Contact Snapper vs ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contact Snapper
Instantly convert business cards, QR codes, and text into contacts. Save time by avoiding manual entry and manage your contacts with advanced features like export, merging, and grouping. Works across iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync.
- Scan business cards
- Convert QR codes to contacts
- Convert text to contacts
- Export contacts to Excel/PDF
- Merge duplicate contacts
- Contact group management
- Automatic company logo search
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Scan business cards and turn them into contacts instantly with Contact Snapper. Just snap a picture of a business card, and let Contact Snapper work its magic. +++ Try it for free and save up to 3 contacts! +++ SAVE TIME Say goodbye to tapping on your keyboard to create contacts. Let your iPhone take care of it for you. SIMPLE and EFFICIENT Adding a contact can be as easy as a single tap. Using a photo as the source, Contact Snapper employs highly efficient technology to convert the image into text. You can also create contacts from QR Codes or Text. FREE LIMITED VERSION Contact Snapper allows you to "try before you buy." A limited version, complete with all features and supported languages, is offered so you can judge it for yourself, saving up to 3 contacts. If this app meets your expectations, you can then purchase it directly without any additional downloads. Contact Snapper is a one-time charge for life. NO monthly subscription. NO adds. NO account required. INTERNATIONAL Contact Snapper covers 150+ countries. IPHONE AND IPAD Contact Snapper works on both iPhone and iPad at no extra cost. Once you purchase Contact Snapper on one of your devices, it can be installed on all others for free. ICLOUD What you do on one device appears on all your devices, instantly and securely through your own iCloud space. CONTACT MANAGEMENT Many advanced features allowing you to better manage and use your contacts - Export to Excel of PDF - Merge your duplicated contacts - Group Management - Grouped actions: ability to send SMS/Emails or assign groups to multiple contacts simultaneously - Quick actions: ability to trigger actions by just swiping right or left - Automatic search of the company logo of your contacts - Geolocation - Automatic search of the local information (time, weather) - Simplified reminder entry straight from a contact. PRIVACY POLICY Installing an application must be done with confidence as your devices contain sensitive information. We are committed to treating this information with the utmost confidentiality. Our "Privacy Policy," available directly within the application, clearly describes in a few sentences what we do and, more importantly, what we do not do with your data. Contact Snapper - the most advanced way to add a contact to your address book …. great value for business and private use.
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro
This app quickly scans and stores contact information from business cards using advanced OCR technology. It offers features like auto-focus, data verification, and integration with device contacts and other services, supporting 25 languages.
- Quick and accurate OCR scanning
- Auto-click photo feature
- Easy check of recognized data
- Apple Watch app integration
- Automatic phone number normalization
- Address autocompletion
- Export to Excel and Salesforce
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ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro –The World’s Fastest Business Card Scanner & Contact Management App for iPhone and iPad! Recommended by The New York Times, CNN, The Telegraph, Computer Business Review, Macworld. Winner of the RISING STAR Award in the Mobile Star Awards ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro easily & simply captures & stores contact from business cards in 25 languages to your iPhone and iPad. The recognized data can be saved in either your device contacts or the app digital storage. KEY FEATURES • QUICK AND ACCURATE SCANNING ABBYYs optical character recognition technology provides quick & accurate recognition of all contact information: names, organizations, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc. • AUTO-CLICK PHOTO FEATURE Automatically focuses on the business card, detects its edges, crops any extraneous background & captures an image of the card all by itself. • EASY CHECK OF RECOGNIZED DATA The app highlights “unusual” characters with blue color and displays the original image so that you can quickly confirm the output of the app. • APPLE WATCH APP. You won’t need to reach for your iPhone or iPad to remember somebody’s name. View contacts and make phone calls right from BCR on your Apple Watch! • AUTOMATIC NORMALIZATION OF PHONE AND EXTENTION NUMBERS BCR will automatically put in all the missing parts so that you can reach the contact even if the country code was omitted in print. • AUTOCOMPLETION OF ADDRESSES BCR corrects any typos and fills in the missing address fields so you can easily find it on the map. • MANUAL BACKUPS. Manual backups to archive and restore to another device. • Export contacts to Salesforce Leads (premium account required). BCR can export business cards to Enterprise, Unlimited, and Performance Editions of SF license. Professional Edition does not allow BCR export. • Set up voice commands in Siri Shortcuts app to open business cards by voicing the name of the owner. • Spotlight Search to find business cards from BCR • Export business cards to MS Excel in .CSV format. • Smart Facebook and LinkedIn search: connect social media account to the business card and auto upload photo of contact from Facebook. • Search in iPhone Maps for the address of your contacts. • Exchange digitally and forward recognized contacts via e-mail as VCard or JPEG files or via SMS as a plain text. • Share your contacts using QR code. • Support 25 languages including recognition of multilingual cards. - French - German - Greek - Japanese - Indonesian - Italian - Korean - Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk) - Polish - Portuguese (Portugal) - Portuguese (Brazil) - Russian - Spanish - Swedish - Turkish - Ukrainian Read us: abbyy.com/blog/mobile Facebook.com/ABBYYsoft Twitter @ABBYY_Software YouTube.com/ABBYYvideos Privacy Policy abbyy.com/privacy Terms of Use abbyybcr.com/en/eula Looking forward to your feedback on the App Store!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Contact Snapper at Free against ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's $59.99. Contact Snapper also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and chart position (#87 vs unranked). On rating 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
Contact Snapper is free to download; ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro costs $59.99 up front. Contact Snapper sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro has 2.6K ratings behind it against 403, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Contact Snapper's written reviews are positive against 80% of ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's.
Contact Snapper ships an update every 3 weeks, ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contact Snapper | ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $59.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (403 ratings) | 4.6 (2.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.6% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 403 | 2.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #87 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Laurent Garnier | ABBYY USA Software House Inc |
Customer experience
Contact Snapper
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro
Bugs and requests
Contact Snapper
Reported bugs
3 issues- Duplicating contacts
- Losing previously scanned contacts
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Improved user interface and navigation
- Ability to edit/correct scanned fields
- Option to save business card images without contacts
- Better syncing and organization of contacts
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Contact Snapper
- Address Book$1.99
- Photo & Text$1.99
- Text Only$2.99
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- Contact Snapper Unlimited$2.99
- Photo & Text$3.99
- Contact Snapper Unlimited$4.99
- Photo & Text$5.99
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro
No in-app purchases
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