Digital business card for freelancers You are the company. Look like it.
Fill next month from this month’s conversations: people save you in one scan or one link, and can send their email back.
Free forever · No card details · About a minute
cardr.co/cal-devlin
Example of what happens next: Priyanka Rao scans Cal’s card, saves Cal to their contacts and chooses to send their own details back. The next morning at 09:00, Cardr Pro reminds Cal to follow up, with the email already drafted.
A digital business card for freelancers has to find work while you are busy doing it. One link for your bio, a Wallet pass in person, and your portfolio one tap from both. People save you and can send their email back. Notes sit on each name, and Pro drafts the follow-up, so pipeline work takes minutes.
One scan. You’re in their phone. They can send theirs.
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Share one link
Your pass in person, cardr.co/you everywhere else.
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They save you
No app. Then they can send you theirs.
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Keep the pipeline full
Notes on every name, and Pro drafts the follow-up.
Example
One address, everywhere you appear.
The link in your bio
- One link
- Four seconds
- No company
The link in your bio, the line in your email signature and the code you show in a bar are the same thing.
- One link. The bio, the signature and the thing you say out loud in a bar all have to be the same string.
- Four seconds. That is how long your card is read for. Every extra link on it costs the one you care about.
- No company. There is no brand behind you doing the remembering. The card is the entire apparatus.
Each constraint decides the format. A card that fails any one of the three does not get used a second time, however good it looks.
cardr.co/cal-devlin
- Edit once, it updates
- Brand, web · Taking work
- One scan, no app
- Opens with no signal
Freelancers collect presences: a portfolio, an Instagram, a Calendly, a rates PDF. Each is somewhere a client can get lost. You need one address you can say out loud that gathers them, and works the same clicked from a bio or scanned across a table.
The second half gets skipped. Four good conversations at an event end in four Instagram follows, and none of them is an email address with a reason to write.
Put your rates up or change your specialism, and your page shows it to anyone who opens your link.
Nothing for them to download.
Tap through what Tom sees when he scans your card.
Cal DevlinNo app, no account, no sign-up for the people you meet.
Make yours in about a minute.
Free forever, and nothing for the people you meet to install.
Pipeline work that fits in a gap.
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Your link, openedPriyanka saves you · can send theirs -
Days 1–2
Nothing to remember -
Day 3
ProTime to follow up with Priyanka RaoFollow-up drafted
- Every link in one place. Website, Instagram, LinkedIn, booking and WhatsApp built in, plus custom links for Behance or GitHub.
- An email to write to. After they save you, they can send their email back, so a chat becomes a lead.
- The brief, remembered. “Agency, needs overflow design, budget from April” is still on the name in April.
- Follow-ups in the gaps. Pro drafts them from your notes, for 200 people a month, in the ten minutes you have.
- March, for an April budget. Set the day on the contact, and Pro emails you that morning with the message drafted.
- Free forever, with no limit on exchanges or contacts. You give card details only if you choose Pro.
The card is free. Pro does the follow-up.
Everything in the first column stays free, with no expiry and no limit on exchanges or contacts. Pro adds what happens after the meeting.
| FreeForever, no card details | Pro£12 a month, or £9 a month billed annually (£108 a year) | |
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| Nothing to install for the person you meet | Included | Included |
| A no-signal code that holds your contact itself | Included | Included |
| Pass designs | One: Oxford | IncludedAll 16 |
| Every lead, sorted | Your list, notes, tags, who replied, the timeline, search and export | IncludedEverything |
| See what your card wins you | Views, scans, swaps and saves, counted | IncludedEverything |
| Your follow-ups, written and ready | One draft and reminders about your first three people | IncludedEverything |
| A page that gets you booked | Booking, WhatsApp and review links on your page | IncludedEverything |
Pro turns the people you meet into work you win.
For people who meet business contacts, it starts with every lead sorted. Choose one to see it.
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See who could turn into work and who you won, at a glance. Nobody slips because they were halfway down a list.
- Opportunity, Won and Lost, with what it was worth.
- A pipeline of everyone by stage, and a next step on each person that reminds you on its day.
Free: your list, notes, tags, who replied, the timeline, search and export. Always.
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What came of everyone you met: who replied, what turned into work and what it was worth, by event, by source and by Cardr Metal card.
- How fast you follow up, and the days people swap details with you.
- Taps on your page’s booking or WhatsApp button, by where people came from.
- Download it all as a spreadsheet.
Free: views, scans, swaps and saves, counted, on every plan.
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At 09:00 your time, Cardr emails you who to follow up, with the message already written from what you talked about. One tap opens it in your email, or WhatsApp when you have their number, ready to send.
- Drafts for 200 people a month, in your voice.
- Reminded on day 3 or the morning after you meet, your choice, or on the day they said. One more nudge on day 7 if they are still waiting.
- Pick a time to send it later, and the draft comes back to you then.
Free: one draft and reminders about your first three people, to try it on your own.
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Pin Book a time or WhatsApp right under Save, so the next step is one tap for the person you just met.
- Up to six services, each with a “from” price.
- Up to three quotes from your clients, shared with their permission.
- The button shows again after they send you their details.
Free: booking, WhatsApp and review links on your page, as links.
Free, and staying free
- Every contact, with notes, search and export
- Nothing to install for the person you meet
- A no-signal code that holds your contact itself
- Views, scans, swaps and saves, counted
Pro
- 7 daysfree to try
- 30 daysfull refund
Where to go next.
How it compares, two guides for your week and a free tool. Also for: Consultants, Small business owners, Founders. Every version of this page, and pricing: free forever, or £12 a month with a 7-day trial. After you’ve met them: how to follow up, with messages to copy. This card’s design: Classic.
Blinq: best if you already run a CRM. Prices, Wallet and follow-up side by side.
AlternativesPopl alternativesThe other options to Popl, with dated prices, and who should stay.
GuideHow to share your contact as a QR code on iPhoneiOS has no built-in contact QR code.
GuideHow to remember people you meetWrite five things down within five minutes: who, where, what they need, when to come back and what you promised.
Free toolFollow-up message generatorThree drafts from who you met, where, and what you talked about.
Also for
Freelancers, answered.
Is the free plan enough for a freelancer?
For many, yes. The card, the Apple Wallet pass, your page, the QR code, the exchange and your searchable contact list are free forever. Pro is the follow-up done for you: drafted messages, reminders and a pipeline. If you already follow up reliably, stay on free.
Does the client need to install anything?
No. Your QR code opens your card as a web page on their phone, iPhone or Android, and they save you to their contacts from there. Your cardr.co link works the same way from a bio or an email.
Can I add it to my email signature?
Yes. Your cardr.co link goes in any signature, and the free signature generator builds one that looks the same in Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail.
Can I use my own domain?
Not yet. Your card lives at cardr.co/yourname. If your own domain is central to how you present yourself, that is a real gap.
Do I keep my contacts if I stop paying?
Yes. Your list, notes, tags and CSV or vCard export are all on the free plan, so cancelling Pro takes none of them away. You drop to the free plan and keep the account.
What does it cost?
Free forever, no card details: your card, page and Apple Wallet pass, the two-way exchange, and every contact with notes, search and export. Pro, £12 a month or £108 a year (£9 a month), adds drafted follow-ups, dated reminders, a pipeline and all 16 pass designs. 7 days free, then 30 days to change your mind.
Free forever. About a minute to build.
Nothing for the other person to install, and no card details to start.