Comparison

Folda vs Business Card Reader

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Folda

Transform your phone into a portable scanner to capture documents, receipts, and notes with high quality. Extract text using OCR, sign documents electronically, and share them in various formats like PDF, JPEG, or TXT. Securely store and manage all your important paperwork effortlessly.

Highlights
  • Instant high-quality document scanning
  • Smart OCR for text extraction
  • Export in PDF, JPEG, or TXT
  • Electronic signature for forms
  • Multi-page PDF creation
  • Document translation
  • Barcode and QR code scanning
Features
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Turn paper into sharp, searchable PDFs. Folda scans, reads and organizes your documents right on your iPhone and iPad — free and unlimited, with no watermark and no account. SCAN ANYTHING • Apple’s document camera finds the page, captures it automatically and scans many pages in a row • Straighten, rotate and clean up with Enhanced, Grayscale, Black & White and Whiteboard filters • Import photos and PDFs from Photos and Files, or open them in Folda from other apps FIND ANY WORD • On-device text recognition (OCR) makes every page searchable • Search all your scans at once, even handwriting, and jump straight to the right page • Copy text from any page, have it read aloud, or translate it SIGN, REDACT AND SHARE • Fill in and sign with Apple Markup • Redact names and numbers for good before you share • Share as searchable PDF, JPG, PNG or plain text; merge, split and reorder pages; print • Scan QR codes and barcodes ORGANIZED FOR YOU • Names suggested from what’s on the page • Folders, tags, list or grid, and Recently Deleted • Spotlight search, Siri Shortcuts, a Quick Scan widget and Control Center buttons PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Scanning, text recognition, search and naming happen on your device • No account, no tracking, and your documents are never uploaded Folda PRO (optional subscription or one-time purchase) • Apple Intelligence, on the device: summaries of long documents, questions about a document, smart names and folders, and expense CSVs from receipts (supported devices) • 300 dpi exports and password-protected PDFs • App Lock with Face ID or passcode • Share many documents at once and automatic backup to a folder you choose • Scan the front and back of an ID card or driver’s license onto one page at actual size, so a printout works like a photocopy • Book mode that splits an open book into pages, and business cards straight to Contacts Scanning, text recognition and PDF export stay free and unlimited without Pro. Folda is the new DocScan. Documents from DocScan move over automatically. Terms of Use: https://navlab.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://navlab.app/privacy Questions? support@navlab.app

About

Business Card Reader

Features
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Business card reader is the perfect solution that will let the people enable to scan any business card though mobile camera, and get all information and save into the contact list. This will not only save the contact information’s but it will also save the card into your mobile phone. Once you scan the card it will automatically detects the information written on the card, and will show you for review, if they are correct or you may change the info. It will also save the card photo into your mobile phone, with company and contact person name. This contact snapper is 100 percent reliable, and will save accurate result into your phone. Following are the feature of the business card reader. 1. Advance iOS Vision kit that will scan the card and snap all the information in the card 2. It will save all the mentioned information’s in phone 3. The card reader will also make a snap, and will save the image of the card into the app, when user need to save it to the gallery, it will also be saved to the gallery 4. It have user friendly design How to use this CamCard scanner? • Open your business card reader, and take a snap of the card, the app will automatically snap all the info in the card • The app will automatically fetch all the written info on the card • It will show all the info on the board, to check wheather if you want to update • The app will save all the info into the contact list • At the same time you can also save the photo of the app • You can access the card info at any time any where

Screenshots

Folda4 screens
Business Card Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Folda at none against Business Card Reader's shown. Folda also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). Business Card Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Folda sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Business Card Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Folda ships an update monthly, Business Card Reader every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Folda versus Business Card Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFoldaBusiness Card Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (85 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings85 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnh NguyenMuhammad Asad Khan

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Folda

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Folda Pro Lifetime$69.99
1 purchases

Business Card Reader

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Folda free?
Folda is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Business Card Reader free?
Business Card Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Folda or Business Card Reader have ads?
Business Card Reader shows ads; Folda does not.
Which is updated more often, Folda or Business Card Reader?
Folda ships an update monthly, and Business Card Reader every 7 months. Most recently, Folda was updated on October 26, 2026 and Business Card Reader on October 27, 2026.

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