Comparison

The Card Scanner vs Orderly

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

Head to head
About

The Card Scanner

Effortlessly digitize business cards into contacts and manage them with a local CRM. Scan, edit, and save details directly to your iPhone Contacts. Organize your leads with notes, tags, and follow-up reminders.

Highlights
  • Scan business cards with iPhone camera
  • Edit detected contact details
  • Save contacts to iPhone Contacts
  • Local CRM for scanned cards
  • Add notes, tags, and follow-up dates
  • Search and group contacts
Features
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The Card Scanner helps you turn paper business cards into saved contacts and a simple local follow-up list. Point your camera at a card, review the detected details, and save the person to iPhone Contacts. The app also keeps a local mini CRM so scanned cards, notes, status, tags, and follow-up dates stay easy to find. Features: - Scan business cards with your iPhone camera - Review and edit detected names, companies, titles, phone numbers, emails, websites, and addresses - Save contacts to the iPhone Contacts app - Store the cropped card image with each local CRM record - Search, group, and update your scanned contacts - Add notes, status, tags, and follow-up dates - Customize a simple follow-up message template Privacy: The Card Scanner is built to be local-first. OCR runs on device, and your scanned contacts and card images stay on your iPhone. The app does not require an account, does not use analytics, does not track you, and does not upload your business cards to a server.

About

Orderly

Features
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Orderly is a to-do list for people with more to do than time to sort it. Keep tasks, categories, due dates, coursework, and priorities together across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Add anything you need to remember, then view it as a clean list, a calendar, or an urgency-and-importance matrix that helps you decide what actually deserves today. Why Orderly • Organize tasks by category, due date, completion state, and priority • See the same tasks in List, Priorities, and Calendar views • Use the Do, Schedule, Delegate, and Drop matrix to sort what matters now • Create repeating tasks for habits, classes, routines, and regular work • Check off today’s tasks from Home Screen widgets • Sync through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Connect Apple Calendar so dated tasks show up where you already plan • Mirror coursework from Canvas, Brightspace, or any school calendar feed • Keep the core app free, with no ads and no tracking Smart Schedule Paste a syllabus, upload a file, add a screenshot, or drop in a messy note. Smart Schedule drafts tasks with due dates and priorities for you to review before they join your list. Orderly includes 3 free Smart Schedule drafts with an account. Orderly Plus unlocks unlimited Smart Schedule plans. Built for students, workers, and everyone else Orderly is simple enough for groceries and errands, but structured enough for coursework, client deadlines, repeating routines, and the quiet important things that usually lose to whatever feels urgent. Requires iOS 17 or later, iPadOS 17 or later, or macOS 14 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://orderly-ac9b6.web.app/privacy/

Screenshots

The Card Scanner4 screens
Orderly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Card Scanner at none against Orderly's 2. Orderly's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Orderly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. The Card Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
The Card Scanner versus Orderly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Card ScannerOrderly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOSEPH KANE MAZAMICAH BENJAMIN BOCKISCH

In-app purchases

None

The Card Scanner

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Orderly

Subscriptions2
  • Orderly Plus7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Orderly Plus7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is The Card Scanner free?
The Card Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orderly free?
Orderly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Card Scanner or Orderly have ads?
Neither The Card Scanner nor Orderly shows ads.

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