Krane compared with other business card apps

A scanner is built around the cards other people hand you. You photograph the card, the app reads the name, title, company, phones and emails into a contact, and the contact goes somewhere: Apple Contacts, a CSV file or a CRM. CamCard and Covve are in this group, and so is Krane. CamCard and Covve have added digital cards of their own; Krane shares a vCard instead.

A digital business card app is built around your own card. You share it by QR code, NFC or a link, and the other person needs no app. HiHello, Blinq and Haystack are digital cards first; Popl sells a digital card alongside team lead capture for events. All four have added a scanner for paper cards.

The difference shows up in three places. Scan limits: a digital card app scans as a side feature, so it often meters it. HiHello’s free plan allows 5 paper card or badge scans a month, as its pricing page listed on November 8, 2026; Haystack’s free plan says unlimited. CRM plans: at HiHello and Blinq, native sync with Salesforce or HubSpot sits on the Business tier, sold per user with a five-seat minimum. Accounts: HiHello and Popl keep scanned contacts in your account on their servers. Krane has no account; the cards stay on your iPhone, iPhone Duo or iPad, and Krane Pro adds CRM sync for one person.

• You hand out your own card more than you collect others’. Look at a digital card app: HiHello, Blinq, Haystack or Popl. Each shares your card by QR code or NFC, and the person you meet needs no app.
• A team of 20 at one booth, leads going into Dynamics 365. Look at a team plan. HiHello, Blinq and Popl list Dynamics 365 among their team-plan CRMs and give the manager an admin dashboard. Krane has no team plan and no Dynamics connector.
• One rep, a show with no signal, Pipedrive. Look at Krane. It reads each card on the phone right away, files it under the event, and sends it to Pipedrive with Krane Pro. No team plan is needed.
• A card now and then, no export. Look at a free plan. Krane’s covers 10 scans a week and saves to Apple Contacts. Haystack’s lists unlimited scans; HiHello’s allows 5 a month.
• Android in the team. Look at any app here except Krane. CamCard, Covve, HiHello, Popl, Blinq and Haystack all list an Android app. Krane runs on iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad only.
• A shared card database for the whole company, with single sign-on. Look at CamCard Business or Covve Enterprise. Both list SSO and admin controls on their team pages.

Every value about another app was read on that app’s own website, help center and App Store page on November 8, 2026, and each per-app page links the source. We did not use third-party reviews, and we show no ratings. Where a page didn’t say, the table says “Unknown” rather than our guess. Several makers don’t state whether cards are read on the phone or on a server, or which card languages they read. Prices are US list prices on that date and change; where a maker’s website and its App Store listing disagree, the per-app page says so.

Krane’s own limits sit in the same table: 10 free scans a week, CRM sync and CSV export only with Krane Pro, no Android, no digital card of its own. The plans and what each includes are on the pricing page. If a value is out of date, write to [email protected]; corrections are welcome.

Krane is a business card scanner for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad. It reads the name, title, company, phones, emails, website, social profiles and address of a card into one contact. With no signal it reads on the phone right away and checks the card again when you’re back online. It is also a badge scanner: it reads QR, PDF417 and Aztec codes and merges them with the printed name, title and company. Start an event and every scan is filed under it, which is the trade show lead capture side. There is no account; cards stay on the device. The free plan covers 10 scans a week. Krane Pro adds unlimited scans, group scan, CSV export, and HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or a webhook.