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

> Digital business cards with AI badge scanning on prepaid credits

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

Wave Connect makes digital business cards shared by QR code, link, NFC or phone wallet, along with branded email signatures. Its event lead capture reads badges and paper cards, looks up each contact's email, phone and LinkedIn, and on the Teams plan syncs the leads to a CRM. Scanning runs on prepaid credits that are bought separately from the plans.

- **Category:** Digital Business Cards
- **Made by:** Wave Connect Inc.
- **Website:** https://wavecnct.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you scan a lot: credits cost $250 for 115, a badge takes 4 and they expire after 12 months.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 24, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 24, 2026, Wave Connect has a free plan, and paid plans start at $5 per user / month, billed annually (Teams, three-user minimum).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** a digital card, a personal email signature, unlimited sharing and contacts, Apple and Google Wallet, a lead capture form, personal analytics and 10 trial credits for AI scanning.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of Pro; 14-day free trial of Teams.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | A digital card and personal email signature, unlimited sharing and contacts, wallet passes and a lead form. |
| Pro | $7 per month, billed annually ($9 billed monthly in the iOS app) | Branded QR code and profile, custom colors and fonts, no Wave branding, AI lead capture with enrichment and offline mode. |
| Teams | $5 per user / month, billed annually (3-user minimum) | Admin platform, templates and locked fields, team lead capture with qualifiers and voice notes, CRM sync and a shared credit pool. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Enforced SSO, SCIM, unlimited lead-capture users on an annual credit package, CRM setup and a dedicated account manager. |
| Wave NFC Business Card | $23 one-time, per card | NFC card linked to your Wave profile. Custom printed $42, metal $53, phone tap or bracelet $23. |

Read from https://wavecnct.com/pricing on Oct 24, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Wave Connect before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save about 22% with yearly Pro** (Annual discount): The US App Store lists Pro at $84 a year against $9 a month, and Wave's pricing page shows Pro at $7 a month billed annually. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wave-connect/id6448073850
- **Bonus credits on larger lead capture packs** (Other savings): Wave adds free credits to bigger packs: 5 extra with 50, 15 with 100, 35 with 200 and 70 with 400 credits. Source: https://wavecnct.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Digital card and sharing:** Contact details, photo gallery, video and files, calendar bookings and a link in bio, shared by QR code, text, email, wallet pass, phone widget or offline.
- **AI badge and card scanner:** Snap an event badge with only a name and company and Wave finds the rest; it also reads paper cards and LinkedIn QR codes, and keeps scanning offline.
- **Waterfall enrichment:** Several data sources plus AI search look for each contact's email, phone and LinkedIn. Failed lookups and duplicate scans are not charged.
- **CRM sync:** Teams syncs leads natively to HubSpot, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Zoho, Pipedrive and HighLevel with custom field mapping, or to 5,000+ apps through Zapier.
- **Email signatures:** Branded signatures for Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail; Teams admins set signatures for the whole team.
- **Team admin:** Templates, bulk import from a spreadsheet, bulk edits and locked fields, admin, manager and viewer roles, and a shared lead dashboard.

## Good for

- Small teams wanting cards and CRM sync from $5 a person a month
- Booth staff scanning badges without renting the show's scanner
- Individuals who want a free card and email signature

## Worth knowing

- AI scanning uses credits: 4 per event badge and 1 per paper card, LinkedIn QR or lead form; 100 credits plus 15 free cost $250 and last 12 months.
- Teams needs at least 3 users, and CRM sync, templates and locked fields start there.
- Enforced SSO, SCIM provisioning and unlimited lead-capture users need Enterprise, which is quoted.
- Removing Wave Connect branding and using a branded QR code need Pro or higher.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Wave Connect gives you a free card and email signature, and Teams adds CRM sync from $5 a user with three users at least. Badge scanning runs on credits bought on top, $250 for 115 that last a year, and at 4 credits a badge that's about 28 badges, so the scanning bill sits apart from the plan.

- **Value for money: C.** Pro is $7 a month on yearly billing ($9 monthly in the iOS app), near this category's dearer quarter at $7.50. Teams is $5 a user, the middle, with three users at least. Scanning credits cost extra: $250 for 115.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** The free card comes with a personal email signature, unlimited sharing and contacts, wallet passes, a lead form and personal analytics, with no end date. The 10 AI scanning credits are a one-off taste.
- **Features: B.** Cards with galleries, video and booking, a scanner that reads badges, paper cards and LinkedIn QR codes offline, waterfall enrichment, signatures for Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail, team templates and native CRM sync. That covers the whole job.
- **Ease of use: A.** Wave Connect rates 4.8 on the US App Store from 1,604 ratings, the top of our ease ladder.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with native sync to HubSpot, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Zoho, Pipedrive and HighLevel, and Zapier to 5,000+ apps. No desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Wave Connect's own pages on 24 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among digital business cards

- Wave Connect'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 $5 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5 for the category: 3 of the 8 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

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

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of Wave Connect you could make: digital business card and email signature. What surrounds it you could not. The 6 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. 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 $60 a year.

- You could make: Digital business card and email signature: an app builder makes these well.
- 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.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: Hooks into the device itself: 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:** 4.8 out of 5 from 1,604 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/id6448073850

## Works with

HubSpot, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Zoho, Pipedrive, HighLevel, Zapier, Apple Wallet

**Tags:** Digital business card, Email signature, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Blinq](https://toolgpa.com/tools/blinq): Digital business cards with contact scanning and event lead capture. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/blinq-vs-wave-connect)
- [Popl](https://toolgpa.com/tools/popl): Digital business cards and event badge scanning for sales teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/popl-vs-wave-connect)
- [HiHello](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hihello): Digital business cards, email signatures and lead capture for teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hihello-vs-wave-connect)
- [Mobilo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mobilo): NFC business cards and digital wallet cards with team lead capture. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mobilo-vs-wave-connect)
- [Linq](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linq): NFC business cards and a pocket CRM with a second phone line. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linq-vs-wave-connect)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 24, 2026:

- https://wavecnct.com/pricing
- https://wavecnct.com
- https://wavecnct.com/collections/all-products
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wave-connect/id6448073850
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wavecnct.app.twa

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/wave-connect
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