Canton Fair (CIEF) vs Quick Sourcing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Canton Fair (CIEF)
Discover exhibitors and products across numerous categories with AI-powered search. Navigate the exhibition with booth-level precision, plan your itinerary, and connect with potential buyers and suppliers. Facilitate cross-border communication with instant messaging and AI translation.
- Exhibitor and product search
- Booth-level navigation
- Itinerary planning
- Trade matching services
- Instant messaging with AI translation
- Omnimedia exhibition content
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Canton Fair App 【 Exhibitor & Products】 Covers 13 categories and 54 exhibition sections with millions of product listings at your fingertips. Supports text and image-based multi-mode search and AI-powered intelligent retrieval to accurately locate exhibition information, qualified exhibitors and popular products, making product and supplier sourcing more efficient. 【Booth Navigation】 Enables booth-level precise navigation. Quickly search for target booths, plan the optimal exhibition route, and locate your current position in real time, allowing you to find target exhibitors and booths with ease and improve your exhibition efficiency. 【Itinerary Planning】 Add exhibitors to your itinerary with one click and view booth lists to enhance participation efficiency. Scan badge codes to exchange digital business cards, and use AI to intelligently summarize meeting notes for efficient post-exhibition review of key information. 【Trade Matching】 Focuses on global foreign trade supply-demand connection and provides efficient and accurate trade matching services. Buyers can post detailed procurement demands online, and intelligent algorithms will accurately match qualified high-quality exhibitors. Access the Supply & Demand Hall to view massive procurement demands, proactively connect with potential buyers and send quotations to precisely capture cross-border business opportunities. 【Instant Messaging】 Send and receive messages anytime and anywhere, supporting text, voice and video communication. The newly added AI multi-language translation feature removes barriers in cross-border negotiations. 【Omnimedia Exhibition】 Browse exhibitors’ short videos to stay updated on their latest developments, gain a comprehensive understanding of product details and directly perceive exhibitors’ strengths. Access exhibitors’ e-cataloges, which are viewable on both devices for a smooth exhibition experience.
Quick Sourcing
Streamline your trade fair experience with this app. Automatically capture supplier information and product details using AI-powered scanning. Organize your findings locally, even offline, and sync to a web dashboard for easy sharing and reporting.
- AI-powered business card and product scanning
- Real-time currency conversion
- Full offline cataloging
- Export reports to PDF
- Automated missing information reminders
- Dark mode and multi-language support
- Guided camera frames for consistent photos
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Quick Sourcing — Your International Trade Fair Co-Pilot You crossed an ocean to find the right products. Don't lose them to a pile of business cards and blurry photos. Quick Sourcing is the mobile app built for importers and buyers who work at trade fairs — Canton Fair, HKTDC, Ambiente, Cosmoprof, and any other. It replaces scattered notes, overflowing catalogs, and post-fair reconstruction with a single, structured workflow that starts the moment you meet a supplier. How it works Open a fair session with name, currency, incoterm, and date. From there, the app takes over. Point your camera at a supplier's business card — AI reads it and fills in the contact automatically. Photograph the product and its label — AI extracts the specifications, and you fill in the price, MOQ, and any additional details you want to add. Everything goes into your local catalog instantly, even without internet. When you reconnect, your data syncs to the cloud automatically. Back at the hotel, open the web dashboard and your entire fair is already organized. Share reports by email, WhatsApp, or export to PDF. Your client reviews the shortlist through a dedicated approval portal and marks which products to move forward. No more late-night hotel sessions rebuilding what you saw. No more wondering if the right product slipped past you while you were writing on a notepad. Key features → AI-powered scanning — reads business cards and product labels automatically using the same models used in enterprise software → Real-time currency conversion — see every price in BRL, EUR, RMB, or USD at today's exchange rate, right in front of the supplier → Full offline mode — catalog products, scan cards, and capture photos with zero connectivity required → Export to PDF — structured reports by fair and by supplier, ready to share instantly via email or WhatsApp → Automated push notifications — it reminds buyers to fill in any missing product information → Dark mode and multi-language — Portuguese and English, built for long fair days → Native camera with guided frames — consistent product photos every time Plans Explorer — Free. Start cataloging immediately, no credit card required. Starter — Up to 50 products and 50 business card scans per month. For buyers with one or two fairs a year and lower product volume. Pro — Unlimited usage for professionals and sourcing teams. See pricing details in-app. Built by importers, for importers This is the tool we wished existed every time we walked a trade fair floor. Version 1.0 — fully native for iPhone and iPad, with a web dashboard for post-fair organization. 100% offline-capable. AI-powered. Download for free. Catalog your first supplier in under 60 seconds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Canton Fair (CIEF) at none against Quick Sourcing's 4. Quick Sourcing's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Quick Sourcing sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Canton Fair (CIEF) asks for nothing beyond the download.
Canton Fair (CIEF) ships an update every 3 weeks, Quick Sourcing daily. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Canton Fair (CIEF) | Quick Sourcing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | +4 |
| Developer | CHINA FOREIGN TRADE CENTRE GROUP, Ltd. | Importe Melhor |
Customer experience
Canton Fair (CIEF)
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In-app purchases
Canton Fair (CIEF)
No in-app purchases
Quick Sourcing
- Starter Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Pro Monthly1 Month trial$19.991 Month
- Starter Yearly1 Month trial$71.991 Year
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- Pro Yearly1 Month trial$143.991 Year
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