Comparison

Contact Snapper 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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Business Card Reader

This app quickly scans and stores contact information from business cards in 25 languages. It automatically corrects and normalizes data, offers an Apple Watch app, and allows for easy export and sharing of contacts.

Highlights
  • Quick and accurate business card scanning
  • Auto-click photo feature
  • Automatic phone number normalization
  • Address autocompletion
  • Apple Watch app integration
  • Export contacts to Excel and Salesforce
  • Multilingual card recognition
Features
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ABBYY Business Card Reader –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 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 The free version provides 10 card recognition. Enable Premium to get unlimited functionality: • Unlimited business card recognition • Export to Excel • No ads Premium Account auto-renewable subscription allows using all functions of this app. Subscription length periods: 1 month with 7 days free trial, and 1 year. The subscription is automatically renewed at the end of the period unless you choose to cancel the subscription at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. You can manage your subscription and switch off the auto-renewal by accessing your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription to that publication. 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!

Screenshots

Contact Snapper4 screens
Business Card Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Business Card Reader at 21K against Contact Snapper's 403. Business Card Reader also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and device support (4 vs 2). Contact Snapper's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Contact Snapper sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Business Card Reader sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Business Card Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Business Card Reader has 21K ratings behind it against 403, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Contact Snapper's written reviews are positive against 70% of Business Card Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contact Snapper ships an update every 3 weeks, Business Card Reader every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Contact Snapper versus Business Card Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContact SnapperBusiness Card Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (403 ratings)4.6 (21K ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.6% of reviews — better70.3% of reviews
Number of ratings40321K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLaurent GarnierABBYY USA Software House Inc

Customer experience

Contact Snapper

All ratings403 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral4.5%
Negative9.2%
Written reviews155 reviews
Positive71.6%
Neutral4.5%
Negative23.9%

Business Card Reader

All ratings20,550 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.9%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews1,264 reviews
Positive70.3%
Neutral8.9%
Negative20.7%

User reviews

Contact Snapper

From 403 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient scanning and contact capture
  • 👍 Seamless integration with contacts app
  • 💡 Useful features like copy/paste from emails
  • 🚀 Fast and accurate OCR
  • 👍 Helpful customer support

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and glitches
  • 🔍 Inconsistent accuracy in field recognition
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns with accessing contacts
  • 💰 Confusing/misleading upgrade options

Business Card Reader

From 21K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient scanning
  • 📁 Convenient storage of business cards
  • 🔗 Integrates with contacts and social media
  • 🔍 Accurate OCR recognition
  • 💾 Saves time and space

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent OCR accuracy
  • 🔍 Requires manual editing of scanned data
  • 💰 Subscription model is expensive
  • 📤 Issues with exporting/transferring data
  • 🔌 App crashes and freezes

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

Business Card Reader

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Scanning sometimes assigns text to wrong fields
  • App crashes when trying to export contacts
  • Location data incorrectly attached to business cards
  • Syncing issues between mobile and desktop versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow scanning of both sides of business cards
  • Improve OCR accuracy, especially for international cards
  • Provide more flexible export options (CSV, vCard, etc.)
  • Offer a one-time purchase option instead of subscription
  • Add ability to sort and organize contacts into groups

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Contact Snapper

One-time7
  • 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
10 purchases

Business Card Reader

Subscriptions6
  • BCR Premium monthly promo7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • BCR Premium monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • BCR Premium monthly$7.991 Month
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  • BCR Premium yearly$14.991 Year
  • BCR Premium yearly$29.991 Year
  • BCR Premium yearly14 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time4
  • [ARCHIVE] No Ads$2.99
  • [ARCHIVE] 50 business cards$3.99
  • [ARCHIVE] Export to Excel$5.99
Show 1 more
  • BCR Premium no time limitation$59.99

Questions

Is Contact Snapper free?
Contact Snapper 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.
Which has better reviews, Contact Snapper or Business Card Reader?
Business Card Reader is rated higher. Contact Snapper averages 4.4 out of 5 from 403 ratings, while Business Card Reader averages 4.6 from 21K ratings.
Do Contact Snapper or Business Card Reader have ads?
Neither Contact Snapper nor Business Card Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contact Snapper or Business Card Reader?
Contact Snapper ships an update every 3 weeks, and Business Card Reader every 2 months. Most recently, Contact Snapper was updated on September 15, 2026 and Business Card Reader on September 25, 2026.

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