CardKeeper App vs Business Card Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CardKeeper App
Digitize and organize your business card collection. This app allows you to quickly scan cards, add captured information to your contacts, and manage your collection efficiently. Share cards with other users and enjoy a smooth interface.
- Scan and add business cards
- Add captured info to contacts
- Manage business card collection
- Share cards via AirDrop
- Slick and snappy interface
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CardKeeper is the best Business Card Reader and Storage Application. Tired of carrying all those numerous Business Cards with you? CardKeeper is here to scan, digitize, organize and help you manage your entire Business Card Collection. - Quickly scan and add Business Cards - Easily add the captured information to iPhone's Address Book - Efficiently Manage your Business Cards - Send your Cards to other CardKeeper users via AirDrop - Enjoy CardKeeper’s slick and snappy interface Please feel free to use this email in order to contact us: ck@bontq.com If you think feel like CardKeeper has changed your life, then please feel free to leave an App Store review!
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.
- 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
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Business Card Reader at 21K against CardKeeper App's 2.9K. Business Card Reader also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 61%) and device support (4 vs 2). CardKeeper App's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. CardKeeper App sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Business Card Reader sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for CardKeeper App against 4.6 for Business Card Reader. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Business Card Reader has 21K ratings behind it against 2.9K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 61% of CardKeeper App's written reviews are positive against 70% of Business Card Reader's.
CardKeeper App ships an update every 3 months, Business Card Reader every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | CardKeeper App | Business Card Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.9K ratings) — better | 4.6 (21K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.9% of reviews | 70.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.9K | 21K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BergTech, LLC | ABBYY USA Software House Inc |
Customer experience
CardKeeper App
Business Card Reader
User reviews
CardKeeper App
From 2.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Seamless performance
- 👍 Very easy to use
- 📚 Great organizer
- 💾 Digital Rolodex
- 🗂️ Useful and handy
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues with Dropbox
- 🐛 Crashing and app not working
- 🗣️ Lack of customer support
- 💰 Paid version required after 10 entries
- 🖋️ Difficulty editing text
Business Card Reader
From 21K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Efficient scanning
- 📁 Convenient storage of business cards
- 🔗 Integrates with contacts and social media
- 🔍 Accurate OCR recognition
- 💾 Saves time and space
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent OCR accuracy
- 🔍 Requires manual editing of scanned data
- 💰 Subscription model is expensive
- 📤 Issues with exporting/transferring data
- 🔌 App crashes and freezes
Bugs and requests
CardKeeper App
Reported bugs
3 issues- Dropbox sync issues causing data loss
- Crashing on launch after recent updates
- Inability to transfer data to new devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to organize cards into groups
- Auto-scan capability
- Cross-device sync
- Dial phone numbers directly from the app
- More customization options
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
CardKeeper App
- Unlimited Cards$4.99
Business Card Reader
- 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
- [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
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