Biz.Cards

There's no transcription feature. You essentially pay $2 to take pictures of business cards. Everything this app does is already free to do on your own phone with the camera and/or contact list. It does link the two if you feel like manually filling out all the info, but there are enough free apps that do it for you and I'm clearly lazy. I liked the Rolodex look which is why I gave it a try. $2 lesson learned.

I've been trying to find an app that didn't require me to have an iPhone to take pictures of my business cards, especially since I have an iPad. This looked promising, since I could scan my cards and point this app at them. Unfortunately at this time the app doesn't take full advantage of the iPad screen, it shrinks it down into an iPhone image, bummer. Also, it's not intuitive to the user. You have to sort of "figure out" where to store your business card images, so that the app will allow you to pull them in. There is no area in the app sync area to point the app to for the images, so you have to store them in the area that you finally "figure out". Also there is an iPad storage area in the app, but it doesn't tell you what it's for. There is no really good documentation with the product and the website is in all Japanese, so you you are on your own to figure this out. I'd love this more if it was truly iPad ready and had some documentation so I could figure out the quirkiness.

I was looking for a app that I could enter in business cards and flip thru them coverflow style. That is exactly what this app does and for much cheaper than other apps. Now I can lighten my wallet and toss old business cards. It also has other features that I didn't expect, like flipping thru contacts coverflow style as well. It supports groups and allows you to edit them. The only major feature left out is OCR. You have to manually enter business card data into contacts form. Not a deal breaker though, most OCR apps screw up and you have to manually edit anyhow. Also, I am using a 3G with Griffin Clarifi case. I would recomend getting a Clarifi Case if you are snapping pics of business cards with the phone. It is a major improvement in quality and clarity over naked 3G lens. Pros + Fast! + Great Coverflow animation + Easy card import + Multiple Coverflow animations + Integration with internal contacts - copy info to and from internal contacts + Support for groups + Webserver - Backup and restore your data + Search Cons - Somewhat clumsy group management, it takes way to many steps to add contacts to groups - No visual indication if of what group a buiness card is in - No OCR