HandleMe vs LinkLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
HandleMe
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HandleMe is a digital business card app built around the handoff โ not just holding your card, but sharing it and collecting everyone else's. Build a card in under a minute. Add your photo, name, headline, bio, and up to five social links, then pick from 12 themes. Share it by QR code or tappable PDF. Scan to receive cards from anyone else using HandleMe, and they land in a tidy inbox you can search and sort. No account, no cloud โ your card stays on your device until you choose to share it. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - Swipeable card stack. Hold and drag to reorder. Your active card sits at the front; the rest peek behind it. - One person, many cards. Work, freelance, events, personal โ keep them distinct and switch the active card with a tap. - Swipe to find your style. Themes appear as profile cards: swipe right to apply, left to skip. Includes Classic, Modern Gradient, Ocean Depths, Sunset Vibes, Forest Green, Dark Mode, and more. - Universal styling. Pick one look and apply it across every card you own in a single tap. - Liquid Glass design. Built for iOS 26 with native Liquid Glass surfaces, light and dark mode, and full accessibility support. - Links on the card face. Up to five social links sit on the card itself โ LinkedIn, X, Instagram, GitHub, your website, your email. Tap a received card's links to open them directly. - A stacked inbox. The cards you collect stack just like your own. Search, sort, and never lose a contact. FREE & PREMIUM HandleMe is free to start, and everyone gets a 7-day Premium Preview on first launch to try everything. Premium is a one-time $8.99 unlock. Premium unlocks: - Up to 5 cards (free includes 1) - Premium themes (Midnight Aurora, Rose Gold Luxe) - Universal styling across every card - Unlimited links per card (free is capped at 5) - Custom link platforms beyond the popular list - No daily limit on received cards OPTIONAL PASSES FOR BIG NETWORKING DAYS Heading to a conference and not ready to commit to Premium? Three optional passes lift the received-card limit when you need it: - Event Pass ($0.99) โ 50 more received cards today. Perfect for one-day events. - Weekend Pass ($1.99) โ unlimited received cards until Sunday midnight. Built for hackathons and weekend festivals. - Conference Bundle ($2.99) โ unlimited received cards for 72 hours. For multi-day weekday conferences. If you network at several events a year, the $8.99 Premium unlock is the better value. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking SDKs shipping your data off-device. No account required. Card content stays on your device until you choose to share it. All purchases are handled securely โ we never see your payment information. โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://novarch.lol/handleme-privacy.html
LinkLab
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Links end up everywhere. A page you meant to read, sitting in a browser tab. A booking confirmation buried in an email. A recipe someone sent you in a group chat. A form your bank told you to fill in later. They are scattered across a dozen apps, and by the time you want one back, you can't remember which app it was in. LinkLab is one place for all of them. Share a link into LinkLab from whatever app you're in, give it a name you'll actually recognise, and it's there when you need it โ on your device, offline, in a list you can search. SAVE A LINK FROM ANY APP, IN TWO TAPS Hit Share in Safari, Mail, Messages, or anywhere else a link turns up, pick LinkLab, and the save sheet opens right there. Add a label, drop it in a category, done โ no app switching, no copying and pasting a URL into a note you'll lose. FIND IT AGAIN IN SECONDS Everything you save lands in one list, newest first, searchable by name or by URL. Group links into categories you name yourself โ Recipes, Work, To Read, Bills, whatever fits โ and filter the list down to one of them with a tap. Save the same link twice and LinkLab updates the entry you already have instead of piling up duplicates. A QR CODE FOR ANY LINK Generate a QR code for any saved link with one tap. Share it, or save it to Photos. It's the quickest way to get a link onto someone else's phone โ the check-in page, the shared album, the menu โ without spelling out a URL or making them type anything. OPEN ANYTHING, NOT JUST WEB PAGES Tap a saved link and LinkLab hands it to whatever app on your device can open it โ a web page to your browser, an address to Maps, an email to Mail. It handles custom app links too, the myapp:// kind that Safari won't touch, which makes it a genuinely useful scratchpad if you build or test apps for a living. If nothing on the device can open a link, LinkLab says so plainly instead of doing nothing. RUNS ENTIRELY ON YOUR DEVICE LinkLab has no network code at all. No server, no account, no sign-up, no analytics, no third-party SDK โ nothing your links could be sent to, because there is nowhere to send them. QR codes are generated on your device. Photos access is add-only and requested only at the moment you choose to save an image. For anyone whose links are scattered across too many apps, and for the developers and testers who have been using it as a deep link scratchpad since day one.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LinkLab at none against HandleMe's 5. LinkLab also leads on update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. HandleMe sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. LinkLab asks for nothing beyond the download.
HandleMe ships an update fortnightly, LinkLab daily. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HandleMe | LinkLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Novarch LLC | MUDDASSIR IQBAL |
In-app purchases
HandleMe
- Event Pass$0.99
- Weekend Pass$1.99
- Extra Card Slot$2.99
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- Conference Bundle$2.99
- HandleMe Premium$8.99
LinkLab
No in-app purchases





