Business cards,
done.
The business card scanner and digital business card for iPhone and Mac. Scan any card into a clean contact in seconds; share yours as a link, a QR code, an NFC tap, or an Apple Wallet pass — private by design.
Everything a card throws at you.
Point the camera — cardlio finds the card, straightens it, reads it, and files it. Anything it wasn't sure of is flagged before saving, so you check the one field that needs it — not all twelve, and never twice.
Scan anything with a card on it.
Live camera with on-device detection — even several cards at once, or whole photo imports. Met someone twice? cardlio spots the duplicate and merges to one contact, keeping every email and note from both.
Reads cards like a person would.
Layout decides who's the person and what's the company — ALL-CAPS names, spaced-out emails, and split addresses fixed on the way. Shaky reads carry a warning badge, and tapping any field zooms the photo to the exact spot it was read from — trust the green ones, glance at the amber.
Email signatures too.
Paste the text, get a contact.
Whole PDF stacks.
Import a folder of scans in one go.
See who you know — and where.
Contacts on a world map, industries and countries at a glance, growth over time. Search filters like Industry: Finance.
Addresses from any country.
International formats and multi-office cards normalized — city, postal code and country — then checked against Apple Maps.
Sync scanned business cards straight into Outlook & Office 365.
Connect your Microsoft account once, then push your whole library into Office 365 contacts with a single click — no CSV files, no copy-paste.
- One click, both ways of tidy — new cards are added, edits update, removed cards drop off
- No duplicates — every contact is matched by a hidden ID, even after a reinstall or a new Mac
- Every field mapped — name, company, title, emails, phones, Business Fax, and full postal address
- Your account only — contacts go to your own Microsoft 365 mailbox, nowhere else
- Works from iPhone & Mac — the same Sync to Office 365 action on both
- Still love a file? — vCard, CSV, Outlook CSV and Salesforce exports are all still there
The card was never the point. The email after it was.
Mark the people you owe an email while you're still reviewing the scan — one tap, and only for the ones that mattered. cardlio never guesses who was important; you decide, at the one moment you still remember the conversation.
Afterwards a dot marks them in your library and a single filter shows you everyone still waiting. Hand any of them to Reminders and the person, the company and where you met come along. cardlio doesn't read your mail and never claims a message was sent — the list is yours to clear.
Cards you couldn't read before
Tap Translate on a Chinese or Japanese card and the job title, company and address arrive in your language — on your own device, with the card keeping exactly what was printed on it. Names stay as they were written, and become searchable in the Latin alphabet: typing “shiquan” finds 黒士鎣.
A copy that's yours
Back up your whole library to one zip — photos, both sides, every field, plus a vCard per contact — and restore it on any Mac or iPhone. Open formats, so even without cardlio the photos are photos and the contacts are contacts.
The phone rings, and you know who it is.
Scan someone's card and their number stops arriving as a stranger. When they call, iOS shows their name and company on the incoming-call screen — the same place a saved contact would appear, without adding anyone to your address book.
It works the way the rest of cardlio does: the numbers stay on your iPhone, handed to iOS through Apple's own Call Directory. Nothing is uploaded, no lookup service ever sees who calls you, and you can switch it off in Settings whenever you like. iPhone only.
Your network is nobody's business.
cardlio was built the old-fashioned way: your data is yours. No accounts, no tracking, no servers reading your contacts.
- On-device — scanning, reading, and organizing happen on your phone or Mac
- Your private iCloud — sync uses Apple's cloud, encrypted for you alone
- Links with nothing behind them — a shared card lives inside the link itself, never on a server
- No signal, no problem — scanning is fully offline, so it works exactly the same in a conference basement as on your desk
- Built to outlive us — your library lives on your devices and in your iCloud, in Apple's own contact formats; nothing about it depends on our servers existing
- No analytics — not in the app, not on this website
One library. Every machine.
Scan on your iPhone at the conference, tidy up on your Mac at your desk. Same cards, everywhere, instantly.
Requires iOS 26.5 or macOS 26.5.
One purchase. Not a subscription.
Try it on ten real cards before paying anything. After that a single unlock lifts the limit for good — no monthly fee, no renewal, nothing to cancel.
- Unlimited cards — the 10-card limit is gone
- Every export — vCard, CSV, Outlook CSV and Salesforce
- Office 365 sync and Save to Contacts
- Your own card on an NFC tag and in Apple Wallet
The iPhone and Mac apps are sold separately, so each is unlocked on its own. Your library syncs between them either way, through your own iCloud.