A business card scanner for trade shows and conferences
cardlio for iPhone, iPad and Mac · October 2026
cardlio turns the stack of cards from a trade show into leads you can act on. Every card scanned at the stand is tagged with the event and rated Hot, Warm or Cold while the conversation is fresh; afterwards one report and a run of drafted follow-up e-mails take you through everyone you met. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and scanning needs no connection — hall Wi-Fi not required.
At the stand
- Event mode tags every card you scan with the fair's name. The tag becomes a search filter and goes along to your CRM.
- Rate while it is fresh. In Event mode, Hot / Warm / Cold sits at the top of each scanned card — one tap before the next person walks up. Add your own interest tags for what they asked about.
- One pile for the whole stand. A team library lets colleagues add cards to one shared pile and claim the ones they will follow up, so two people never chase the same lead.
Forgot to start Event mode?
Tag the cards afterwards, in bulk: on the Mac select them and choose Tag Event… from the right-click menu; on iPhone and iPad use Select Multiple.
After the fair
- Event Report puts everyone you met at one event in one document, hot leads first, with your rating, their interests and whether you still owe a follow-up — as a PDF or a CSV.
- Follow-Up Run takes you through everyone from one event with a drafted e-mail for each, written on your device by Apple Intelligence where it is available. You read, change and send it from your own mail app; cardlio itself sends nothing.
Into your CRM
The rating goes where your leads go: into the Salesforce-ready and Outlook-ready CSV files, to your CRM webhook and to the team library. How cards reach HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive.
Questions
Do my colleagues need an iPhone or a Mac?
No. Colleagues on Windows or Android can join the team library in any browser at team.cardlio.app.
Does cardlio contact the people I scan?
Never. cardlio sends no e-mails and no invitations to the people on your cards; follow-ups go from your own mail app, when you send them.
Does it work in a hall without Wi-Fi?
Yes. Scanning, recognition, rating and tagging all work offline. The Apple Maps address check needs a connection — run Check again from the card's ⋯ menu once you are back online — and iCloud sync resumes by itself.
Get cardlio
A free download on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and for Mac. Your first 10 cards are free. Questions: support@cardlio.app.