Comparison

ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro vs Business Card Scanner Reader

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
Currently charting
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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!

About

Business Card Scanner Reader

Effortlessly digitize business cards by scanning them with your phone. The app uses advanced OCR to extract contact information, saving it directly to your device's address book. You can also create and share digital business cards.

Highlights
  • Advanced OCR technology
  • Scan business cards and QR codes
  • Create digital business cards
  • Export contacts to CSV, PDF, VCF
  • Auto-sync with Google account
  • Multi-language support
  • Organize and manage contacts
Features
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A business card scanner app is a mobile application that enables users to quickly and easily scan and store business cards. The app can recognize text in the business cards and store the contact information in the user’s address book. It can also generate digital business cards, which can be shared with other contacts. Business Card Scanner & Reader app is the best tool available in the store market that converts your paper business card into a digital business card holder. Easy to use: -Open the digital business card holder app -Use the business card scanner feature and scan your business card -It will automatically save the contact to your device using a built-in scanning feature -No need to waste time on manual data entry! The Visiting card scanner is your productive personal assistant for mobile capturing business cards. All you have to do is to take a picture of the business card with the app provided, the contact data will be scanned automatically and formatted as a contact by our best algorithm based on artificial intelligence. For contact and address formats from over 80+ countries, our recognition has been perfected to reduce the error rate to a minimum. These include all G20 countries, the most important industrial growing and emerging countries from all over the world. Scan Business Cards Easily in just a few steps!  Convert old-styled business cards and organize them with the business card organizer feature. Share contacts or digital business cards instantly on social media and save them into your contact details. Features of Business Card Scanner & Reader app -Advanced OCR technology to scan business cards -Scan Card, Scan QR Code, and Fetch card details -Ability to create a digital business card scanner manually -Multi-Language support -Auto Sync of contacts -Auto Sync of contacts with a google account -Auto Backup Support -User-friendly and modern design -Fast & Accurate -Business card scanner allows you to export contacts to Excel CSV, PDF, google contacts, and Vcards for iPhone -Advanced business card organizer tools in the market Privacy Policy: https://businesscardscanner.onlinebuilder.biz/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://businesscardscanner.onlinebuilder.biz/termsofuse

Screenshots

ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro4 screens
Business Card Scanner Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Business Card Scanner Reader at Free against ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's $59.99. ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (2.6K vs 43). On rating, review sentiment, ads and monetization model 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

Business Card Scanner Reader is free to download; ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro costs $59.99 up front. Business Card Scanner Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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 43, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro's written reviews are positive against 75% of Business Card Scanner Reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro ships an update every 2 months, Business Card Scanner Reader every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro versus Business Card Scanner Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABBYY Business Card Reader ProBusiness Card Scanner Reader
Price$59.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (2.6K ratings) — better4.4 (43 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2.6K — better43
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#56 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB91 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperABBYY USA Software House IncZerOnes

Customer experience

ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro

All ratings2,551 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral4.9%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews455 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral6.6%
Negative13.4%

Business Card Scanner Reader

All ratings43 ratings
Positive83.7%
Neutral9.3%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Business Card Scanner Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Card Scanner Weekly Pack$1.997 Days
  • Card Scanner Yearly Pack3 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro free?
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro costs $59.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Business Card Scanner Reader free?
Business Card Scanner Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro or Business Card Scanner Reader?
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro is rated higher. ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2.6K ratings, while Business Card Scanner Reader averages 4.4 from 43 ratings.
Do ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro or Business Card Scanner Reader have ads?
Neither ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro nor Business Card Scanner Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro or Business Card Scanner Reader?
ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro ships an update every 2 months, and Business Card Scanner Reader every 7 months. Most recently, ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro was updated on November 6, 2026 and Business Card Scanner Reader on November 4, 2026.

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