Four products, each with its published price and its Apple Wallet support quoted from its own page on 4 August 2026. Written by one of the four, which is exactly why it also says where the other four win.
There is no single best digital business card, and the honest answer depends on what breaks for you. If you already run a CRM, Blinq. If the people you meet use Android, HiHello, because it ships a Google Wallet pass and we do not. If you run events with a team, Popl. If your problem is that you never send the follow-up, that is the one we built Cardr for. Every price below was read from the vendor’s own page on 4 August 2026.
Including, in our case, what we are worse at. A round-up written by one of the entrants is worth very little without that.
Ours, so read it with that in mind. The free tier is the complete card with no scan cap, and the paid tier is built around the message you send three days later rather than around the card itself. No CRM integrations, no Google Wallet and no physical hardware, all of which the others do better.
Price: Free forever. Pro £12/mo, or £9/mo billed annually.
Apple Wallet: Yes, a signed .pkpass on the free tier
The deepest integration layer of the three. Blinq lists native connections to 20+ CRMs, an AI notetaker on paid tiers, and contact enrichment, which is a serious amount of machinery if you already run a CRM and want cards feeding it.
Price: Premium $9.99 a month, or $7.33 a month billed annually. Business $6.99 per card a month, or $4.99 billed annually. Enterprise is quoted.
Apple Wallet: Yes, on every tier including Free
The cleanest free tier design of the three, and the only competitor here that ships a Google Wallet pass as well as an Apple one. Professional adds card analytics; Business adds Salesforce, HubSpot and Dynamics.
Price: Professional $6 a month or $72 a year. Business $5 per user a month or $60 per user a year. Enterprise is quoted.
Apple Wallet: Yes, and Google Wallet too, which Cardr does not have
Popl is built around events at scale: an AI badge scanner, unlimited events and users, CRM integrations and SOC 2 compliance. For a company running a conference stand with a team of fifteen, that is the right shape of product.
Price: Not published. Popl states: "we quote pricing over a meeting instead of publishing it on our website."
Apple Wallet: Not stated on the pricing page we checked
An earlier version of our own site claimed the major digital business cards did not offer Apple Wallet passes. That was wrong, it was to our advantage, and it is the sort of claim the UK advertising code exists to stop. Blinq and HiHello both publish Apple Wallet support on every tier including free. The pass is not the difference between these products. What happens after the handshake is.
There is no single answer, and anyone giving you one is selling something. On the evidence as published on 4 August 2026: Blinq is the strongest if you already run a CRM and want cards feeding it. HiHello is the strongest if the people you meet are on Android, because it ships a Google Wallet pass. Popl is aimed at teams working events. Cardr is built for the follow-up after the meeting.
Blinq and HiHello both state that they do, on every tier including free, as published on the date above. HiHello also offers Google Wallet. Popl did not state it clearly on the pages we could load, so we have not claimed either way. Any comparison table telling you the major products lack Apple Wallet passes is wrong, and we know because our own previous site got this wrong.
Cardr and Blinq both publish a free tier with no scan cap stated; HiHello’s free Personal plan caps card scanning at five a month. Popl does not publish a free tier we could verify. The thing to check is not whether a free plan exists but where it is capped, because the cap is almost always on collecting contacts, which is the part that matters.
No. Every product here works with a QR code or a link, and none of them require hardware. If you want a physical card, buy one from any NFC vendor you like the look of. If you already own an NFC card or tag from anyone, you can usually point it at your card’s address and keep using it.
The Cardr free tier is the whole card and it does not expire. If one of the others suits you better, we have told you which and why.