Business Card Reader vs Gallagher Command Centre
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!
Gallagher Command Centre
Enhance security operations with mobile access to alarms, cardholder information, and site status. This app allows security staff to manage incidents, grant or deny access, and monitor evacuations remotely, increasing efficiency and awareness.
- Remote alarm management
- Cardholder access control
- Door and zone status monitoring
- Emergency evacuation management
- Grant or deny cardholder access
- Lockdown zones quickly
- Trigger custom functions
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More mobile, less desk. To make accessing alarms, overrides and cardholder information simple the Gallagher Command Centre mobile app introduces a whole new way of interacting with the Gallagher Command Centre solution. The app grants security staff more mobility when they are offsite or out on patrol, allowing them to spend more time away from their desk - while still maintaining full awareness of what’s happening on site. The Command Centre application allows guards attending incidents to access relevant details remotely, and easily add alarm notes that will automatically be visible to those in the control room. Emergency wardens can manage evacuations by moving people to safe areas, and monitor a list of cardholders yet to be cleared into a safe area. Command Centre Mobile offers the following features: • Grant or deny a cardholder access to zones. (Requires additional Access Reader license and the Gallagher Mobile Reader). • Automatic cardholder search to Spot Check a cardholder’s access privileges. • View and process alarms. • Monitor and override the status of doors, access zones, alarm zones and fence zones. • Lockdown zones quickly. • Trigger macros to perform custom functions. • Disable a cardholder’s access. • Mobile actions and events are logged in Command Centre. • Configuration of Gallagher Bluetooth® readers. • English, French, and Spanish language support With Gallagher Command Centre 8.20 and above • Monitor cardholder safety during an emergency evacuation With Gallagher Command Centre 8.30 and above • Capture Cardholder photos • Read Gallagher Command Centre Credentials With Gallagher Command Centre 8.40 and above • Enhanced the ability to capture data while using the Access Reader feature. Lists and required fields are now supported • Read Mifare card serial numbers (Additional hardware is required to read Mifare Classic and Mifare Plus cards) • Cardholder Details now include Digital ID names With Gallagher Command Centre 8.60 and above • Command Centre Mobile can connect securely from anywhere without the need to use a corporate network or VPN Compatible with all currently supported versions of Command Centre. To use the Gallagher Command Centre App, you must be a licensed user of the Gallagher Command Centre software.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gallagher Command Centre at none against Business Card Reader's 10. Gallagher Command Centre also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Business Card Reader's advantage is ratings volume (21K vs 1) and review sentiment (70% vs 50%). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Business Card Reader sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Gallagher Command Centre asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gallagher Command Centre 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 1, 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 50% of Gallagher Command Centre'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, Gallagher Command Centre every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Business Card Reader | Gallagher Command Centre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (21K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 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, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | ABBYY USA Software House Inc | Gallagher Group Ltd |
Customer experience
Business Card Reader
Gallagher Command Centre
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
Gallagher Command Centre
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
Gallagher Command Centre
No in-app purchases
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