Digital business card apps compared: Popl, HiHello, Blinq, Ravencard and more

It depends on what you need. For a team with a CRM, Popl, HiHello and Haystack are built for it. For NFC cards with no subscription, Blinq, Mobilo and Wave sell them. For one person on an iPhone who wants their photo saved into the contact, a choice of designs and their work on the card for little money, Ravencard is built for that.

The category has split in two. Popl, Haystack, Uniqode and Mobilo now sell mostly to companies: event lead capture, CRM sync, seats. HiHello, Blinq and Wave Connect serve both. A few apps, Ravencard among them, are built for one person who wants to be remembered after a meeting.

So the honest answer is a short list by need, not a ranking. It is further down, under which one to choose.

Apple takes a commission on purchases made in an iPhone app, and some companies set a higher in-app price to cover it. On 4 October 2026, HiHello Professional was $6 a month on its website and $9 in its app, and Wave Pro was $7 on the web and $9 in the app.

Most have a free plan. Among paid individual plans checked on 4 October 2026, Mobilo Pro is $3 a month on its website, and Ravencard Pro is $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year on the App Store. HiHello, Wave and Blinq cost $9 to $9.99 a month when bought inside their iPhone apps.

HiHello, Blinq, Wave Connect, Haystack, Mobilo, V1CE, Uniqode and Ravencard all have a free plan. Haystack’s free plan is the most generous on volume (unlimited cards and scans); Ravencard’s free card keeps your photo in the contact and one project on the card.

Ravencard embeds your portrait in the contact file itself, so it appears in their address book. We could not find any of the other apps here saying in its documentation that it does the same; we have not tested each one by hand, so we do not claim that they don’t.

A QR code can hold about 3 KB, far too little for a photograph, so the code holds a link to your card. When the other person taps Save contact, Ravencard sends a contact file with your portrait inside it, rather than a link to a picture, which an address book may not load. The details are in QR code contact cards that save your photo.

Blinq ($14.99 for a sticker to $34.99 for metal), Mobilo and Wave Connect ($23 for a card) all sell NFC products that work without a subscription; V1CE includes a card with its £49.99 monthly plan. Ravencard does not make an NFC card: sharing is by QR code or link.

HiHello, Blinq, Mobilo, Wave Connect and V1CE document Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes, and Popl documents Apple Wallet. Ravencard does not have a Wallet pass.

Popl now sells mainly to event and sales teams and does not publish its prices on its website; its app lists Pro at $7.99 a month or $76.99 a year. If you are one person who wants a well-designed card rather than lead capture, Ravencard, HiHello and Wave Connect are simpler and either cheaper or free.

Popl’s home page now calls it an “AI GTM platform for in-person events”. Its website prices are “customized”, and individual prices only appear in its App Store listing. That is the right product for a team running booths; for one person, much of what you pay for is lead qualification you will not use.

HiHello is strong for individuals (four free cards, email signatures, virtual backgrounds) and for companies. If you want 27 designs to choose from and projects with images on the card, Ravencard costs less inside the app. If you want unlimited free scanning, Haystack offers it.

HiHello’s free plan is one of the best in the category. It is worth knowing that its Professional plan is $6 a month on the website and $9 a month inside the iPhone app. Subscribe on the web if you choose it.

Blinq Premium is $9.99 a month, and its paper card scanner is not on the free plan. Ravencard includes five scans on its free plan and 1,000 on Pro for $4.99 a month; Haystack offers unlimited free scanning; Wave Connect includes a lead capture form for free.

Blinq has the most ratings of any card app and a good range of NFC products. Its App Store listing also shows a “Pro” tier ($6.99 a week, $22.49 a month, $199 a year) that is not on its website pricing page, so check which plan you are offered before you subscribe.

NameDrop is free and good for passing your contact from one iPhone to another nearby. It doesn’t work with Android, gives you no link or QR code to share in a message or print, and carries no projects. A card app covers those cases.

Anyone with an Android phone can scan a Ravencard QR code and save the contact. Making a card needs an iPhone or the web builder at ravencard.app/build; there is no Android app yet.

Read them knowing who wrote them. Of twelve such lists we found for 2026, ten were written by a company that ranks its own app first. This one is too: we make Ravencard. That is why every price here has a date and a source, and why we list what Ravencard doesn’t do.