Business card scanner for iPhone
Fandeck reads a business card in a second, right on your phone. No account, no cloud, no one else's server. Just the people you met, filed as cards you'll actually remember.
On the App Store 1 December. Pre-order now and it installs itself on the day. Android follows on Google Play.
See how it worksHow it works
Three steps, and the middle one is optional. Fandeck does the typing; you just glance.
The camera finds the edges, waits for focus, and shoots by itself. Front and back, or fronts only in Rapid mode when a pile lands on the table.
Name, title, company, phones, email. Anything it isn't sure about is flagged, and the photo is kept, so the printed card is always one tap away.
Each person becomes a card with its own colour, so a face-to-face meeting doesn't turn into row 312 of a spreadsheet. Add to Contacts in one tap.
Generative by design
Fandeck doesn't give your contacts a template. It composes a small abstract work for each one: a field of colour, a texture, and up to nine forms (circles, arcs, wedges, crosses) each set at its own size, angle and weight.
The language comes from modern art: the primary geometry of the Bauhaus, Malevich's floating Suprematist forms, the strict grids of Swiss design. Each composition belongs to its card, the same on iPhone and Android, and no two contacts share one. There are more than four billion possible designs, all drawn on your phone; nothing is downloaded.
Not keen on one? Give it a new design, as you can in the app.
Tap the camera to turn over to the card itself. Fandeck keeps the photo of every card you scan, so the original is never lost and is there whenever you need it.
Privacy by architecture
Most scanner apps upload every card to their cloud, then sell you access back. Fandeck reads cards with the text recognition built into your iPhone, and keeps them there.
Made for how you actually meet people
Built around trade shows, site visits and dinners, where a card changes hands in ten seconds and has to be useful a week later.
Multilingual
Cards printed in one language on the front and another on the back are read in full, with the side in your phone's language shown first. Latin scripts, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and more are all read on-device, and the app itself speaks 74 languages.
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Events
Start "GITEX Global" at the door; each scan is labelled with it until the day ends. Filter the deck by event on the flight home.
Follow-ups
Set "tomorrow", "in three days" or "next week" from the card. A note and a voice memo keep the context of the conversation, right next to the number.
Search
A name, a company, a city, a word in your note, or text anywhere on the card itself.
Housekeeping
Scan the same person twice and Fandeck offers to merge, keeping the best of both.
Your card, too
Scan your own card once. Share it as a QR or a vCard when you've run out of paper ones.
Fandeck Business
Give every rep the scanner they'd pick for themselves, with leads landing straight in the system your company already runs, including the one you built.
Every prospect you meet is stored on a server you don't control, often with a per-seat add-on to reach your own CRM.
One tap sends the contact from the phone to your system's URL. The same trust model as email: nothing in between.
Compare
The big scanner apps have become enterprise lead-capture platforms. Fandeck stays a great scanner, at a price an individual can simply pay.
| Fandeck | CamCard | Covve | ABBYY BCR | HiHello | Blinq | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual, per year | $19.99 (first year $9.99) | $49.99 | $120 | $29.99 | $72 | about $88 |
| Team, per user per year | $59.99, CRM included | On request | $299, CRM included | None | $60, 5-seat minimum | about $60, plus a fee per enriched lead |
| Free to start | 50 cards, every feature but export | Limited | Free trial | 10 cards | 5 scans a month | Digital cards only |
| Account required | No | Not stated | Yes | Not stated | Yes | Yes |
| Where your contacts live | On your iPhone | Vendor cloud | Vendor cloud | Device, optional ABBYY cloud | Vendor cloud | Vendor cloud, enriched with outside data |
| CRM | Any system with a webhook, straight from the phone | Salesforce, Dynamics, SugarCRM, Google, Outlook | HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho, Dynamics | Salesforce export | Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics | Salesforce, HubSpot and 20+ |
| Languages and two-sided cards | Many scripts, both sides read, your language shown first | Not stated | 60+ languages | 25 languages | Not stated | Not stated |
| Privacy, from each company's own policy and App Store listing | ||||||
| Card photos sent to the company to be read | No, read on your phone | Yes, not used for training | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Adds outside data about the people you meet | Never | Yes, AI Business Insights (Premium) | Yes, on request | Not stated | Yes, "Enrich" feature | Yes, from third-party data providers |
| Third-party AI services listed | None | Not stated | Yes | Not stated | Yes | Not stated |
| Analytics or advertising tools named | None | Firebase | Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Facebook, AppsFlyer | Advertising measurement, company-wide | Amplitude, Adjust | Google Analytics, Segment, Amplitude (website) |
| App Store label, as declared on each listing: "Data Used to Track You" | None | Yes: usage data | None declared | Yes: six categories, incl. contact info and user content | None declared | None declared |
| Platforms | iPhone, Android coming soon | iOS, Android, web | iOS, Android, web | iOS | iOS, Android, web | iOS, Android, web |
Prices in US dollars from each company's website, checked 15 October 2026; in-app prices can differ. Privacy rows summarise each company's own privacy policy and App Store listing as of 15 October 2026. "Not stated" means we could not find it in their public pages. Policies change.
Pricing
No per-scan limits on paid plans and no add-ons. Every plan includes on-device scanning, events, reminders and the full deck.
Free
Your first 50 cards, for as long as you like.
Pro
per year. First year $9.99.
Business
per user per year.
Prices in US dollars; the App Store shows your local price. Subscriptions renew until cancelled in your Apple ID settings.
About Fandeck
We kept coming home from trade shows with a pocket full of cards, and an app that wanted an account, a subscription and our contacts.
Fandeck is made by a small, independent team based in the Gulf, where a week at an exhibition can mean two hundred cards, half of them printed in two languages.
We wanted a scanner that reads them properly, looks like something you'd choose to open, and keeps the people you meet between you and your phone. When a company wants the leads in its own system, they should go there directly, not through ours.
So there's no Fandeck server holding your data, no investor waiting for us to sell it, and no plan to change that. We make money the old-fashioned way: you pay for the app, if it's worth it.
Questions
No. Cards are read by the text recognition built into iOS and stored only on your iPhone. Two things are optional and off by default: tagging the city where you met uses Apple's location service to name the place, and Business users can send a contact to their own CRM when they tap Push to CRM.
No. There's no sign-up at all. Purchases go through your Apple ID, like any app.
Fandeck reads Latin-script languages such as English, French, German and Spanish, plus Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and more, all on-device. For a card printed in one language on the front and another on the back, it reads both sides and shows the one in your phone's language first. The app itself is available in 74 languages.
Everything you've scanned stays yours and keeps working. To add more, choose Pro: yearly, monthly or a one-time lifetime unlock.
Fandeck deliberately keeps no copy on a server, so back up with export (CSV and vCard) from Settings. Anyone you've added to Contacts also follows your iCloud Contacts to a new phone.
Any system that accepts a webhook, which means an HTTPS request with the contact as JSON. That covers in-house SaaS products and custom CRMs directly, and Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Odoo and others through tools like Zapier, Make or n8n. Field mapping lets you match your system's field names without code changes.
Yes. Scanning, search, events and reminders all work offline. Only naming the city you met in needs a connection, and that's optional.
It's on its way. Fandeck for Android is coming to Google Play after the iPhone launch, with the same design and the same privacy promise.
Any time, in Settings, then your name, then Subscriptions. If you'd rather not subscribe at all, there's a lifetime unlock for $59.99, under Other options.
Free for your first 50 cards. No account, no cloud, no catch.
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