ScanBizCards review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Business card and conference badge scanner that exports leads to CRMs
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ScanBizCards report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for scanning business cards and conference badges for leads
ScanBizCards scans business cards and event badges and exports leads to CRMs, with human transcription for the cards the OCR misses. The free plan only adds contacts to your address book, and Sales Ninja is $100 a user a year with a limit on transcriptions.
Who ScanBizCards is for
- Fits if you collect leads at trade shows and want badges and cards scanned into a CRM
- Works for teams of up to 50 users that want one admin panel and lead assignment
Who ScanBizCards is not for
- Not for you if you want a digital card to share, as the site describes no NFC card or shareable profile
- Tight if you stay on the free plan: it only adds contacts to the address book and includes 2 human transcriptions, once
- Watch out: human transcription is capped at 100 per user a year on Sales Ninja, and extra packs cost $25 per 100
- Watch out: Sales Ninja covers up to 50 users, and bigger teams are quoted
- Not for you if you work from a computer, as only iOS and Android apps are listed
Why ScanBizCards gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneySales Ninja is $100 a user a year, about $8.33 a month, which is just above the $8 where this category's dearer quarter starts. Extra transcription credits are one-time packs such as 100 for $25.
- BFree plan and trialThe free plan is free for life and covers scanning cards and badges into the address book. It includes only 2 human transcriptions, one time only, and CRM export is paid.
- CFeaturesScanning, batch scanning, human transcription, CRM export and a scan API. It's a scanner, not a digital card you share, and CRM export, cloud backup and the admin panel are paid.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. Paid use means connecting a CRM and setting up an admin panel and lead assignment.
- CPlatforms and integrationsiPhone and Android apps only, with an API and CRM export.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ScanBizCards's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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ScanBizCards's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 3 of the 13 other digital business cards we grade, and level with 1.
It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 6 of 13) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $8.33 a month when paid by the year for each person, against a middle price of $5.71 for the category: 8 of the 9 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 14 digital business cards we grade, cut by the letter each got. ScanBizCards’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 1 of 13, level with 7
- BFree plan and trialAbove 6 of 13, level with 6
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 13, level with 9
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 13, level with 6
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 0 of 13, level with 2
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 10 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
Keep ScanBizCards, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of ScanBizCards you could make: digital business card. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 9 of the 13 other digital business cards grade higher. It costs $100 a year.
What you could make
- Digital business card: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- Speech turned into text you can trust.
- 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, Salesforce among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
What this rests on. ScanBizCards’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 ScanBizCards?
ScanBizCards is a phone app that reads paper business cards and conference badges with optical character recognition and saves them as contacts. Scanned contacts can be exported to CRMs such as Salesforce, and cards can also be sent to a human transcription team. A per-user team plan adds an admin panel, lead assignment and batch export.
Worth knowing
- It is a scanner and contact manager, not a digital card you share: its site describes no NFC card or shareable profile page.
- CRM export, cloud backup and the admin panel are on the paid Sales Ninja plan; the free plan only adds contacts to the address book.
- Human transcription is limited: 2 on the free plan (one time only), 100 per user per year on Sales Ninja, and extra credits are one-time packs such as 100 for $25.
- Sales Ninja covers teams of up to 50 users, and the site lists only iOS and Android apps.
Key features
- Card and badge scanning
- Photograph a business card or conference badge and the app reads it with OCR. Batch scanning of several cards is supported.
- Human transcription
- Scanned cards can be transcribed by a person. Sales Ninja includes 100 per user per year, and extra credits are sold in one-time packs.
- CRM export
- Contacts export to Salesforce and other CRMs, or as CSV. Direct scan-to-CRM and batch export are listed under the paid plans.
- Email signature capture
- Saves and updates contacts from the signature block of emails. Listed with the paid features.
- Intro email and vCard
- Sends an introduction email with a vCard and a photo after a scan.
- Scan API
- The business card and badge scan APIs can be connected to a company's own systems.
ScanBizCards pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, ScanBizCards has a free plan, and paid plans start at $100 per user / year.
- Starts at
- $100 per user / year
- Free plan
- Trail-Blazer: free app for scanning business cards and conference badges, adding them to the address book, and 2 human transcriptions (one time only).
- Free trial
- The site advertises a free 14-day trial.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Trail-Blazer | $0 | Free for life: card and badge scanning, address book export, and 2 human transcriptions, one time only. |
| Sales Ninja | $100per user / year, for teams of up to 50 users | Adds CRM export, cloud backup, email signature contact capture, an admin panel, lead assignment, batch export, custom fields and 100 human transcriptions per user per year. |
| Growth Hacker | Custom | For more than 50 user licenses, quoted by sales. Includes customized human transcription bundles and personalized onboarding. |
Read from scanbizcards.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ScanBizCards before you buy.
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Common questions
Does ScanBizCards have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. ScanBizCards is listed for iOS and Android.
Does ScanBizCards have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. ScanBizCards is listed for iOS and Android.
Is ScanBizCards open source?
ScanBizCards is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does ScanBizCards have an API?
Yes. ScanBizCards offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.