The best known products in this category are American and Australian, and it shows on your bank statement. Cardr is built and run in Britain, priced in pounds, free forever for the card, and honest below about the four things the alternatives do better.
Cardr is a digital business card built and run in the United Kingdom, priced in pounds, and free forever for the card itself. The alternatives are good products with a foreign address: Blinq is Australian, HiHello and Popl are American, and all three bill in dollars. If you are in Britain, that means a currency conversion on every charge, a possible non-sterling fee on top, and support several timezones away.
Read off each vendor’s own pricing page on 4 August 2026. Where they do not publish a number, this table says so.
| Cardr | Blinq | HiHello | Popl | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priced in | Pounds | US dollars | US dollars | US dollars |
| Free tier | Yes, uncapped | Yes, $0 "free forever" | Yes, the Personal plan, but card scanning is capped at 5 a month | Not published |
| Paid, per month | £12, or £9 annually | $9.99/mo | $6/mo | quoted on a call |
| Apple Wallet pass | Yes | Yes, on every tier including Free | Yes, and Google Wallet too, which Cardr does not have | Not stated on the pricing page we checked |
| Based | United Kingdom | Australia | United States | United States |
Competitor figures are quoted from their own live pricing pages and dated. Where a vendor does not publish something we say so rather than estimate it. Sources are listed on each comparison page.
A subscription billed at $9.99 is not a fixed cost in Britain. It moves with the exchange rate, and depending on which card you pay with it can carry a non-sterling transaction fee of around three percent on top. Neither is enormous. Both are the sort of thing you notice on a statement eight months later and cannot explain.
An 07 mobile entered into a product that assumes a North American format is a small, constant annoyance: it saves wrong, it dials wrong from abroad, and it looks wrong on the card. Cardr takes a country dial code explicitly, which is unglamorous and is the difference between a contact that works and one that has to be retyped.
Cardr is a UK company and the product operates under UK GDPR. That is not a claim that competitors are careless; all three publish privacy policies and are perfectly reputable. It is that the answer to “who governs this and where do I complain” is shorter and closer when the company is in the same jurisdiction as you.
Cardr has no CRM integrations, sells no NFC hardware, has no Google Wallet pass and no team management. All four of those exist elsewhere in this category and if any is your requirement then one of the others is the better buy. Our round-up says which, by name, including where they beat us outright.
Rendered by the live product on this page rather than mocked up, with a UK mobile in the format it is actually stored in.
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Cardr is one, and it is the reason this page exists. The best known products in this category are Australian and American, which is fine for the software and awkward for everything around it: you are billed in a foreign currency, your card assumes a US phone format, and support runs on a timezone eight hours behind you. Cardr is built and run in the United Kingdom and priced in pounds.
Cardr is free forever for the card, the Apple Wallet pass and the two-way exchange, with no card details taken, and £12 a month or £9 a month billed annually for Pro. The alternatives publish in dollars: Blinq from $9.99/mo, HiHello from $6/mo, Popl from quoted on a call. A dollar price also means a currency conversion and, depending on your card, a non-sterling transaction fee on every charge.
The prices shown are what a UK consumer pays. Cardr is pre-launch, and if that changes for any reason the prices on the pricing page change with it rather than a line of small print appearing at checkout.
Yes. Numbers are entered with a country dial code picker that defaults sensibly, so an 07 mobile behaves like an 07 mobile and saving your card to an iPhone produces a number that dials. This sounds trivial until you have used a product that assumes every number is a ten digit North American one.
Cardr is a UK company and the product is subject to UK GDPR. What is stored, for how long, and how to have it deleted is set out on our privacy page rather than summarised here, because a summary of a data policy is not a data policy. Contacts are exportable to CSV and vCard on Pro, so nothing is locked in either way.
Every iPhone does, everywhere, because Wallet is part of iOS and cannot be removed. There is nothing region-specific about a pass. Roughly half of UK smartphones are iPhones, so about half the people you hand a card to can add it to Wallet, and the other half open your page from the QR code instead and save you to their contacts from there. Google Wallet is not supported by Cardr and we do not imply otherwise.
Yes, and the ability to correct a card after it is issued is worth more here than people expect. Trading names change, registered addresses move and a card with a superseded company name on it is a small ongoing embarrassment. Edit it once and every copy already in somebody’s Wallet corrects itself.
Take your name at cardr.co, put a real Apple Wallet pass on your phone, and pay nothing for it. About a minute, and no card details.