Emvi.ai vs CardHaus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emvi.ai
This app acts as a visual assistant, describing surroundings, reading text, detecting obstacles, and interpreting images. It's designed to empower users with independence and an enhanced quality of life through a voice-operated interface.
- Describe surroundings
- Read, summarize, and translate text
- Detect obstacles and hazards
- Locate objects
- Interpret art
- Analyze images from messaging apps
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EMVI is a groundbreaking mobile scene description app, developed in close collaboration with the blind and low vision community. Its fully voice-operated interface ensures that navigating the app is effortlessly intuitive for all users. Transforming any smartphone into a formidable assistive device, EMVI fosters independence and enhances quality of life. Its capabilities include: Describing surroundings Reading, summarizing, and translating various texts, whether printed or handwritten Detecting obstacles and potential hazards Locating objects Interpreting art Analyzing images from messaging platforms The breadth of EMVI's capabilities knows no bounds—whatever the need, EMVI rises to the occasion, ensuring a more inclusive and enriched experience for all users. In order to access the app's features and content, users must create an account and subscribe to an annual or monthly plan. To unlock the app's features and content, users need to create an account and subscribe to either an annual or monthly plan, available via an in-app purchase. Terms of use can be found: https://www.emvi.ai/terms
CardHaus
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Scan business cards in seconds. CardHaus turns a stack of paper cards into a searchable, shareable contact library that lives entirely on your device. WHY CARDHAUS • Real-time on-device OCR — point your camera, get the contact in one tap. No round-trip to a server, no waiting. • Photo import — already have card pictures? Pick from your library and CardHaus reads them in the background. • Manual entry too — for cards you'd rather type out yourself. ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY • Eight built-in categories (Client, Prospect, Vendor, Partner, Colleague, Investor, Media, Other) plus unlimited custom ones. • Favorites, tags, free-form notes, and lightning-fast search across every field. • Wallet-style stack on the home page for the cards you've added recently. STAY IN TOUCH • One tap to call, email, open the website, or save to your iOS Contacts. • Generate a QR code for your own card and share it with a long-press. • iOS Share Sheet integration — anywhere you can paste a contact, you can paste a CardHaus card. CONNECT YOUR WORK ACCOUNT (OPTIONAL) • Microsoft 365 — push scanned cards straight into Outlook contacts. • Microsoft Dynamics 365 — create Dataverse contacts in your own tenant. Sign-in uses standard Microsoft OAuth (PKCE, no passwords stored). CardHaus never holds tokens for accounts you haven't connected. MADE FOR EVERYONE • Full English and Arabic UI with right-to-left layout mirroring. • VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion and high-contrast all supported. • Works fully offline — every feature except the optional CRM export functions without an internet connection. PRIVACY-FIRST BY DEFAULT Your scanned cards stay on your iPhone. We don't sell your contacts and we don't operate a server that stores them — there is nothing for us to leak. The free tier is supported by Google AdMob native ads, which receive standard ad-request data (device model, OS, IP address, advertising identifier when you grant the iOS tracking permission). AdMob never receives your card contents. Read the full policy at https://www.cardhaus.app/privacy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CardHaus at none against Emvi.ai's 3. CardHaus also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks). Emvi.ai's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Emvi.ai sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. CardHaus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Emvi.ai ships an update every 5 weeks, CardHaus every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Emvi.ai | CardHaus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emvi.ai | Saeed Safrini |
In-app purchases
Emvi.ai
- EMVI Monthly Plan$4.991 Month
- EMVI Annual Plan$59.991 Year
- EMVI Lifetime$300.00
CardHaus
No in-app purchases









