ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro vs S1 Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
S1 Mobile
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S1Mobile allows users to: - Ordering products for shops - Create meetings with clients - View receipts and payments - Collect invoice - View weekly order reports - Save orders either as open or as closed - View order status - View the order sent by a customer or an agent and the changes that have occurred or if they will not receive the entire order at the same time The application also allows users to test all of its features in a sandbox (demo) version. Requirements: - The user must have already implemented a centrally-istalled Soft1 (SoftOne) business application - The user must have a valid email address (for authentication) which can be mapped into a Web Account in SoftOne. - The user must accept a package of specific methods for integrating QBSMobile's addon into SoftOne's Web Service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: S1 Mobile at Free against ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's $59.99. S1 Mobile also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's advantage is chart position (#110 vs unranked). On ads, 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
S1 Mobile is free to download; ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro costs $59.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro ships an update every 2 months, S1 Mobile every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro | S1 Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $59.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #110 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ABBYY USA Software House Inc | Q.B.S. RETAIL & LOGISTICS SRL |
In-app purchases
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro
No in-app purchases
S1 Mobile
No in-app purchases
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