The Blinq Insider’s Guide

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ToolGPAOctober 2026

Blinq

The Insider’s Guide

Digital business cards with contact scanning and event lead capture

Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among digital business cards, read from Blinq’s own pages.

Made by Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd · checked Oct 23, 2026 · toolgpa.com

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01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it

ToolGPA put this guide together from Blinq’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Blinq’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 23, 2026.

Part 01 · Overview

Welcome

What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first

3.0

GPA, above 7 of the 10 other digital business cards we grade

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.

To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Blinq, taken from its own pages and our grades.

1
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.
2
Paid plans start at $4.99 a month for each person
As its pricing page puts it: $4.99 per user / month, billed annually (Business, five-card minimum).
3
There is a 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.
4
It runs on 3 platforms
Web, iOS and Android.
5
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.
6
Universal contact scanner
From Premium, scan event badges, paper cards, QR codes and LinkedIn profiles, offline too, and save them straight to your contacts.
7
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.
8
A 3.0 GPA, above 7 of 10
That is against the other digital business cards we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
9
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.

Blinq at a glance

Pricing: Free plan, from $4.99 per user / month, billed annually (Business, five-card minimum)
Free plan: Yes
Free trial: 7-day free trial of Premium; 30-day free trial of Business
Runs on: Web, iOS, Android
Made by: Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd
Category: Digital Business Cards
Our grade: 3.0 GPA, very good
Store rating: 4.9 on the App Store, 132,692 ratings

The report card

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.

ToolGPA report cardBlinqGraded Oct 24, 2026

Subject	Grade	Comment
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.

Grade point averageVery good, out of 4.03.0

An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.

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 it 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

Good to know

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.

Part 02 · Pricing

What it costs

Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved

$4.99

A month to start, for each person. There is a free plan too

Blinq has a free plan. Paid plans start at $4.99 per user / month, billed annually (Business, five-card minimum).

Two cards, unlimited sharing and contacts, wallet passes and a personal email signature, free with no end date.

From our grade for free plan and trial

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.

The 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.

Trying it first

7-day free trial of Premium; 30-day free trial of Business

Read from blinq.me on Oct 23, 2026.

Ways to pay less

Annual discount
Save 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.
Stated on blinq.me
Other savings
Up 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.
Stated on blinq.me

Part 03 · Features

What it does

Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it

Places it runs: Web, iOS and Android

Digital business cards with contact scanning and event lead capture. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, AI features, meeting notes, digital business card, email signature.

That covers the whole job, spread across three plans.

From our grade for 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.

Where it runs

Web
iOS
Android

What it works with

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

Blinq is made by Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd.

Part 04 · Standing

Where it stands

Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own

7/10

Other digital business cards it is graded above

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
BFree plan and trial
Above 4 of 10
BFeatures
Above 7 of 10
AEase of use
Above 7 of 10
BPlatforms and integrations
Above 1 of 10

Price against what you get

Each dot is one of 9 digital business cards. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Blinq is the marked dot.

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

Keep it, or make your own?

Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.

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.

Part 05 · Alternatives

The alternatives

The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side

Popl, HiHello, Linq, Dot and OVOU

The 5 tools Blinq is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.

3.0GPA
Popl
Free plan · from $76.99/yr
Digital business cards and event badge scanning for sales teams.
- Blinq also covers meeting notes.
Blinq and Popl compared in full
2.8GPA
HiHello
Free plan · from $5/mo
Digital business cards, email signatures and lead capture for teams.
- Blinq also covers meeting notes.
Blinq and HiHello compared in full
2.0GPA
Linq
Free plan · from $29/mo
NFC business cards and a pocket CRM with a second phone line.
- Blinq also covers meeting notes.
- Linq also covers business phone line.
Blinq and Linq compared in full
2.4GPA
Dot
Free plan · from $8/mo
NFC cards, bands and stickers that share a free browser-based profile.
- Only Blinq lists iOS and Android apps.
- Blinq also covers meeting notes and email signature.
Blinq and Dot compared in full
2.0GPA
OVOU
Free trial · from $90/yr
Digital business card plans that include an NFC smart card.
- Blinq has a free plan. OVOU does not, though it has a free trial.
- Only Blinq lists iOS and Android apps.
- Blinq also covers meeting notes.
Blinq and OVOU compared in full

Part 06 · Questions

Quick answers

The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two

Questions, each answered in a line or two

The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.

Is Blinq free?

Blinq has a 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.

How much does Blinq cost?

Blinq lists 5 plans. Free: $0.

What platforms does Blinq work on?

Blinq is available on Web, iOS and Android.

Does Blinq offer any discounts?

Blinq publicly lists the following: Save about 27% to 29% with annual billing; Up to 25% off NFC cards ordered in bulk.

How is Blinq rated?

Blinq's iPhone and iPad app averages 4.9 out of 5 from 132,692 ratings on the App Store in the United States, as read on Oct 24, 2026.

Does Blinq have a Windows app?

No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Blinq is listed for Web, iOS and Android.

Does Blinq have a macOS app?

No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Blinq is listed for Web, iOS and Android.

Is Blinq open source?

Blinq is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.

Does Blinq have an API?

Yes. Blinq offers a public API, according to its own site.

What does Blinq integrate with?

Blinq's listing names HubSpot, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, Marketo, Zapier and Microsoft Entra ID.

Does Blinq have a free trial?

Yes. 7-day free trial of Premium; 30-day free trial of Business.

Who makes Blinq?

Blinq is made by Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd.

What are the alternatives to Blinq?

The closest alternatives to Blinq in our directory are Popl, HiHello, Linq, Dot and OVOU.

How does Blinq compare with other 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.

Is Blinq good value for money?

ToolGPA grades Blinq C for value for money. 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.

Could I make my own version of Blinq?

To replace Blinq you would be making a bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes.

Where this guide comes from

The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Blinq’s own pages on Oct 23, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 24, 2026. 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.

Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd. Prices change, so check blinq.me before you buy.

Part 07 · About

About ToolGPA

Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it

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Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.

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