Business Card Reader vs Solution Pitches
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!
Solution Pitches
This tool helps sales professionals quickly send relevant collateral and information to clients and prospects. It organizes sales pitches and related materials into a central database for easy access and professional follow-up from any location.
- Cloud-based sales enablement
- Organized pitch database
- Fast email composition
- Professional client follow-up
- Access contact list
- Send multiple pitches
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Solution Pitch is a cloud-based sales enablement tool to boost the effectiveness and message consistency of individual sales emails. The simple, intuitive user interface makes it easy and fast for sales people to compose and email timely, consistent, relevant "pitches." Solution Pitch organizes your sales pitches and related collateral into one common database for you and your sales people to easily access and email to prospects and customers fast. …Just finished meeting with a promising client? Before you leave the parking lot, use Solution Pitch to deliver that brochure and price sheet you promised. …Golfing with a VIP when he casually mentions he’s been tasked with a challenging new project? While they tee off at the next hole, use Solution Pitch to quickly send them a relevant, educational white paper. …Sitting next to a colleague at an industry seminar? Before they leave the event, use Solution Pitch to email a link to an appropriate educational webinar featuring your company's subject matter experts. Solution Pitch enables you to professionally follow up with your clients from anywhere, at any time, safely and securely. No need to download or share your contact database. How it works: 1. Search for and select your solution pitch 2. Draft a personalized message 3. Review your email 4. Send it out! It really is just that easy. To get started with Solution Pitch: Enter your email address to sign up. Once your log-in information has been validated, you are ready to... - Create and send professional, cohesive solutions and educational collateral to valuable prospects and clients - Access contact information directly from your iPhone’s existing contact list. Or, add new prospects and Solution Pitch will update your existing database automatically. - Select one or more “pitches” (collateral) that your marketing team has already uploaded into LeadCentral - Write a customized message - Preview your personalized email before sending it out - Send multiple “pitches” to multiple clients at one time
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Solution Pitches at none against Business Card Reader's 10. Solution Pitches also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Business Card Reader's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (21K vs 4). On price 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. Solution Pitches asks for nothing beyond the download.
Solution Pitches holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Business Card Reader has 21K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Business Card Reader ships an update every 2 months, Solution Pitches monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Business Card Reader | Solution Pitches |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (21K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ABBYY USA Software House Inc | GrowthPoint Inc |
Customer experience
Business Card Reader
Solution Pitches
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
Solution Pitches
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
Solution Pitches
No in-app purchases
Questions
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