Plaincard: Business Card Scan

Scan a stack of business cards, check each one next to its photo, save it to Contacts or export vCard/CSV. Nothing uploaded, no account, no subscription.

Back from a conference with a stack of business cards? Plaincard reads them on your iPhone, shows every card next to its photo so you can check the fields, and saves each one to Contacts or to a vCard/CSV file. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and everything is free: unlimited cards, unlimited export. Works on every iPhone from iOS 16.4.

SCAN A STACK • The iPhone's document scanner captures one card after another; both sides if you like. • Or pick the photos from your library, or paste an e-mail signature. • QR codes on cards (vCard, MECARD) fill the fields directly.

CHECK, THEN SAVE • Name, company, title, phone numbers, e-mail, website, address and social profiles are read from the card. Fields the app is not sure about are marked "Check" — you see every field next to the card image and fix it with a tap. • Text that could not be placed stays visible as "Text on the card". Nothing you scanned is thrown away. • Nothing reaches Contacts or an export until you tap "Looks right". • One card: the iPhone's own "New Contact" form opens, prefilled — no Contacts permission needed. • Many cards: "Add all to Contacts" checks for people who are already in your Contacts (also with limited access, your choice of contacts), adds only what you choose, and never overwrites a contact. The summary is exact: "21 added, 2 added to existing contacts, 1 skipped".

A LIBRARY THAT REMEMBERS WHERE YOU MET • Every card keeps its photo, the event, where and when you met, tags and notes. • Search finds any word on any card. • Duplicates are recognised and can be merged. • Follow-up reminders: "tomorrow", "in 3 days", "next Monday". The reminder opens the card.

EXPORT AND SHARE • vCard (.vcf) and CSV export of any selection, event or tag — AirDrop, Mail, Files, your CRM import. • Your own card as a QR code: the other person's camera reads it.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Nothing leaves your iPhone: no account, no upload, no ads, no tracking. The app makes no network requests. • Text recognition runs on the iPhone (Apple's Vision framework). • Contacts access is asked only when you add several cards at once or look for people already in your contacts — and only after the app has told you what it will do.

15 languages. Text recognition for the languages your iPhone's Vision framework supports (listed in Settings).

Not included: sync between devices, cloud backup, CRM push — export a file instead.