vCapture vs BigMarker Badge Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
vCapture
Capture leads at trade shows and events using your iPhone or iPad. Automatically post leads to a secure cloud manager or directly into your Salesforce CRM. This solution can be customized to extend your existing lead management foundation and is available globally.
- Lead capture via iPhone/iPad
- Cloud-based Lead Source Manager
- Direct Salesforce CRM integration
- Customizable lead management
- Global usability
- Event ecosystem integration
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Validar's vCapture suite of lead retrieval products is intended to serve any exhibitor need. Whether you're ordering lead retrieval to use at an event, or looking for your own custom solution to use at all trade-shows you exhibit at, vCapture can help. Using your own iPhone or iPad, you can automatically post your leads into our secure cloud based Lead Source Manager, and also direct into your Salesforce CRM system straight from the show floor. We can fully customize this solution to be an extension of your CRM and Marketing Automation lead management foundation, and it can be used globally. We also work directly with the event eco-system and Registration provider to provide this software and service so you're insured a safe successful deployment.
BigMarker Badge Scanner
Streamline on-site event check-ins and print custom badges instantly. Attendees can use QR codes for session entry or raffle participation. Event hosts can monitor attendee movement for both virtual and in-person participants.
- On-site attendee check-in
- Custom badge printing
- QR code scanning
- Session check-in
- Raffle entry
- Attendee flow tracking
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Check-in on-site attendees and print custom badges on-demand. Using QR codes on their badges or app, attendees can check into sessions or enter raffles at Exhibitor Booths. And event hosts can track attendee flows for both virtual and in-person attendees, in the same place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BigMarker Badge Scanner at fortnightly against vCapture's every 3 months. vCapture's advantage is iOS requirement (10.3 vs 15.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for vCapture against 5.0 for BigMarker Badge Scanner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively.
vCapture ships an update every 3 months, BigMarker Badge Scanner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | vCapture | BigMarker Badge Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Validar Incorporated | BigMarker.com, LLC |
Customer experience
vCapture
BigMarker Badge Scanner
In-app purchases
vCapture
No in-app purchases
BigMarker Badge Scanner
No in-app purchases
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