Both make a digital business card. Both are good at it. This page says plainly where Blinq is the better buy and where we are, with their prices taken from their own page rather than from memory.
The short answer: Blinq and Cardr both make a digital business card, and both are good at it. Both put a real pass in Apple Wallet. The difference is what happens after the handshake. Blinq is strongest at feeding a CRM you already run. Cardr is built for the follow-up you keep meaning to send.
Almost always one specific thing rather than a general dissatisfaction. If it is not this one, we are probably not your answer either.
Blinq’s paid tier starts at $9.99 a month and the product is built around a CRM. If you do not run one, you are paying for the integration layer and using the card.
Everything else about Blinq is fine, and on the points below they beat us. So the useful question is not “which is better” but whether the thing that sent you looking is a thing we actually fix. On the price: the Cardr card is free forever, and the paid tier is the follow-up rather than the integration layer.
| Feature | Cardr | Blinq |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes, the full card, forever, no card details taken | Yes, $0 "free forever" |
| Paid price | £12 a month, or £9 a month billed annually | 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 pass | Yes, a signed .pkpass on the free tier | Yes, on every tier including Free |
| Google Wallet | No, not built yet | See their site |
| Their details come back to you | Yes, two-way exchange on the free tier | See their site |
| Follow-up drafted for you | Yes, on Pro, from the meeting context | AI notetaker and contact enrichment on paid tiers |
| CRM integrations | None | 20+ native CRM integrations |
| Physical NFC cards | We do not sell any; bring your own tag | See their site |
Every figure in this table was read from https://blinq.me/pricing on 4 August 2026 and is reproduced without editing. Prices in USD are theirs; ours are in GBP. Where a cell says “see their site”, the published page did not state it clearly enough for us to summarise honestly, so we have not guessed. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Reproduced rather than summarised. Our previous site described a competitor's capabilities from memory and got it wrong in our own favour, so this page shows you the source and the date instead of asking you to trust the summary.
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.
Free tier: Yes, $0 "free forever". Apple Wallet: Yes, on every tier including Free. Where a cell elsewhere on this page says “see their site”, their published page did not state it clearly enough for us to summarise honestly, so we have not guessed.
A comparison page that only flatters the people who wrote it is an advert. Here is the honest half.
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.
If your team already lives in Salesforce or HubSpot and you want business cards to feed that pipeline, Blinq is the more complete product today and we would tell you to buy it. Cardr has no CRM integrations at all.
The choice between Cardr and Blinq is not close once you know which of these you are. Read down the left column and stop at the first line that is you.
Cardr is for the person who does not have a CRM, or has one and still never sends the message. The exchange returns their details to you, the meeting context is attached, and the follow-up is drafted and then chased. Blinq will enrich a contact beautifully. It will not write the email for you and remind you that you have not sent it.
Checked against Blinq’s published pages on 4 August 2026.
Cardr’s free tier is the complete card and it never expires, so at the entry point the answer is yes: it costs nothing and takes no card details. Cardr Pro is £12 a month, or £9 a month billed annually. Blinq lists 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. Compare the tier you would actually use, not the headline.
Yes. Blinq ships an Apple Wallet pass, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something. The pass itself is not the difference between these products.
There is nothing to migrate. Build a Cardr, add it to your Wallet, and start handing that out instead. Anyone who already saved your old card keeps it; it just stops being the one you share. Cardr also exports everything to CSV or vCard on Pro, so you are never locked in here either.
Cardr’s free plan is the complete digital business card: a signed Apple Wallet pass, your page at cardr.co/yourname, a QR code, unlimited scans and shares, live updates to every saved copy, and the two-way exchange that returns their details to you. No expiry, no card details taken and no scan cap. Blinq also publishes a free tier, so compare where each one is capped rather than whether a free plan exists.
If your team already lives in Salesforce or HubSpot and you want business cards to feed that pipeline, Blinq is the more complete product today and we would tell you to buy it. Cardr has no CRM integrations at all.
The Cardr free tier is the whole card and it does not expire. If it is not better for you than what you are on, you have lost a minute.