Card Master: Card Scanner

Card Master turns paper business cards into searchable, editable contacts on your iPhone.

ON-DEVICE CARD RECOGNITION Take a photo or import one from Photos, adjust the four corners, preview the corrected card, then recognize Traditional Chinese and English text with Apple Vision. Your card images and text are not sent to an external AI service. Always verify important details against the original image.

ORGANIZE YOUR NETWORK Create groups for clients, partners, events, or any workflow. Add one card to multiple groups, mark favorites, search names, companies, phone numbers, notes, and recognized text, and keep context with tags and notes.

PRIVATE CARDS Lock selected cards and open them with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. Private groups stay separate from regular groups, and private-card features are included in the free version.

BACKUP AND EXPORT Create an encrypted backup with a separate recovery code. Export VCF or CSV files, and choose whether to add cards to iPhone Contacts. Saving a card never automatically adds it to Contacts. Exported files and system records are no longer protected by the app’s private-card lock.

NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Core recognition, editing, search, and storage work without creating an account. Card data stays on your device unless you choose to export, share, back up, or add it to another app.

LIFETIME BUSINESS UPGRADE The free version includes scanning, card organization, groups, private cards, and backups with ads. One non-consumable purchase removes ads forever and unlocks business features, including for existing purchasers. Restore Purchases is available. No subscription; your local price is shown before purchase.

BUSINESS FEATURES Open addresses in Apple Maps or Google Maps. Record when and where you met someone, then explicitly add that meeting to Calendar. Plan visits with optional weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly recurrence and a reminder one week before. If the first reminder time has already passed, it cannot be delivered retroactively. Confirmed events are added to your default calendar and managed there; edits in this app do not sync to exported events.

Requires iOS 17 or later. Apple Intelligence is not required. Advertising and purchases require an internet connection.