cardlio: Business Card Scanner

Made for iOS 27 and macOS 27: ask Siri about the people you met, refine with Apple’s private cloud, and read QR and NFC business cards too. One purchase, no subscription.

Scan a card once and never check it twice. cardlio shows you exactly what it read, flags the fields it wasn't sure of, and zooms to that spot on the card so you can confirm in a second — instead of re-reading every contact you save.

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

NO SIGNAL, NO PROBLEM Conference Wi-Fi is where card scanners fail. cardlio reads every card on your device, with no server in the loop — so a whole stack scans just as fast in a basement exhibition hall, on a plane, or in another country as it does at your desk.

SCAN ANYTHING WITH A CARD ON IT • Live camera capture finds the card, straightens it, and reads it — even several cards in one shot • Scan both sides; a Japanese front and an English back become one contact • Import photos or whole PDF stacks at once • Paste an email signature and get a contact, no photo needed

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.

ONE CONTACT PER PERSON Scanned someone twice? cardlio finds the duplicates and merges them properly — the survivor keeps every phone number, email and note from both, instead of leaving you two half-contacts to reconcile by hand.

YOUR NETWORK, VISIBLE • Ask your network a question in plain English and get an answer from your own cards — free, and it works offline • A world map with your contacts' cards as pins • Stats: countries, companies, industries, growth over time • Search that filters — tap suggestions like "Industry: Finance"

HAND OUT YOUR CARD WITHOUT THE CARD • Keep several cards — work, personal, a side project — and switch with a tap • 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, or put the QR widget on your Home and Lock Screen (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 taps from the lock screen

GET YOUR CARDS OUT (premium) • Sync straight into your Office 365 / Outlook contacts — one click, no duplicates, even Business Fax • Sync into your Google Contacts the same way — edit a card, sync again, and it updates that contact instead of adding another • Save cards to your Apple Contacts • Hand a colleague a set: pick several cards and send them as one contact file • 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 on your device • Follow-up emails drafted on your device by Apple Intelligence — nothing is sent to a server • Translate foreign cards, and search across scripts — type "shiquan" and find the card printed in Chinese • Siri and Shortcuts: scan a card, open one, or export a vCard from your own workflows • A built-in handbook explains everything, offline

YOUR CONTACTS OUTLIVE US No accounts and no servers means there is nothing to shut down. Your library lives on your own devices and syncs through your private iCloud. Exports are vCard and CSV — open formats every address book reads — and a shared card link carries the card inside the link itself. If cardlio vanished tomorrow, everything you scanned would still be yours, and still readable.

No tracking, no analytics, no server reading your contacts. Office 365 and Google sync send contacts only to your own account with those services. Optionally bring your own AI key for the trickiest cards — off by default.

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