.

What to know: when we read CamCard’s pricing page on November 8, 2026, the free plan held 100 cards, allowed 5 high-accuracy scans a week, showed ads, and had no Excel or vCard export and no sync. Its pages mention QR codes and say nothing about event badges or reading with no signal.

We couldn’t confirm CamCard’s website prices on November 12. The App Store lists in-app purchases of $4.49 and $8.49 for a Premium account and $49.99 a year, and doesn’t say which plan each one buys. CamCard Business is priced by quote. See Krane and CamCard compared.

Best for: sales teams that scan cards and badges at events on a mix of iPhone and Android, because Covve gives the team one web portal with every lead in it.

Covve reads business cards and QR codes on every plan and detects more than 60 card languages automatically. On the Pro plan, a badge mode reads the printed name, company and job title. It skips the code, so it works on badges locked to the organizer.

What to know: Covve has no free plan. Yearly plans start with a 14-day trial; after it, scanning stops until you pay. With no signal, Covve saves the scan and finishes reading it once you reconnect. Sync to Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive and Dynamics 365 is an add-on to Pro, and the add-on’s price isn’t published.

Essential is $12 a seat a month or $119 a seat a year. Pro, which adds badges and the portal, is $20 a seat a month or $199 a year. See Krane and Covve compared.

Best for: teams already on HubSpot CRM, because the scanner in the HubSpot mobile app is free and turns each card into a HubSpot contact.

This is a feature of the HubSpot app, and there is no separate scanner to install. You open the scanner, drag four corner points to frame the card, confirm the fields it matched, and save. The contact record appears in your HubSpot account, where the rest of the team can see it. A second scanner in the same menu reads QR codes that hold a vCard.

What to know: it is useful only if HubSpot is your CRM. It reads one card per scan, and HubSpot’s help pages say the scanner isn’t supported on iPad. Those pages mention no event badges, no export file from the scanner and no reading without a signal. They don’t list card languages either.

HubSpot says the scanner is free with “no arbitrary limits”, on every HubSpot plan including the free CRM.

Best for: people who want a digital business card first and scan a few paper cards a month, because HiHello includes its scanner on every plan with a monthly allowance.

HiHello is a digital card platform: you share your card by QR code, link, NFC or Apple Wallet. Its scanner takes paper cards, event badges and QR codes, and can work through a stack in one sitting.

What to know: the free plan allows 5 card or badge scans a month and Professional allows 20, with a paid add-on for unlimited. Its help center says you can’t scan a paper card without a connection. Sync to Salesforce, HubSpot and Dynamics 365 is on the Business plan, which starts at five users. You need an account.

On HiHello’s website, Professional is $8 a month or $72 a year, and Business is $6 a user a month or $60 a user a year. The App Store lists Professional at $9 a month or $84 a year. See Krane and HiHello compared.

Best for: one person who wants unlimited free card scans next to a free digital business card, since Haystack puts no cap on either in its Personal plan.

Haystack is a digital business card platform for individuals and companies. Its scanner takes a photo of one card, front or both sides, and reads it into a contact. Its FAQ says it reads more than 25 languages. Once you confirm the email address, you can send your own card back to the person.

What to know: the free plan has no CSV export and no CRM connection. Both need a paid plan, and Haystack’s pages disagree on whether CRM connections start on Pro or on Business. Its pages describe no badge scanning, no scanning of several cards at once and no reading without a signal.

Personal is free. Pro is $7.95 a user a month, or $4.50 a month billed yearly. Business is $4.95 a user a month, or $2.50 billed yearly. The Krane and Haystack comparison has the detail.

Best for: event teams that want badge capture, lead routing and CRM sync run from one dashboard, because Popl’s team plan is built for exhibitors.

Popl sells event lead capture and digital business cards. Its badge scanner reads the whole printed badge, name and company, and not the code, so it works at shows that encrypt their QR codes. With no service, leads are stored on the phone, then enriched and synced when service returns. Popl lists more than 30 connections, among them Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Dynamics and Zoho.

What to know: the badge scanner belongs to the team tier. Individual Pro plans get five badge scans, once. Popl publishes no team prices; it quotes them in a meeting. Its pages don’t say what the paper card scanner’s limits are on the free and Pro plans. You need an account.

The App Store lists Popl Pro at $7.99, or $76.99 a year, and Popl Pro Plus at $14.99, or $144.99 a year. See Krane and Popl compared.

Best for: people who want a digital business card with a scanner on the free plan, because Blinq includes its contact scanner at $0 and states no scan limit.

