cardlio: Business Card Scanner

Scan a card, get the name right — job titles no longer land in front of it. Everything stays on your iPhone. One purchase, no subscription.

Every business card you're handed becomes a clean, complete contact — and your own card becomes something you can share with anyone, no app required on their end.

Free to try: scan up to 10 cards. Unlock cardlio once — a single purchase, no subscription — for unlimited cards, every export, and Office 365 sync.

SCAN ANYTHING WITH A CARD ON IT • Live camera capture finds the card, straightens it, and reads it — even several cards in one shot • Import photos or whole PDF stacks at once • Paste an email signature and get a contact, no photo needed • Review before saving: every field validated and editable

READS CARDS LIKE A PERSON WOULD cardlio looks at the layout, not just the letters. The big name up top is the person; the line by the logo is the company. It title-cases ALL-CAPS names, repairs spaced-out emails, reads international address formats, and keeps multi-office cards straight. Every address is verified against Apple Maps and pinned.

YOUR NETWORK, VISIBLE • A world map with your contacts' cards as pins • Stats: countries, companies, industries, growth over time • Search that filters — tap suggestions like "Industry: Finance" • Duplicate detection and merge

HAND OUT YOUR CARD WITHOUT THE CARD • Share it as a link — your whole card travels inside the link and opens in any browser with an Add to Contacts button (free) • Show a QR code anyone's camera can scan (free) • Write it to an NFC tag — any phone taps it to open your card, no app needed • Add it to Apple Wallet, QR included, two clicks from the lock screen

GET YOUR CARDS OUT (premium) • Sync straight into your Office 365 / Outlook contacts — one click, no duplicates, even Business Fax • Save cards to your Apple Contacts • Export vCard, CSV, Outlook-ready CSV, and Salesforce-ready CSV

ALSO • Syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your private iCloud • Voice notes: dictate context after a scan, transcribed into the card • A built-in handbook explains everything, offline

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Scanning, recognition, and organizing run entirely on your device. Your library lives on your devices and in your private iCloud — no accounts, no tracking, no servers reading your contacts. Shared card links carry the card inside the link itself; it never touches a server. Office 365 sync sends contacts only to your own Microsoft account. Optionally bring your own AI key (Anthropic or Google) for the trickiest cards — off by default.

cardlio is also on the Mac App Store — one library, every machine.