Business cards,
done.
The business card scanner and digital business card for iPhone and Mac, made for iOS 27 and macOS 27. Scan any card into a complete contact, street address included; share yours as a link, a QR code, an NFC tap, or an Apple Wallet pass — private by design.
- One purchase. No subscription. Every export included.
- cardlio never contacts the people you scan — no emails, no invitations.
- No account, and no cardlio server that stores your cards.
Everything a card throws at you.
Not just a name and a number. cardlio reads the whole card: title, company, every phone and email, the website, and the street address down to the building and postcode. Anything it wasn't sure of is flagged before saving, so you check the one field that needs it — not all twelve, and never twice.
Reads cards in 28 languages, from Japanese and Chinese to Arabic, Thai and Vietnamese — all of it on your device. See the list.
Scan anything with a card on it.
Live camera with on-device detection — even several cards at once, or whole photo imports. Met someone twice? cardlio spots the duplicate and merges to one contact, keeping every email and note from both.
Reads cards like a person would.
Layout decides who's the person and what's the company — ALL-CAPS names, spaced-out emails, and split addresses fixed on the way. Shaky reads carry a warning badge, and tapping any field zooms the photo to the exact spot it was read from — trust the green ones, glance at the amber.
Email signatures too.
Paste the text, get a contact.
Whole PDF stacks.
Import a folder of scans in one go.
See who you know — and where.
Contacts on a world map, industries and countries at a glance, growth over time. Search filters like Industry: Finance.
The full address, from any country.
Building, street, postal code, city and country, in the local format, with multi-office cards kept apart. Each address is then checked against Apple Maps.
Map imagery: Apple Maps.
Sync scanned business cards straight into Google Contacts or Office 365.
Connect your Google or Microsoft account once, then push your whole library into its contacts with a single click — no CSV files, no copy-paste.
- One click, both ways of tidy — new cards are added, edits update, removed cards drop off
- No duplicates — every contact is matched by a hidden ID, even after a reinstall or a new Mac
- Every field mapped — name, company, title, emails, phones, Business Fax, and full postal address
- Works from iPhone & Mac — the same one-click sync action on both
- Two address books — Google Contacts and Office 365 / Outlook, each into your own account and nowhere else
- Apple Contacts too — save any card straight into the address book already on your iPhone or Mac
- Four file formats — vCard, CSV, Outlook-ready CSV and Salesforce-ready CSV
- Or your own CRM — post each card you save to a web address you choose; off until you switch it on
What cardlio does not take from your Google account.
It reads back only the contacts it created itself, found by a marker it wrote. The rest of your Google Contacts are never requested and never received, the card photo is never sent, and sync runs one way — cardlio to Google — and only when you ask for it. Disconnect in Settings and the sign-in token is deleted; the contacts already in your account stay exactly as they are.
Ask your network a question.
“Who did I meet in Singapore who works in shipping?” Ask it the way you'd say it, and cardlio answers with the cards the answer came from — so you can check it rather than take its word. Your own device does the searching, so an invented colleague can't appear.
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Ask Siri about the people you met
“Text the person from Tristar” — Siri knows your cards as people, from the index already on your device.
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Point the camera at a card
Camera Control or visual intelligence, tap Search, and cardlio opens with the name and company already read.
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Apple's Private Cloud Compute, no key needed
Apple's larger model polishes names, titles and companies and reads the address from the photo — no account, and Apple keeps nothing.
Siri, the camera hand-off and Private Cloud Compute need iOS 27 or macOS 27 and Apple Intelligence.
After the fair, in fewer steps.
The days after a fair decide whether a stack of cards turns into business. Rate people while you scan, hand on one report, and work through the follow-up emails in one sitting.
Hot, Warm or Cold — at the stand
One tap at the top of every scanned card, before the next person walks up. Add your own interest tags for what they asked about.
Tag the event — even afterwards
Event mode stamps every scan. Forgot to switch it on? Select the pile on the flight home and tag them all at once.
One report per fair
Event Report lists everyone you met, hot leads first, with ratings, interests and who still needs a follow-up — as a PDF or a CSV.
The follow-ups, one after another
Follow-Up Run drafts an email for each person on your device; you read, change and send it from your own mail app. cardlio sends nothing.
Keep in touch
Say how often you want to be in touch with someone; cardlio shows who is due and drafts a short note. No notifications, no pipeline.
