The best Wave Connect alternatives, compared.

It depends what sent you looking. Mobilo if you want a cheaper paid plan; Cardr if you want the follow-up to sound like the meeting; Blinq if you want AI on the conversation itself. The full list, with where each falls short, is above.

Wave’s free tier is one of the most generous in the category, so people rarely leave over price. They look elsewhere for one of two reasons. Badge scanning and contact enrichment are paid by the credit, at “$2.50 per credit”, on top of the plan, and the paper card scanner needs Pro. Or they want the follow-up written from what was actually said, rather than a template triggered “the moment you connect”. Wave’s pricing page also lists “$2.50 per credit”

Among the options here, by published team price: Mobilo Teams ($4 per card a month, billed annually), Blinq Business ($4.99 per card a month, billed annually, from 5), HiHello Business ($5 per user a month, billed annually, from 5) and Dot Teams Essential ($8 per member a month, billed annually). Cardr Teams is $49 a month for 5 people, then $10 each. Check each plan’s minimum against your team.

Yes: Wave’s pricing page lists “$2.50 per credit”. Among the alternatives, Blinq lists “$9.99 per lead captured and enriched. Credit consumption is billed monthly.”. Cardr has no per-use charges.

Wave: “CSV contact exports” on Pro, Teams and Enterprise, not Free, per its plan documentation, as published on October 29, 2026. Export before you cancel anything. Cardr exports every contact to CSV or vCard on the free plan, and does not import from other products.

Cardr needs no app on either side: you make the card on the web, the pass sits in Apple Wallet, and the person you meet opens your page in their browser. V1CE: “Nothing for your contacts to download.” (free digital card page)

Mobilo ($19.99 to $139.00 list, with promotional prices shown), Blinq ($24.99 to $79.99), V1CE (From £60 once; metal £110 ($79 and $145 in US dollars, per its help center)) and Dot (£31 to £102, as shown to a UK visitor), as published. Cardr sells none; any NFC tag you own can open your cardr.co link.

Several, but Wave’s own free plan is among the most generous. Cardr (no limit on exchanges or contacts, export free) and Dot (two-way exchange, both wallets) are the closest free alternatives with something Wave’s free plan does differently.

Mobilo Pro at “$3 /month” and HiHello Professional at $72 a year billed yearly, as published on the dates shown. Wave Pro is $9 billed monthly or $7 a month billed annually.

Wave triggers an email or SMS follow-up “the moment you connect”, per its homepage. Cardr never sends on your behalf: Pro reminds you on the day the person named and drafts the message from the note you kept, and you send it.

Cardr is built for the message afterwards: you keep one sentence about who they are and when to come back, and Pro emails you a drafted follow-up at 9 a.m. your time on that day, written from your note. You send it yourself; nothing goes out automatically. The card is free with no limit on exchanges or contacts. Pro is $15 a month or $144 a year. Wave Pro is cheaper than Cardr Pro, and Cardr has no widget, no CRM sync, no NFC cards, no paper card or badge scanner on the web.