Krane vs CamCard

CamCard comes from INTSIG, the company behind CamScanner. Its App Store listing is now “CamCard AI Business Assistant” and leads with AI voice transcription of meetings and “AI Business Insights” about the companies you meet. Under that sit the card scanner, a digital business card with templates, email signatures and a lead capture form, and cloud sync across iPhone, Android, Mac and visionOS. A separate product, CamCard Business, adds a team database, admin controls and more CRM targets, with a web app and pricing on request.

Krane does one job. It reads the cards and badges people hand you, on iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad, files them under the event you’re at, and sends them to Apple Contacts, a CSV, or HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive. There is no account; contacts stay on the device and back up to one file.

The difference is in kind. CamCard is a business assistant with a scanner in it. Krane is the scanner.

CamCard calls its reader AI card recognition with auto-correction, and its pricing page counts the reads. Basic lists “100 cards” and 5 high-accuracy AI scans a week. Premium lists unlimited cards and 200 high-accuracy scans a month; Pro lists 1,000. Its Artificial Proofreading option has people check and correct the data. CamCard’s homepage says it supports 16 languages. You pick recognition languages in settings; its camera tips advise one to three, since more lower the recognition rate. Whether the individual app reads several cards in one frame, its pages don’t say; bulk scanning from desktop scanners is a CamCard Business feature.

Krane reads a card into named fields: person name, job title, company, phone numbers labeled mobile, work, fax or other, email addresses, websites, social profiles, street address and anything else printed. It reads almost any language and script, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean, and adds a Latin spelling to names in another script. Add the back of a card and both sides go into one contact.

For a stack, hold the iPhone over the table and lay cards down one at a time. The business card scanner shoots each card once it is still and reads it while you set down the next. Free users scan three in a row per session and 10 cards per rolling seven-day week. With Krane Pro there is no cap, and Group of cards mode reads a whole spread from one photo.

CamCard’s pages describe QR codes: scanning another person’s CamCard QR code, and reading business cards through QR codes. They don’t mention event badges or an event feature; cards are sorted into groups and tags. Whether the app reads a card with no signal is not stated.

Krane’s badge scanner reads the printed name, title, company, event name, badge role and badge number, and decodes QR, PDF417 and Aztec codes and other common barcodes. Contact data in the code is merged with the print into one contact. If the badge carries no email or phone, scan the person’s card and it joins the same contact. Encrypted badge codes can’t be decoded; Krane still saves the printed name, title, company and event.

Krane’s trade show lead capture runs on the free plan. Start an event when you reach the venue and every card and badge you scan is filed under it, with “Met at” and the event’s tags filled in. The event screen lists its cards, companies and top tags, and with Krane Pro exports them in one go. Venue Wi-Fi is often weak, so Krane reads each card on your iPhone right away and checks it again when you’re back online.

CamCard’s Premium and Pro plans sync to Salesforce, Google Contacts and Outlook. Premium caps Salesforce sync at 1,000 a month; Pro has no cap. HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, SugarCRM and Zoho are on CamCard Business, plus an Open API. CamCard’s pages don’t mention Zapier. Paid plans export Excel and vCard; CSV isn’t listed.

Krane sends to HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive with Krane Pro, from the app, with your tokens stored on the iPhone. In HubSpot it creates a contact, or updates the one with the same email; the event, tags and notes stay in Krane. In Salesforce it creates a Lead or a Contact, sets LeadSource to “Krane” and writes the event, where you met, tags and notes into Description. In Pipedrive it creates a person, links or creates the organization named on the card, and adds a note “Scanned with Krane” with the position, event, tags and notes. Empty fields are never sent, so a push can’t blank data in the CRM.

A signed webhook posts each card as JSON to Zapier, Make, n8n or your own server. You can send one card, a selection, a whole event, or every new scan automatically. CSV export, of one event or all cards, opens in Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets.

CamCard’s prices are as listed on its website on November 8, 2026. Its US App Store listing that day shows different in-app purchases ($4.49, $8.49, and $49.99 a year) without saying which plan each belongs to. Premium comes with a 3-day free trial. Krane Pro has no trial; try the free plan first. The App Store shows the price for your account and country. Krane’s pricing page lists what each plan includes.

CamCard saves cards to its cloud server with 256-bit encryption, in data centers in America, Europe, Japan and China, so the same contacts appear on your phone, Mac and the web. Backup Contacts is a paid feature. Whether you must create an account to use the app, CamCard’s current pages don’t say.

Krane has no account. Cards, events and CRM tokens are stored on your iPhone, iPhone Duo or iPad, and you back everything up to one file you can restore any time. CRM pushes go from the app straight to HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive. Each card is read on your iPhone first, right away, and checked again when you’re back online.