Blinq is a digital card platform for individuals and teams. Its scanner takes business cards, event badges, name tags and QR codes. With no connection it queues each scan on the phone and creates the contact once you’re back online. Its pages don’t say how cards are read or which card languages work.

What to know: CSV export starts on Pro. Sync to Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics 365, Pipedrive and Zoho CRM is listed under Business, which has a five-card minimum. On Business, Blinq also charges for each lead it enriches, and its pages give two different prices for that.

Premium is $9.99 a month or $87.99 a year. Pro is $22.49 a month or $199 a year. Business is $6.99 a card a month, or $4.99 billed yearly. See Krane and Blinq compared.

Best for: Zoho CRM users, because Zoho Card Scanner is free, saves each card as a lead or a contact in Zoho CRM and shows whether the person is already there.

It is a separate app from Zoho CRM. It reads the card with text recognition, and you fix a wrong field by dragging the suggested text onto it. When you save to Zoho CRM, the app checks the email address for a duplicate and offers to merge.

What to know: the listing names 14 card languages. Salesforce sync is a paid add-on. Zoho’s pages mention no event badges, no export file and no reading without a signal, and the App Store doesn’t list iPad support.

The app is free, and Zoho’s FAQ says there is no limit on how many cards you store, on every Zoho CRM edition. The Salesforce add-on is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year on the App Store. Zoho CRM is priced separately.

Best for: sales teams on Salesforce that want a person to type up the cards a machine reads badly, because ScanBizCards sells human transcription next to its scanner.

ScanBizCards reads business cards with text recognition, and you can submit a hard card to its staff to be transcribed by hand. The team plan adds conference badge scanning, export to CRMs, an admin panel and lead assignment by campaign. There is an edition on the Salesforce AppExchange.

What to know: its App Store listing names 21 card languages, and no Asian script is among the ones it lists. Badge scanning and CRM export aren’t on the free plan.

The free plan, called Trail-Blazer, includes card scanning and two human transcriptions, once. Sales Ninja, the team plan, is $100 a user a year. Extra transcriptions come in packs, starting at 100 for $25. The App Store sells the main app for $0.99 and offers a free Lite app. The pages don’t explain how those relate to the $100 plan.

Best for: iPhone users who scan cards in many languages and want to pay once, because ABBYY Business Card Reader reads 25 languages and sells a one-time purchase.

ABBYY’s reader has been on the iPhone for years. It finds the card’s edges, reads it with ABBYY’s text recognition and marks doubtful characters in blue for you to check. Contacts go into the iPhone’s Contacts or the app’s own card holder. They stay on the phone, with no account.

What to know: ABBYY’s own blog says Business Card Reader for Android has been “discontinued since September 2023”. The iPhone app is still sold, but its sync feature was removed in a November 2023 release, and the last release from ABBYY itself was on September 18, 2025. The free version reads 10 cards in total. Salesforce export works only with certain Salesforce editions.

Premium adds unlimited reading, CSV export and Salesforce export. The App Store lists it at $7.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or $59.99 once.

Best for: people whose contacts are spread over several Google, iCloud and Outlook accounts, because Contacts+ merges them into one address book and syncs scanned cards to all of them.

Contacts+ is a cloud address book from FullContact, and card scanning is one of its paid features. You photograph a card, the app transcribes it and shows you the result to correct, then saves it. Its scanner page says photos of conference badges work too. A new scanned contact can start a Zap in Zapier, and you can export contacts as CSV or vCard.

What to know: the free plan includes no card scans. On Premium, the pricing page says 100 scans a month, while the App Store description says up to 1,000 a year. There is no direct CRM connection, and you need an account.

Free covers 1,000 contacts and one synced account. Premium is $13.99 a month, or $9.99 a month billed yearly. Teams is $17.99 a user a month, or $12.99 billed yearly.

Best for: someone who gets a business card now and then and needs only the number or email from it, because iPhone Live Text is already in the Camera and Photos apps.

Live Text isn’t an app you install. Point the Camera at a card and wait for the yellow frame around the text, then tap the Live Text button. You can copy any text, or tap a phone number or an email address to call or write. Depending on the picture, Apple says, you may also see Add to Contacts.

What to know: Live Text hands you one detail at a time. It doesn’t build a contact with the name, title, company and address filled in, so a whole card means copying and pasting field by field. It keeps no list of the cards you’ve scanned and has no export and no CRM connection.

It is free and part of iOS. Our guide to scanning business cards on an iPhone has the steps.