A real signed pass, not a web page pretending to be one. It opens with no signal, it does not get buried in a camera roll, and when your details change, so does every copy you have already handed out.
Yes, you can put a business card in Apple Wallet. Apple Wallet accepts any correctly signed pass, and Cardr issues your card as a signed .pkpass file, the same format as a boarding pass. It lives in the Wallet app, it opens with no signal, and when you change your details every copy already saved on someone else’s phone updates itself. Nobody has to install an app, because Wallet is already on every iPhone and cannot be deleted.
A Cardr sits in the list your visitor already opens for a train ticket on Monday and a coffee on Tuesday. Nothing new to install, and nothing new for them to remember.
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Most digital business cards are a link. A link is fine. A pass is better in three specific ways.
A pass is stored on the device. It opens in a basement bar, on the Underground, in an exhibition hall where two thousand phones are fighting over one mast, and on a phone in aeroplane mode. A hosted card in those conditions is a spinner. The scene this product is actually used in is a busy room with bad reception, so this is not a small point.
A screenshot of a QR code goes into the camera roll and is under forty other photos by Friday. A pass goes into Wallet, which most people open several times a week for a coffee card or a train ticket, and stays in a short list of things they deliberately kept.
This is the one paper can never match. Passes support push updates, so editing your card updates every saved copy on every phone that holds it. Change employer and you do not have to tell anybody: the card in their pocket already says the new thing. A printed card is wrong from the day your number changes and stays wrong forever.
Cardr holds its own Apple signing certificate, so the file you receive is a genuine signed pass rather than an image that looks like one. That signature is what lets Wallet accept it, what stops anybody else editing it, and what makes the push updates possible. Plenty of products in this category call a mobile web page a “wallet card”. It is worth checking which one you are being sold.
About a minute, on the phone you are already holding.
If you later change job, edit the card once. Everyone who saved it gets the update.
The category, and the six questions worth asking.
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Yes. Apple Wallet accepts any correctly signed pass file, and a business card is a valid use of the generic pass type. Cardr issues your card as a signed .pkpass, which is the same file format Apple uses for boarding passes, event tickets and loyalty cards. It sits in the Wallet app alongside them.
A .pkpass is a small signed archive containing the pass content, its layout and its images, signed with a certificate issued by Apple. The signature is what makes Apple Wallet accept it. It also means a pass cannot be edited by anyone other than the issuer, which is why a Wallet pass is harder to fake than a screenshot of a card.
Yes. Once a pass is in Wallet it is stored on the device, so it opens on the Tube, in a basement, at a venue with no reception, and on a phone in aeroplane mode. Its QR code renders locally. This is the main practical advantage over a card that is only a web page.
Yes. Passes support push updates, so when you edit your card, every copy already saved in someone else’s Wallet updates itself on their phone without you contacting them. Change your number, your job title or your company and the version in their pocket is corrected.
No, and neither does the person you hand it to. Apple Wallet is preinstalled on every iPhone and cannot be deleted. Adding a pass is a system-level action from Safari, so there is nothing to download and no account to create.
Not yet. The Wallet pass is Apple Wallet only for now; Google Wallet is not built. An Android user can still open your page from the QR code or the link, save you to their contacts and take part in the exchange, they just do not get a pass. When Google Wallet is built it will be added for everyone rather than sold as an upgrade. If Google Wallet matters to you today, HiHello ships one, as published on 4 August 2026.
They are not alternatives; the pass contains a QR code. The difference is where it lives. A pass sits in Wallet, works offline, and updates itself. A bare QR code in your photos does none of those things and gets buried by the next screenshot you take.
A real signed pass on the free plan, about a minute to build, and nothing for the other person to install.