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

> Digital business cards with contact scanning and event lead capture

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** Digital Business Cards
- **Made by:** Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd
- **Website:** https://blinq.me
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** 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.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## 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).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **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 | $7.33 per 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 | $4.99 per 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 | $24.99 one-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 https://blinq.me/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Blinq before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save about 27% to 29% with annual billing** (Annual discount): 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. Source: https://blinq.me/pricing
- **Up to 25% off NFC cards ordered in bulk** (Other savings): 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. Source: https://blinq.me/accessories/nfc-business-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.

## Good for

- Individuals who want a free card shared by QR code or phone wallet
- Sales and events teams that scan badges and send leads to a CRM
- Companies that want branded cards and email signatures managed centrally

## 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: C.** Premium 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.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Two 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.
- **Features: B.** Cards 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.
- **Ease of use: A.** Blinq rates 4.9 on the US App Store from 132,692 ratings, the top of our ease ladder.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, 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.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it 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.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/business-cards

## Keep it, 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.

- You could make: Digital business card and email signature: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: A bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, HubSpot, Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365 among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: Hooks into the device itself: an Apple Watch app and widgets.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.9 out of 5 from 132,692 ratings in the United States, read Oct 24, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1324102258

## Works with

HubSpot, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, Marketo, Zapier, Microsoft Entra ID

**Tags:** Digital business card, Email signature, AI features, Meeting notes, Public API

## Alternatives

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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://blinq.me
- https://blinq.me/pricing
- https://support.blinq.me/en/articles/76257-lead-capture-pricing
- https://blinq.me/accessories/nfc-business-cards
- https://blinq.me/integrations
- https://support.blinq.me/en/articles/68007-creating-your-first-blinq-card
- https://support.blinq.me/en/articles/73643-business-admin-onboarding-guide
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blinq-digital-business-card/id1324102258
- https://blinq.me/legal/terms-conditions

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