Business Card Reader vs Performio SPM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Performio SPM
This app provides sales teams with real-time performance dashboards and compensation details on mobile devices. It aims to motivate salespeople by offering transparent access to sales numbers and metrics, ensuring focus on achieving quotas.
- Real-time performance dashboards
- Sales compensation tracking
- Quota progress visualization
- Mobile and tablet access
- Secure cloud-based data
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Performio's Sales Performance Management platform brings the scoreboard to your sales teams with real-time pay for performance dashboards that get everybody focused on the sales numbers and metrics that matter. The Performio SPM App provides mobile access with higher performance when viewing you Performio site. Motivate Sales Teams Performio provides the most social and personalized user experience in Sales Performance Management. Salespeople can access their Performio dashboard on any mobile, tablet or desktop device to see how they are tracking against quota. They can drill into the detail of their sales compensation earned. Transparency and access to this performance data keeps salespeople motivated to perform at their best. Value For Money Performio consistently delivers our customers with the fastest “time to value” through our Smart Implementation Program. Designed to ensure you enjoy a smooth on boarding experience. Performio’s unique SPM configurable architecture means you can be confident your specific requirements and processes will be automated. There are no limits with Performio. High Security Performio runs on Amazon Web Services, which delivers the highest level of security for your data. In addition to a great platform, Performio provides a secure cloud-based sales commission solution to host and back up your data safely.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Business Card Reader at 4.6 against Performio SPM's 3.6. Business Card Reader also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (21K vs 9). Performio SPM's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (100% vs 70%). On price, ads 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. Business Card Reader sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Performio SPM asks for nothing beyond the download.
Business Card Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Business Card Reader has 21K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of Business Card Reader's written reviews are positive against 100% of Performio SPM's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Business Card Reader ships an update every 2 months, Performio SPM every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Business Card Reader | Performio SPM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (21K ratings) — better | 3.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ABBYY USA Software House Inc | Performio |
Customer experience
Business Card Reader
Performio SPM
Bugs and requests
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
Performio SPM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
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
Performio SPM
No in-app purchases
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