Comparison

sales 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

sales

This business intelligence tool helps sales teams identify new opportunities and improve customer retention by analyzing back-office data. It provides automated meeting preparation, customer insights, and campaign management, all accessible from your Apple device.

Highlights
  • Identify sales opportunities
  • Increase customer retention
  • Automated meeting preparation
  • Customer behavior analysis
  • Integrated CRM
  • Sales pipeline management
  • Data visualization dashboards
Features
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Want more time to do the things you love, rather than preparing for tomorrow’s 9am meeting? sales-i makes it easy to find valuable new sales opportunities and increase customer retention, directly from your Apple device. sales-i saves you time and relieves pressure and being overworked. How it works: sales-i is a subscription-based service that feeds on your back-office data. It intelligently spots patterns in your customer’s behavior, the system then alerts your salespeople when this behavior changes, or if a customer isn’t buying a product that they should be, giving you easy-to-close opportunities on tap. This, combined with an integrated CRM system, gives you greater customer insight than ever before. sales-i empowers you to: * Instantly create detailed customer reports, saving you hours of work every week. * Organize and access your daily calendar and sales pipeline from any iOS device. * Let Autopilot prepare for your sales meetings, provide a complete picture of sales history, opportunities and a powerful snapshot report – all done while you get a good night’s sleep. * View information in easy-to-read dashboards, graphs and charts. * Access and upload customer documents directly to sales-i from your iPhone or iPad. * Action targeted sales and marketing campaigns that alert your sales people to valuable sales opportunities. * Add, edit and delete notes and contact information on the go directly from your Apple device. Please be aware that sales-i is a subscription-based service, if you do not have an account with us, you will be unable to use our App.

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

sales4 screens
Business Card Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Business Card Reader at 4.6 against sales's 3.5. Business Card Reader also leads on ratings volume (21K vs 37) and review sentiment (70% vs 55%). sales's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Business Card Reader sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. sales asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Business Card Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Business Card Reader has 21K ratings behind it against 37, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of sales's written reviews are positive against 70% of Business Card Reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
sales versus Business Card Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersalesBusiness Card Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (37 ratings)4.6 (21K ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews70.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3721K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersales-i Inc.ABBYY USA Software House Inc

Customer experience

sales

All ratings36 ratings
Positive52.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative36.1%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative40.9%

Business Card Reader

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

Bugs and requests

sales

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

None

sales

No in-app purchases

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
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  • BCR Premium no time limitation$59.99

Questions

Is sales free?
sales is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Business Card Reader free?
Business Card Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, sales or Business Card Reader?
Business Card Reader is rated higher. sales averages 3.5 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while Business Card Reader averages 4.6 from 21K ratings.
Do sales or Business Card Reader have ads?
Neither sales nor Business Card Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, sales or Business Card Reader?
sales ships an update every 2 months, and Business Card Reader every 2 months. Most recently, sales was updated on October 23, 2026 and Business Card Reader on October 28, 2026.

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