# Business Card Reader — user reviews > 35 indexed App Store user reviews of Business Card Reader by SHAPE GmbH, rated 4.10/5 from 9 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/business-card-reader/id631980303/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/business-card-reader/id631980303.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 7 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (10 of 35) ### 4/5 — Business Card Reader *2022-12-01, version 3.12* I have used this app for a number of years and find it works fairly well, my only complaint is when you scan a card you may need to rescan a few times before it works right, or you may have to manually enter some of the information ### 4/5 — Fantastic App *2018-04-04, version 3.11* Really easy to use. ### 4/5 — Great Time Saver *2017-04-10, version 3.9* Does as advertised for most cards. ### 4/5 — Works well *2016-09-25, version 3.8* Best of the apps I have tried, by a long way. Easy to use. Good image is necessary and always check the OCR results - as is required for any of these apps, but the results on this app are very good. ### 4/5 — Time saver *2016-08-12, version 3.8* Well worth the effort! ### 4/5 — Fast and Convenient *2016-03-10* Love the app. Really saves time and does a pretty respectable job of character recognition. Wish the interface would allow for notes to be entered for a contact at the point of scanning. ### 2/5 — crashing... *2015-01-09, version 3.3* randomly crashing after clicking screen to take photo even after paying $6.99 to upgrade ### 3/5 — Usability issues *2014-12-10* SHAPE Business Card Reader, has pretty good text recognition, which is not surprising since it uses the ABBYY OCR engine. However, it’s takes too many taps to navigate—for example, foveate share a card. It also (arguably) suffers from skeumorphism. I’d like to see the interface tightened up for better usability, as well as a cropping feature for the card images. In its favor, the app does support integration with LinkedIn, from which you can import and merge selected data with your contacts. ### 2/5 — New features that I really hate *2014-08-08* This used to be one of my favorite apps, and I considered the $6.99 price reasonable. I recommended it to all of my colleagues. But no more. The more recent update now suddenly links me to Salesforce. com, which is not acceptable to me. If you want to do this and think that it is a great feature for some, then go ahead and make a new app that does this. But leave BCR in its previous form. ### 2/5 — Bug *2014-08-08, version 3.2.1* It crashed continuously from the second card scanned. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Worked and now it doesn’t *2023-06-20* The app worked as it supposed to and now I can’t get it to scan any cards and the help website link does not work. ### 1/5 — Didn’t work. Just junk text on screen. *2020-03-13, version 3.12* As per subject :( ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work! *2019-06-16* Tried on several cards and there were multiple errors with each. ### 1/5 — Does not work. *2018-11-02, version 3.12* Upgraded to Pro version. Doesn’t work but they took my money. Can’t sign into cloud account any longer. Don’t buy. Crooks. ### 1/5 — Small business *2018-10-03, version 3.11* Doesn’t work the way supposed to be and know I can’t opened at all ### 1/5 — This sucks *2018-09-15, version 3.11* Lately I have a problem with capturing cards, when I take the picture the reader scrambles the letters and numbers and it does make any sense. ### 1/5 — Womens purse? *2015-12-17, version 3.7* So, in 2015, IOS9 We get a BUSINESS oriented iOS app that is a woman’s pink purse? Aside from very weird and impractical organization seriously, who designed this app? Cinderella? Pass, No thanks. ### 1/5 — Unreliable copying / reading *2015-06-29, version 3.4* Way too many errors from scanning business card . Had to correct so much , I may as well have entered it all from scratch myself . ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2014-08-03* This app worked great for months and all the sudden this last week it doesn't work at all. I'm guessing it's an update but I paid for the unlimited version and now every time I try and take a picture of a card, it asks me to sign up for sales force. I signed into Evernote instead and it still doesn't work. It doesn't work anymore. ### 1/5 — BCR saleforce? Not working anymore *2014-08-03* Now it's forcing me to sign up with saleforce! What a disappointment. It's crashing all the time now. Don't download it! Waste of 6.99. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Simplicity *2025-10-27* An app that makes it very easy to collect leads and contacts with accuracy ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2019-03-14* Work perfect with iPhone ! Give u the options to correct any mistake ### 5/5 — Time saving app *2017-07-31, version 3.9* As someone who deals with lots of business cards this app is a major time saver ### 5/5 — Great *2017-01-08* Business Card Reader works fantastic. ### 5/5 — Love it *2016-06-23, version 3.8* I must admit when I first downloaded the app it was a bit "hit and miss". On many occasions I had to edit parts as they were not copied correctly. That happens very rarely now and to be fair it is largely due to "quirky" business card designs. Great for initial impact not so good for imparting information. ### 5/5 — Very good *2016-05-14* Excellent card reader with easy to use UI. Don't know why some of the others are more popular. ### 5/5 — Best out there *2016-04-08* That's the best business card reader out there from the ones I've tested. As simple as that. ### 5/5 — Thumbs up *2015-10-20* Worth buying the full version. ### 5/5 — Best recognition quality *2015-10-09* BCR is one of my all time favorite apps, because it simply does what it says. I frequently download apps, and then delete them immediately, often because they’re overloaded with useless functionality. BCR works great on my iPhone, and I love the cloud option they added, since it is particularly useful for my colleagues. I would also recommend the Salesforce export, if you use Salesforce in your business. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2015-08-21* Character recognition is very good! API was simple to use as well. Use it almost every day --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*