FandeckGuide
Business card scanner to Excel: straight from your iPhone
You come back from a conference with a stack of cards and a simple wish: a spreadsheet. Name, company, phone, email, one row per person, in Excel where you can sort, filter and share it. Most scanner apps can get you there, but many want an account, a subscription, and a copy of your contacts in their cloud first.
Fandeck does it on the phone itself. Cards are read by the text recognition built into iOS, stored only on your iPhone, and exported as a CSV file that opens straight in Excel, with no account and nothing uploaded along the way.
How it works
- Scan the pile. Point the camera at a card. Fandeck finds the edges, waits for a sharp frame and takes the shot itself. Rapid mode gets through a whole stack in minutes, and it reads cards in 74 languages, right-to-left included, on both sides of the card.
- Fix anything flagged. Characters the phone was not sure about are highlighted, so you correct them in a tap instead of discovering bad data in your spreadsheet later.
- Export to CSV. Choose your contacts and export. You get a CSV file, the format Excel opens natively. The same export also offers vCard if you want contact files instead.
- Open in Excel. Send the file to yourself however you like - Mail, Messages, AirDrop, Files - and open it in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers.
What it costs
Your first 50 cards are free, with every scanning feature included. Export is part of Fandeck Pro, which is $2.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or a $59.99 one-time lifetime unlock (US App Store prices, checked October 2026). If you only need a spreadsheet after one big event, a single month does the job.
Where your data lives
On your iPhone, and nowhere else. There is no Fandeck account and no Fandeck server: card photos and contacts stay on the device and are left out of iCloud backups. The CSV leaves the phone only when you choose to send it.
Good to know
- Duplicates are found and can be merged before you export, so repeat cards do not become repeat rows.
- Event tags let you export one event's cards as their own file.
- CSV also imports into Outlook, Google Contacts and most CRMs, if the spreadsheet is a stop on the way somewhere else.