Both make a digital business card. Both are good at it. This page says plainly where HiHello is the better buy and where we are, with their prices taken from their own page rather than from memory.
The short answer: HiHello 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. HiHello is strongest at covering both Apple and Google Wallet. 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.
HiHello’s free Personal plan caps card scanning at five a month. That cap is on collecting contacts, which is the part people actually hit, and it is the usual reason somebody starts looking.
Everything else about HiHello 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 cap: Cardr does not cap scans, exchanges or contacts on any plan, including the free one.
| Feature | Cardr | HiHello |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes, the full card, forever, no card details taken | Yes, the Personal plan, but card scanning is capped at 5 a month |
| Paid price | £12 a month, or £9 a month billed annually | 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 pass | Yes, a signed .pkpass on the free tier | Yes, and Google Wallet too, which Cardr does not have |
| Google Wallet | No, not built yet | Yes |
| 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 | See their site |
| CRM integrations | None | Salesforce, HubSpot and Dynamics on Business |
| Physical NFC cards | We do not sell any; bring your own tag | See their site |
Every figure in this table was read from https://www.hihello.com/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 If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.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.
Professional $6 a month or $72 a year. Business $5 per user a month or $60 per user a year. Enterprise is quoted.
Free tier: Yes, the Personal plan, but card scanning is capped at 5 a month. Apple Wallet: Yes, and Google Wallet too, which Cardr does not have. 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 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.
If the people you meet are mostly on Android, HiHello beats us outright today, because their pass works in Google Wallet and ours does not. That is a real gap and we are not going to write around it.
The choice between Cardr and HiHello 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.
On iPhone the products are close on the card itself. They diverge after the handshake: HiHello caps contact scanning on the lower tiers and leaves the follow-up to you, where Cardr saves every exchange, keeps your notes against it, and drafts the message from what you talked about.
Checked against HiHello’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. HiHello lists professional $6 a month or $72 a year. Business $5 per user a month or $60 per user a year. Enterprise is quoted. Compare the tier you would actually use, not the headline.
Yes. HiHello 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. HiHello also publishes a free tier, so compare where each one is capped rather than whether a free plan exists.
If the people you meet are mostly on Android, HiHello beats us outright today, because their pass works in Google Wallet and ours does not. That is a real gap and we are not going to write around it.
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.