Krane vs Covve

Covve is a lead capture system built around the scan. The app reads business cards, QR codes and, on Pro, event badges, and a web portal shows a team every lead as it comes in. Native CRM sync, Zapier, a digital business card shared by QR code or NFC, voice capture for notes and an AI bio on each lead belong to the same product, sold per seat in Essential, Pro and Enterprise plans.

Krane is a business card scanner for one person on an iPhone, iPhone Duo or iPad. One shot reads a card or badge into a contact with every field filled. Each scan is filed under the event you’re at, with tags, notes and a follow-up reminder. Krane Pro sends them to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or a webhook. There is no account, no portal and no card of your own to share.

Both are scanners first. Covve is a team system on several platforms; Krane is a single-user iPhone app.

Covve reads cards with its own model, trained on business cards. Its help center says scans made offline are saved to the device and complete once you’re back online. It detects 60+ card languages automatically and reads a card with two languages on it in one scan. You can add the back side to each card. Whether Covve reads several cards from one photo, its pages don’t say. After the 14-day trial on a yearly plan, you can’t scan more cards until you pay.

Krane reads each card on your iPhone right away and checks it again when you’re back online. Lay cards down one at a time under the camera; Krane shoots each one as soon as it is still and reads it while you lay down the next. The free plan allows 10 scans in any rolling seven-day week and three cards in a row per session. Krane Pro removes both limits and adds group scan, which reads a spread of cards from one photo. Krane reads cards in almost any language and script, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean, and adds a Latin spelling to names written in another script. Add the back of a card and both sides are read into one contact.

Covve reads QR codes on every plan: a contact QR code becomes a lead, and a link-only code goes into the web field. Its badge mode, on Pro and above, reads the printed name, company and job title and does not read the QR code, so it works on badges whose code is locked to the organizer. Groups on every plan sort contacts by event; the Pro portal shows a team’s capture per event live. Capture works offline; reading completes when you’re back online.

Krane reads the printed name, title, company and event from a badge, along with the role and badge number. If the badge carries a QR, PDF417 or Aztec code, Krane decodes it and merges the contact data with the printed details into one contact. Some shows encrypt their codes so only the official app can read them. Krane can’t decode those; it still saves the printed name, title, company and event. Start an event when you arrive and every scan is filed under it, with “Met at” and the event’s tags filled in. With no Wi-Fi, each badge is read on your iPhone right away. The badge scanner and trade show lead capture pages go into detail.

Covve syncs natively with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive and Microsoft Dynamics 365, with custom field mapping. Native sync is an add-on on Pro, at a price the pricing page doesn’t show, and included in Enterprise. Outlook Contacts, Google Contacts and Zapier are in Essential. Covve’s pages don’t mention a generic webhook. Export is Excel or CSV, including Gmail- and Outlook-shaped layouts; a single contact can be shared as a vCard, but the export sheet has no vCard option.

Krane Pro syncs with HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive for one person, with no add-on. HubSpot gets a contact with name, email, phones, company, title, website and address, updated if one with the same email exists. Salesforce gets a Lead or a Contact, with the event, where you met, tags and notes in the Description field. Pipedrive gets a person linked to their organization, plus a note carrying the position, event, tags and notes. Every new scan can be sent automatically. A signed webhook posts each card as JSON to Zapier, Make, n8n or your own server. CSV export covers one event or all cards. Tokens stay on your iPhone, and the app talks to your CRM directly.

Covve’s prices are as listed on covve.com on November 8, 2026, in US dollars before VAT. Krane Pro has no trial and no team plans; the free plan is the way to try it. The App Store shows the price for your account and country. See pricing.

Covve stores captured contacts on your device and, when you have an account, backs them up to it. Without an account, its help center says, contacts stay on the device and are not backed up anywhere. An account adds backup, a second device, the digital card and team features. Covve hosts on Microsoft Azure Europe and Google data centers in Germany and the Netherlands and lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and a GDPR DPA.

Krane has no account or sign-up. Cards and CRM tokens are stored on your iPhone, and you can back everything up to one file and restore it any time. A Krane Pro subscription on the same Apple Account works on your iPhone and iPad. Each card is read on your iPhone first, right away, and checked again when you’re back online. The saved card stays on your device.