Blinq review (2026): is the free plan enough?

Digital business cards with contact scanning and event lead capture

Free plan · from $4.99/moBusiness CardsChecked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA4.9 on the App Store

Blinq, as pictured on blinq.me — How Blinq presents itself. Image from blinq.me.

Our verdict

First of our top three digital business cards

For: Most people, from one card to a sales team

Blinq's free plan gives two cards with unlimited sharing and contacts, shared by QR code, link, email, SMS or Apple and Google Wallet, and the person receiving one needs no app. An NFC card is $24.99 once. Its iPhone and iPad app averages 4.9 from about 133,000 ratings. Know the limits: the contact scanner and contact export need Premium at $7.33 a month billed yearly ($9.99 monthly); CRM sync and lead capture need Business, which bills five cards at least, about $24.95 a month; each lead captured and enriched there costs $9.99 more; and cards are set up in the phone app.

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Blinq report card

3.0GPA

Very good · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 24, 2026

Best for a free digital card, with paid lead capture for teams

Blinq gives you two free digital cards that anyone can open without the app, with a contact scanner on Premium and CRM sync on Business. The catch is the bill: Premium is $7.33 a month for one person, Business bills five cards at least, and every lead captured and enriched on Business costs $9.99 more.

Who Blinq is for

Fits if you want one free card that people open from a QR code or a wallet pass
Works for event teams that scan badges and send the leads to a CRM they already use

Who Blinq is not for

Pricey if you capture a lot of leads: each one captured and enriched on Business costs $9.99 on top, and bulk packs are sold through sales
Tight if you're a team of two or three, since Business bills five cards at least, about $24.95 a month on yearly billing
Not for you if you want CRM sync for yourself alone, as Premium covers one person and sync, templates and lead capture need Business
Watch out: the scanner and contact export are Premium, and enforced SSO and SCIM need Enterprise
Skip it if you'd rather set up your card on a computer, because cards are made in the phone app

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Why Blinq gets a 3.0

Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.

CValue for moneyPremium is $7.33 a month on yearly billing ($9.99 monthly) for one person, close to this category's dearer quarter at $7.50. Business is $4.99 a card, on the cheapest-quarter line, but bills five cards at least and adds $9.99 per enriched lead.
BFree plan and trialTwo cards, unlimited sharing and contacts, wallet passes and a personal email signature, free with no end date. One person can share a card on that for good; the contact scanner and contact export are Premium.
BFeaturesCards shared by QR, link, NFC, wallet or watch, a scanner for badges and paper cards, AI enrichment, a notetaker, team templates, managed signatures, event lead capture and native CRM sync. That covers the whole job, spread across three plans.
AEase of useBlinq rates 4.9 on the US App Store from 132,692 ratings, the top of our ease ladder.
BPlatforms and integrationsWeb, iPhone and Android, with native sync to HubSpot, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Zoho CRM and Pipedrive, plus Zapier and an MCP server. No desktop app, so on a computer it's the browser.

What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Blinq's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.

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Where Blinq stands among digital business cards

Blinq's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 7 of the 10 other digital business cards we grade, and level with 3.

It stands best on ease of use (A, above 7 of 10) and worst on value for money (C, above 1).

Its paid plans start at $4.99 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5 for the category: 2 of the 8 others that charge start lower.

On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

Each grade against the category

Every bar is all 11 digital business cards we grade, cut by the letter each got. Blinq’s own letter is outlined.

CValue for money
Above 1 of 10, level with 5
BFree plan and trial
Above 4 of 10, level with 5
BFeatures
Above 7 of 10, level with 3
AEase of use
Above 7 of 10, level with 3
BPlatforms and integrations
Above 1 of 10, level with 9

Price against what you get

Each dot is one of 9 digital business cards. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.

Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged

What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →

The best score at each price
Has a free plan
No free plan

The full chart, and the best digital business cards at every price

Keep Blinq, or make your own?

Keep it

To replace Blinq you would be making a bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.

