Most comparisons are written by the vendors. So is this one — but instead of a rigged scoreboard, here's the checklist we'd use to evaluate anyone, including us.
The best card is the one the other person can save fastest. No app for the receiver, one-tap vCard save, QR + link + wallet options.
Templates are table stakes. Look for locked company templates so every employee's card stays on brand automatically.
Adding people one by one doesn't scale. You want central management, invite links and role-based access.
Popular apps in this category include Popl, Blinq, HiHello and Wave — each with real strengths, and most leaning on physical NFC accessories or per-seat pricing that climbs quickly with team size. If you're evaluating, their sites publish current pricing; check the total for your actual headcount.
CompanyCard's bet is different: no hardware to buy or lose — sharing is pure QR, link, wallet and email signature — and every seat includes the complements teams actually use daily: a matching signature and a branded video-call background per employee, managed from one team dashboard with locked branding.
The honest advice: start with your receiver's experience and your admin's workload, run the 10-minute evaluation above on two or three tools, and pick the one your team will still be using in a year. We're confident enough in that test to recommend it.
The one that saves your contact into the other person's phone fastest, keeps every employee on brand automatically, and prices fairly at your team size. Run a 10-minute hands-on test rather than trusting any vendor's comparison table — including ours.
QR and link sharing cover virtually every situation and work on every phone. NFC hardware is a nice-to-have that costs money per employee and can be lost — CompanyCard deliberately works without it.
Locked brand templates, central admin with invite links, per-employee email signatures and virtual backgrounds, analytics, and role separation between admins and employees.
Yes — the free plan is a full working card with QR and link, no credit card required.
Make a free card, share it with a colleague, count the taps. We'll take our chances.