Straight into your CRM
Post each card to a Zapier or Make hook and it lands in Salesforce, HubSpot or Pipedrive. Off until you switch it on; the photo is never sent.
One pile of cards for the whole stand.
At a fair you are rarely scanning alone. A team is a shared library for one event: everyone adds cards, reads them in full, and claims the ones they will follow up — so two people never chase the same lead.
- Invite by Apple Account — only the people on the list can open it, and nothing is shared until someone sends it
- Claim a lead, or all of them — your own copy lands in your library and the team sees it is taken
- Colleagues on Windows or Android — they join at team.cardlio.app in any browser, straight to Apple's iCloud
Every card opens as a clean contact sheet.
Where you met, the rating and the follow-up sit as chips at the top; every email and number has its own row with a call or write button.
- The address as its country writes it — checked on Apple Maps, with the local time there
- Voice notes that spell names right — say what you talked about; the name comes out as printed on the card
- Chinese and Japanese cards translated — on your device, kept with the card and searchable
- VAT numbers checked in VIES — and the registered name copied in with one tap
- Two offices kept apart — and on iPhone, Get a Ride to the address
Their QR code, their NFC card, a screenshot, the back of the card.
A QR contact page
Hosted contact pages are recognised, the printed website stays the website, and the details are fetched only when you tap.
Their NFC card
On iPhone, tap a Popl, Linq, Mobilo or cardlio tag: a contact is added on the spot, a link to a contact page is offered first.
A screenshot
Share a screenshot of an email signature or a chat; cardlio keeps the contact block and leaves the rest of the screen out.
Both sides of the card
An address on the back is read too, and an email whose domain doesn't exist is caught, with the fix one tap away.
The phone rings, and you already know who it is.
Scan someone's card and their name and company appear on the incoming-call screen. Other caller-ID apps look your calls up on a server; cardlio hands your cards' numbers to iOS and nothing leaves the phone.
Your card in every email
An email signature with a Save my contact link, and a Zoom, Teams or Meet background with your QR code. Both free.
Your cards in Contacts
Phone, Mail and Messages find scanned cards by name, as cardlio's own read-only list. Nothing is copied into your address book.
Coming from another card app?
cardlio reads their vCard, CSV and Excel exports, skips anyone you already have and tidies the phone numbers on the way in.
Numbers the way your CRM wants them
Choose International, Compact or Plain, how extensions are written and which fields go in capitals — then apply it to every card.
Lock the library
An optional Face ID, Touch ID or passcode lock; on the Mac it also locks when the Mac sleeps.
A backup that's yours
The whole library in one zip — photos, both sides, every field and a vCard per contact — in open formats.
Guides
Your network is nobody's business.
cardlio was built the old-fashioned way: your data is yours. No accounts, no tracking, no servers reading your contacts.
- On-device — scanning, reading, and organizing happen on your phone or Mac
- Your private iCloud — sync uses Apple's cloud, encrypted for you alone
- Links with nothing behind them — a shared card lives inside the link itself, never on a server
- No signal, no problem — scanning is fully offline, so it works exactly the same in a conference basement as on your desk
- Built to outlive us — your library lives on your devices and in your iCloud, in Apple's own contact formats; nothing about it depends on our servers existing
- No analytics — not in the app, not on this website
One library. Every machine.
Scan on your iPhone at the conference, tidy up on your Mac at your desk. Same cards, everywhere, instantly.
And on a Windows PC, an Android phone or a borrowed screen: sign in at team.cardlio.app with your Apple Account to search all your cards, with their photos. Rate a lead, add a note after a call or mark a follow-up done, and it is back on your iPhone and Mac a moment later. Downloading them as vCard, CSV or ZIP comes with the unlock. Your browser talks to your own iCloud — there is no server of ours in between.
Available worldwide on the App Store. Requires iOS 26.5 or macOS 26.5. Siri answers, the camera hand-off and Apple’s Private Cloud Compute need iOS 27 or macOS 27.
One purchase. Not a subscription.
Try it on ten real cards before paying anything. After that a single unlock lifts the limit for good — no monthly fee, no renewal, nothing to cancel.
- Unlimited cards — the 10-card limit is gone
- Every export — vCard, CSV, Outlook CSV and Salesforce
- Google Contacts and Office 365 sync, and Save to Contacts
- Team library — share a fair's cards with your stand
- Your own card on an NFC tag and in Apple Wallet
The iPhone and Mac apps are sold separately, so each is unlocked on its own. Your library syncs between them either way, through your own iCloud.