It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 7 of the 10 other digital business cards we grade. It costs $59.88 a year.

What you could make

Digital business card and email signature: an app builder makes these well.

What you could not

A bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes.
A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
It plugs into other products, HubSpot, Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365 among them, and has an API.
AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
Hooks into the device itself: an Apple Watch app and widgets.
The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

What this rests on. Blinq’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.

What is Blinq?

Blinq is a digital business card app for individuals and teams. A card is shared by QR code, link, NFC tap or phone wallet, and the person receiving it does not need the app. Premium adds a contact scanner, AI enrichment and an AI notetaker, and Blinq Business adds team templates, managed email signatures, event lead capture and CRM sync.

Worth knowing

Business is billed per team card with a five-card minimum, so a team starts at about $24.95 a month on annual billing.
Leads captured and enriched on Business cost $9.99 each, billed monthly on top of the per-user price; bulk and unlimited packages are sold through sales.
Premium covers one person only; native CRM sync, templates and lead capture need Business, and enforced SSO and SCIM need Enterprise.
Cards are set up in the iOS or Android app; the browser dashboard is where Business admins manage team cards.

Key features

Cards and sharing: Two cards free and five on Premium, shared by QR code, link, email, SMS, NFC, Apple or Google Wallet, phone widgets or Apple Watch. Recipients need no app.
Universal contact scanner: From Premium, scan event badges, paper cards, QR codes and LinkedIn profiles, offline too, and save them straight to your contacts.
AI enrichment and notetaker: Enrichment fills in a contact's photo, title, phone, verified email and LinkedIn from 25+ sources. AI Notetaker records and summarizes the conversation. Both start on Premium.
Team cards and signatures: Business admins build templates with locked fields, create cards for the team in a browser dashboard and manage branded email signatures and virtual backgrounds.
Event lead capture: Business tags leads to an event campaign, adds custom qualifier forms and reports cost per lead and attribution, with leads synced to the CRM as they are captured.
CRM sync and MCP: Native sync with HubSpot, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Zoho CRM and others, Zapier, and an MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot search your contacts.

Blinq pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Blinq has a free plan, and paid plans start at $4.99 per user / month, billed annually (Business, five-card minimum).

Starts at: $4.99 per user / month, billed annually (Business, five-card minimum)
Free plan: Two cards, unlimited sharing and contacts, QR code, widget, email and SMS sharing, Apple and Google Wallet passes, a personal email signature and virtual backgrounds.
Free trial: 7-day free trial of Premium; 30-day free trial of Business

Plan	Price	What you get
Free	$0	Two cards with unlimited sharing and contacts, wallet passes, a personal email signature and virtual backgrounds.
Premium	$7.33per month, billed annually ($9.99 billed monthly)	One person: up to five cards, the contact scanner, AI notetaker, AI enrichment, a branded QR code, custom colors and contact export.
Business	$4.99per user / month, billed annually ($6.99 billed monthly)	Billed per team card, five cards minimum. Adds templates, admin email signatures, lead capture, native CRM sync, analytics and MCP.
Enterprise	Custom	Recommended above 100 people: enforced SSO, SCIM provisioning, subteam admins, invoice billing, volume pricing and a dedicated CSM.
NFC Classic card	$24.99one-time, per card	A tap-to-share card linked to your Blinq profile, no subscription needed. Phone sticker $19.99, metal $49.99, custom printed from $59.99.

Read from blinq.me on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Blinq before you buy.

Pricing in detail

Ways to pay less

Annual discountSave about 27% to 29% with annual billing
Blinq's pricing page shows Premium at $7.33 a month billed annually against $9.99 monthly, and Business at $4.99 against $6.99 per user.
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Other savingsUp to 25% off NFC cards ordered in bulk
Blinq's NFC shop takes 10% off orders of 20 to 49 cards, 15% off 50 to 99, 20% off 100 to 199 and 25% off 200 or more, applied in the cart.
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